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Ottoman Conquest of Rhodes

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

Rhodes · Mediterranean · Greek islands

Estimated casualties

50Ksingle estimate · no range published

Ottoman forces conquered Rhodes from the Knights Hospitaller, extending Ottoman dominance in the Mediterranean. This victory eliminated a major Christian stronghold in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Belligerents2

Ottoman Empire
Knights Hospitaller

ON THE MAPOttoman Empire

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Ottoman Conquest of Rhodes (1522). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/ottoman-conquest-rhodes · Sources & methodology