The Ottoman Turks overran the Peloponnese between 1458-1460, conquering the last remnants of the Byzantine Empire, with the exception of the Venetian strongholds,[REF] which were taken gradually over decades of intermittent Ottoman-Venetian Wars.
Sometime in the mid-17th century, as attested by the traveller Evliya Çelebi, the Morea became the centre of a separate eyalet, with Patras (Ballibadra) as its capital [REF].