...the recovery of Leros, whose native Greek…
1319 CE
...the recovery of Leros, whose native Greek population had rebelled in the name of the emperor in Constantinople, and by another victory in the next year over a Turkish fleet poised to invade Rhodes.
Pope John XXII rewards Schwarzburg by restoring him to the post of grand preceptor of Cyprus, whence he had been dismissed two years earlier, and promised the commandery of Kos, if he could capture it.
Efforts begin to form a Christian naval league to counter Turkish piracy, but the defeat off Chios cannot halt the rise of Aydinid power in the immediate future.
The Zaccarias will soon after be forced to surrender their mainland outpost of Smyrna to Mehmed's son Umur Beg, under whose leadership Aydinid fleets will roam the Aegean for the next two decades, until the Smyrniote crusades (1343–1351) break the Aydinid emirate's power.
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