Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: He raupapa o nga pakanga a-iwi e karapoti ana i te piki ake o te emepara Byzantine e iwa-tau-tau a John V Palaiologos i tino painga ki a Orhan. I roto i te Pakanga Taketake o Byzantine o 1341 <unk> 1347, ko te rangatira a John VI Kantakouzenos i marena i tana tamahine a Theodora ki a Orhan me te whakamahi i nga toa Ottoman ki nga ope whakataetae o te empress widow, ka tuku i a raatau ki te pahua i a Thrace. I te
I te Pakanga Taketake a Byzantine o 1352 <unk> 1357, i whakamahia e Kantakouzenos nga ope Ottoman ki a John V, i whakawhiwhia ki a raatau te whakamahi i tetahi pa kaha o Europi i Çimpe huri noa i te 1352. E rua tau i muri mai ka whakangaromia e te ruu nui a Gallipoli (Gelibolu o naianei), i muri mai ka noho te tama a Orhan, a Süleyman Pasha, ki te taone nui, ka hoatu ki nga Ottoman he piriti kaha ki te whenua nui o Europi.