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Published on: VG

February 27, 1481

Salona, opposite Vlora, Albania. Neapolitan supremacy is overwhelming: 800 Turks perish and 200 are captured alive. Hundreds of tons of goods looted from Otranto are also recovered, including barrels of oil, silver, and horses. Around a hundred hostages are also freed from the Turkish holds, including Francesco de Monti and Giovanni Piccinino, from the Minervino war. News of the great Neapolitan success spread like wildfire throughout Italy, but it is soon realized that the main objective had actually been missed: Grand Pasha Gedik Ahmed “the Toothless,” who was aboard one of the ships not captured.