Atlas of Battles

commander, 7 engagements

Battles of Gedik Ahmed Pasha

Ottoman politician and admiral, 1450 to 1482

Gedik Ahmed Pasha is recorded as a commander at 7 placed engagements in the atlas between 1461 and 1481: 5 battles and 2 sieges across 5 present-day countries, most in Turkey (3), Greece (1), Ukraine (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 5,163 km apart end to end, 860 km between engagements on average. Most belong to First Ottoman–Venetian War (1), Ottoman conquest of the southern coast of Crimea (1), Moldavian–Ottoman Wars (1).

Battle of KoyulhisarSiege of CaffaSiege of NegroponteBattle of KıreliBattle of OtlukbeliBattle of Valea AlbăOttoman invasion of OtrantoSiege of NegroponteBattle of KıreliBattle of OtlukbeliBattle of Valea AlbăOttoman invasion of OtrantoAthensAnkaraBucharestBudapestSofiaBelgradeTiranaThessalonikiSarajevoSevastopol500 km42.500N, 29.253E
7 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1461: 1 engagements1 in 14611470: 1 engagements1 in 14701472: 1 engagements1 in 14721473: 1 engagements1 in 14731475: 1 engagements1 in 14751476: 1 engagements1 in 14761481: 1 engagements1 in 148114611481
7 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Koyulhisar, 1461Siege of Negroponte, 1470Battle of Kıreli, 1472Battle of Otlukbeli, 1473Siege of Caffa, 1475Battle of Valea Albă, 1476Ottoman invasion of Otranto, 148114611481
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 4

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1461Battle of KoyulhisarTurkeyOttoman victory
10 July 1470Siege of NegroponteChalkída, Greece1,267 km WOttoman victory
1472Battle of KıreliKıreli, Turkey725 km EOttoman victory
11 August 1473Battle of OtlukbeliOtlukbeli, Turkey768 km EOttoman victory
1475Siege of CaffaFeodosiia, Ukraine680 km NWOttoman victory
26 July 1476Battle of Valea AlbăRăzboieni, Romania716 km WOttoman victory
August 1481Ottoman invasion of OtrantoOtranto, Italy1,007 km SWOttoman conquest of Otranto in 1480; Christian reconquest...

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.