Mediterráneo - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 10:56:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Mediterráneo - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Philip III’s words about Alicante https://historylab.es/philip-iiis-words-about-alicante/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=philip-iiis-words-about-alicante Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:46 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/palabras-de-felipe-iii-sobre-alicante/ Statements made by Philip III during the Cortes of Valencia in which he emphasises the importance of Alicante

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]]> According to María Asunción Rogles Hernández, the city of Alicante gradually became a city of reference in Mediterranean trade from the mid-17th and 18th centuries onwards. In addition, it was characterised by a powerful agricultural sector which was also commercialised, taking advantage of the city’s privileged location in the Mediterranean context. Added to this was the ease with which the city of Alicante could communicate with Castile and the interior, something that was achieved by roads that did not have major orographic obstacles. This led Philip III to reaffirm its importance in the Valencian Cortes held in 1601. His words can be placed in the context prior to the Moorish expulsion, where a possible invasion from Istanbul or Algiers continued to be a cause for concern

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]]> Londoño to García de Toledo https://historylab.es/londono-to-garcia-de-toledo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=londono-to-garcia-de-toledo Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:35 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/londono-a-garcia-de-toledo/ 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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]]> 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.

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