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Siege of the Castle of Saint George

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Siege of the Castle of St. George
Part of the Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)

19th-century depiction of Gonzalo de Córdoba directing the assault against the castle
Date8 November – 24 December 1500
Location
Result Spanish-Venetian victory
Belligerents
Spain
 Republic of Venice
Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
Republic of Venice Benedetto Pesaro
Gisdar Aga 
Kemal Reis
Feriz Beg

The Siege of the Castle of Saint George or Siege of Cephalonia occurred from 8 November 1500 until 24 December 1500, when following a series of Venetian disasters at the hands of the Turks, the Spanish-Venetian army under Captain Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba succeeded in capturing the Ottoman stronghold of Cephalonia.

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Transcription

Background

Cephalonia, one of the Ionian Islands off the western coast of Greece, had been in the hands of the Italian counts palatine of the Tocco family until 1479, when it was captured by the Ottoman Empire.[1] With the exception of a brief period of Venetian control in 1482–83, the island remained in Ottoman hands until 1500.[2]

The Second Ottoman–Venetian War broke out in 1499 with the Ottoman attack on the Venetian port of Lepanto on the Greek mainland, which surrendered on 24 August 1499. The war continued to go badly for Venice, as the Ottomans shifted their attention to the Morea and stormed Modon on 9 August 1500, followed by the surrender thereupon of the neighbouring forts Coron and Navarino.[3]

Siege

On 17 August 1500, however, the Spanish captain-general, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, offered the forces at his disposal to the aid of Venice. Aided by the Spanish fleet, the newly appointed Venetian captain-general of the Sea, Benedetto Pesaro, landed on Cephalonia and after a siege took the island's capital, the Castle of St. George, on 24 December.[4] The Spanish commander and his fleet returned to Sicily after that, but Pesaro went on to recover Santa Maura (Lefkada) as well in August 1502.

Aftermath

When a peace treaty was concluded in Constantinople in December 1502, Cephalonia remained in Venetian hands, but Lefkada was returned to Ottoman rule in 1503.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Setton (1978), pp. 98, 290
  2. ^ Setton (1978), p. 515 (note 40)
  3. ^ Setton (1978), pp. 515–522
  4. ^ Setton (1978), pp. 522–523
  5. ^ Setton (1978), p. 523

References

  • Freely, John. The Ionian Islands: Corfu, Cephalonia, Ithaka and Beyond (2008) ISBN 1-84511-696-8
  • Setton, Kenneth M. (1978). The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571), Volume II: The Fifteenth Century. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society. ISBN 0-87169-127-2.

38°12′00″N 20°30′00″E / 38.2000°N 20.5000°E / 38.2000; 20.5000

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