Aftermath of the Cretan–Venetian War (1671)

Name: Aftermath of the Cretan–Venetian War (1671)
Start: 1670
End: 1672

Type Event Region Crete Time 1670–1672

After the Ottoman conquest of Candia (modern Heraklion) in 1669, the twenty-four-year Cretan War officially ended, but around 1671 the empire was sti…

Timeline

1670–1671Chania · CreteThe Ottomans made Chania the island's administrative center, appointing a provincial governor and implementing the timar and tax-farming systems. Some former Venetian fortresses and public buildings were converted into mosques or administrative use, and the island's Christian communities came under the millet system.
1671–1672Corfu · Ionian IslandsAfter losing Crete, Venice shifted its defensive focus to the Ionian Islands, taking in Cretan exiled nobles and artisans. The 1670 Treaty of Chanak confirmed Ottoman sovereignty over Crete, and Venice's maritime trade network was forced to contract.

Sources

Molly Greene, A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean — Molly Greene (2000)
Kenneth Setton, Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century — Kenneth Setton (1991)