Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Sarkin sarakuna Justinian I ya ƙarfafa Gallipoli kuma ya kafa manyan ɗakunan ajiya na soja don masara da ruwan inabi a can, wanda har yanzu ana iya ganin wasu kango na Byzantine. Bayan kama Constantinople da Latins a cikin 1204, Gallipoli ya shiga ikon Jamhuriyar Venice. A cikin 1294 Genoese ya ci nasara da sojojin Venetian a cikin unguwa. Kamfanin Catalan, ƙungiyar Almogavars, a ƙarƙashin Roger de Flor, sun kafa kansu a nan a cikin 1306, kuma bayan mutuwar shugabansu sun kashe kusan dukkan 'yan ƙasa; sojojin haɗin gwiwa na Venice da Daular Byzantine sun kewaye su ba tare da nasara ba, kuma sun janye a cikin 1307, bayan sun rushe katangar. Bayan da girgizar ƙasa ta lalata garun birnin, 'yan Turkawa suka ci birnin a shekara ta 1354
kuma ya zama na farko sansanin soja na Ottoman Empire a Turai. Sultan Bayezid I (1389<unk>1403) ya gina kagara da hasumiya a can wanda har yanzu ana iya gani. A cikin 1416 Venetians a ƙarƙashin Pietro Loredan sun ci Turks a nan. Gallipoli shine wurin "kabari na sarakunan Thracian", wanda ke nufin kaburburan marubutan musulmai Ahmed Bican (ya mutu a 1466) da ɗan'uwansa Mehmed Bican (ya mutu a 1451).