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    Default 1417: First Turkic massive conquest of Albania

    Mehmet I Çelebi, captured by Timur in 1402 at Ankara battle and given Amasya (north central Anatolia), won the Ottoman civil war by eliminating his brothers including the Byzantine-lover Suleyman who had escaped with Serbs from Timur but later killed near Edirne by Turcoman colonists. The realm of Osmans was united under Mehmet I around 1411 and the expansion started again.

    Turks already reached Albania in 1385 but it was mostly on border areas.
    Mehmet I era was when Turks first reach and control Albania, until the shores of the Adriatic Sea permanently.

    An Historical Geography of the Ottoman Empire
    By Donald Edgar Pitcher
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    Albania was conquered by Akinji leader Turakhan Bey, who also raided southern Greek Pelopponesus peninsula. He was also semi-autonomous marcher-lord (uç beyi) of Thessaly.

    Turks ultimately left Albania in 1912. So that lasted around 500, it's however worth noting that Albanian local chieftains were active in the local administration during most of that time period.
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    First time Ottoman Beylik appears in Albanian affairs is around 1385. That is the Murad I era but that was a weak presence. That truly starts later with Turahan in 1417 (Ottoman post-civil war era with Mehmet I Çelebi), there is Venetian-Scanderberg break but later restoration.

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