Qualla: Battle of the Oinousses Islands https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-oinousses-islands en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of the Oinousses Islands https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-oinousses-islands Battle of the Oinousses Islands: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-oinousses-islands/ On the morning of 9 February 1695, the cannon fire began off a scatter of tiny islands between Chios and the Turkish coast. Within hours, three Venetian warships had blown apart, their crews vanishing in the smoke. The Oinousses were nothing, a handful of barren islets off Cape Karaburun in western Anatolia, but for a few weeks they became the hinge on which a campaign turned. Here a Venetian fleet under Antonio Zeno met an Algerian fleet led by Mezzo Morto Hüseyin, and the outcome would decide who held the wealthy island of Chios, which Venice had captured only months before.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/u/battle-of-the-oinousses-islands-wp/swfu-battle-of-the-oinousses-islands-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of the Oinousses Islands: The Prize of Chios https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-oinousses-islands/ By the 1690s the long contest between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire had ground on for years as part of the Morean War. Late in 1694, Venice had seized Chios, the prosperous Aegean island famous for its mastic and its strategic position off the Anatolian coast. Hol...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/u/battle-of-the-oinousses-islands-wp/swfu-battle-of-the-oinousses-islands-the-prize-of-chios.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of the Oinousses Islands: Two Days of Fire https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-oinousses-islands/ The first engagement, on 9 February, was a clear Venetian defeat. Three ships were lost outright, blown up in the fighting, among them the Stella Maris, the Leon Coronato, and the Drago Volante, their names preserved in the battle's grim ledger. On the sailing ships, 142 men were...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/f/u/battle-of-the-oinousses-islands-wp/swfu-battle-of-the-oinousses-islands-two-days-of-fire.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of the Oinousses Islands: The Human Cost https://qualla.com/battle-of-the-oinousses-islands/ It is easy to read a battle like this as a list of ships and numbers, but the figures stand for men. In the first engagement alone, well over four hundred sailors died and more than six hundred were wounded, crowded onto wooden decks as cannon fire tore through rigging and hull. ...

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