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Battle of Famagusta

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Cyprus

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Famagusta (1570), part of the Venetian-Turkish War in Cyprus. Ottoman Empire defeated Venice. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents2

Ottoman Empire
Venice

ON THE MAPOttoman EmpireVenetian Republic

Conflict graph

PART OFCyprus War (Ottoman-Venetian)

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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