Crimea. After concluding a six-month peace with the Venetians, Ahmed Pasha “the Toothless,” on behalf of the Ottoman Emperor Mehmet II, captures Caffa from the Genoese. The inhabitants are massacred, with a deliberate terrorist effect, which also leads to the surrender of Cembalo and Soldaia and the other Genoese colonies on the Black Sea peninsula. He then seizes the Genoese bases of Vospro/Bosporus and Matrega, and finally Tana, at the mouth of the Don. Ahmed Pasha thus celebrates his own personal triumph: he will be one of the most extraordinary figures in Ottoman military and political history.
