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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 Shipyard was built and systematization in 1327.

History

At 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]

At some point during the war, a treaty between the Empire and Republic was coming, the Ottoman Navy still very strong at this time, the Italian Assassins in Rome determined to protect the treaty and prevent Cesare Borgia attempted to undermine it.[5]

In 1503, at the close of the war, Piri's taste for military adventures waned for a time then leave the Navy.[2]

In 1511, after leave the Navy, Piri met Florentine Ezio Auditore, both members of the Assassins, briefly reminisced about their many friends lost during the Ottoman-Venetian War.[6] In the same year, in order to make their to the Cappadocia, Ezio and Piri plan to destroy the Great Chain of Golden Horn, during the process, Ezio used the Greek fire to cripple the Navy.[7]

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