1463 War

Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Name: Ottoman conquest of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Start: 1463

Four centuries of rule begin; a large share of the population converts to Islam.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1463 — the context national timelines leave out.

10 years earlier Fall of Constantinople Greece
10 years earlier Capture of Constantinople Türkiye
6 years earlier Reign of Stephen the Great Moldova
20 years earlier Skanderbeg’s revolt Albania

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Renaissance 1400 – 1600 Printing, humanism, and the opening of ocean routes.

Countries involved

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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The half-century around 1463
Everything from: Middle Ages
Others — War
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What was written of it

Before 1914, the earth belonged to all. Everyone went where they wished and stayed as long as they pleased. There were no permits and no authorisations.

Stefan Zweig 1942

The World of Yesterday. Memoirs of a European

Translated by the site, not by the author.