Battle of Chios (1319)

Battle of Chios
Part of the Latin campaigns against Turkish pirates
Date23 July 1319[1]
Location
off Chios
Result Hospitaller/Genoese victory
Belligerents
Order of Saint John
Lordship of Chios
Beylik of Aydin
Commanders and leaders
Albert of Schwarzburg
Martino Zaccaria
Mehmed Beg
Strength
31 ships 10 galleys
18 other ships
Casualties and losses
Unknown 22 ships sunk or captured

The Battle of Chios was a naval battle fought off the shore of the eastern Aegean island of Chios between a Latin Christian—mainly Hospitaller—fleet and a Turkish fleet from the Aydinid emirate. The Christian fleet was victorious, but for the Aydinids, who had been engaging in piracy since the collapse of Byzantine power, it was only a temporary setback in their rise to prominence.

  1. ^ Luttrell (1975), p. 288.

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