Marco Antonio Bragadin

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Marco Antonio Bragadin
Tiziano Aspetti, Marcantonio Bragadin (ca. 1571)
Captain-General of Cyprus
Reign1569 – 1 August 1571
PredecessorMarcantonio Priuli
SuccessorPosition abolished (Lala Mustafa Pasha as Beylerbey of Cyprus)
Born(1523-04-21)21 April 1523
Venice, Republic of Venice
Died17 August 1571(1571-08-17) (aged 48)
Famagusta, Cyprus Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
SpouseElisabetta Morosini
HouseBragadin
FatherMarco Bragadin
MotherAdriana Bembo
ReligionRoman Catholicism

Marco Antonio Bragadin, also Marcantonio Bragadin (21 April 1523 – 17 August 1571), was a Venetian lawyer and military officer of the Republic of Venice.

Bragadin joined the Fanti da Mar Corps or marines of the Republic of Venice. In 1569, he was appointed Captain-General of Famagusta in Cyprus and led the Venetian resistance to the Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–1573). He was executed by flaying in August 1571 in contravention of negotiated safe passage after the Ottoman Empire took Famagusta, the fall of which signalled the end of Western presence in the Mediterranean island for the next three centuries.

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