What the records say
- When
- 31 Jul 1319
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 38.40° N, 26.02° E
- Description
- 1319 naval battle
- Naval
- yes
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Chios (1319)
Hospitaller naval victory over Turkish pirates
The Battle of Chios was a naval battle fought off the shore of the eastern Aegean island of Chios between a Latin Christian—mainly Hospitaller—fleet and a Turkish fleet from the Aydinid emirate. The Christian fleet was victorious, but for the Aydinids, who had been engaging in piracy since the collapse of Byzantine power, it was only a temporary setback in their rise to prominence.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Chios: A Knights Hospitaller-Genoese fleet (some 30 ships) led by Albert of Schwarzburg defeats a Turkish fleet, off Chios”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page