Conquest of Thessalonica

فتح سالونيك

c. March 1431 CE · 833 AH

Thessalonica — after crushing the pretenders Manuel II had backed, Murad II moved on the city and stormed it in March 833/1431, making it permanently Ottoman in al-Sallabi's account 1.

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The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Anatolia
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142014301440 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

Summary

The conquest of Thessalonica under Murad II — after crushing the risings the book says emperor Manuel II stood behind, Murad resolved to teach him a practical lesson: he stormed Thessalonica in March 833/1431 and the city became, in al-Sallabi's words, an inseparable part of the Ottoman state 1.

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مراد الثاني

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The second battle of Kosovo· Battle of Varna and the breach of the treaty· Treaty of Szeged (1444)· John Hunyadi· Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos· السلطان محمد الفاتح· محمد الأول جلبي· Prince Mustafa, son of Bayezid I

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 79
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