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.