Siege of Candia
The siege of Candia (now Heraklion, Crete) was a military conflict in which Ottoman forces besieged the Venetian-ruled capital city of the Kingdom of Candia. Lasting from 1648 to 1669, or a total of 21 years, it is the second-longest siege in history after the siege of Ceuta. It ended with an Ottoman victory, but the effort and cost of the siege contributed to the decline of the Ottoman Empire, especially after the Great Turkish War.
| Siege of Candia | |||||||||
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| Part of the Cretan War (Fifth Ottoman–Venetian War) | |||||||||
The siege of Candia by N. Visscher, c. 1680 | |||||||||
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Ottoman Empire Republic of Algiers (1667) | |||||||||
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| Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed | Francesco Morosini | ||||||||
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| 118,754 soldiers (Venetian reports) | 30,985 Venetian soldiers (Venetian reports) | ||||||||
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