Editing Pylos (section)

===Second Venetian period and Ottoman reconquest===
In 1685, during the early stages of the [[Morean War]], the Venetians under [[Francesco Morosini]] and [[Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck]] invaded the Peloponnese and captured most of it, successfully storming the two fortresses of Navarino in the process. With the peninsula safely in Venetian hands, Navarino became an administrative centre in the new "[[Kingdom of the Morea]]", as the Venetian province was called, until 1715, when the Ottomans [[Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718)|recovered the Peloponnese]].<ref name="EI2"/> The Venetian census of 1689 gave the population as 1,413, while twenty years later it had risen to 1,797 inhabitants.<ref name="EI2"/>

After the Ottoman reconquest, Navarino became the centre of a ''[[kaza]]'' in the [[Sanjak of the Morea]].<ref name="EI2"/> On 10 April 1770, after a six-day siege, the fortress of New Navarino surrendered to the Russians during the [[Orlov Revolt]]. The Ottoman garrison was allowed to depart for Crete, while the Russians repaired the fortress to make it their base. On 1 June, however, the Russians left, and the Ottomans re-entered the fort and burned and partially demolished it.<ref name="EI2"/> Meanwhile, the population gathered there had escaped to nearby Sphacteria, where Albanian mercenaries of the Ottomans slaughtered most of them.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nikolaou |first1=Georgios |title=Islamisations et Christianisations dans le Peloponnese (1715- 1832) |journal=Didaktorika.gr |date=1997 |page=183 |doi=10.12681/eadd/8139 |publisher=Universite des Sciences Humaines - Strasbourg II |hdl=10442/hedi/8139 |quote=A suivi l'abandon de Navarin. La flotille russe quitta le Péloponnèse entre le 26 mai et le 6 juin, n'emmenant avec elle que les chefs de la révolte: quelques évêques et des notables. La foule, qui implorait en vain leur aide, fut contrainte de se réfugier dans l'îlot voisin de Sphaktiria pour se sauver. La plupart d'entre eux furent exterminés par les Albanais |hdl-access=free}}</ref>