After the loss of key positions, Doge Agostino Barbarigo appealed to the pope and Catholic monarchs for outside help. A Spanish-Venetian army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba arrived in December 1500 and took Cephalonia. The capture stopped the Ottoman offensive against Venice's eastern territories. The republic had compensated for battlefield weakness by mobilizing a wider Catholic coalition. Cephalonia also shows how control of an island could interrupt an expanding maritime campaign.
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Spanish relief checks the offensive at Cephalonia
Venice's appeal to the pope and Catholic monarchs brought a Spanish-Venetian army whose capture of Cephalonia checked the Ottoman advance against eastern Venetian possessions.