The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403)

by Herbert Adams Gibbons

1308-16—Sovereignty is extended over the peninsula between the Gulf of Nicomedia and the Black Sea, almost up to the Bosphorus.

1317—Fortresses are erected near gates of Brusa.

1326—Brusa surrenders.

Orkhan (1326-59)

1329—Occupies Nicaea.

1330-8—Conquest of shores of Gulf of Nicomedia up to Scutari on the Bosphorus.

1334-8—Conquest of emirate of Karasi.

1337-8—Occupies Nicomedia.

c. 1339—Acquires Mikhalitch, Ulubad, and Kermasti.

1353—Cantacuzenos cedes fortress on European shore of Hellespont.