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Piyale Pasha's attack on Djerba (967/1560)

هجوم بيالي باشا على جربة (٩٦٧هـ/١٥٦٠م)

The Ottoman fleet under Piyale Pasha attacked the island of Djerba in Ramadan 967/May 1560 and achieved its aims against the Spanish, who did not scruple to call in France; then, at Dragut's persuasion, he turned to Tripoli to crush the rising near Tajura, entering it like a conqueror with enemy flags drooping from his masts 1.

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The Gunpowder Empires
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Maghreb
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The Gunpowder Empires

Summary

Piyale Pasha's attack on Djerba, Ramadan 967/May 1560 1.

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The fleet achieved its aims against Spain — which did not scruple to call in France — then, at Dragut's persuasion, turned to Tripoli to crush the rising near Tajura, entering like a conqueror with enemy flags drooping 1.

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Piyale Pasha· Dragut (Turgut Reis)

People and things also explored

Great Siege of Malta (973/1565)· Tripoli (Libya)· Piyale Pasha· Dragut (Turgut Reis)

Sources

  1. al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001) , p. 249
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Great Siege of Malta (973/1565)

Süleyman resolved to take Malta, the greatest Christian stronghold in the central Mediterranean and seat of the Knights of St John; he sent Piyale Pasha with the fleet and ordered Dragut of Tripoli and Hasan b. Khayr al-Din to join — Hasan with twenty-five ships and three thousand men. The fleet stood off Malta on 18 May and pressed a tight siege until Christian relief under the Sicilian viceroy arrived with twenty-eight warships; the Ottoman fleet withdrew on 18 Rabi' I 973/8 December 1565.