The Byzantines often lost Earnings_and_losses control over the Ottomans then as the latter regularly plundered Robbery villages in the Southern Balkans after the 1320s .

In the same year the Ottomans seized their first fortress on the Balkans , Tsimpe on the Gallipoli peninsula , setting Placing firm foot in Europe .

In 1355 the Ottomans launched Process_start a campaign towards Sofia , but were soon engaged by the army of Ivan Alexander 's eldest son and heir Michael Asen close to Ihtiman .

When the Russian army marched Self_motion into Moldavia and Wallachia in 1806 , the Ottomans declared Expressing_publicly war Hostile_encounter on Russia .

All three were defeated Conquering by Skanderbeg , however , in August 1462 making it Causation the first time that he would win Earnings_and_losses three battles Hostile_encounter against the Ottomans in one month .

The Turkish War of Independence ( `` War of Liberation '' , also known figuratively as `` İstiklâl Harbi '' `` Independence War '' or `` Millî Mücadele '' `` National Campaign '' ; 19 May 1919 – 24 July 1923 ) was fought Hostile_encounter between the Turkish National Movement and the proxies of the Allies – namely Greece on the Western Front , Armenia on the Eastern , France on the Southern , the royalists and the separatists in various cities , and with them , the United Kingdom and Italy in Constantinople ( now Istanbul ) – after parts of the Ottoman Empire were occupied and partitioned following the Ottomans ' defeat Conquering in World War I .

Well acquainted with his opponent at war Hostile_encounter , Kutuzov calculated that the Ottomans on the Lower Danube would direct Action their main force to cross Motion_directional the Middle Danube and to seize Conquering Bucharest .

Emperor Alexander did not agree Agree_or_refuse_to_act to reduce Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale their former demands Request , and the Ottomans , for their part , too , were extremely uncompromising , the negotiations Communication were suspended Process_end .

The Ottomans ultimately prevailed due Causation to the use Using of gunpowder ( which powered formidable cannons ) .

Calculating that he would need more than 40,000 men to defeat Conquering the Ottomans , the Hungarian regent sought to join Becoming_a_member up with anti-Ottoman Albanian forces Motion , possibly led by Skanderbeg .

The Ottomans in their base at Sofia received Receiving word of the Crusader army 's march route and subsequently began Process_start readying GetReady their men .

He constructed Building a `` tabor '' wagon fort at Plementina hill from which to fight Defending the Ottomans , who built Building their own stockade in response Response .

The Hungarian kingdom no longer had the military and financial resources to mount Motion_directional an offensive against the Ottomans .

As a result , the Ottomans annexed Eastern Anatolia and northern Iraq from Safavid Iran .

The battle Hostile_encounter is one of major historical importance because it not only negated the idea that the Murshid of the Shia-Qizilbash was infallible , but also led Causation Kurdish chiefs to assert Statement their authority and switch Change their allegiance from the Safavids to the Ottomans .

The Ottomans wintered there until 1535 , overseeing Scrutiny the reconstruction Building of Sunni and Shia religious shrines and agricultural irrigation projects .

It ended Process_end in a victory for the Russians over the Ottomans .

As the Ottomans formed Coming_to_be into a battle Hostile_encounter line , the Russian fleet sailed Self_motion toward the tail end of the Ottoman line in 3 parallel lines , forming Coming_to_be into one line as they did so .

The Ottomans began Process_start to bear Change away and by 6 p.m. were in full retreat Escaping .

The Ottomans speed allowed Preventing_or_letting them to get away Departing though , and soon after 8 p.m. firing Attack ceased Process_end and the Russians anchored Temporary_stay .

Russian casualties were 25 killed Killing and 25 wounded Bodily_harm , and 733 Ottomans were captured Conquering .

The Ottomans recaptured Conquering the peak for good a few days later .

The retiring Departing force Military_operation was pursued Aiming by the Anzac Mounted Division between 6 and 9 August , during which the Ottomans and Germans forces fought Hostile_encounter a number of strong rearguard actions against the advancing Cause_to_make_progress Australian light horse , British yeomanry and New Zealand mounted rifle brigades .

The capture Conquering of Bougie permitted Preventing_or_letting the Ottomans to encircle Besieging the Spanish position at Goletta and that of their ally Ahmad Sultan in Tunis , as they now had strong bases in Béjaïa and Tripoli .

