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A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios.
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Knights Hospitaller
Catholic military order
The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller, is a Catholic military order. It was founded in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the 12th century and had its headquarters there, in Jerusalem and Acre, until 1291,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Battle of Chios (1319)
Hospitaller naval victory over Turkish pirates
The Battle of Chios was a naval battle fought off the shore of the eastern Aegean island of Chios between a Latin Christian—mainly Hospitaller—fleet and a Turkish fleet from the Aydinid emirate. The Christian fleet was victorious, but for the Aydinids, who had been engaging in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Aydinids
Anatolian beylik and pirates
The Aydinids or Aydinid dynasty (Modern Turkish: Aydınoğulları, Aydınoğulları Beyliği, Old Anatolian Turkish: آیدین اوغوللاری بیلیغی, also known as the Principality of Aydin and Beylik of Aydin, was one of the Turkish Anatolian beyliks and famous for its seaborne raiding.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Chios
Island in Greece
Chios is the fifth largest Greek island, situated in the northern Aegean Sea, and the tenth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait. Chios is notable for its exports of mastic gum and its nickname is "the Mastic Island".…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)