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and march onto Amasra. A detachment of messengers was also sent to Genoan officials at the fort in Amasra to surrender. It was announced that if they did not surrender, the castle would be shelled from the sea and land, and that the Sultan would not show mercy. The Sultan, on the other hand, stopped
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when he reached the hill where the Amasra peninsula and its castles were visible and viewed the siege from afar. Surprised by a sudden siege from the sea and land, the officials in the castle decided to surrender without resistance and sent a delegation to the Sultan under the Genoan
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period, Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror declared that Galata was his own property and that it was part of the Ottoman Empire, annexed not by force, but by the will of the people. Therefore, the Genoese started to display hostile attitudes towards the Ottomans.
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and dealing with the civil war in his country, submitted to the Ottomans and agreed, under duress, to send 2,000 gold of tribute to the Empire yearly on October 5, 1455. As a result, the Moldavians were allowed free trade in the Ottoman Empire. When the
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valley with his army after a difficult hike in the mountainous terrain of Bolu, learned that the Navy had anchored in the offshores of Amasra, which prompted him to leave some dead weight in
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Fatih Sultan Mehmed suspected that the Genoese were joining an alliance and plotting against the Ottomans due to their increasing hostility towards the Empire, and declared war on them.
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in 1460, at the end of August, Fatih Sultan Mehmed headed for Amasra, but kept this decision a secret. First of all, he sent the Ottoman Navy, consisting of 100
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In response to the Genoese who wanted Galata, which was right next to Istanbul, to remain as Genoese land, after the Conquest of Istanbul, as it was in the
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accepted to became a tributary state of the Ottoman Empire in 1456, all the governments on the Black Sea coasts recognized Ottoman domination.
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and an armory was built and guards were stationed all around the castle. For the protection of the city, the guards of the
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The Sultan failed to conquer the Republic of Genoa and returned to Istanbul with a small fleet of the Ottoman Navy.
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loaded with bronze in the Ottoman army, to cast cannons if necessary. The Sultan, who went down to the
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measures employed by the Ottoman Empire in response to multiple failed operations and sieges due to
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La Colonia Genovese di Pera, Prof. Behçet Gücer tercümesi, s.19, 20, Türk Tarih Kurumu Kütüphanesi
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Amasra (Amastris), located on the Black Sea coast of Anatolia and in the region between
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Uzunçarşılı, İsmail Hakkı, Büyük Osmanlı Tarihi, 7. Baskı, II. Cilt, s.48-49
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Uzunçarşılı, İsmail Hakkı, Büyük Osmanlı Tarihi, 7. Baskı, II. Cilt, s.47-48
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through a mandate. In the summer of 1454, the Ottoman Navy, which went to
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1460 capture of the Genoese colony of Amasra by the Ottoman Empire
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Three days after the conquest of Istanbul (June 1, 1453),
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gave the impression that he was hunting, and went to
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Amasra Fortress
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