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#OTD 1499 First encounter of the Battle of Zonchio /Sapienza (part of the Second Ottoman-Venetian War 1499-1503) took place. The Venetian fleet was commanded by Antonio Grimani, the Ottoman one by Kemal Reis. #OnThisDay #History
#OTD 1499 First encounter of the Battle of Zonchio (part of the Second Ottoman-Venetian War 1499-1503) took place. The Venetian fleet was commanded by Antonio Grimani, the Ottoman one by Kemal Reis. #OnThisDay #History
ended with a Venetian defeat mainly because of the 1499 defeat at Zonchio. The Venetian strongholds of Modon & Coron were given to the Ottomans while Venice received Cephalonia and Ithaca. This would precede two more wars lost against the Ottomans (1537-1540) and (1570-1573) 2/
1499 - The first engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between the fleets of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice clash, it is known as one of the first naval battle in history in which cannons were used on ships #OnThisDay