VI. RELATIONS BETWEEN VENICE AND GENOA AND THE LEVANT FROM 1300 TO 1403
1328—Venetian sovereignty of Negropont is menaced by Turkish pirates.
1344—Venice aids Cyprus and Rhodes in the capture of Smyrna.
1345-50—Dushan negotiates frequently with Venice for aid in capturing Constantinople.
1351-3—War between Venice and Genoa. Sea power of Genoa is broken at battle of Lojera. Genoese are assisted by Orkhan.
1355—Matteo Venier and Marino Faleri warn the Senate that the Byzantine Empire must inevitably become the booty of the Osmanlis, unless Venice gets ahead of them.
1361—Venetian Senate make overtures to John V for alliance against Murad, but withdraw when they see the rapid success of Murad’s campaign in Thrace.
1370-1—Venice and Greece are engaged in a struggle for economic supremacy in Cyprus.
1375—John V gives Tenedos to the Venetians. The Genoese come into conflict with the Venetians over economic privileges at Constantinople.
1379-81—Venice and Genoa go to war over the question of Tenedos and the Byzantine succession to the throne. In the Peace of Turin, it is provided that Tenedos remain unfortified, and that Andronicus IV be recognized the heir to John V.
1386—Genoese make treaty with Byzantines.
1387—Genoese make commercial treaty with Osmanlis.
1388—Venetians make commercial treaty with Osmanlis.
1389—Venice and Genoa renew treaties with Bayezid.
1393—Venice decides to treat with Sigismund of Hungary for defensive alliance against Osmanlis.
1396—Venetian aid in Nicopolis crusade is half-hearted.
1397—Venice urges Genoese of Pera not to treat with Bayezid, and makes accord with Genoa to aid Byzantines.
1401—Venice and Genoa engaged in another sea struggle for supremacy in the Levant.
1402—Both Venetians and Genoese aid Osmanlis, fleeing from Timur after Angora, to cross into Europe. They renew their treaties with Osmanlis, recognizing Soleiman as Bayezid’s successor.