Battle of Demetrias
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The Battle of Demetrias was a sea engagement fought at Volos in Greece in the early 1270s between a Byzantine fleet and the assembled forces of the Latin barons of Euboea (Negroponte) and Crete. The battle was fierce, and initially in favour of the Latins, but the timely arrival of Byzantine reinforcements tipped the scale, resulting in a crushing Byzantine victory.
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Battle of Demetrias | |||||||
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Part of the Byzantine-Latin Wars | |||||||
Map of the Byzantine Empire and the Latin states in southern Greece c. 1278 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Byzantine Empire |
Lordship of Negroponte Venetian Crete | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Alexios Philanthropenos (WIA) John Palaiologos |
Guglielmo da Verona † Fillippo Sanudo (POW) | ||||||
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50–80 ships | 30–62 ships | ||||||
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heavy | very heavy |
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