Ottoman Navy
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Ottoman Navy (Ottoman Turkish: دوننماى همايون, Donanma-yı Humâyûn or Turkish: Osmanlı Donanması) was the Navy of Ottoman Empire. The Navy was established after Empire captured Karamürsel in 1323, the Shipard was built and systematization in 1327.
History
Some day in 1485, the nephew of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI, Manuel Palaiologos, moved back to Constantinople, he sold the rights of his throne to Bayezid II and joined the Navy, became the model civilian, in order to undercover his plan to retrieve his throne.[1]
In 1487, Piri Reis and his uncle joined the Navy, after they served as privateers in the Mediterranean Sea a few years later.[2]
Ottoman-Venetian War
The Republic of Venice under Agostino Barbarigo started the second war with the Empire. At the Battle of Zonchio in 1499, the Navy destroyed the Venetian Navy, causing the Empire to seize the Venetian territories of Lepanto, Modone and Corone in Greece.[3] At the next year of the Battle of Modon, the Ottoman Navy defeated the Venetian Navy again.[4]
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed II (indirect mention only)
- Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy (mentioned only)
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations (mentioned in Database entry only)
References
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Database: Manuel Palaiologos
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Database: Piri Reis
- ↑ Assassin's Creed II – Database: Agostino Barbarigo
- ↑ Assassin's Creed II – Database: Alvise da Vilandino