By the 16th century , the Ottomans had become Becoming a serious threat to the European powers , with Ottoman ships sweeping away Venetian possessions in the Aegean and Ionian seas and Ottoman-supported Barbary pirates seizing Spanish possessions in the Maghreb .

The Protestant Reformation , the French–Habsburg rivalry and the numerous civil conflicts of the Holy Roman Empire served Assistance as distractions to the Christians from their conflict with the Ottomans .

Meanwhile , the Ottomans had to contend Quarreling with the Persian Safavid Empire and to a lesser extent the Mamluk Sultanate , which was defeated Getting and fully incorporated Cause_to_amalgamate into the empire .

Following the Siege of Vienna in 1683 the Habsburgs were able to assemble Come_together a large coalition of European powers known as the Holy League , allowing Preventing_or_letting them to effectively combat Hostile_encounter the Ottomans and to regain Getting control over Hungary .

Nevertheless , the Ottomans were able to maintain Preserving military parity with the Habsburgs until the middle of the eighteenth century .

The war was a comprehensive and unmitigated disaster for the Ottomans , who lost 83 % of their territories in Europe and 69 % of their European population .

The Turkish Ottomans had the support Supporting of Kurds ( until 1915 ) , Turcomans , Circassians , Chechens and a number of Iranian , Arab and Berber groups .

The Ottomans had tried to move the Armenians during the Armenian Genocide and occupied Hold the South Caucasus during Summer 1918 .

The Ottomans maintained Preserving their troops along their territorial gains until Spring 1919 .

Despot Đurađ Branković suggested Convincing that Skobaljić either surrender , or hide from the Ottoman army until John Hunyadi is able to reinforce Cause_change_of_strength or liberate Hold the trapped half of the Serbian army , which would render the Ottomans to pillage Violence and raze Damaging the rich southern part of the despotate with no resistance .

Skobaljić continued his forays against the Ottomans , operating Being_in_operation in Southern Serbia and the Leskovac area , and scored Getting several victories against the armies of the Sultan , especially in the Battle Hostile_encounter of Kruševac , with the help Assistance of John Hunyadi .

The British army was far too small and inadequate to impose Action the will of the Coalition on the Ottomans , so it naturally fell Conquering to the powerful Royal Navy to meet Come_together Russia 's requests Request .

In the meantime , the British ambassador to Constantinople , Arbuthnot , demanded Request that the Ottoman government evict Sebastiani , and added Cause_to_be_included that should the Ottomans resist Defending the ultimatum , the Mediterranean fleet would attack Attack .

After nineteen days of bombarding Attack the castle walls , the Ottomans launched Motion five successive general attacks Attack which all ended Process_end in victory for the besieged Besieging .

The Ottomans held Defending the city until Montenegro captured Conquering it in April 1913 , after a six-month siege .

At that time the Ottomans were already besieging Besieging the fortress of Svetigrad , stretching Skanderbeg 's efforts thin .

The League won over the Venetian forces Causation on 23 July 1448 at the gates of Scutari , and over the Ottomans three weeks later , on 14 August 1448 , at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Oronichea .

The 1770 Ottoman Invasion of Mani was one of a series of invasions Attack by the Ottomans to subdue the Maniots .

Mani was one region of Greece that the Ottomans had not occupied Control due to the rough terrain and the rebellious spirit of Maniots .

The Maniots caused Causation damage Damaging to the Ottomans by allying Collaboration with the Venetians whenever there was a war Military_operation between Venice and the Ottomans , and also habitually engaged Participation in piracy .

The Maniots caused Causation damage Damaging to the Ottomans by allying Collaboration with the Venetians whenever there was a war Military_operation between Venice and the Ottomans , and also habitually engaged Participation in piracy .

The Ottomans then fought Hostile_encounter a battle Hostile_encounter against the Maniot army and lost Earnings_and_losses and were forced to withdraw Escaping from Mani .

In 1454 the Ottomans launched Process_start a major invasion Attack against Serbia , at the helm of which was the Sultan himself , Mehmed the Conqueror Conquering .

Nikola Skobaljić continued Process_start his forays Attack against the Ottomans , operating Being_in_operation between Leskovac and Priština , and won several major victories against the armies of the sultan , until Mehmed himself came to confront Hostile_encounter him at the Battle Hostile_encounter of Tripolje ( near Novo Brdo ) .

The remaining part , western Georgia , was taken Conquering by the Russians from the Ottomans during the same period .

When the Ottomans demanded Request changes Change , Nicholas refused Agree_or_refuse_to_act and prepared GetReady for war .