Fall of Nicaea to the Ottoman Turks after a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Nicaea_(1328–1331)" id="mwJw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Siege of Nicaea (1328–1331)">siege</a>.<sup about="#mwt25" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_2#cite_note-3" id="mwKA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwKQ">[3]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"><cite about="#mwt22" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFNorwich,_J.J.1995"><a href="./John_Julius_Norwich" id="mwBts" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Julius Norwich">Norwich, J.J.</a> (1995). <i id="mwBtw">Byzantium: The Decline and Fall</i>. London: Viking. p.<span id="mwBt0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>286. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBt4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBt8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-670-82377-2" id="mwBuA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-670-82377-2"><bdi id="mwBuE">978-0-670-82377-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt22" class="Z3988" id="mwBuI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Byzantium%3A+The+Decline+and+Fall&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pages=286&amp;rft.pub=Viking&amp;rft.date=1995&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-670-82377-2&amp;rft.au=Norwich%2C+J.J.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+2"></span></span>