Back معركة متبان Arabic Batalla de Matapan Catalan Batalla de Matapán Spanish Bataille du cap Matapan (1717) French Battaglia di Matapan Italian Slaget ved Matapan NN Slaget ved Matapan NB Bitwa u przylądka Matapan (1717) Polish Batalha de Matapão Portuguese Битва при Матапане (1717) Russian
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| Battle of Matapan | |||||||
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| Part of the Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War | |||||||
 Batalha Naval do Cabo Matapão, by António José Ramos, copy of the original painting made by João Dantas in 1812. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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 Ibrahim Pasha | |||||||
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34 ships 24 galleys 1 frigate |
22 ships 21 frigates 9 galleys | ||||||
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| Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
The Battle of Matapan, also known as the Battle of Cape Matapan, took place on 19 July 1717 off the Cape Matapan, on the coast of the Mani Peninsula, now in southern Greece. The naval battle was between the Armada Grossa of the Republic of Venice, supported by a mixed squadron of allied ships from Portugal, the Papal States and Malta, and the Ottoman fleet, under Kapudan Pasha Eğribozli Ibrahim Pasha.
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