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Topic: Amorgos (1312), Battle of
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Amorgos (1312), Battle of

Years: 1312 - 1312

The Battle of Amorgos occurs in 1312 between the fleets of the Knights Hospitaller and of the Turkish beylik of Menteshe.

The battle is a Hospitaller victory, but both sides suffer heavy losses.   

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)