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Ottoman Empire

Great Siege of Malta

Tuesday May 18, 1565
Malta

It was startling, if mostly symbolic, blow to the image of Ottoman invincibility, an image which the victory of the Knights of Malta against the Ottoman invaders in the 1565 Siege of Malta had recently set about eroding.


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