Complex sentence: The city was captured by the Ottoman Empire between 1361 and 1362/3, apparently by Gazi Evrenos Bey, following the fall of Philippopolis and Stara Zagora, but before the Ottoman capture of Pegae.
Split into simpler sentences: The city was captured by the Ottoman Empire between 1361 and 1362/3, apparently by Gazi Evrenos Bey. Its conquest is placed after the fall of Philippopolis and Stara Zagora, but before the Ottoman capture of Pegae.