Definition of Lepanto

1. Noun. Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope.

Exact synonyms: Battle Of Lepanto
Generic synonyms: Naval Battle
Geographical relationships: Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lepanto

Leontopodium
Leontopodium alpinum
Leontyne Price
Leonurus
Leonurus cardiaca
Leopold
Leopold's manoeuvres
Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski
Leopold Kronecker
Leopold Stokowski
Leopoldville
Leora
Leos
Leotia lubrica
Lepadidae
Lepanto (current term)
Lepas fascicularis
Lepcha
Lepechinia
Lepechinia calycina
Lepehne
Lepehne-Pickworth stain
Lepidium
Lepidium alpina
Lepidium sativum
Lepidobotryaceae
Lepidochelys
Lepidochelys kempii
Lepidochelys olivacea
Lepidocybium

Literary usage of Lepanto

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"THE HERO OF Lepanto AND HIS TIMES. NOTWITHSTANDING the marked leaning of the literary world towards biographies during the present century, ..."

2. Don John of Austria by William Stirling Maxwell, George William Cox (1883)
"Fol 384 SEBASTIAN VENIERO, Commander-in-Chief of the fleet of Venice at Lepanto. From a contemporary woodcut, 15 inches high by i o£ inches wide, ..."

3. The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571). by Kenneth M. Setton (1984)
"THE ROAD TO Lepanto, THE BATTLE, AND A GLANCE AT THE FOLLOWING CENTURY AS THE FLEETS were assembling at Messina in the late summer of 1571, no one in Rome, ..."

4. The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt (1830)
"Before any actual step was, however, taken, two spies came in with a report that the Albanians in garrison at Lepanto had seized the citadel, ..."

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