Curzola, Battle of
1298 CE
Battle of Curzola (today Korčula, southern Dalmatia, now in Croatia) is the naval battle which was fought on September 9, 1298 between the fleets of Genoa and Venice.
It is a disaster for Venice, a major setback among many battles fought in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries between Pisa, Genoa and Venice in a long series of wars for the control of Mediterranean and Levantine trade.
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Sporadic and minor attacks and counterattacks continue between the Venetians and the Genoese.
These end after 1299, when a Genoese fleet wins a decisive naval victory off the Dalmatian coast near Curzola, killing or capturing more than nine hundred Venetians.
The Venetians are led by Admiral Andrea Dandolo, son of Doge Giovanni Dandolo, and the Genoese by Lamba Doria, whose son is killed in the fighting.
The disaster seems almost complete for Venice: eighty-three of their ninety-five ships are destroyed and about seventy thousand men are killed.
Dandolo commits suicide in his first days of captivity.