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Fall of Gallipoli
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<p>The fall of Gallipoli was the siege and capture of the <a href="/facts/Gallipoli/MlXCHcem">Gallipoli</a> fortress and peninsula, by the <a href="/facts/Ottoman_Empire/6QvfTRsg">Ottoman Turks</a>, in March 1354. After suffering a half-century of defeats at the hands of the Ottomans, the <a href="/facts/Byzantine_Empire/njEELXWF">Byzantine Empire</a> had lost nearly all of its possessions in <a href="/facts/Anatolia/vMkrLrPr">Anatolia</a>, except <a href="/facts/Ala%25C5%259Fehir/9b9nnx9K">Philadelphia</a>. Access to the <a href="/facts/Aegean_Sea/Vx4Gg5CT">Aegean</a> and <a href="/facts/Sea_of_Marmara/2EVtFBHk">Marmara</a> seas meant that the Ottomans could now implement the conquest of the southern Balkans, and could advance further north into the <a href="/facts/History_of_Medieval_Serbia/AzoY2pUz">Serbian Empire</a> and <a href="/facts/Kingdom_of_Hungary_in_the_Middle_Ages/91tLqn81">Hungary</a>. </p>