Surrounded on Two Fronts — But They Didn’t Fall

Описание: By the late 1460s, the Ottoman Empire faced one of the most dangerous moments in its history.

In the west, Venetian fleets and Balkan resistance threatened Ottoman control of the Mediterranean and Albania. In the east, Uzun Hasan of the Aq Qoyunlu assembled a powerful Turkoman confederation and marched toward Anatolia. For the first time since the conquest of Constantinople, Sultan Mehmed II was forced to defend his empire on two major fronts at once.

This episode examines the campaigns between 1465 and 1473 — from the wars in Albania and against Venice to the decisive confrontation at the Battle of Otlukbeli. It was a period defined not by expansion alone, but by survival.

How did Mehmed hold the empire together under pressure from both east and west?
And how close did the Ottomans come to strategic collapse?

This is the story of the crisis that reshaped the balance of power in the eastern Mediterranean.

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