Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tun daga tsakiyar karni na 14, barazanar Ottoman ta kasance a cikin Balkans, yayin da Ottomans suka ci nasara da masarautun Kirista daban-daban, ko Serbian, Bulgarian ko Greek. Bayan nasarar Ottoman a yakin Maritsa
a 1371, yawancin Makidoniya sun yarda da Ottoman zuwa Ottoman kuma a ƙarshen ƙarni na 14 Daular Ottoman ta haɗu da yankin a hankali. An kama kama Ottoman na karshe na Thessalonica (1430) a matsayin farkon faduwar Constantinople kanta. Makidoniya ta kasance wani ɓangare na Daular Ottoman kusan shekaru 500, a lokacin ne ya sami ƙarancin Turkawa. Daga baya Thessaloniki ya zama gida ga yawancin Yahudawa na Sephardi bayan fitar da Yahudawa bayan 1492 daga Spain.