Siege of Rhodes

حصار رودس (١٤٨٠)

1480 CE · 885 AH† – 1480 CE · 885 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Rhodes

Mehmed II sent a fleet under Mesih Pasha to besiege Hospitaller Rhodes; the fortress held and the expedition sailed home after months 1.

Depth

At a glance

Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Anatolia
Identifiers
Wikidata
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

In time

147014801490
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

In space

Rhodes

Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph

The long-form text for this entry has not been written yet. The facts and connections below come from the museum's data.

Connections

Explore the connections

Had participant
السلطان محمد الفاتح
Occurred at
Rhodes

People and things also explored

Conquest of Constantinople in 857 AH· Conquest of Trebizond· Ottoman invasion of Otranto· Siege of Belgrade· Siege of Negroponte· Siege of Shkodra· Siege of Theodoro· Ahmad ibn Ismail al-Kurani

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001)
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “Siege of Rhodes”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/siege-of-rhodes-1480/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-28.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

Time

Eras, timelines, this day in history, any year in the Islamic world.
Related

Conquest of Constantinople in 857 AH

Mehmed Fatih took Constantinople the Great after the severest fifty-day siege — his ships running over land — opening Istanbul on Wednesday 20 Jumada II 857 and praying the Friday prayer in Hagia Sophia, the dome that 'rivals the sky's dome and emulates the pyramids in strength'.