Relații comerciale otomano-venețiene și războiul Ciprului
Ottoman-venetian commercial relations and the war for Cyprus

Summary/Abstract: The rivalry between the Ottoman Empire and Venice started right after the Battle of Nicopole, in 1396, that had as a result a decisive Ottoman victory against the allied army that consisted mainly in French, Hungarian, Vallachian and Venetian effectives. After that, the frontier between Islam and Christendom was slowly moved towards North, to Hungary, as the result of the policy of territorial expansion of the Ottomans; after conquering the Balkans, their ambition was to get to the heart of Europe, as we can relate to the events that followed.Until 1718, when the Treaty of Passarowitz was signed, a peace treaty that ended the conflicts between the Ottoman Empire on one side and the alliance of the Habsburg Empire with the Republic of Venice on the other, the relations between the Ottomans and the Venetians fluctuated.Based on both of their interests in monopolizing the commerce in different parts of the Levant and also in the Mediterranean Sea, considering the fact that the Ottomans did not eliminate the Venetian commerce from their territories after their conflicts, even though most of the times, Venice was a part of many anti-Ottoman alliances, the two states when they were not at war, found a way to reconcile temporarily by signing peace treaties, frequently renewed, that gave the Venetians many commercial benefits.

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