Battle of the Dalmatian Coast
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| Battle of the Dalmatian Coast | |||||||
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| Part of Spanish–Ottoman wars and Ottoman–Habsburg wars | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Spanish Empire Order of St. John Republic of Genoa |
.svg){kind=small} Ottoman Empire.svg){kind=small} Eyalet of Tunis Regency of Algiers | ||||||
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Álvaro de Bazán y Benavides | Unknown | ||||||
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| 35 galleys | 13 galleys | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown |
6 galleys sunk 7 galleys captured | ||||||
The Battle of the Dalmatian Coast of 1624 was a naval battle between a Spanish, Genoese and Maltese fleet captained by Álvaro de Bazán y Benavides, Marquis of Santa Cruz and a Barbary corsair fleet from Tunis and Algiers, originally pursued by him before the previous Battle of the Gulf of Tunis. It resulted in a Christian victory.
After defeating the privateer Ali Arraez Rabazin in Tunis while searching for the Tunisian fleet, Bazán sunk other two Barbary ships in Cape Farina before returning to hand over the prey to Sicily, after which they continued towards the Gulf of Venice.[1] They learned that an allied fleet in the same gulf, composed by 14 Spanish galleys from Sicily and Naples and three from the Hospitaller Malta, had found the Barbary fleet previously searched by Bazán and cornered it against the coast of Dalmatia. The enemy fleet was composed of two Ottoman galleys from Rhodes, six Tunisian ones from Bizerte and five from Algiers.[2] Viceroy of Sicily Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy immediately sent in Bazán with his previous 14 galleys, reinforced this time with four more from the Republic of Genoa that were by chance in Messina.[3]