Late Middle Ages · Europe · Politics
1479
Treaty of Constantinople Ends Ottoman-Venetian War
1479
Venice ceded Negroponte, paid a heavy war indemnity, and accepted an annual tribute for trading privileges in Ottoman ports. In return it kept its Adriatic and Aegean holdings. The Serenissima had, for the first time, acknowledged that a land power could out-resource it. The treaty held, barely, for sixteen years.