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The Fourth Battle of the Dardanelles in the Fifth Ottoman-Venetian War took place between 17 and 19 July 1657 outside the mouth of the Dardanelles Strait. The Ottomans succeeded in breaking the Venetian blockade over the Straits.
The Ottoman Empire started sea campaigns as early as 1423, when it waged a seven-year war with the Venetian Republic over maritime control of the Aegean, the Ionian, and the Adriatic Seas. The wars with Venice resumed after the Ottomans captured the Kingdom of Bosnia in 1463, and lasted until a favorable peace treaty was signed in 1479 just ...
Major naval battles of this next period of the war include the four battles of the Dardanelles, which took place from 1654 to 1657: [13] A 1657 depiction of the third battle of Dardanelles (26 June 1656) The first battle commenced on 16 May 1654, and consisted of 115 Ottoman vessels fighting only 17 Venetian vessels. It resulted in heavy losses ...
Venetian victory, Venetian occupation of Tenedos and Lemnos: 1657, May 3: Cretan War: Lazzaro Mocenigo — Ottoman Algerian fleet: Venetian victory: 1657, May 18: Cretan War — Ottoman fleet: Venetian victory: 1657, July 17–19: off the Dardanelles Strait: Cretan War: Lazzaro Mocenigo: Knights of Malta, Papal States: Ottoman fleet under Topal ...
The Republic of Venice in AD 1000. The republican territory is dark red, the borders in light red. The Republic of Venice (Venetian: Repùbrega Vèneta; Italian: Repubblica di Venezia) was a sovereign state and maritime republic in Northeast Italy, which existed for a millennium between the 8th century and 1797.
Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1991). Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century.Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society. ISBN 0-87169-192-2.; Sir Paul Rycaut (1680), The History of the Turkish Empire: From the Year 1623 to the Year 1677; Containing the Reigns of the Three Last Emperours.
The action of 3 May 1657 was a battle that took place on 3 May 1657 and was a victory for the Republic of Venice over the Ottoman fleet of Algiers. Venetian casualties were 117 killed and 346 wounded. Few details are known.
On 21 June 1655 and 26 August 1656, the Venetians were victorious, although the Venetian commander, Lorenzo Marcello, was killed in the latter engagement. However, on 17–19 July 1657, the Ottoman navy soundly defeated the Venetians. The Venetian captain, Lazzaro Mocenigo, was killed by a falling mast.