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On 10 June 1684, Morosini set sail from Venice, and sailed to Corfu, where he was joined by Venice's allies: five Papal galleys under Paolo Emilio Malaspina, four galleys and a man-of-war from Tuscany under Camillo Guidi, and seven galleys and three men-of-war of the Knights of Malta, under Giovanni Battista Brancaccio. [21]
The siege of Santa Maura took place on 21 July – 6 August 1684 between the forces of the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire, and was the opening battle of the Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War.
The Fifth Ottoman–Venetian War or the Cretan War (1645–1669), resulting in the capture of Crete by the Ottomans; The Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War or the Morean War (1684–1699), resulting in the capture of the Morea (Peloponnese), Lefkada, Aigina and parts of Dalmatia by Venice and the end of Ottoman dominance in the eastern Mediterranean Sea
Part of the Great Turkish War: Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Allied Holy League forces Ottoman Empire: 1683 1684 War of the Reunions France: Spanish Empire Holy Roman Empire Republic of Genoa: 1684 1699 Morean War Part of the Great Turkish War Republic of Venice. Knights of Malta Duchy of Savoy Papal States Knights of St. Stephen Himariotes ...
Venice took advantage of the Ottoman defeats at Vienna in the first years of the Great Turkish War, and in 1684, at the persuasion and under the command of Admiral (Capitàn da mar) Francesco Morosini, it set out to conquer Ottoman possessions in Greece.
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The Kingdom of the Morea or Realm of the Morea (Italian: Regno di Morea; Venetian: Regno de Morea; Greek: Βασίλειο του Μορέως, romanized: Vasíleio tou Moréos) was the official name the Republic of Venice gave to the Peloponnese peninsula in Southern Greece (which was more widely known as the Morea until the 19th century) when it was conquered from the Ottoman Empire during ...
First Ottoman–Venetian War: various commanders: Lordship of Zeta, local Albanian forces: Ottoman army under Sultan Mehmed II and other commanders: Ottoman victory, capture of the city and end of the war: 1487, August 10: Calliano, Trentino: War of Rovereto: Roberto Sanseverino d'Aragona — Armies of the Bishopric of Trent and the County of Tyrol