Siege of Shkodra (1474)

Siege of Shkodra
Rrethimi i Shkodrës
DateSpring 1474 – 8 August 1474
Location42°02′47″N 19°29′37″E / 42.0465°N 19.4935°E / 42.0465; 19.4935
Result Victory of Venice, Zeta and Albanian Rebels
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire Republic of Venice
Albanian resistance forces
Principality of Zeta
Commanders and leaders
Hadım Suleiman Pasha

Antonio Loredan
Pietro Mocenigo
Triadan Gritti
Leonardo Boldù


Ivan Crnojević
Strength
8,000 25,000
Casualties and losses
7,000 Ottoman soldiers killed[1] unknown number of soldiers and 3,000 civilians from Scutari (primary source)

The siege of Shkodra (Albanian: Rrethimi i Shkodrës) of 1474 was an Ottoman attack upon Venetian-controlled Shkodra (Scutari in Italian) in Albania Veneta during the First Ottoman-Venetian War (1463–79). It is not to be confused with the siege of Shkodra of 1478–79.

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