War of the Straits

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War of the Straits
Part of the Venetian–Genoese wars
Date 1350–1355 Location Mediterranean sea, Bosporus Result Inconclusive
Belligerents
Republic of Venice  Crown of Aragon  Byzantine Empire (1351–1352)	Republic of Genoa Supported by: Ottomans (1351–1352) Aydinids (1351–1352) Judicate of Arborea (1353–1354)
Commanders and leaders
Andrea Dandolo Marco Ruzzini Niccolò Pisani Pancrazio Giustinian † Pons de Santapau † Bernat II de Cabrera John VI Kantakouzenos	Giovanni II Valente Giovanni Visconti Filippo Doria Paganino Doria Antonio Grimaldi Marianus IV of Arborea

The War of the Straits (Italian: Guerra degli Stretti) or Third Genoese–Venetian War was a conflict fought between the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Genoa, and their allies, in 1350–1355. The third in a series of conflicts between the two major Italian maritime republics, the war resulted from the intense commercial and political rivalry over access to the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea. The main immediate events that precipitated the war were the conflicts over Caffa and Tanais in the northern Black Sea, control of passage through the Bosporus straits—whence the conflict received its name^[1]—and the seizure of Chios and Phocaea by the Genoese.