A compiled version, edited to remove mistakes, and "wankities". So no brutal Italian invasion, and other things have been fixed
Part I
Battle of Torvioll
In the summer of 1444, Skanderberg, and his small army of 10 000 men faced off against 40 000 Turks under the direct command of Ali Pasha. Thorough scouting and reconnaissance along with captured war plans reveal to the Turks the positions of the cavalry to their rear. A large force Janissaries and Light Cavalry scour the Cavalry into open ground and slaughter it. The rest of the army turns to faces Skanderbeg’s main force. In the ensuing battle, the Ottomans win a decisive victory, capturing Skanderberg and the survivors of his army. Skanderberg is executed, along with his army, effectively ending large scale Albanian resistance. Guerilla bands take to the coastal areas under the command of Dukagjini, but the Venetians along with the Ottomans successfully defeat them. The survivors take to the mountains, only to emerge and raid the occasional caravan.
Murad was now free to advance and meet the Crusaders at the Battle of Varna, the successful victory granted the Ottomans uncontested rule until Hungary.
Part II
Seige of Constantinople
(OOC: Seige goes much as OTL)
The Ottomans under Mehmet the Conqueror advance on Constantinople with 80 000 soldiers, and the Great Turkish Bombards to lay seige to Constantinople. The paltry defenders of the great city stand a little chance against the massed foes. Though the fight valiantly, they are simply overwhelmed, when the walls are breached and the thousands of Turks move in to pillage the city. For several days looting and sacking of the city takes place, thousands are killed, and the Turks sustain heavy losses. But Mehmet the Conqueror orders the Azaan read from the Hagia Sophia, and the first Jamaat is held in the city. After several months, the city is repopulated with Turks, and the capital is moved to Konstantinnye.
Mehmet, calling himself the Ceaser of Romans, now sets his sight on the First Rome...
Part III
Oranto Campaign 1465
Mehmet, now calling himself Ceaser of the Romans, had made extensive and intricate plans for the conquest of Rome and Italy. A large force of 5 000 Turks and 70 ships landed on the Apulian coast, and attacked Otranto. The garrison and citizens retreated into the castle, but the castle was breached, and the garrison killed. Another force of 15 000 landed on Calabria and began ravaging the countryside, and the cities. The Ottomans achieved moderate sucess, as the Italians were not prepared for a large scale Ottoman invasion.
An additional 150 ships were to take the smaller islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, and afterwards reinforce the Calabrian Contingent.
Several months of heavy fighting, and large casualties for the Ottomans, the Ottomans realized their goal, they were at the gates of Rome, while the land to their rear lay in ruins. An Ottoman force of 65 000 laid siege to Rome, the city capitulated, with the Pope himself riding out to give the keys to Mehemt II. A leading Cardinal escaped to Avigonon, and proclaimed himself Pope there, with the French and Spanish backing.
The athaan was ordered to be called from the St.Peters Basilica, and then converted into a mosque. The Pope became a figurehead, controlling the Catholic populations inside the Empire.
Meanwhile, the "True Pope" as he styled himslef called for a Crusade to take back Rome and Constantinople, and drive the Heathens back into the dessert, among those who answered the call were France, Tuscany, Lombardy, Castille, Aragon, Hungary. Venice did not join, as it had just signed a costly peace treaty with the Ottomans...
