Byzantine Battles: Siege of Brusa

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Siege of Brusa (Prusa)	year: 1317-1326 1317-6 April 1326
The Ottoman Turks captured Prusa after a 9-year siege and started an empire	★ ★ ★ ★ ★

enemy: Ottoman Turks	location: Bursa in modern Turkey	accuracy: ●●●●●
battle type: City Capture	war: Byzantine-Ottoman Wars	modern country: Turkey

	▼ The Byzantines(emperor: Andronikos II Palaiologos)	▼ The Enemies
Commander:	Unknown	Sultans Osman I, Orhan I
Forces:	Unknown	Unknown
Losses:

Background story:

In 1302, after defeating a Byzantine force in the battle of Bapheus, Osman began settling his forces closer to Byzantine controlled areas. Large numbers of Ghazi warriors, Islamic scholars and dervishes began settling in Osman-controlled areas, and migrants from all parts of the Muslim world composed the bulk of his army.
Alarmed by Osman's growing influence, the Byzantines gradually fled the Anatolian countryside and dedicated their resources to the Navy instead. Byzantine leadership was determined to prevent Osman from crossing into Europe and attempted to contain Ottoman expansion westward. Osman however continued to press westward and captured the Byzantine city and then moved eastward and seized Byzantine domains in the Black Sea region of Anatolia.
Osman's last campaign, before dying of old age, was against the Byzantines in the city of Bursa.

The Battle:

Osman I expanded his power south of the Sea of Marmara, where he besieged the Byzantine city of Prusa (Bursa) in the north-western Asia Minor. The Ottomans had not besieged a city before; the lack of expertise in this kind of warfare meant that the city fell only after nine years.
Osman’s son Orhan Gazi led the final assault on 6th April 1326 and carried the news of Bursa’s fall to his dying father.

Aftermath:

The capture of Bursa established the Ottoman Turks as the major power in Asia Minor, beginning the Ottoman Empire. Bursa became the Ottoman capital for several decades, until the fall of Adrianople in 1362 .

Byzantine Battles

Siege of Brusa

1317-1326