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@guel-sen.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 4:35 PM

Here is one of the best-known depictions of the Battle of Lepanto in October 1571.

Lepanto is today's Nafpaktos in western Greece; Ottoman Turkish: İnebahtı

The image represents the Holy League’s victory over the Ottoman fleet. 🧵1/

#MaritimeHistory #EarlyModern #OttomanHistory #galleys #ships

Here is one of the best-known depictions of the Battle of Lepanto in October 1571. (Lepanto is today's Nafpaktos in western Greece; Ottoman Turkish: İnebahtı) The image represents the Holy League’s victory over the Ottoman fleet. mage: Ignazio Danti, Battle of Lepanto, c. 1580, fresco, Gallery of Geographical Maps, Vatican Museums, Vatican City, based on a 1572 engraving by Fernando Bertelli. The Ottoman conquest of Cyprus was the immediate trigger for the formation of the Holy League. The victory has traditionally been portrayed as a decisive triumph of Christian Europe over Ottoman expansion and a symbolic turning point in the Mediterranean. Recent scholarship has challenged the traditional portrayal of Lepanto as a decisive turning point. It has emphasized its limited immediate strategic consequences and the Ottomans’ rapid reconstruction of their naval power. Here are three references: On the conventional narrative and how this interpretation was itself shaped by early modern Catholic political and religious discourse: Stefan Hanß. War and Peace: Shaping Politics in Reformation Germany after the Battle of Lepanto. (2017). On Lepanto's long-lasting impact on European literature, art, diplomacy, and representations of Muslims: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, Issue 1: Seeing the Turk after Lepanto: visions of the Ottomans and Islam in Spain and Italy. 2018. On the rapid reconstruction of the Ottoman fleet after L. within 6 months: Bulent Ari/Luca Zan “Shipbuilding and Early Forms of Modern Management: Six Months to Rebuild the Ottoman Fleet after the Defeat at Lepanto,” (2024)
@guel-sen.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 11:21 AM

On this day of 1571:
The decisive day of the Battle of Lepanto.

The battle ended in a victory for the Holy League over the Ottoman fleet. 1/

#MaritimeHistory #galleys #fleet #earlymodern

On this day of 1571: The decisive day of the Battle of Lepanto. The battle ended in a victory for the Holy League over the Ottoman fleet. The image shows the cover of No. 3 "Lepanto" of the Finix Comics.
@guel-sen.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 8:12 PM

Here is a model of Barbarossa's ship during his France campaign.

Image credit: Beşiktaş Naval Museum Command
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Here is a model of Barbarossa's ship during his France campaign. Image credit: Beşiktaş Naval Museum Command
@guel-sen.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 8:12 PM

This is a further encounter of Barbarossa and Andrea Doria:

Francis I of France entered into an alliance with the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent against Charles V, the Habsburg Emperor. Therefore, in 1543, Süleyman dispatched Barbarossa to France. 🧵1/

#MaritimeHistory #admirals #galleys

This is a further encounter of Hayreddin Barbarossa and Andrea Doria: Francis I of France entered into an alliance with the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent against Charles V, the Habsburg Emperor. Therefore, in 1543, Süleyman dispatched Barbarossa to France. Francis subsequently permitted the Ottoman fleet to winter at Toulon. For eight months, throughout the winter, the fleet remained in southern France and used Toulon as a base for operations against Habsburg territories in Spanish and Italian coasts. In 1543, a French-Ottoman forces breached Nice’s walls and captured parts of the city. But the arrival of an Imperial-Savoyard relief fleet under Andrea Doria forced the besiegers to withdraw before taking the citadel. Nice remained in Savoyard hands.
@guel-sen.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 5:55 PM

More on the Naval Battle of Preveza on September 28, 1538; a first follow-up to yesterday's post:

Despite the overwhelming size of the League's fleet, one reason for the Ottoman victory lay in the composition of their own fleet. 🧵1/

#MaritimeHistory #galleys #ships

Despite the overwhelming size of the League's fleet, one reason for the Ottoman victory lay in the composition of their own fleet. The Ottomans relied exclusively on rowing ships (above all, galleys) while the Holy League fielded large sailing vessels and heavy galleons. The galleys' success in the battle cemented the Ottoman navy's long-standing preference for this type of ship. Geography played a role too: rowing ships held a significant maneuvering advantage along the Mediterranean coast , where the physical environment and climate favored their design.Geography played a role too: rowing ships held a significant maneuvering advantage along the Mediterranean coast , where the physical environment and climate favored their design.
@guel-sen.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 6:33 PM

September 27, 1538:

Hayreddin Barbarossa, grand admiral of the Ottoman fleet, and Andrea Doria, the grand admiral of the Genoese-led fleet, prepared their galleys for the coming Battle of Preveza in the Ionian Sea (northwestern Greece). 1/2

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September 27, 1538: The Mediterranean braced for a major naval battle. Hayreddin Barbarossa, grand admiral of the Ottoman fleet, and Andrea Doria, the grand admiral of the Genoese-led fleet, prepared their galleys for the Battle of Preveza in the Ionian Sea (northwestern Greece). Source for the image: “Episodios Maritimos. El Heroico Suceso de Machin de Munguía”, Plate 14 of Historia de la marina real española: episodios marítimos. by Vicente Urrabieta and Juan Donon. Hart Nautical Collection.
@guel-sen.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 8:16 PM

September 17, 1571 , Corfu.
On the eve of the Battle of Lepanto (Ott. İnebahtı)

📷taken from "Die grossen Seeschlachten. Lepanto 1571, FinixComics , 2018

#MaritimeHistory #OttomanHistory #Mediterranean #Corfu #Greece
#galleys #ships #galleyslaves #oarsmen

The Battle of Lepanto 1571
@guel-sen.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 8:53 AM

The first archaeological examples of Byzantine galleys (37 shipwrecks) of 5th- to late 10th century AD excavated in the ancient Theodosian Harbor located in Yenikapı in Istanbul.
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The ancient Theodosian Harbor was located in Yenikapı in Istanbul. The Yenikapi Byzantine Shipwrecks Project conducted by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology uncovered shipwrecks during the railway project between 2004 and 2013. The Yenikapi Byzantine Shipwrecks Project conducted by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) uncovered these shipwrecks during the railway project between 2004 and 2013.