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Sapienza, Battle of

Years: 1354 - 1354

The naval Battle of Sapienza, also known as the Battle of Porto-Longo or Battle of Zonklon, takes place in 1354, during the Third Venetian–Genoese War.

The Genoese fleet under Paganino Doria captures the Venetian fleet under Niccolò Pisani at the harbor of Sapienza or Porto Longo, between the fortresses of Modon (mod.

Methoni) and Navarino or Zonklon (Pylos) in southern Greece.

"He who does not know how to give himself an account of three thousand years may remain in the dark, inexperienced, and live from day to day."

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, West-Eastern Divan