Battle of Chios (201 BC)

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Battle of Chios
Part of the Cretan War
Philip V of Macedon.
Date 201 BC Location Off the shore of Chios Result Rhodian alliance victory
Belligerents
Macedon	Rhodes Pergamum Byzantium Cyzicus
Commanders and leaders
Philip V of Macedon	Attalus I Theophiliscus of Rhodes  (DOW)
Strength
Around 200 ships	Around 100 ships
Casualties and losses
92 ships sunk 7 captured 9,000 dead 2,000 captured	Rhodes: 3 ships sunk 60 dead Pergamum: 3 ships sunk 2 captured 70 dead

The Battle of Chios was fought in 201 BC between the fleet of Philip V of Macedon and the combined fleet of Rhodes, Pergamum, Byzantium and Cyzicus.

The Cretan War had started in 205 BC when the Macedonians and their pirate and Cretan allies had started attacking Rhodian ships as Rhodes had the richest merchant fleet in the Aegean. The navies of Rhodes' allies Pergamum, Byzantium and Cyzicus joined the Rhodian fleet and then defeated the Macedonian fleet off Chios.