* The Ottomans capture Tripoli.

* The Ottomans capture Philippopolis and Adrianopole ( now the city of Edirne ) from the Byzantine Empire, reducing it to the city of Constantinople.

* The Ottomans capture the Vidin Empire, the only remaining independent Bulgarian state.

Sultan Selim II's Chief Minister, the Grand Vizier Mehmed Sokullu, argued to the Venetian emissary Marcantonio Barbaro that the Christian triumph at Lepanto made no lasting harm to the Ottoman Empire, while the capture of Cyprus by the Ottomans in the same year was a significant blow, saying that:

The Ottomans engaged in active campaigns to capture these insurgents in 1805 and 1806, and were able to enlist Greek villagers, eager to avoid the stake, in the hunt for their outlaw countrymen.

In autumn 1476 a joint army of Hungarians and Serbs tried to capture the fortress from the Ottomans.

In 1494 Pál Kinizsi tried to capture Smederevo from the Ottomans but he was stricken with palsy and died.

Since the capture of Algiers by the Ottomans Oruch and Barbarossa in 1516, Algeria had been a base for conflict and piracy in the Mediterranean.

Following the conquest of Constantinople, the capture of the remainder of the Byzantine territories was easily accomplished by the Ottomans.

The Ottomans hear of the talks between Nikola I and tries to capture the ringleaders, they however flee into Montenegro in the winter of 1874.

The League initially assembled a fleet to aid the Venetian defenders of Cyprus which was invaded by Ottoman forces under the command of Lala Mustafa in July 1570, but was too late to prevent the island's capture by the Ottomans.

In August 1543 the Ottomans succeeded in the Siege of Esztergom ( 1543 ) which was followed by the capture of three Hungarian cities: Székesfehérvár, Siklós and Szeged, offering better security for Buda.

The capture of the port of Aqaba allowed the Allies to supply Feisal's forces and deprived the Ottomans of a position behind the right flank of the EEF.

The 1444 League of Lezhë briefly restored one part of Albania, until Ottomans captured complete territory of Albania after capture of Shkoder in 1479 and Durres in 1501.

Napoleon's capture of Malta on his way to Egypt resulted in the unusual alliance of Russia and the Ottomans resulting in a joint naval expedition to the Ionian Islands.

Because of Timişoara's strategic location, the Ottomans desired to capture the fortress during their campaigns against the Kingdom of Hungary.

In the Ottoman Empire, The Ottomans capture the city of Nicomedia ( İzmit ).

After the capture of Esztergom by the Ottomans, the new archiepiscopal residence was moved to either Nagyszombat or Bratislava ( Pressburg ).

The Battalion then took part in the Battle of Ctesiphon ( 22 – 24 November ) during the pursuit of the Ottoman forces and in the effort to capture the capital Baghdad, which ended in the 6th Poona Division being defeated by the Ottomans.

Furthermore, the Ottomans did not engage all their troops from the objective for the capture of Alexandria.

After the capture of Rethymno in 1648, the Ottomans pillaged the monastery.

The Ottomans tried to capture Skoutari again in 1815 but they were defeated and driven back.

The Ottomans had already tried and failed to capture the city in 1822 and 1823, but returned in 1825 with a stronger force of infantry and a stronger navy supporting the infantry.

Led by Telli Hasan Pasha, the beylerbey of Bosnia, the Ottomans managed to capture a number of uskok settlements, killing and enslaving the population.

Greek dominance on the Aegean Sea made it impossible for the Ottomans to transfer the planned troops from the Middle East to the Thracian ( against the Bulgarian ) and to the Macedonian ( against the Greeks and Serbians ) fronts.

After a failed Ottoman counter-attack in the Western-Thracian front, Bulgarian forces with the help of the Serbian Army managed to conquer Adrianople while Greek forces managed to take Ioannina after defeating the Ottomans in the battle of Bizani.

These unacceptable demands together with the Bulgarian refusal to demobilize its army after the Treaty of London had ended the common war against the Ottomans and alarmed Greece, which decided also to maintain its army's mobilization.

Seeing the military position of the Bulgarian army the Ottomans decided to intervene.

But in her effort to win Bulgaria for the Central Powers, and seeing the inevitability of Ottoman disintegration, was toying with the idea of replacing the Balkan area of the Ottomans with a friendly Greater Bulgaria in her San Stefano borders — an idea that was based on the German origin of the Bulgarian King and his anti-Russian sentiments.

* October 10 – Battle of Karanovasa – Wallachia ( now southern Romania ) resists an invasion by the Ottomans and their Serb and Bulgarian vassals.

** Battle of Rovine: With the help of the Hungarians, Wallachia resists an invasion by the Ottomans and their Serb and Bulgarian vassals.

The Ottomans faced little resistance from these divided and weak Bulgarian states.

In 1393, the Ottomans captured Tarnovo, the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, after a three-month siege.

The Greek revolt against the Ottomans which began in 1821 also influenced the small Bulgarian educated class.

The Coalition was able to inflict a decisive defeat on the Ottomans at the Battle of Shipka Pass and at Pleven and by January 1878 they had liberated much of the Bulgarian lands.

But Bulgaria now had no claims against the Ottomans, whereas Serbia, Greece and Romania ( allies of Britain and France ) held lands perceived in Bulgaria as Bulgarian.

* Germany, already heavily involved in the internal Ottoman politics, officially opposed a war against the Empire, but in her effort to win Bulgaria for the Central Powers, and seeing the inevitability of Ottoman disintegration, was playing with the idea to replace the Balkan positions of the Ottomans with a friendly Greater Bulgaria in her San Stefano borders, an idea that was based on the German origin of the Bulgarian King and his anti-Russian sentiments.

The Bulgarians launched their attack along the defensive line with 176, 351 men and 462 artillery pieces against the Ottomans ' 140, 571 men and 316 artillery pieces, but despite Bulgarian superiority, the Ottomans succeeded in repulsing them.

The Ottomans were probably unaware of the presence in the area of the newly-formed 4th Bulgarian Army of 92, 289 men under General Stiliyan Kovachev.

But in its effort to win Bulgaria for the Central Powers, and seeing the inevitability of Ottoman disintegration, was playing with the idea to replace the Balkan positions of the Ottomans with a friendly Greater Bulgaria in its San Stefano borders — an idea that was based on the German origin of the Bulgarian King and his anti-Russian sentiments.

In 1912 during the First Balkan War, Drama was taken from the Ottomans by Bulgarian troops.

It is worthy to remember that the creation of a Bulgarian Exarch by the Ottomans in 1870 was to separate the Bulgarians religiously from the Greek Patriarch and politically from Serbia.

The enormity of the victory and the incessant raids into his lands convinced Turnovo Bulgarian Tsar Shishman of the necessity for coming to terms with the Ottomans.

With the rise of the Second Bulgarian Empire the region once again became part of the country until it was overran by the Ottomans in the late 14th century.

At the same time, the Ottomans advanced into Eastern Thrace and retook Adrianople, while Romania used the opportunity to invade Bulgaria from the north and advance against little opposition to within a short distance of the Bulgarian capital, Sofia.