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Battle of Preveza

Ottoman Empire [1538]

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victory of Barbarossa

  • Barbarossa
    In Barbarossa

    …Charles V’s fleet at the Battle of Preveza (1538), thereby securing the eastern Mediterranean for the Turks (until their defeat at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571). Barbarossa remained one of the great figures of the court at Constantinople until his death.

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  • Ottoman Empire
    In Ottoman Empire: Süleyman I

    …routed in 1538 at the Battle of Préveza off the Albanian coast. Venice then surrendered the Morea and Dalmatia, its last possessions in the Aegean Sea, thus assuring an Ottoman naval supremacy in the eastern Mediterranean that remained unbroken for three decades.

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