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
Hayreddin Pasha; Sinan Reis; Dragut Reis; Seydi Ali Reis;	Andrea Doria; Vincenzo Cappello; Marco Grimani; Ferrante Gonzaga;
Strength
122 galleys and galliots; 366 cannon; 3,000 janissaries and 8,000 soldiers	112 galleys; 50 galiots; 140 barkas; 2,500–2,594 cannon; 60,000 soldiers
Casualties and losses
No ships lost; 400 killed; 800 wounded	13 ships lost; 36 ships captured; 3,000 prisoners

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