Siege of Famagusta | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Part of the Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War | |||||||||
Venetian Walls of S. Luca ("Bastioni San Luca") in Famagusta | |||||||||
| |||||||||
Belligerents | |||||||||
Ottoman Empire | Republic of Venice | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Mustafa Pasha | Marco Antonio Bragadin | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
100,000–120,000[1] | 8,500[1] | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
10,000– 20,000[2] 52,000 dead[3] (Venetian claim) |
7,600 killed 900 prisoners | ||||||||
The siege of Famagusta happened in Venetian-controlled Famagusta, the last Christian possession in Cyprus. Famagusta fell to the Ottomans in August 1571 after a siege that lasted nearly a year.[4]
Turnbull
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).