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Catalan Campaign in Asia Minor

Date	1303 to c. 1313
Location	Asia Minor
Result	Tactical Byzantine victory, strategic Ottoman victory

Combatants

Byzantine Empire

Ottoman Turks|

Byzantine-Ottoman wars
Bapheus- Catalan Campaign (Asia Minor) - Brusa - Pelekanon - Nicaea - Nicomedia - Gallipoli - Adrianople - Fall of Philladelphia - 1st Constantinople - Siege of Thessalonika (1422) - 2nd Constantinople

In 1303, the Byzantine Emperor Andronicus II hired 6,500 Catalan mercenaries under Roger de Flor to campaign against the Turks in the Spring and Summer of 1303. Their costly service came with success, driving back the Turks in parts of Asia Minor. However, the Byzantines got more than what they bargained for; the mercenaries were difficult to restrain and consequently much of the reconquered territory was laid to waste. When Roger de Flor was assassinated, the mercenaries began a 2 year pillage in revenge and crossed over to Thrace and Macedonia where further raiding occurred. Eventually the Catalan Mercenaries claimed the Duchy of Athens for themselves in 1313, leaving behind a devastated Byzantium.

After this, the Turks found much support amongst those who suffered and reoccupied land that had been lost.

The campaign was the last of its kind; never again would a Byzantine Emperor command such a skilled force in Asia Minor. For the Ottoman Turks, it was the beginning of their rise to power in Asia Minor.

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Byzantine Empire or Byzantium is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople.
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Ottoman Empire or Ottoman Caliphate (1299 to 1922) (Old Ottoman Turkish: دولت عالیه عثمانیه Devlet-i Ã‚liye-yi OsmÃ¢niyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish:
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Battle of Bapheus occurred in July 27, 1302 between an Ottoman army under Osman I and a Byzantine army. The Byzantines, who had suffered a number of raids by the Ottomans, possessed an army of far lesser quality and strategy than that of the Komnenos dynasty, and were defeated
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Siege of Brusa occurred in 1326, when the Ottomans deployed a bold plan to seize Brusa. The Ottomans had not captured a city before; the lack of expertise at this stage of the war meant that the city fell only after ten years. Some sources suggest nine years whilst others still eight years.
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Battle of Pelekanon or Battle of Pelekanos occurred on June 10-11, 1329 between an expeditionary force by the Byzantines led by Andronicus III and an Ottoman army led by Orhan I.
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Siege of Nicaea by the forces of Osman I from 1328 to 1331, resulted to the conquest of a key Byzantine Greek city by the Ottoman Turks. It played an important role to the expansion of the Ottoman Empire.
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Siege of Nicomedia
Part of the Byzantine-Ottoman wars

Date 1333 to 1337
Location Nicomedia

Result Ottoman victory

Combatants
Byzantine Empire Ottoman Empire
Commanders
Andronicus III Orhan I
Strength
Very few Unknown
Casualties
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Fall of Gallipoli
Part of the Byzantine-Ottoman wars

Date 1354
Location Asia Minor

Result Decisive Ottoman victory; Europe open to expansion

Combatants
Byzantine Empire Ottoman Turks
Commanders
Unknown Suleyman Pasha
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Battle of Adrianople resulted in tactical victory for the Ottoman Turks. It marked the beginning of the end of Byzantine presence in the Balkans. Immediately after the battle, the Ottomans moved their capital from Bursa to Adrianople.
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Siege of Thessalonika (1422 - 1430)

Date 1422 to 1430
Location Thessalonika

Result Ottoman victory

Combatants
Byzantine Empire Ottoman Turks
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Fall of Constantinople refers to the capture of the Byzantine Empire's capital by the Ottoman Empire on Tuesday, May 29, 1453. The event marked the end of the political independence of the millennium-old Byzantine Empire, which was by then already fragmented into several Greek
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Roger de Flor, also known as Rutger von Blum (1267 – April 30, 1305), was a military adventurer of the 13th and 14th centuries.

He was born in Brindisi, Italy, the second son of a German falconer named Richard von Blum (Blum
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Catalan Campaign (asia Minor)