[FONT="]Part III The Crusade of Rome[/FONT]
[FONT="]After several years of preparation, the large Crusader army advanced, some said it numbered more than 100 000, French, Spanish, Austrian, Hungarian, Italian and other soldiers. Each one was a volunteer, steadfast in religion and service to the Pope and King. Pope himself lead the army (in figure, the actual military component was handled by apt Christian Generals) 45 000 Crusaders would invade the Italian Peninsula and push the Turks out, while a fleet of 250 ships and 65 000 soldiers would sail to the Dardanelles, capture Thrace, and lay siege to Constantinople, reinforced by those who had captured Rome. Christians inside the Ottoman Empire were encourage to rebel, and Hungarians, Greeks, Serbs and Croats, revolted in large numbers.[/FONT]
[FONT="]“Divine Rains” [/FONT]
[FONT="]In the year 1477, the fleet gathered in Narbonne, and set sail for Constantinople, about 3 km from the coast, dark ominous clouds were seen. Many captain were with the idea to retreat back to Narbonne and wait the storm out, but the commanders, fiery in their zeal ordered the fleet onwards, claiming the Lord would protect them. They were wrong, the entire fleet sunk, and several Italian ships survived and reached Naples, where the Ottoman garrison captured them, and paraded them throughout, showing the prisoner’s misfortune as a sign of God’[FONT="]s displeasure. [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="]Battle of Norcia[/FONT]
[FONT="]The Battle of Norcia took place of August 14 1478. The Crusader Armies mood had dampened, with the vicious onslaught of torrential rains, and the destruction of the fleet. The zeal of yesteryear had all but gone away. 40 000 Crusaders camped near the town of Norcia. Several contingents of English and French Musketeers wandered into the town, and got drunk in one of the local taverns. A brawl ensued, when several musketeers began harassing a village girl, and the villagers went to the girl’s aid. Fighting broke out into the streets, Crusaders from Umbria dashed to stop the English and their despicable behavior, before the chain of command had any time to react, the town of Norcia was in a state of conflict. The rest of the army rushed to subdue to the belligerents, and they were able to achieve success. While this was going on, an advance scout party had been watching the incident; they rushed back and alerted the commander Ali Pasha. The Sipahi Cavalry was sent forward, and they galloped ahead full speed. They caught the Crusaders at the exact opportune moment. 15 000 Pitched Cavalry Warriors rode full speed into the thick of the Crusaders. The Crusaders at the rear retreated back, and those who were not able to escape (4-5000) were slaughtered in the middle of the town of Norcia. The Crusaders retreated towards Perugia[/FONT]
[FONT="]Battle of Perugia[/FONT]
[FONT="]The Crusaders, their morale at an all time low, made camp near Perugia. Reports came in that the Ottomans were at their peak strength and hot on their heels. Desertion was high in the Crusader Army. High Command decided that any more retreats would lower the already low morale. The final stand would take place near Perugia. The Ottoman Army, with all its glory and splendor, was seen to arrive the next day. General Ali Pasha wasted no time, and began making earthen ramparts for guns, and set about readying troops. The Crusaders, in an attempt to heighten morale, attacked the Ottomans with some moderate success. But heavy concentrated fire pushed them back. The Turks had placed 10 000 Cavalry in the hills to the rear of the Christians, and they descended upon the Crusaders, giving the Ottomans a much needed victory. Ottoman casualties were heavy, and the survivors retreated further back, and the Ottomans didn’t have the strength to chase them, but the work was done. The True Crusade of Rome fell apart after the Victory at Perugia. [/FONT]
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Afterwards, Mehmet ordered Ibrahim Pasha to crush the rebellions in the Balkans, with 25 000 Prime Troops. After much bloodshed and violence the rebellions were ensued, for now…
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Part IV
In the year 1479 Mehmet the Conqueror, Ceaser of the Romans, and Lord of the Turks, died. Leaving two sons Cem, and Bayezid. Cem had recently put down a revolt by the Karamanid Turks, and was riding to Istanbul to exploit his victories, but Bayezid being in Thrace, reached Istanbul quicker, ordering a burial of his father and proclaimed himself Sultan.
Cem, with an army from Anatolia advanced towards Istanbul, with the intention of taking the throne by force. Bayezid ordered the death of his brother by poisoning. He invited Cem and his advisors for a feast, to sit and talk an agreement, but the food had been poisoned. Cem died and, his army fell apart without a master. The first order of rule that Bayezid laid down was large land grants to Janissary and Sipahi officers in Italy and the Balkans, and pacifying the Italian lands
Part V
[FONT="]After Rome was captured, and a puppet Pope was installed in the Ottoman lands, each nation raced to set up their own independent churches. France had the patronage of Pope Galerius in Avignon. Portugal sponsored their own Pope in Lisbon, and The Holy Roman Empire also did the same.
