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Battle of Djerba

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Djerba · Tunisia · Mediterranean

Estimated casualties

30Ksingle estimate · no range published

Ottoman naval forces decisively defeated a Christian coalition fleet, securing Ottoman naval supremacy in the Mediterranean. This victory prevented a Christian counter-offensive in North Africa.

Belligerents4

Ottoman Empire
Spain
Papal States
Venice

ON THE MAPOttoman EmpireSpanish Empire (Americas)Papal StatesVenetian Republic

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Djerba (1560). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-djerba · Sources & methodology