Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - The kama
na Gallipoli da Ottomans suka yi a 1354 ya fara fadada Turkiyya cikin sauri a kudancin Balkans, wanda Ottomans da kansu da kuma 'yan gwagwarmayar ghazi na Turkiyya masu zaman kansu suka gudanar. A shekara ta 1369, Ottomans sun sami damar cinye Adrianople (Edirne na zamani), wanda ya zama sabon babban birninsu har zuwa 1453. Tasalonika, wanda Manuel II Palaiologos ya yi sarauta (r. 1391<unk>1425) kanta ta miƙa wuya bayan dogon kewaye a cikin 1383<unk>1387, tare da yawancin gabashin da tsakiyar Makidoniya, ga sojojin Sultan Murad I. Da farko, an ba da izinin biranen da aka ba su cikakken ikon cin gashin kansu a musayar biyan harajin "kharaj". Bayan mutuwar Sarkin sarakuna John V Palaiologos a 1391, duk da haka, Manuel II ya tsere daga tsare Ottoman kuma ya tafi Constantinople, inda aka naɗa shi sarki, ya gaji mahaifinsa. Wannan ya fusata Sultan Bayezid I, wanda ya lalatar da ragowar yankunan Byzantine, sannan ya juya kan Chrysopolis, wanda aka kama da guguwa kuma an lalata shi sosai. Tasalonika ma ta sake miƙa wuya ga mulkin Ottoman a wannan lokacin, mai yiwuwa bayan ɗan gajeren juriya, amma an bi da shi da sauƙi: kodayake an kawo birnin a ƙarƙashin cikakken ikon Ottoman, yawan Krista da Cocin sun riƙe yawancin mallakarsu, kuma garin ya riƙe cibiyoyinta.