Battle of Dimbos

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The Battle of Dimbos or Dinboz was a battle between the Ottoman Emirate and the Byzantine Empire in 1303 .

background

After the Battle of Bapheus in 1302, Turkish warriors from all parts of Anatolia began to plunder the remaining Byzantine territory. The Byzantine emperor Andronikos II. Palaiologos tried to forge an alliance with the Mongolian Ilchanate against the Turkish threat. After this failed, he decided to defend the border with his own army.

battle

The battle is known to us only through later tradition and is embellished by legends. According to Theodoros Spandounes , "Dimbos" (in Greek) or "Dinboz" (from Turkish din bozmak , "change of faith") was the first Byzantine city to fall to the Ottomans. The Ottoman chronicler Aschikpaschazade took material about the battle of Koyunhisar (Bapheus) from other chronicles and moved the events to the vicinity of Dimbos.

The Anatolian part of the Byzantine army consisted largely of the garrisons of some cities such as Adranos , Bidnos, Kestel (today's Erdoğan) and Kete (today's Ürünlü). In the spring of 1303, the Byzantine army marched to Yenişehir , an important Ottoman city northeast of Bursa . Osman I defeated them near Dimbos on their way to Yenişehir. Both sides suffered heavy losses during the battle. Osman's nephew Aydoğdu was killed on the Ottoman side and the commanders of Kestel and Dimbos on the Byzantine side.

consequences

The commandant of Kete tried to escape to the nearby fortress of Lopardion (today's Uluabat ). But Osman took him prisoner and had him executed in front of the fortress Kete, with which he brought Kete to surrender.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Donald Nicol , Theodore Spandounes: On the origin of the Ottoman emperors . Cambridge University Press 1997, p. 10
  2. ^ A b Colin Imber, "The Legend of Osman Gazi" in Elizabeth A. Zachariadou (ed.), The Ottoman Emirates (1300-1389). Halcyon Days in Crete, A Symposium Held in Rethymnon . 1994, ISBN 960-7309-58-8 , p. 72
  3. ↑ a b Halil İnalcık , "The Struggle Between Osman Gazi and The Byzantines For Nicaea", Isıl Akbaygil, Halil İnalcık, Oktay Aslanapa (ed.), İznik: Throughout History , Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, ISBN 931-458-4 1 , 2003, pp. 61–62, 70. (PDF; 5.4 MB) in İnalcık's personal website.
  4. ↑ Halil İnalcık: Kuruluş Dönemi Osmanlı Sultanları , Türk Diyanet Vakfı, İstanbul, 2010, ISBN 978-605-55-8606-5 , pp. 36-38
  5. ^ Studies in Ottoman history in honor of Professor VL Ménage Isis Press 1994, p. 205