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Byzantine–Ottoman wars
The Byzantine–Ottoman wars were the conflicts between the Byzantine Empire and the rising Ottoman Turks from the late 13th century to the late 15th. The Ottomans took Byzantine Anatolia, including Bursa (1326) and Nicaea (1331), crossed into Europe in the 1350s and reduced the empire to little more than Constantinople. Mehmed II captured Constantinople in 1453, and the Morea (1460) and Trebizond (1461) soon followed.
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