Battle of Pelekanon
| Battle of Pelekanon | |||||||
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| Part of the Byzantine–Ottoman Wars | |||||||
Map of Ottoman expansion under Orhan | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Byzantine Empire | Ottoman Beylik | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Andronikos III Palaiologos John Kantakouzenos | Orhan Ghazi | ||||||
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~4,000 or fewer: ~2,000 soldiers from Constantinople, and something less than this number from Thrace. | ~8,000 | ||||||
The Battle of Pelekanon, also known by its Latinised form Battle of Pelecanum, occurred on June 10–11, 1329 between an expeditionary force by the Byzantines led by Andronikos IIl and an Ottoman army led by Orhan I. The Byzantine army was defeated, with no further attempt made at relieving the cities in Anatolia under Ottoman siege.