What made the Ottoman Navy (for a time) so good? How were they

many ports to winter; including the french ones

islam. everyone else's sailors and canoners were drunk as fuck everyday. drunk as fuck.

They didnt. They got cucked by Portugal.

>>1729921
>How were they able to consistently BTFO Venice, a Naval juggernaut in its own right?
They didn't? They had more or less equal results. Also well, it's a bit of an overstatement to call Venice a naval juggernaut. In the end, they still just topped it at regional power, they were never England or France tier.

>>1729921
Because they had corsairs lead by Barbossa on their side.

>>1729921
Venice always had a fraction of the troops and still won their fair share of battles.

>>1730040
It's actually a myth that people didn't drink in historical Islamic sultanates.

>>1730125
Lol nigga wut. Venice controlled the entire Mediterranean at one point. And read about all the wars and battles between the Ottomans and the Venetians. The Ottomans won pretty much every single one.

>>1731156
Barbarossa was Greek by blood wasnt he?

>>1731177
Thats true... pretty admirable for Venice

>>1731247
he was. but so were half of the so called "ottomans"..
Probably just as much if not more people in high office were balkan/greek as there were Turks

>>1731972
I wonder why these people chose to convert so much? Like if they had such power, why didnt they just retain their religion?