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Siege of Famagusta
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| Siege of Famagusta | |||||||||
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| Part of the Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War | |||||||||
 Venetian Walls of S. Luca ("Bastioni San Luca") in Famagusta | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Ottoman Empire | Republic of Venice | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Mustafa Pasha |
Marco Antonio Bragadin  | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 100,000–120,000[1] | 8,500[1] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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10,000– 20,000[2] 52,000 dead[3] (Venetian claim) |
7,600 killed 900 prisoners | ||||||||
  Location within Cyprus | |||||||||
The siege of Famagusta happened in Venetian-controlled Famagusta, the last Christian possession in Cyprus. Famagusta fell to the Ottomans in August 1571 after a siege that lasted nearly a year.[4]
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
Turnbullwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Goffman (2002). p. 158.
- ^ Clodfelter, Micheal (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015, 4th ed. McFarland. p. 26. ISBN 978-0786474707.
- ^ Madden. Page 329.
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