Battle of Preveza

Battle of Preveza
	Part of the Third Ottoman–Venetian War
	; Battle of Preveza, Ohannes Umed Behzad
Date	28 September 1538
Location	Near Preveza, Ionian Sea
Result	Ottoman victory
Belligerents
Ottoman Empire	Holy League Venice; Papal States; Genoa; Spain; Mantua; Malta;
Commanders and leaders
Suleiman I; Hayreddin Pasha; Sinan Reis; Dragut Reis; Seydi Ali Reis;	Andrea Doria; Vincenzo Cappello; Marco Grimani; Ferrante Gonzaga;
Strength
120-150 galleys, galliots and gustas; 366 cannons; 3,000 janissaries and 8,000 soldiers	130-170 galleys; 50-140 carracks and galleons; Possibly 250-300 other ships; 2,500–2,594 cannon; 60,000 soldiers; 140 carracks and galleons;
Casualties and losses
Several ships damaged; 400 killed; 800 wounded	Two galleys and five carracks sunk or captured (Spanish and Italian sources); 128 ships sunk or captured (Turkish sources); 13 ships sunk and 36 captured (English sources); 3,000 prisoners (English sources)

The Battle of Preveza (also known as Prevesa) was a naval engagement that occurred on 28 September 1538 near Preveza in the Ionian Sea in northwest Greece, in the same area as the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. The battle was between an Ottoman fleet and a Holy League fleet and ended as an Ottoman victory. It was amongst the three largest battles in the Mediterranean in the sixteenth century, alongside the Battle of Djerba and the Battle of Lepanto.