The Battle of Lepanto took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of southern European Catholic maritime states, decisively defeated the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire in five hours of fighting on the northern edge of the Gulf of Corinth, off western Greece. The Ottoman forces sailing westwards from their naval station in Lepanto (; ) met the Holy League forces, which had come from Messina, Sicily, where they had previously gathered.
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| - The Battle of Lepanto took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of southern European Catholic maritime states, decisively defeated the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire in five hours of fighting on the northern edge of the Gulf of Corinth, off western Greece. The Ottoman forces sailing westwards from their naval station in Lepanto (; ) met the Holy League forces, which had come from Messina, Sicily, where they had previously gathered.
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Strength
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Partof
| - the Fourth Ottoman-Venetian War and the Ottoman-Habsburg wars
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Commander
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- John of Austria
- Ali Pasha
- Holy League:
- Sebastiano Venier
- Agostino Barbarigo
- Christian Center:
- Christian Left:
- Christian Reserve:
- Christian Right:
- Gianandrea Doria
- Marcantonio Colonna
- Mehmed Siroco
- Ottoman Fleet:
- Turkish Center:
- Turkish Left:
- Turkish Right:
- Álvaro de Bazán
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Caption
| - The Battle of Lepanto, H. Letter, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich/London.
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Casualties
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- 20000(xsd:integer)
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Result
| - Decisive Holy League victory
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combatant
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* Spanish Empire
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* Grand Duchy of Tuscany
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* 19px Duchy of Urbino
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Place
| - Gulf of Corinth, Ionian Sea
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| - The Battle of Lepanto took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of southern European Catholic maritime states, decisively defeated the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire in five hours of fighting on the northern edge of the Gulf of Corinth, off western Greece. The Ottoman forces sailing westwards from their naval station in Lepanto (; ) met the Holy League forces, which had come from Messina, Sicily, where they had previously gathered. The victory of the Holy League prevented the Ottoman Empire expanding further along the European side of the Mediterranean. Lepanto was the last major naval battle in the Mediterranean fought entirely between galleys and has been assigned great symbolic importance by Catholic and other historians. Some assert that Turkish victory could have led to Western Europe being overrun, as had happened to the Byzantine Empire a little more than a century earlier.
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