After finishing his education, Albuquerque first served in North Africa and in the Mediterranean where he took part in numerous successful campaigns against the Arabs and the Ottomans.

After conquering Edirne ( Adrianople ) in 1365 the Ottomans turned it into a joint capital city for governing their European realms, but Bursa remained the most important Anatolian administrative and commercial center even after it lost its status as the sole Ottoman capital.

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.

After a failed attempt to move on Baghdad, stopped by the Ottomans at the bloody Battle of Ctesiphon, the British and their large contingent of Indian sepoy soldiers were forced to retreat to Kut, where the Ottomans under German General Baron Colmar von der Goltz laid siege.

After the Ottoman Empire refused to implement reforms in the disputed areas, the First Balkan War broke out in October 1912 at a time when the Ottomans were tied down in a major war with Italy.

After the decline of the Abbasids, parts of Jordan were ruled by various powers and empires including the Mongols, the Crusaders, the Ayyubids, the Mamlukes as well as the Ottomans, who captured major parts of the Arab World around 1517.

After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 and the Siege of Belgrade, the Serbian Despotate fell in 1459 following the siege of the provisional capital of Smederevo.

After the expulsion of the Jews from Portugal in 1497, the Ottomans invited the Jews to the Ottoman territory and Karo went with his parents to Nikopolis of the Ottoman Empire, and spent the rest of his life in the Ottoman Empire.

After 1580, the discouraged Ottomans left the fleet to rot in the waters of the Horn.

After the defeat of the Ottomans at Pločnik ( 1386 ) and Bileća ( 1388 ), Murad I, the reigning Ottoman sultan, moved his troops from Philippoupolis ( Plovdiv in modern Bulgaria ) in the spring of 1389 to Ihtiman.

After the Battle of Maritza, Ottomans forced the southern Serbian feudal lords ( in present-day Macedonia and Greece ), Konstantin Dragaš, king Marko, Toma Preljubović and others, to become their vassals, and started to attack the northern Serbian lands ruled by prince Lazar and Vuk.

After initial Serbian successes at the battles of Dubravnica ( 1381 ), Pločnik ( 1386 ) and Bileća ( 1388 ), the Ottomans launched a full-scale attack on Serbia aiming at the very heartland of Vuk's realm in central Kosovo.

After 1716, the Ottomans decided to cease choosing the voivodes from among the Wallachian boyars, and to appoint foreign governors.

After a peace treaty was signed in Požarevac, the Ottomans lost all its possessions in the Danube basin, as well as today's northern Serbia and northern Bosnia, parts of Dalmatia and the Peloponnesus.

After little change on 8 January, renewed British attacks on 9 January resulted in the Ottomans retiring from Sheikh Sa ' ad.

After putting up a stiff resistance the Ottomans retreated five miles ( 8 km ) to the west and they were followed by Aylmer's troops.

After decades of upheavals and rebellions mounted by Arab tribes in the Middle East, the Ottomans attempted to reassert centralized control over the Arab vilayets.

After a series of victory over the Ottomans, he turned against Transylvania and Moldavia where pro-Polish and pro-Ottoman princes were reigning.

After the battle of Nicopolis, the Ottomans occupied Bulgaria and could attack Wallachia more easily.

After the two pretenders had been defeated, the Ottomans annexed again Dobruja and occupied Giurgiu, and Mircea I was forced to pay an annual tribute to the sultan.

After 1185 it became part of the County palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos under the Kingdom of Naples until its last Count Leonardo III Tocco was defeated by the Ottomans in 1479.

After the incursions of the Pomaks of Moglen against the Ottomans, the latter started a persecution campaign against villages in the area, including those of the Moglen Vlachs.

After a two month-long struggle, the Ottomans engaged in a counter-attack against the Serb positions on 19 May 1809.

After being incorporated in Yugoslavia for most of the 20th century, Croatia regained independence in 1991.

After 19 years in a minimally conscious state, Terry Wallis spontaneously began speaking and regained awareness of his surroundings.

After Macias ' fall in 1979, President Obiang asked for Spanish assistance, and since then, Spain has regained influence in Equatorial Guinea's diplomatic relations.

After the breakdown of the Hun Empire, they never regained their lost glory.

After more than a century of rule by its neighbors, Poland regained its independence in 1918, internationally recognized in 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles.

After the Polish magnates regained control of southern Rus in the last decade of the 17th century, an economic renaissance ensued.

After Boleslaw's death, the Duchy of Pomerania regained independence, before the dukes became vassals of Denmark and the Holy Roman Empire in the late 12th century.

After the war, the central government regained its ability to collect taxes and control over key port and government facilities.

After the First World War, Poland and Lithuania both regained their independence but soon became immersed in territorial disputes.

After the Gothic War ( 535-554 ) and the Byzantine conquest, this region regained its freedom, because the " Roman Duchy " became the property of the Eastern Emperor.

After securing aid from Rome, the exiled mercenaries then regained authority on the island of Sicily.

After Poland regained its independence ( from Germany, Austria and Russia ) in 1918 no major or minor force considered Pan-Slavism as a serious alternative, viewing Pan-Slavism as little more than a code word for Russification.

After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the colony regained its independence under the Royal Charter.

After Sidon came under Ottoman Turkish rule in the seventeenth century, it regained a great deal of its earlier commercial importance.

After the Unification of Italy of 1865, Syracuse regained its status of provincial capital.

After 12 years in bondage, he regained his freedom in January 1853 ; he was one of very few to do so in such cases.

After Poland regained independence, in 1920 Banach was given an assistantship at Kraków's Jagiellonian University.

After this success, the Catholics regained pace, and the principle of cuius regio, eius religio began to be exerted more strictly in Bavaria, Würzburg and other states.

After the English regained the territory of the former kingdom, Scots invasions reduced Northumbria to an earldom stretching from the Humber to the Tweed.

After World War II, it regained its place in the standard operatic repertoire.

After Poland regained independence with the end of the World War I in 1918, the party merged with agrarian groups from territories previously occupied by Imperial Russia and formed the first PSL led by Wincenty Witos, becoming one of the most important political parties in the Second Polish Republic until it was removed by the Sanacja regime ( see also People's Party ).

After a brief period under Persian rule under Darius Hystaspes, the state regained its independence under King Alexander I ( 495 – 450 BC ).

After the disputed election of 1876 resulted in the end of Reconstruction, Whites in the South regained political control of the region, after mounting intimidation and violence in the elections.

After Napoleon's defeat, the Pope regained Umbria until 1860.