Battle of Preveza (1538) is a naval battle between Ottoman fleet commanded by
Barbaros Hayrettin[?] (Barbarossa or Khayr ad-Din) and a much larger allied fleet commanded by the great Genoese admiral
Andrea Doria[?] fought near
Preveza[?] off the Adriatic coast. Barbaros defeated the combined Spanish-Venetian fleet thus making the Ottomans the leading
Power in the
Mediterranean Sea until their defeat at
Battle of Lepanto (1571).