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The Ottoman forces were able to expand their occupation in the interior, pressing the inhabitants of the villages they captured into erecting field works. On 21 July, the Ottomans reached the suburbs of Mantouki and Gastrades. [28] Sketch of the confrontation of the Ottoman (left) and Venetian (right) fleets in the Corfu Channel during the siege
War had been declared between the Ottoman Empire and Venice on 9 December 1714, although it wasn't until June 1715 that a Turkish fleet left the Dardanelles Strait. Soon Venice had been forced out of almost all of the Morea. In 1716, the Turks goal was the capture of the western Greek island of Corfu.
The vast majority of the territory of present-day Greece was at some point incorporated within the Ottoman Empire.The period of Ottoman rule in Greece, lasting from the mid-15th century until the successful Greek War of Independence broke out in 1821 and the First Hellenic Republic was proclaimed in 1822, is known in Greece as Turkocracy (Greek: Τουρκοκρατία, Tourkokratia, "Turkish ...
Corfu is the origin of the Ionian Academy, the first university of the modern Greek state, and the Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù, the first Greek theatre and opera house of modern Greece. Ioannis Kapodistrias , the first governor of independent Greece after the revolution of 1821, founder of the modern Greek state, and a distinguished ...
Ottoman-Portuguese Wars in the Indian Ocean 1538 1566 Landings at Crete in Greece and Gujarat in India 1538 Conquest of Risan, Skiathos, Skyros, Andros and Serifos 1539 Reconquest of Castelnuovo: 1539 Landings at Cattaro and Pesaro, Corfu, Crete 1539 Capture of Gozo, Pantelleria, Capraia, conquest of Serbia 1540 Landings at Sicily, Corsica, Spain
On 8 July 1716, an Ottoman army of 33,000 men landed on Corfu, the most important of the Ionian Islands. [26] Despite an indecisive naval battle on the same day, the Ottoman land army continued its disembarkment and advanced towards the city of Corfu. On 19 July, after capturing the outlying forts of Mantouki, Garitsa, Avrami and of the Saviour ...