With no further threat by the Serbs and the subsequent Byzantine civil wars, the Ottomans captured Constantinople in 1453 and advanced southwards into Greece, capturing Athens in 1458.

Aden in Yemen was captured by the Ottomans in 1538, in order to provide an Ottoman base for raids against Portuguese possessions on the western coast of modern Pakistan and India.

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

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.

Ottomans started raiding Cyprus immediately afterwards, and captured it in 1571.

During the Fifth Ottoman-Venetian War, following a major victory over the Ottoman fleet, the Venetians captured the island again on 20 August 1656, but the Ottomans recovered it barely a year later, on 31 August 1657, after a siege of 36 days.

It was captured by the Ottomans in 1458.

With the first four redoubts on the Causeway Heights either captured or out of action, all that protected Balaclava were Lucan's Cavalry Division, together with the 550 men of the 93 Highlanders, Barker's W Battery, 100 invalids under Colonel Daveney, and some Ottomans, reinforced by their countrymen from the redoubts who had rallied and formed up alongside them.

His force pushed northwards towards Jerusalem, the Ottomans were beaten at Junction Station ( 10 – 14 November ) and Jerusalem was captured on 9 December 1917.

Al-Birwa was captured from the Mamluks by the Ottomans in the 16th century.

The Ottomans ruled from 1517, after the village was captured in the Battle of Marj Dabiq.

When the Ottomans captured the city from the Byzantines, they converted the basilica to a mosque ( now a museum ) and incorporated Byzantine architectural elements into their own work ( e. g. domes ).

Peć was captured by the Ottomans in the late 14th century, and underwent major changes under their rule, including a change of name to Ipek.

Serbia became a battleground between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Ottomans, and the angry Branković captured Hunyadi after his defeat at the Second Battle of Kosovo in 1448.

In 1459 Smederevo was again captured by the Ottomans after the death of Branković.

By the winter the Ottomans had captured one after the other all adjacent castles: Lezhë, Drisht, and Žabljak Crnojevića.

Stephen the Great suffered the greatest setback of his carrier in 1484 when the Ottomans captured Chilia and Cetatea Alba ( now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine ) on the Black Sea.

It then came under Venetian rule until captured by the Ottomans.

Venice captured Preveza again in 1717, during its next war with the Ottomans and was this time able to hold on to the town and fort it-a meager achievement in a war which otherwise went very badly for the Republic.

With a naval base established on it, the island, the first captured by the Ottomans, enabled control of the Sea of Marmara, and cut the Byzantines ' connection to Bursa.

It is now known definitely that the tower was constructed by the Ottomans some time after the army of Sultan Murad II captured Thessaloniki in 1430.

The Ottomans captured Bar in 1571 and it remained in their hands until 1878.

In 1768 the Ottomans captured the banner of the self-proclaimed Montenegrin Emperor Stephen the Little.

This event had split the Ottomans into factions since Bayezid's sons were still alive and free after he himself was captured.

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.

Financed in part by the riches pouring in from its colonies, Spain became embroiled in the religiously charged wars and intrigues of Europe, including, for example, through its possessions in western Europe, engaging in wars with France, England, Sweden, and the Ottomans and in the Mediterranean and northern Africa.

In the nearby Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman emir Orhan married Byzantine princess Theodora as part of an alliance between her father John VI Kantakouzenos and the Ottomans.

In 1538, the Ottomans annexed more Bessarabian land in the south as far as Tighina, while the central and northern parts of Bessarabia were already formally a vassal of the Ottoman Empire as part of the principality of Moldavia.

In 1526, following the Battle of Mohács, in which Ferdinand's brother-in-law Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemia, was killed, Ferdinand expanded his territories, bringing Bohemia and that part of Hungary not occupied by the Ottomans under his rule.

As a part of the Holy Roman Empire, the area was successively ruled by Bavarian, Frankish and local nobility, and eventually by the Austrian Habsburgs almost continuously from 1335 to 1918, though beset by many raids from the Ottomans and rebellions by local residents against Habsburg rule from the 15th to the 17th centuries.

With the Treaty of Belgrade, the Habsburgs ceded the Kingdom of Serbia with Belgrade, the southern part of the Banat of Temeswar and northern Bosnia to the Ottomans, and Oltenia, gained by the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718, to Wallachia ( an Ottoman subject ), and set the demarcation line to the rivers Sava and Danube.

One famous incident was the Banat Uprising in 1595 which was part of the Long War between the Ottomans and the Habsburgs.

In 1681, Protestants and other anti-Habsburg Kuruc forces, led by Imre Thököly, were reinforced with a significant force from the Ottomans, who recognized Thököly as King of " Upper Hungary " ( eastern part of today's Slovakia and parts of today's northeastern Hungary, which he had earlier taken by force of arms from the Habsburgs ).

During the Great Turkish War ( 1667 – 1698 ), Slavonia was regained in 1687 when the Ottomans abandoned the region — unlike western Bosnia, which had been part of Croatia before the Ottoman conquest.

Refugee Armenians in Hungary also took part in the wars of their new country against the Ottomans as early as the battle of Varna in 1444, when some Armenians were seen amongst the Christian forces.

Many consider themselves more cosmopolitan because Hejaz was for centuries a part of the great empires of Islam from the Umayyads to the Ottomans.

Even though Serbia at the beginning was part of a united alliance of Balkan powers against the Ottomans the initial victory led to squabbles about the division of the spoils and in the second of the two wars it was Bulgaria who was Serbia's main enemy.

Bulgaria, on her part, had held a long-term policy regarding the Ottomans since restoring her independence during the Russo-Turkish War.

As both Ottomans and Great Britain desperately wanted control of the Vilayet of Mosul ( of which Kirkuk was a part ), the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 failed to solve the issue.

Aubrey Herbert and T. E. Lawrence were part of a team of officers sent to negotiate a secret deal with the Ottomans.

The following year Władysław took part in the second phase of the Polish – Ottoman War, a consequence of the long series of struggles between Poland and the Ottomans over Moldavia.

The Ottomans handed over Muhammareh, which was part of Iraqi territory, to Iran.

The Ottomans divided Palestine into six sanjaqs (" districts "): Safad, Jenin, Jerusalem, Gaza, Ajlun and Nablus, all of which were part of Ottoman Syria.

Bečej was administered by the Ottomans between 1551 and 1687 ( nominally to 1699 ) and was part of the Sanjak of Segedin and Budin eyalet.

Čačak became a part of Habsburg Empire after Austrians took victory among Ottomans.

The Ottomans, however, occupied a great part of Banat in 1552, and neither could Ferdinand I consolidate his rule over the kingdom's eastern territories.

In reaction to the rebellion of Crete and the assistance sent by Greece, the Ottomans had relocated a significant part of their army in the Balkans to the north of Thessaly, close to the borders with Greece.

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.