Siege of Theodoro (1475)

Siege of Theodoro (1475)
Part of the Crimean Campaign (1475)
Date December 1475 Location Mangup, Crimea Result Ottoman victory [1] End of the principality of Theodoro.
Belligerents
Principality of Theodoro Principality of Moldavia	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Alexander of Theodoro	Gedik Ahmed Pasha
Strength
3,000 militia 500 Moldavian mercenaries	8,500 men, 100 Ship
Casualties and losses
Heavy	Unknown

The Siege of Mangup is a military operation carried out by the Ottoman fleet under the command of Gedik Ahmed Pasha during the Crimean campaign in 1475, during which the Turkish troops captured the Mangup Castle, the center of the Greek Theodoro Principality in the south of the Crimean peninsula, thus integrating the aforementioned state into Ottoman territory. ^[2] The siege, which began in September, ended in December after five attacks, with the castle surrendering, wiping out the last of the Roman Empire's ruins

References

1. The Goths in the Crimea", Alexander A. Vasiliev, Cambridge, MA: The Mediaeval Academy of America (1936) page:259
2. Pritsak, Omeljan (1991). "Dory". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press. pp. 654–655. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.

Sources

• Pilat, Liviu; Cristea, Ovidiu (2 October 2017). The Ottoman Threat and Crusading on the Eastern Border of Christendom during the 15th Century. BRILL. ISBN   978-90-04-35380-0.