Siege of Coron (1533–1534)
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siege-of-coron-1533-1534-218-350642
title:
Siege of Coron (1533–1534)
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The siege of Coron in 1533–1534 was the recapture of the fortress of Koroni (Coron) in Messenia, Greece, by the Ottoman Empire, after the fortress was occupied by the Habsburg Empire in 1532. Coron had been a possession of Venice since 1209, but Sultan Bayezid II captured it in 1500. In 1532, the Habsburg emperor Charles V ordered the Genoese admiral Andrea Doria to attack it as a diversion to the campaigns of the Little War in Hungary. Doria managed to capture the city, and to lay waste to the
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Siege during Ottoman–Habsburg wars
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Coron_(1533%E2%80%931534)
date created:
2009-07-08T20:26:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T06:17:21Z
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