page_title: Portuguese–Mamluk Naval War
section_title: Venetian diplomacy
hierarchical_section_title: Portuguese–Mamluk Naval War / Diplomacy / Venetian diplomacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Venetian embassy to the Mamluks in Damascus in 1511, workshop of Giovanni Bellini.
context_page_description: The Portuguese–Mamluk Naval War was a naval conflict between the Egyptian state of the Mamluks and the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, following the expansion of the Portuguese after sailing around the Cape of Good Hope in 1498. The conflict took place during the early part of the 16th century, from 1505 to the fall of the Mamluk Sultanate in 1517.
context_section_description: The Mamluks again attempted to secure the help of the Venetians against the Portuguese, and they did intervene by pleading their case with the Pope.
  The Venetians, who had been at peace with the Ottomans since the signature of the 1503 Peace Treaty by Andrea Gritti after the Ottoman–Venetian War, continued to secure peace with the Ottomans, and renewed their peace treaty in 1511, leading them to encourage the Ottomans to participate on the Mamluk side in the conflict against the Portuguese.
  The rapprochement was such that Venice authorized Ottoman provisioning in its Mediterranean ports such as Cyprus. Venice also requested Ottoman support in the War of the League of Cambrai, but in vain.
  A Mamluk-Venetian commercial treaty was signed by the ambassador to Cairo Domenico Trevisan in 1513. After that point however, and the reverses of the Mamluks and the Persians against the Ottomans, Venice increasingly favoured a rapprochement with the Ottoman Empire.
caption: Venetian embassy to the Mamluk Governor in Damascus in 1511, workshop of Giovanni Bellini.
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