Siege of Coron (1685)

When

25 Jun 1685 – 11 Aug 1685

Kind

Siege

Coordinates

36.80° N, 21.96° E

Description

1685 siege

Part of the Morean War

The conquest of Coron of 1685 was the capture of the Ottoman fortress of Coron (Koroni) in the southwestern Morea (Peloponnese) by the Republic of Venice in 1685. It signalled the start of the Venetian conquest of the Morea during the Great Turkish War.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “осада Корони”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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