A map of the territorial expansion of the Ottoman Empire from 1307 to 1683.Ottoman territories acquired between 1481 and 1683 (See: list of territories)
Conquest of Mudanya by the Ottoman Emirate and the first Ottoman landings in Thrace, southeastern Europe
1321
Conquest of the strategic port city and gulf of Gemlik on the Marmara Sea by the Ottoman Emirate
1333
Naval victories of Umur Bey against the Serbian infantry, Byzantine and Genoese fleets off the Aegean coasts of Anatolia, Rhodes, the Dardanelles Strait, Macedonia and Morea
Conquest of Rhodes from the Knights of St. John, who relocate their base first to Sicily and later to Malta
1522
Landings at Sardinia
1525
Capture of Capo Passero in Sicily
1526
Landings at Crotone, Reggio Calabria, Castignano, Capo Spartivento, Messina, Tuscany, Campania
1526
Conquest of Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia and Bosnia
1527
Landings at Italian and Spanish coastal towns
1527
Ottoman-Spanish War near the Isle of Formentera
1529
Capture of the Isle of Peñón
1529
Landings at Andalusia
1529
Capture of the Isle of Cabrera
1530
Landings at Sicily, the Balearic Islands, Marseilles, Provence, Liguria, Sardinia, Piombino
1530
Landings at the Isle of Favignana, Calabria, Puglia, Tripoli, Spain
1531
Landings at Sardinia, Bonifacio, Montecristo, Elba, Lampedusa, Messina, Calabria
1532
First conquest of Tunisia from Spain, reconquest of Morea
1534
Capture of San Lucido, Cetraro, Capri, Procida, Tunis
1534
Landings at Reggio Calabria, Gaeta, Villa Santa Lucia, Sant'Isidoro, Sperlonga, Fondi, Terracina, Ostia, Ponza, Sicily, Sardinia, bombardment of the ports at the Gulf of Naples
Capture of Reggio Calabria, Messina, Nice, Antibes, Île Sainte-Marguerite, Monaco, San Remo, La Turbie
1543
Landings at Campania, Lazio, venturing into the Tiber River near Rome
1543
Defeat of the Spanish-Italian fleet in the Tyrrhenian Sea, assault on the Kingdom of Naples
1544
Capture of Bonifacio in Corsica, Castiglione della Pescaia, Talamone, Orbetello, Grosseto, Montiano, Porto Ercole, Isle of Giglio, Ischia, Forio, and the Isle of Procida
1544
Landings at San Remo, Borghetto Santo Spirito, Ceriale, Vado Ligure, Piombino, Civitavecchia, Sardinia, Gozo, Pozzuoli, Capo Palinuro, Catona, Fiumara, Calanna, Cariati, Lipari
1544
Capture of Capraia, Monterosso, Corniglia, Rapallo, Pegli, Levanto
1545
Landings at Spain, the Balearic Islands, Sicily, Liguria, Menarola, Riomaggiore, La Spezia
1545
Capture of Mahdiya, Sfax, Sousse, Al Munastir in Tunisia; Laigueglia and Andora in Liguria; Gozo in Malta
1546
Landings at Liguria, San Lorenzo al Mare
1546
Reconquest of Yemen from the Portuguese
1547 1548
Recapture of Gozo in Malta
1547
Landings at both islands of Malta, Sicily, Aeolian Islands, Salina Island, Puglia, Salve, Calabria, Corsica
1547
Capture of Castellamare di Stabia, Pozzuoli and Procida at the Gulf of Naples
1548
Landings at Rapallo, San Fruttuoso, Portofino, San Remo, Corsica, Calabria
1549
Recapture of Mahdiya, Sousse, Al Munastir in Tunisia, Rapallo in Liguria
1550
Landings at Sardinia, Spain, Corsica, Gozo, Liguria, Mahdiya, Tunis, Djerba
Conquest of Oman, Hormuz and Qatar from the Portuguese
1552
Capture of Pantelleria, Ponza, Massa Lubrense, Sorrento, Pozzuoli, Minturno, Nola
1552
Landings at Augusta and Licata in Sicily, Taormina, Gulf of Policastro, Palmi, Gulf of Naples, Sardinia, Corsica, Lazio
1552
Capture of Crotone and Castello in Calabria; Marciana Marina, Rio and Capoliveri in Elba. Invasion of Corsica (Capture of Bonifacio, Bastia and Calvi).
Recapture of Pianosa and Capri.
1553
Landings at Sicily, Tavolara, Sardinia, Porto Ercole, Piombino, Portoferraio
1553
Capture of Vieste near Foggia; Elba and Corsica
1554
Landings at Dalmatia, Dubrovnik, Orbetello and Tuscany
1554
Defeat of the Spanish-Italian fleet near Piombino
1555
Capture of Paola and Santo Noceto in Calabria, Papulonia in Elba; Bastia in Corsica; Ospedaletti in Liguria
1555
Landings at Capo Vaticano, Ceramica, San Lucido in Calabria; Piombino in Elba; Calvi in Corsica; Sardinia; San Remo and Liguria
1555
Capture of Bergeggi and San Lorenzo in Liguria; Gafsa in Tunisia
1556
Landings at Lampedusa
1556
Capture of Cariati in Calabria
1557
Landings at the Gulf of Taranto and Puglia
1557
Capture of Gharyan, Misratah, Tagiora, Djerba, Reggio Calabria, Aeolian Islands, Massa Lubrense, Cantone, Sorrento, Minorca
1558
Landings at the Strait of Messina, Amalfi, Gulf of Salerno, Torre del Greco, Tuscany, Piombino, Spain
Capture of Granada in Spain; Naples in Italy and the fortresses around the city, Chiaia
1563
Landings at Malaga, another siege on Spanish-controlled Oran and Mers-el-Kebir; landings at Liguria, Sardinia, Oristano, Marcellino, Ercolento, Puglia, Abruzzo, San Giovanni near Messina, Capo Passero in Sicily, Gozo in Malta
1563
Ottoman expedition to Aceh (Annexation of Aceh in Sumatra, Indonesia, upon request by Sultan Alaaddin of Aceh who declares allegiance to the Ottoman Empire and asks for protection against Portuguese aggression)
Landings at the shoreline between Cadiz and Lisbon
1616
Capture of Madeira in the Atlantic Ocean
1617
Landings at Sussex, Plymouth 27 ships were taken away from its port), Devon, Hartland Point, Cornwall and the other counties of western England in August
1625
Capture of the Isle of Lundy in the Bristol Channel. Lundy becomes the main base of the Ottoman marine operations in the Atlantic Ocean for the next 5 years
Landings in the Northern Atlantic including the British Isles, Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Labrador, Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Newfoundland and Virginia
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Melis, Nicola, "The importance of Hormuz for Luso-Ottoman Gulf-centred policies in the 16th century: Some observations based on contemporary sources", in R. Loureiro-D. Couto (eds.), Revisiting Hormuz – Portuguese Interactions in the Persian Gulf Region in the Early Modern Period, "Maritime Asia" 19, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008, pp. 107–120.
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