Significant1645 – 1669 · 24 years

Cretan War Extended Campaigns

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

Crete · Mediterranean · Aegean

Estimated casualties

250Ksingle estimate · no range published

A 24-year conflict over Crete resulted in Ottoman conquest of the island from Venice after prolonged sieges. This war demonstrated Ottoman ability to exhaust and defeat a major European power.

Belligerents3

Ottoman Empire
Venice
Papal States

ON THE MAPOttoman EmpireVenetian RepublicPapal States

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Cretan War Extended Campaigns (1645 – 1669). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/ottoman-venetian-crete-extended · Sources & methodology