Examples of using Modon in English and their translations into Spanish
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Modon and Coron, the"two eyes of the Republic", were lost.
Kemal Reis bombarded the fortress of Modon from the sea and captured the town.
Modon Kira was the King of Onderon during the Galactic Civil War.
Another attempt to capture the island shortly after also failed, andGiustinian died at Modon on 11 July.
He landed at Modon(now Methoni, Greece) in the southern Peloponnese where he spent the winter of 1204-1205.
The Ottomans then advanced to the southwest, where the forts of Navarino and Koroni were abandoned by the Venetians,who gathered their remaining forces at Methoni Modon.
With the Battle of Modon, the Turkish fleet and army quickly overwhelmed most of the Venetian possessions in Greece.
From there, Kemal Reis set sail and bombarded the Venetian ports on the island of Corfu, andin August 1500 he once again defeated the Venetian fleet at the Battle of Modon.
In January 1497 he landed at Modon and later captured several Venetian ships at the Ionian Sea and transported them, along with their cargo, to Euboea.
In 1454, however, faced with the combined forces of Despot Thomas and his Turkish allies under Turahan Bey, he abandoned the fortress andfled to the Venetian stronghold of Modon.
At Modon, Geoffrey entered into an alliance with a Greek archon(nobleman) from Messenia to conquer as much of the western Peloponnese as they could.
And when they heard tell that he was coming,they refortified Modon, where the defences had long since been pulled down, and there left their baggage, and the lesser folk.
Methoni(Modon) followed on 7 July, after an effective bombardment destroyed the fort's walls, and its inhabitants were also transferred to Tripoli.
It was bordered on the north by Epirus and the Duchy of Athens and surrounded by Venetian-held territories in the Aegean Sea,including the forts of Modon and Coron on the Peloponnese.
The Genoese fleet under Paganino Doria captured the Venetian fleet under Niccolò Pisani of 35 galleys and made 5,000 prisoners at the harbour of Sapienza or Porto Longo,between the fortresses of Modon mod.
By its terms, Venice, which had been accorded most of the Peloponnese in the Partitio Romaniae,recognized Villehardouin in possession of the entire peninsula except for the two forts of Modon and Coron, which came under Venetian control, and secured commercial and tax privileges in the Principality.
And the Greeks lost very heavily, while those on our side gained horses and arms enough, and other goods in very great plenty, and so returned very happy, and very joyously,to the city of Modon.
From there Kemal Reis set sail and bombarded the Venetian ports on the island of Corfu, andin August 1500 he once again defeated the Venetian fleet at the Battle of Modon which is also known as the Second Battle of Lepanto.
The loss of Venetian forts in Montenegro, near the strategic Castelnuovo, triggered the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499-1503, during which the Turkish fleet of Kemal Reis defeated the Venetian forces at the Battle of Zonchio(1499)and the Battle of Modon 1500.
Upon the release of the prisoners when Venice and Genoa came to terms of peace(about seven years later), Bertolome returned to Venice andwas rewarded by the Doge with the castellanies of Coron and Modon in southwestern Morea.
In Geoffrey's own account, the battle is described thus: So William of Champlitte and Geoffry of Villehardouin departed from the host, and took with them about a hundred knights, and a great number of mounted sergeants, and entered into the land of Morea, androde onwards till they came to the city of Modon.
