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Siege of Gardiki-Arcadia

Name: Siege of Gardiki-Arcadia
Location: Gardiki Castle, Arcadia, Greece

Siege of Gardiki-Arcadia was a siege conducted in 1460 at Gardiki Castle, Arcadia, in what is now Greece. It was part of the Ottoman conquest of the Morea, which ran from 1458 to 1460. The recorded result: Ottoman victory. Recorded strength: Unknown against 1,300 guardian.

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Fought1460

WhereGardiki Castle, Arcadia, Greece37.263N, 22.058E

OutcomeOttoman victory

BelligerentsOttoman EmpireagainstByzantine Empire; Republic of Venice

Part ofOttoman conquest of the Morea1458 to 1460

Where it sits in the Ottoman conquest of the Morea

6 placed engagements of the Ottoman conquest of the Morea in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	1460 (year precision)
Place	Gardiki Castle, Arcadia, Greece 37.263N, 22.058E
Kind	Siege, medieval
Strength	Unknown	1,300 guardian
Casualties and losses	Light	1,300 soldier killed; 6,000 civilians killed; 10,000 prisoner (From other regions of Arcadia)
Commanders	Mehmed II Mahmud Pasha Angelović	Manuel Bochalis

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Battle of Meligalas 1944, 10 km SW
Battle of Makryplagi 1263, 12 km SW
Siege of Megalopolis 317 BC, 17 km NE
Battle of Megalopolis 331 BC, 17 km NE
Battle of Mount Lycaeum 227 BC, 23 km N

In the same war

Before: Siege of Corinth 15 May 1458
After: Siege of Kastritza 1460
All 6 engagements of Ottoman conquest of the Morea

Elsewhere in 1460

Battle of Wakefield United Kingdom
Battle of Northampton United Kingdom
Siege of Trebizond in 1461 Turkey
Battle of Worksop United Kingdom
Capture of Roxburgh United Kingdom

Siege of Gardiki-Arcadia is one of 720 engagements of the 15th century in the atlas and one of 493 in present-day Greece.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q137661987, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Gardiki-Arcadia, revision 1370741427, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.