the ottoman empire took over all of mainland greece, not including the despotate of the morea, in 1453.
the ottoman empire took over all of mainland greece, not including the despotate of the morea, in 1453.
when did the ottoman empire take over all of mainland greece, not including the despotate of the morea?
1453
in the 14th century, much of the greek peninsula was lost by the byzantine empire at first to the serbs and then to the ottomans. by the beginning of the 15th century, the ottoman advance meant that byzantine territory in greece was limited mainly to its then-largest city, thessaloniki, and the peloponnese (despotate of the morea). after the fall of constantinople to the ottomans in 1453, the morea was one of the last remnants of the byzantine empire to hold out against the ottomans. however, this, too, fell to the ottomans in 1460, completing the ottoman conquest of mainland greece. with the turkish conquest, many byzantine greek scholars, who up until then were largely responsible for preserving classical greek knowledge, fled to the west, taking with them a large body of literature and thereby significantly contributing to the renaissance.
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the morea ( or ) was the name of the peloponnese peninsula in southern greece during the middle ages and the early modern period. the name was used for the byzantine province known as the despotate of the morea, by the ottoman empire for the morea eyalet, and by the republic of venice for the short-lived kingdom of the morea.









































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there is some uncertainty over the origin of the medieval name "morea", which is first recorded only in the 10th century in the byzantine chronicles.
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