Battle of Gallipoli (1312)

For other uses, see Gallipoli campaign.

Battle of Gallipoli (1312)
Part of the Byzantine-Turkish Wars
Date 1312 Location Gallipoli, Byzantine Empire, now modern day Turkey Result Decisive Byzantine and Serbian victory
Belligerents
Turcopoles	Byzantine Empire Serbian Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Halil Pasa	Unknown
Strength
under 2000	2000 cavalry
Casualties and losses
heavy, few survivors, Halil Pasha dead	Unknown

The Battle of Gallipoli was fought in 1312, between the Byzantine Empire and Serbian Kingdom, against Turcopoles led by Halil Pasha.

The Turks were looting and pillaging the countryside. For two years Thrace was in the hands of Halil Pasha, the local inhabitants did not cultivate their lands at the time. Michael IX raised an army and confined the Turk army to the Gallipoli peninsula, he was aided by Serbian King Stefan Uroš II Milutin's cavalry numbering some 2000 Serbs or Cumans, and the Genoese prevented the Turks from escaping by sea. Halil himself and the Seljuqs were massacred. Few of the Tourkopoloi returned into Byzantine service.

References

Sources

• Bartusis, Mark, The Late Byzantine Army, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997)
• Nicol, Donald, The last centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453, (Cambridge University Press, 1993)