The siege of Malta in 1565 was an operation deployed by the Sublime Porte with the aim of eradicating the Christian corsairs that hindered commercial traffic in the Mediterranean under Ottoman rule. With the arrival of a spectacular army and navy, little progress was made given the strong resistance put up by the Maltese from their fortresses. The exhaustion of the Ottoman army and its Algerian allies, together with the news that Philip II agreed to help the Maltese, led to a rapid retreat that ended in a resounding defeat. The failure in Malta was one of the last attempts by the Sublime Porte to show interest in the Western Mediterranean and a moralising victory for the Catholic Monarchy after the disaster of Los Gelves in 1560. This victory was to be joined by that of Lepanto in 1571, which occurred only a few years later.
Collection: Texts
Chronology: XVI
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Link: https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/28504/1/RHM_22.pdf
Resource type: Historical source
Source: AGS. E. 1129, 137
Language: Spanish
Date: 11/9/1565
Owner: Djebril Bouzidi (Modernalia)
Identifier: AGS. E. 1129, 137
Abstract: Fragment of text in which Londoño writes to García de Toledo about the events of the siege of Malta by the Ottomans in 1565
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