<P> With no further threat by the Serbs and the subsequent Byzantine civil wars , the Ottomans besieged and took Constantinople in 1453 and then advanced southwards into Greece , capturing Athens in 1458 . The Greeks held out in the Peloponnese until 1460 , and the Venetians and Genoese clung to some of the islands , but by the early 16th century all of mainland Greece and most of the Aegean islands were in Ottoman hands , excluding several port cities still held by the Venetians ( Nafplio , Monemvasia , Parga and Methone the most important of them ) . The mountains of Greece were largely untouched , and were a refuge for Greeks who desired to flee Ottoman rule and engage in guerrilla warfare . </P>
<P> With no further threat by the Serbs and the subsequent Byzantine civil wars , the Ottomans besieged and took Constantinople in 1453 and then advanced southwards into Greece , capturing Athens in 1458 . The Greeks held out in the Peloponnese until 1460 , and the Venetians and Genoese clung to some of the islands , but by the early 16th century all of mainland Greece and most of the Aegean islands were in Ottoman hands , excluding several port cities still held by the Venetians ( Nafplio , Monemvasia , Parga and Methone the most important of them ) . The mountains of Greece were largely untouched , and were a refuge for Greeks who desired to flee Ottoman rule and engage in guerrilla warfare . </P>
when did the ottoman empire take over greece
when did the ottoman empire take over greece
1458
1458