When did Skopje become Ottoman?

Chronology

1. 1392
   Became Ottoman

   According to Western sources the city came under Ottoman rule on 6 January 1392.

   Sultan: Bayezid I
2. 1689
   Note

   Austrian general Piccolomini occupied the city on 25–27 October 1689 and it burned; the next year Koca Halil Pasha and the Crimean khan Selim Giray recovered it.

   Sultan: Suleiman II
3. 1912
   Left Ottoman rule

   The Serbs occupied the city on 23–24 October 1912; the 1913 Treaty of Bucharest gave it to Serbia.

   Sultan: Mehmed V

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 “Macedonia (Skopje–Bitola)”. 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, “ÜSKÜP” (Turkish); text written for the atlas.