Siege of Negroponte

Significance

The Siege of Negroponte on July 19, 1470 was a major engagement of the First Ottoman–Venetian War, in which Ottoman forces under Mehmed II, Mahmud Pasha, Gedik Ahmed, and Rum Mehmed Pasha confronted a Venetian force commanded by Giacomo Loredan and Tomaso Schiavo. The recorded Venetian casualty figure of 6,000 indicates the scale of the contest. The engagement involved substantial forces on both sides, with the Ottoman army numbering 70,000 and the Venetian force 80,000.

Forces & casualties

Commanders (6)