The goal of these reports was to contain the Turkish advance and to defend Venetian positions.
This did not help, however, to stem the Turkish advance and the area became a battleground of the Georgian-Seljuk wars.
It was intentionally built on terrain exposed to flooding and disease from unhealthy water, with the intent to hamper the Turkish advance.
Sarikamish was taken the following day, as the rest of the Turkish advance continued unabated.
The Turkish advance could not be stopped, however.
His last victory, by relieving the Turkish siege of Belgrade in 1456, held up the Turkish advance for several generations.
On June 2, 1807 he redeemed himself by checking the Turkish advance at Obilesti.
Consequently, the Turkish advance towards Kyrenia along the northern coastal road was resisted by two mobile lines of defence bisecting their path.
No new expedition was launched from Western Europe to stop the Turkish advance in the Balkans after this defeat, until the 1440s.
The Greek-Cypriot forces were unable to resist the Turkish advance.
