Bulgaria was split into 3 entities at the time of the Ottoman invasion of the Balkans. They were also suffering from Bogomilism and other internal disputes. The Ottomans were incredibly fortunate that they arrived when the Bulgarians, Serbs, and other peoples were divided and weakened. All they had to do was fight each of their opponents in detail instead of the entire might of Vlachs, Serbs, Croats, Albanians, and Bulgarians.

>>1105762

>The Ottomans were incredibly fortunate that they arrived when the Bulgarians, Serbs, and other peoples were divided

Oh, you mean like at any other point in history? That's not called being fortunate.

>the Romans were SO fortunate the Gaulish, Germanic, Iberian and Celtic tribes weren't united!

Sounds silly, ay?

>>1105780
Had the Ottomans faced a united Bulgarian Empire or even Stefan Dusan in his prime, they would've been repulsed before they had taken root in Thrace.

The Balkan polities DID defeat the Ottomans in battle before they were conquered, but they never followed-up on their victories because of squabbling and mutual suspicion towards one another.

>>1105802
Pretty much the entirety of Christian Europe had to unite to beat them at Lepanto and Vienna in the early 16th century.

>>1105818
Thats just so false

>>1106236
It's all online, educate yourself.

>>1105818
>the entirety of Christian Europe
Remember when the French fought against the Ottomans instead of allying with them to fuck over their german rivals?

>>1106261

>deleting "pretty much"

Also, France did nothing wrong to ally with the Ottomans. The Habsburg allied with the Safavids.

>>1106250
Its still false. At Vienna (which wasnt 16. century) there were the Austrians and Poles.

At Lepanto, the Italian states and Spain.

Of course its lot, but its not like all of Europer was there in either.

>>1106740
There are two sieges of Vienna, I'm talking about the 1529 one, with Suleiman, back when the Ottomans were actually at their zenith.

>>1105818
Point is by 16th Century Ottomans had become a superpower of their time roughly

If the Balkan States, say Bulgarian Empire had remained strong and prevent the Ottomans from taking a foothold in Thrace and thus in Europe itself its possible they could had held them off in Anatolia