The Turkish fleet and army had quickly …
Years: 1500 - 1500
December
The Turkish fleet and army had quickly overwhelmed most of the Venetian possessions in Greece after the Battle of Modon.
Modon and Coron, the "two eyes of the Republic", are lost.
Doge Agostino Barbarigo asks the Pope and the Catholic Monarchs for help.
The Spanish captain-general, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, offers the forces at his disposal to the aid of Venice.
Cephalonia, one of the Ionian Islands off the western coast of Greece, had been in the hands of the Italian counts palatine of the Tocco family until 1479, when it was captured by the Ottoman Empire.
With the exception of a brief period of Venetian control in 1482–83, the island has remained in Ottoman hands.
The newly appointed Venetian captain-general of the sea, Benedetto Pesaro, aided by the Spanish fleet, lands on Cephalonia and after a siege takes the island's capital, the Castle of St. George, on December 24, temporarily stopping the Ottoman offensive on eastern Venetian territories.
The Spanish commander and his fleet return to Sicily.
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- Agostino Barbarigo
- Ferdinand II of Aragon
- Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
- Isabella I of Castile
- Kemal Reis
- Pope Alexander VI
Groups
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Aragón, Kingdom of
- Venice, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Castile, Crown of
- Ottoman Empire
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Years: 1500 - 1500
December
Locations
People
- Agostino Barbarigo
- Ferdinand II of Aragon
- Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
- Isabella I of Castile
- Kemal Reis
- Pope Alexander VI
Groups
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Aragón, Kingdom of
- Venice, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Castile, Crown of
- Ottoman Empire
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions