Significant1645 – 1669 · 24 years

Cretan War

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

Estimated casualties

200Ksingle estimate · no range published

A 24-year conflict resulted in Ottoman conquest of Crete from Venice, completing Ottoman dominance of the Mediterranean. Though Venice maintained naval strength, it lost its last major Mediterranean possession to the Ottomans.

Belligerents2

Ottoman Empire
Venice

ON THE MAPOttoman EmpireVenetian Republic

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 7

Battle of Khania1645
Battle of Focchies1649
Battle of Paros1651
Battle of Dardanelles1654
Battle of Dardanelles1656
Battle of Dardanelles1657
Battle of Pelagia1668

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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