Ottoman-Venetian War (1463-1479)

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Was a war between the Republic of Venice and the ottoman Empire. Several Venetian territories were captured and annexed by the Ottomans.

Chronology

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January 1469: In 1468, Athens was conquered by the Republic of Venice under the leadership of the Venetian general Bartolomeo Contarini. The city remained under Venetian control for a brief period before being captured by the Ottoman Empire in 1458.

January 1471: Pteleos was a Venetian colony from 1322 to 1470. In 1470, the territory was conquered by the Ottoman Empire under the leadership of Mehmed the Conqueror, marking the end of Venetian rule in the region.

January 1469: The Venetian commander Vettor Capello conquered Methone, Imbros, Thassos, Samothrace.

January 1479: Lemnos reverted to Ottoman control in accordance with the 1479 Treaty of Constantinople.

January 1469: After the death of the Albanian national hero Scanderbeg, the Republic of Venice seized the strategic city of Croia (Kruja) in 1468.

April 1463: The governor of the Morea, Isa-Beg Ishaković, took the Venetian-held town of Argos by treason.

August 1463: In early August, the Venetians retook Argos.

December 1463: In 1463, Matthias Corvinus, the King of Hungary, captured over sixty fortified places in Bosnia and successfully took the capital city of Jajce after a 3-month siege on 16 December.

January 1464: While of all Venetian territories in the Morea, Nauplia persisted longest in her possession, and was surrendered to the Ottomans in 1540 after the conclusion of the Third Ottoman-Venetian War.

January 1464: Preveza (Prevesa) was a Venetian colony from 1401 to 1463. In 1463, it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. The Venetians regained control from 1684 to 1699 and again from 1717 to 1797.

May 1466: In April 1466, Vettore Cappello, the most vociferous proponent of the war, replaced Loredan as Captain General of the Sea. Under his leadership, the Venetian war effort was reinvigorated: the fleet took the northern Aegean islands of Imbros, Thasos and Samothrace.

October 1478: Croia fell into Muslim hands.

January 1479: Venetian colony of Drisht (Drivasto) in the periods 1393-1423 and 1442-1478.

April 1464: The Ottoman army razed the Hexamilion, and advanced into the Morea. Argos fell.

January 1470: In 1469, Athens was conquered by the Ottoman Empire, ending its brief period as part of the Venetian colonial Empire.

January 1471: Negroponte was taken by the Turks.

January 1479: The Venetian-controlled territory of Lezhë (Alessio) was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1478.

January 1480: Lefkada Island (Santa Maura) was a Venetian colony from 1362 to 1479, 1502 to 1503, and 1684 to 1797. In 1479, the territory was taken over by the Ottoman Empire. The Venetians were a powerful maritime republic based in Venice, Italy, known for their trade and military strength in the Mediterranean.