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Curzola, Battle of

Years: 1298 - 1298

Battle of Curzola (today Korčula, southern Dalmatia, now in Croatia) is the naval battle which was fought on September 9, 1298 between the fleets of Genoa and Venice.

It is a disaster for Venice, a major setback among many battles fought in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries between Pisa, Genoa and Venice in a long series of wars for the control of Mediterranean and Levantine trade.

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