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Medieval era · 1329

Battle of Pelekanon

The Battle of Pelekanon, also known by its Latinised form Battle of Pelecanum, occurred on June 10–11, 1329, between an expeditionary force by the Byzantines led by Andronikos IIl and an Ottoman army led by Orhan I. The Byzantine army was defeated, with no further attempt made at relieving the cities in Anatolia under Ottoman siege.

Battle of Pelekanon
Battle of Pelekanon · DragonTiger23, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
When
1329
Where
Nicomedia
Era
Medieval

Topics

Turkey1,258 BCE – todayByzantine Empire752 BCE – 1453

Before and after

Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton1328Battle of Posada1330Show on timeline

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