What the records say
- When
- 14 Jul 1616 – 16 Jul 1616
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 36.64° N, 30.56° E
- Description
- 1616 naval battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburgs
- Naval
- yes
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Cape Gelidonya
1616 Ottoman–Habsburg naval battle
The Battle of Cape Gelidonya or Celidonia took place on 14 July 1616 during the Ottoman–Habsburg struggle for the control of the Mediterranean. During its course, a small privateer fleet owned by Spanish Viceroy of Sicily Pedro Téllez-Girón, Duke of Osuna, under the command of Francisco de Ribera, was attacked by an Ottoman fleet that vastly outnumbered it while cruising off Cyprus.
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire espagnole sur les Ottomans à la bataille du cap Celidonia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page