Abstract:

Ottoman seigniory, one of Turkmen seigniories carrying the heritage of Turkish identity in Anatolia, started the processes of becoming a state politically as a first time while it was a western Anatolia frontier seigniory. Therefore, Ottoman seigniory was really careful about the relations with Byzantine, Karesi and Karamanogulları seigniories that are in the same neighbourhood. Thus, Ottomans became effective in the area covering Bilecik-Sakarya-İzmit. Together with the completion of foundation phase, Ottomans turned their faces to the west, in other words, Gallipoli as a first time which was an important entrance route to reach Balkans meaning large and fertile plains from the perspective of Ottomans. In this regard, the reality of Ottomans’ settling in Rumelia with the conquest of Gallipoli presented the political process of becoming a world-wide state. For the mentioned reasons above, Ottomans’ landing on Gallipoli which is also a starting point for Ottomans to rule in both Balkans and Western Europe is a crucial topic that deserves to be paid attention on. In the current study, some significant comments were made to inform the importance of Ottomans’ landing on Gallipoli in the primary conquest movements which enabled Ottomans to be a political state rather than a seigniory and the importance of Gallipoli in the conquest of Balkans.

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