The
Morean War (, ) is the better-known name for the
Sixth Ottoman–Venetian War. The war was fought between 1684–1699, as part of the wider conflict known as the "
Great Turkish War", between the
Republic of Venice and the
Ottoman Empire. Military operations ranged from
Dalmatia to the
Aegean Sea, but the war's major campaign was the Venetian conquest of the
Morea (
Peloponnese) peninsula in southern Greece. On the Venetian side, the war was fought to avenge the loss of
Crete in the
Cretan War (1645–1669), while the Ottomans were entangled in their northern frontier against the
Habsburgs and were unable to concentrate their forces against the Republic. As such, the Morean War holds the distinction of being the only Ottoman–Venetian conflict from which Venice emerged victorious, gaining significant territory. Venice's expansionist revival would be short-lived however, as their gains were
reversed by the Ottomans in 1715.