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Battle of Rhodes (1320)

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139:. A large army was gathered for the purpose, with a fleet of some 80 ships to carry and protect it to the island. Orhan clearly planned to occupy and settle Rhodes, as he took with him many non-combatants, old men, women and children; before attacking Rhodes, he left them at the small island of Episkopi ( 151:
galleys that happened to be at Rhodes. The Hospitaller–Genoese fleet managed to destroy the Turkish invasion fleet, and then sailed to Episkopi, where the Christians slaughtered or enslaved the Turks left there, reportedly 5,000 or even 10,000 people.
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The historian Mike Carr however points out that it is possible that this battle is the result of a confusion by medieval sources with the battle at Chios in 1319.
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Carr, Mike (2016). "Trade or Crusade? The Zaccaria of Chios and Crusades against the Turks". In Chrissi, Nikolaos G.; Carr, Mike (eds.).
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raiders. Utilizing local Greek seamen, the Turks began to engage in piracy across the Aegean, targeting especially the numerous
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Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204–1453: Crusade, Religion and Trade between Latins, Greeks and Turks
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island possessions. Turkish corsair activities were aided by the feuds between the two major Latin maritime states,
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In 1320—although some sources put it in 1321 or 1322—Rhodes itself was targeted by the Turks of Menteshe, under
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Das Fürstentum Mentesche. Studien zur Geschichte Westkleinasiens im 13.-15. Jahrhundert
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Trade and Crusade: Venetian Crete and the Emirates of Menteshe and Aydin (1300–1415)
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in 1284, created a power vacuum in the region, which was swiftly exploited by the
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A History of the Crusades, Volume III: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
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in the late 13th century, as well as the disbandment of the
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launched an unsuccessful attempt to conquer the island of
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and twenty smaller vessels, to which were joined six
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an Aydinid fleet at Chios and captured the castle of
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Index

Turks
Menteshe
Rhodes
Knights Hospitaller
Byzantine
Anatolia
Aegean Sea
Byzantine navy
Turkish beyliks
ghazi
Latin
Venice
Genoa
Menteshe
Aydinids
Ephesus
Chios
Benedetto I Zaccaria
minor principality
Knights Hospitaller
occupied Rhodes
Albert of Schwarzburg
defeated
Leros
Orhan Bey
tr
Tilos
galleys
Genoese
İnalcık 1993

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