When did Niš become Ottoman?

Chronology

1. 1386
   Became Ottoman

   Murad I's army took the city after a hard siege of twenty-five days.

   Sultan: Murad I
2. 1413
   Left Ottoman rule

   Mehmed I gave the city to his vassal Stefan Lazarević.

   Sultan: Mehmed I
3. 1428
   Became Ottoman

   The Ottomans took the city back.

   Sultan: Murad II
4. 1444
   Left Ottoman rule

   After the Treaty of Edirne-Szeged it was returned to the Serbs.

   Sultan: Murad II
5. 1456
   Became Ottoman

   After the death of Đurađ Branković the city passed permanently to the Ottomans.

   Sultan: Mehmed II
6. 1688
   Left Ottoman rule

   On 24 September 1688 the troops of Margrave Ludwig of Baden took the city.

   Sultan: Suleiman II
7. 1690
   Became Ottoman

   Fazıl Mustafa Pasha recovered the city in September 1690 after a three-week siege.

   Sultan: Suleiman II
8. 1737
   Note

   The Austrian Seckendorf took the city in July; in October Köprülüzade Hafız Ahmed Pasha recovered it without a fight.

   Sultan: Mahmud I
9. 1878
   Left Ottoman rule

   In January 1878 the Serbs took the city after a seven-week siege.

   Sultan: Abdulhamid II

How the total is counted: years of actual Ottoman rule are added up. Temporary occupations shorter than a year (that were reversed) are not subtracted; they appear as notes in the chronology.

In the atlas

On the atlas map the city lies in the region “Morava Serbia (Niš–Kruševac)”. Map colours work at region level, so the city's own dates may differ from the region's by a few years.

Source: TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, “NİŞ” (Turkish); text written for the atlas.