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- Invasion of Cyprus
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The Sultans of the Ottoman Empire saw the island of Cyprus as an unimportant province. Managing the island would be more trouble than it was worth, given the unruliness of local governors. A merchant named Joseph Nasi convinced the Ottomans to invade the island, with the hope of establishing a Jewish colony there. Cyprus was a base for Venetian com...
The Christian coalition named themselves The Holy League, and were commanded by John of Austria, otherwise known as Don Juan, son of Charles V. They organized a total of 212 ships carrying 28,500 troops. Venice supplied 500 soldiers, the Germans sent 500, Italy 500, Spain 8,000, The Papal States 1,500, along with 4,000 volunteers from other areas. ...
The Holy League embarks by early September of 1571. John of Austria arrives at Igoumenitsa Bay on the west coast of Greece, 100 miles north of Lepanto, on Sept 3. False intelligence sends the Ottoman navy toward the island of Crete. But they soon learn that the Christian fleet is in the Adriatic Sea, and begin moving towards Greece. The Christian f...
On October 5th the Ottomans sight the Holy League fleet off the island of Kefalonea. Müezzinzade assumes he has a much larger fleet than his opponent. He leaves Lepanto on October 6th, traversing 10 miles west to Gelata. The following morning, October 7th1571, at 6 AM, The Holy League fleet passes South through the straight between the island of Ox...
The Ottomans had never suffered such a defeat as the Battle of Lepanto before 1571. Only 30 Ottoman vessels survived. 30,000 Ottomans were killed or wounded, and 3,000 were taken prisoner. 15,000 Christian galley slaves were freed. 8,000 Christians died, 21,000 were wounded, and 10 gallies had been lost. The Battle of Lepanto is the last great gall...
On Oct. 9th, 1571, the League leaves port, but are in no shape to retake Cyprus. A rivalry remains between Venice, Genoa, and Spain. The Ottomans continue to raid Mediterranean shores for treasure and slaves until about 1830, with raiding parties going as far as Scotland and Ireland. The Ottoman Empire still had ample resources. 250 new galleys wer...
May 29, 2018 · The Battle of Lepanto took place on 6 – 7 October 1571 between the Catholic Holy League fleet led by Don Juan of Austria, a bastard son of Habsburg emperor Charles V, and an Ottoman fleet under M ü ezzinzade Ali Pasha. It occurred at the mouth of the Gulf of Patras, near where the Peloponnesian peninsula joins the mainland (now in modern Greece ).
Oct 7, 2016 · On October 7, 1571, four hundred and forty-five years ago, the forces of the Holy League under Don Juan of Austria, illegitimate half brother of Philip II, in an ever-lasting tribute to Italian and Spanish courage and seamanship, smashed the Turkish fleet.
2 Apr. 1571-29 May 1571 Long description In the interval of five years since her last Parliament Elizabeth had faced an uprising of rebellion fomented by Catholic nobles in the north of England, and received a bull of excommunication from Pope Pius V. 1 Discontent and pressure for change was mounting on both sides of the Elizabethan Settlement ...
Dec 11, 2022 · Ali Pasha-Müezzinzade commanded the Turkish fleet. The allied fleet blockaded Turkish ships in Gulf of Patras. On the morning of October 7, 1571, both fleets met at the entrance to the bay 60 km from the city of Lepanto (now Nafpaktos).
