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Cappelletti (cavalry)
''Cappelletti'', later ''Croati à cavallo'' (), or ''Cavalleria Oltramarina'', was a cavalry unit of the Republic of Venice. In the beginning, they were organized as part of the Dalmatian ''Oltremarini'' corps as light cavalry for the surveillance of the Venetian border in Dalmatia, but also as a police unit. History Military elites of the eastern Adriatic, militias of Dalmatian city-states, Dalmatian cities, and war bands of Croatian nobility, Croatian nobles of Istria and Dalmatia fought under the Venetian flag already in the 13th century in the wars against Republic of Genoa, Genoa, and in the dynastic wars for the control of Dalmatia against Kingdom of Hungary, Hungary, and in the opening wars against the Ottoman Empire. At the end of the 15th century, it was from these warrior elites that the first commanders and mercenaries of Venetian professional units of naval infantry and light cavalry, originating from Dalmatia, the so-called "''Schiavone, Schiavoni''", would emerge. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Venice
The Republic of Venice, officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and Maritime republics, maritime republic with its capital in Venice. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 by Paolo Lucio Anafesto, over the course of its History of the Republic of Venice, 1,100 years of history it established itself as one of the major European commercial and naval powers. Initially extended in the ''Dogado'' area (a territory currently comparable to the Metropolitan City of Venice), during its history it annexed a large part of Northeast Italy, Istria, Dalmatia, the coasts of present-day Montenegro and Albania as well as numerous islands in the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and eastern Ionian Sea, Ionian seas. At the height of its expansion, between the 13th and 16th centuries, it also governed Crete, Cyprus, the Peloponnese, a number of List of islands of Greece, Greek islands, as well as several cities and ports in the eastern Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morean War
The Morean war (), also known as the Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War, was fought between 1684–1699 as part of the wider conflict known as the "Great Turkish War", between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire. Military operations ranged from Dalmatia to the Aegean Sea, but the war's major campaign was the Venetian conquest of the Morea (Peloponnese) peninsula in southern Greece. On the Venetian side, the war was fought to avenge the loss of Crete in the Cretan War (1645–1669). It happened while the Ottomans were entangled in their northern struggle against the Habsburg monarchy, Habsburgsbeginning with the failed Battle of Vienna, Ottoman attempt to conquer Vienna and ending with the Habsburgs Siege of Buda (1686), gaining Buda and the whole of Hungary, leaving the Ottoman Empire unable to concentrate its forces against the Venetians. As such, the Morean War was the only Ottoman–Venetian conflict from which Venice emerged victorious, gaining significant territory. Ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
