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Siege of Candia
Part of the Cretan War (Fifth Ottoman–Venetian War)
The siege of Candia by N. Visscher, c. 1680
Date
1 May 1648 – 27 September 1669 (21 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 5 days)
Location
Heraklion, Crete
Result
Ottoman victory
Territorial changes
Crete ceded to Ottomans
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire Republic of Algiers (1667)[1]
Republic of Venice
Knights of Malta
France
Commanders and leaders
Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed
Francesco Morosini
Strength
60,000 soldiers
20,000 workers and miners
80 Algerian ships[2]
10,000 European allies
12,000 Cretan & Venetian citizens
Casualties and losses
118,754 soldiers (Venetian reports)[3]
30,985 Venetian soldiers (Venetian reports)[3]
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Cretan War (1645–1669)
1640s
26 May
Candia
Focchies
1650s
10 July
Perast
1st Dardanelles
2nd Dardanelles
3rd Dardanelles
3 May
18 May
4th Dardanelles
1660s
27 August
29 September
The siege of Candia (now Heraklion, Crete) was a military conflict in which Ottoman forces besieged the Venetian-ruled capital city of the Kingdom of Candia.[4] Lasting from 1648 to 1669, or a total of 21 years, it is the second-longest siege in history after the siege of Ceuta. It ended with an Ottoman victory, but the effort and cost of the siege contributed to the decline of the Ottoman Empire, especially after the Great Turkish War.
^Louis PIESSE (1862). Collection des Guides-Joanne. Itinéraire historique et descriptif de l'Algérie, comprenant le Tell et le Sahara, etc.
^ورقات جزائرية. 2000.
^ abPaoletti, Ciro (2008). A Military History of Italy. p. 33.
^Mason, Norman David (1972). The War of Candia, 1645–1669 (PhD). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. doi:10.31390/gradschool_disstheses.2351.
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