Battle of Preveza

Battle of Preveza
	Part of the Third Ottoman–Venetian War
	; Battle of Preveza, Ohannes Umed Behzad
Date	28 September 1538
Location	Near Preveza, Ionian Sea
Result	Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Holy League: Republic of Venice; Papal States; Republic of Genoa; Spain; Mantua; Malta;
Commanders and leaders
Hayreddin Pasha; Sinan Reis; Dragut; Seydi Ali Reis;	Andrea Doria; Vincenzo Cappello; Marco Grimani; Ferrante Gonzaga; Gianandrea Doria;
Strength
122 galleys and galliots; 366 cannon; 3,000 janissaries and 8,000 soldiers	112 galleys; 50 galiots; 140 barkas; 2,500–2,594 cannon; 60,000 soldiers
Casualties and losses
No ships lost; 400 killed; 800 wounded	13 ships lost; 36 ships captured; 3,000 prisoners

The Battle of Preveza (also known as Prevesa) was a naval engagement that took place on 28 September 1538 near Preveza in the Ionian Sea in northwestern Greece between an Ottoman fleet and that of a Holy League. The battle was an Ottoman victory which occurred in the same area in the Ionian Sea as the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.^[5] It was one of the three largest sea battles that took place in the sixteenth century Mediterranean, along with the Battle of Djerba and the Battle of Lepanto.^[6]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Corsari nel Mediterraneo: Hayreddin Barbarossa (italyanca)". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
^ [1] Archived 23 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine Türk Denizcileri/Türk Denizcilik Tarihi: Preveze Deniz Savaşı (1538)
^ ^a ^b [2] Archived 23 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine Türk Denizcileri/ Türk Denizcilik Tarihi: Preveze Deniz Savaşı (1538)
^ ^a ^b David S.T. Blackmore (2002), Warfare on the Mediterranean in the Age of Sail, A History, 1571–1866.[3]
^ Hattendorf & King 2013, p. 6
^ Hattendorf & King 2013, p. 15