Meanwhile in Aragon, the Spanish Pope called for a crusade to rid the heathen occupiers of Grenada, the Nasrid Emirs. The call was taken up by Castile, Aragon, and Portugal, eager to deal a blow against the Muslims after the disastrous Roman Crusades. The Nasrid Emir Mohammad XVI found out about the invasion, and began making defensive preparations. The Grenadians could not repel the invaders themselves, so they asked for aid from Morocco, the Ottomans, Hafsids and the Algerians. Since the Grenadians were not on the best relations with the rest of the Muslim world, they all rejected their pleas, except the Ottomans who saw opportunity from ruling the Mediterranean from the other side, and decided to aid the Grenadians. Sultan Bayezid sent the Ottoman fleet, and 25 000 Ottoman troops to aid the Grenadians. The Grenadian Army numbered up to 30 000. But the Ottomans only aided the Nasrids on one condition, vassalage. Seeing as he had no choice, Mohammad XXI relented. After several hard years of campaigning, the Ottoman General Murat Ali Pasha Commander of Islamic Forces announced victory after chasing the Spanish from the gates of Baza. A subsequent Peace treaty guaranteed that Grenada would not come under any harm, and was formally under Ottoman protection, in return Portuguese, Castilian and Aragonese shipping would not come under any harm from Ottoman and Ottoman Allied privateers. With the Mediterranean safely in Ottoman hands, Bayezid could now look south to the Mamelukes, Aq Qoyonlu and the Sheep Turcomans…[/FONT]
Part VI
To the east, the Aq Kayanlu Khanate began undermining the growing influence of the Ottomans. They asked Hungary and Venice for aid against the Ottomans, though aid was promised, it was never delivered. When Bayezid heard of this he geared for war. A powerful state on his frontiers would not do.
The Kayanlu Khan Uzun Hassan advanced to meet the Ottoman near Erzurum, along with the Dulkudris, Kara Kayanlus, Safavids and other members of the Kayanlu Confederation. The Ottomans, lead directly by Sultan Bayezid II dealt the Kayanlus a terribel blow, killing Uzun Hassan in the process. His son Khalil Mirza raced to Baghdad to claim the throne. After consolodating his position, he was met with a confederation under his brother Ya'qub Mirza. After defeating Khalil at the Battle of Khoy, Ya'qub spent the rest of his reign defeating pretenders, and ebbing the oncoming tide of the Ottomans. After Ya'qubs death, the Safavids undermined their authority and proclaimed their own state under Shah Ismail I. The Safavid hordes came south from Azerbaijan, conquering much of Persia, while the Ottomans seized the moment, crushing the Dulkudris, Qara Qayanlus, and laid seige to Baghdad itself. After several months, The power of the Aq Kayanlus crumbled after the decisive Safavid victory and thei Qizilbash allies at Nakchivan and the fall of Baghdad to the Ottomans. The Ottomans placed Hasan Ali Tarkhani, a member of the Ak Kayanlu ruling elite as a puppet ruler of Mesopotamia, keeping him under a tight military leash, as a buffer state against the rising Safavids
By the year 1501, several small skirmishes between the Safavids and the Ottomans occured, but relations remained simmering.
In the west, the Ottoman governor Serbia put down a small revolt, and the vassal ruler of Wallachia began to undermine Ottoman authority, and an expedition placed his uncle on the throne.
Part VII
1495
In Algiers, the Aragonese had occupied Isla Penon, an island in front of Algiers harbour. They laid a heavy levy intended to suppress Corsair activity. The Emir Selim invited the Corsair brothers Oruc and Hayreddin to expel the Spanish from Oran and Penon. After they arrived, they ordered the murder of Selim, and afterwards claimed the land for Sultan Bayezid. Bayezid named Oruc as the Dey of Algiers.
Castile-Aragon stated this as a violation of the Treaty of Sevilla, which declared that Spanish shipping would not be harmed, and prepared a fleet to re-take Oran and Algiers, and invaded Grenada once again. Emir Mohammad XXI, and the Ottoman Governor of Grenada led an army of 45 000 to drive the Spanish back. The Spanish backed by the Holy Roman Empire and Venice suceeded in taking back Algiers and Oran, but Hayreddin re-took it in 1525 along with Tunis and Oran.
In Grenada, the Spanish were dealth a massive blow at the Battle of Udeba. The Ottoman pushed further onwards into Spain, laying siege to Sevilla and Algericas, before being decisively routed at Cordoba.
For this map, please dont make comments about Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldova unless you can fix the borders.
