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The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras.
Our Lady of Nafpaktos has since been called Santa Maria del Rozario or Madonna di Lepanto del Rozario in the West. The Pope designated October 7 as a feast day for the Virgin Mary of Nafpaktos for the entire Christian West. The Battle of Nafpaktos inspired many artists including the great Tisianos, Vicentinos and Domenikos Theotokopoulos.
In 1571, Diego de Medrano was a captain in the Holy League and participated in the victorious Battle of Lepanto against the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras. [6] Captain Diego de Medrano commanded the Fortuna de Napoli galley, alongside the Mendoza of Naples under Martino de Caide, and the Luna de España under Diego López de Llanos.
The Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War, also known as the War of Cyprus (Italian: Guerra di Cipro) was fought between 1570 and 1573.It was waged between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, the latter joined by the Holy League, a coalition of Christian states formed by the pope which included Spain (with Naples and Sicily), the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Savoy, the Knights ...
The Battle of Lepanto (Luna painting) Álvaro de Bazán, Marquis of Santa Cruz; C. Marcantonio Colonna; D. Giovanni Andrea Doria; J. John of Austria; L. Lepanto (poem)
Real and the Turkish galley Sultana, Ali Pasha's flagship, engaged in direct deck-to-deck combat very soon after the start of the battle. Sultana was boarded and after about one hour of bloody fighting, with reinforcements being supplied to both ships by supporting galleys of the two respective fleets, captured.
Lepanto, a poem by English poet G. K. Chesterton about the 1571 Battle of Lepanto Lepanto opening , in the board game Diplomacy Battle of Lepanto , a naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
The Battle of Lepanto, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich/London. Under the Ottomans, Naupactus was known as Aynabahtı, İnebahtı and was the seat of an Ottoman province . In 1521 ( Hijri 927) the town had 509 Christian, 84 Jewish , and 28 Roma households. [ 33 ]