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Battle of the Echinades (1427)

Battle of the Echinades (1427)

38°22′00″N21°04′00″E / 38.366667°N 21.066667°E / 38.366667; 21.066667

BelligerentsByzantine EmpireCarlo I ToccoCommanders and leadersDemetrios Laskaris Leontares TornoCasualties 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.