Battle of the Echinades (1427)

Battle of the Echinades
	Part of the Byzantine-Latin Wars
	; Map of the Peloponnese (Morea) in the late Middle Ages. The Echinades islands are in the upper left corner, between Ithaca and the Greek mainland.
Date	1427
Location	Echinades, Greece
Result	Byzantine victory
Belligerents
Byzantine Empire	Carlo I Tocco
Commanders and leaders
Demetrios Laskaris Leontares	Torno
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Many dead, several ships and over 150 men captured

The Battle of the Echinades was fought in 1427 among the Echinades islands off western Greece between the fleets of Carlo I Tocco and the Byzantine Empire. The battle was a decisive Byzantine victory, the last in the Empire's naval history, and led to the consolidation of the Peloponnese under the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea.

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