Second Venetian-Ottoman War (A Venetian Legacy)

The Second Venetian-Ottoman War is a war that lasted for almost a decade between the Most Serene Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire who has now expanded into Greece and conquered the Byzantines in 1459.

Background

Cost to War

Second Venetian-Ottoman War
Part of Venetian-Ottoman Wars
Date 29 January, 1461 - 30 October, 1467 Location Mediterranean Sea, Aegean, Cyprus, Anatolia, Adriatic Sea Result Venetian victory Treaty of Pula Ottoman invasion of the Balkans halted Ottoman succession of Crete and Athens
Belligerents
Republic of Venice Republic of Genoa Knights Hospitaller Teutonic Order Non-Belligerents Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of France Kingdom of England Papal States Kingdom of Portugal Kingdom of Castille	Ottoman Empire Mamluk Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Fransesco Foscari Aloïs Cortney Francesco I Sforza	Sultan Mehmed I
Strength
c.75,000-100,000	c.750,000
Casualties and losses
c.19,000-23,000	c.280,000-330,000

By 1460 and with the defeat of the Byzantines a year prior, the Ottomans we're in high confidence to finally kick their own rival, Venice from their old lands and re-take into the Ottoman state. However, the Ottomans had underestimated Venice. The Venetians who had already mastered the command of the seas had re-organized their structure and reformed their navy into a modernized one. The Venetians also had enough resources to go to war with the Ottomans. On the other side, the Ottomans we're still recovering from the lost of their fleet at the famous Battle of Rhodes which saw 20% of the Ottoman casualties during the First Venetian-Ottoman War. The main reason for the war's eruption is the Ottoman plan to re-claim it's legitimacy across the continent and avenge their defeat by opening the path of Venice's collapse.

Overall Conclusion

To summarize what happened, the Ottomans had won a series of victories against Venice and it's allies but we're to small to impact the course of the war. On the other hand, Venice and her allies won 4 decisive victories against the Ottomans during the war one of them is the Battle of Cyprus which saw a garrison of 6,000 Venetian troops fend off an entire Ottoman invasion force of over 17,000 men. At the end, the Ottomans suffered the highest casualties to any nation in the war combined with over 370,000 losses which they'd never recover until almost a century later.