Battle of Preveza
1538 battle of the Third Ottoman–Venetian War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the battle of the Italo-Turkish War, see Battle of Preveza (1911).
The Battle of Preveza (also known as Prevesa) was a naval engagement that took place on 28 September 1538 near Preveza in the Ionian Sea in northwestern Greece between an Ottoman fleet and that of a Holy League. The battle was an Ottoman victory which occurred in the same area in the Ionian Sea as the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.[5] It was one of the three largest sea battles that took place in the sixteenth century Mediterranean, along with the Battle of Djerba and the Battle of Lepanto.[6]
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Battle of Preveza | |||||||
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Part of the Third Ottoman–Venetian War | |||||||
Battle of Preveza, Ohannes Umed Behzad | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Ottoman Empire | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
122 galleys and galliots 366 cannon 3,000 janissaries and 8000 soldiers[1][2] |
112 galleys 50 galiots 140 barkas[3] 2500-2594 cannon 60,000 soldiers[3][1] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
No ships lost 400 killed 800 wounded[1][4] |
13 ships lost 36 ships captured 3,000 prisoners[1][4] |
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