Maps
Venice, rendering by Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reise
“Action of August 27, 1661” Venice and Malta join forces and defeat the Turks.
Relations between Venice the Ottoman Empire were sustained by trade but punctuated by conflict. In the mid-17th century the Turks retaliated against the Venetians for attacks on Turkish ships by the Knights Hospitaller of St. John, beginning a quarter-century of war.
Constantinople Harbor
Phoenician Colonies
c. 1500 BC
Persian Empire 559 - 330 BC
Aegean Civilization c. 1250 - 1000 BC
Alexandrian Empire
336 - 323 BC
Etruscan Civislization
c. 500 BC
Greek city-states
c. 700 - 400 BC
Roman Empire
27 BC - 476 AD
700 AD
700 AD
Europe
1500 - 1700
Europe 1500-1700
Muslim Expansion
Territories occupied during the Crusades.
Map of Jerusalem for pilgrims
Persian Gulf
Ibn Hawqal -10th century
Time of Muhammed
662-632
Conquests under 1st Califs
632-661
Conquests under Umayyad
632-750
c. 1100
c. 1000
Byzantium
Jerusalem
Venice
The Latin Kingdom of Constantinople ended in 1261
The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem ended in 1291
The Ottoman Turks occupied Constantinople in 1453, and Jerusalem in 1517
World map by ptolemy 106 AD
The Ptolemic System
Latin Kingdom of
Constantinople
Latin
Kingdom
of
Jerusalem
