On the 10th and 11th June 1329, the famous battle of Pelekanon, today’s Maltepe, took place between the Ottomans and Byz…
On the 10th and 11th June 1329, the famous battle of Pelekanon, today’s Maltepe, took place between the Ottomans and Byzantines. The Byzantine army under the then Emperor Andronikos III, known for his will to fight, wanted to conquer parts of the Ottoman Empire. But Emperor Andronikos III met with the then Sultan Orhan Gazi, … Read more