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Group: Tierra Firme, Province of
People: Juan Crisóstomo Falcón

…Akkerman (Belgorod-Dnestrovsky) at the mouths of the …

Years: 1484 - 1484

…Akkerman (Belgorod-Dnestrovsky) at the mouths of the Danube and Dneister rivers, respectively.

In occupying these two estuarial fortresses, the Ottomans strengthen their hold over the land route to the Crimea, where the khan of the Crimean Tatars has been, in name at least, a vassal of the sultan since 1475; the Ottomans thus control the major entrepôts of northern European trade with the Black Sea and Mediterranean.