Fall of Thessalonica

Date: March 29, 1430 • Location: Sykiés, Greece

After an eight-year siege, the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.

The siege of Thessalonica between 1422 and 1430 saw the Ottoman Empire, under Sultan Murad II, capture the city of Thessalonica. Afterwards, the city remained in Ottoman hands for the next five centuries until it became part of the Kingdom of Greece in 1912.