Inebahti (Lepanto) War And Some Information On The Reconstruction Of The Ottoman Fleet

In the period of Sultan IInd Selim, the Cyprus was successfully conquered. As a consequence of this progress, Crusade Alliance under the leadership of Venice and Spain took action in order to recapture the Cyprus and Ottoman navy was devastatingly defeated in the Inebahti ( Lepanto) War on the date of 7 October 1571. At the Ottoman Empire having lost the greater part of her navy, the period of construction of a new navy was initiated and a respond was given to the Inebahti defeat by forming an enormous navy in pursuit of nearly six-month endeavor. In this study, information about preparations during and after Inebahti War was given by predicating on registers in the “muhimme defteri”(register of important sultan decrees).

Keywords

Ottoman Empire, II. Selim, The Battle of Lepanto, navy, maritime history.