Allies with the Infidel
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Allies with the Infidel

The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century

Christine Isom-Verhaaren

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Allies with the Infidel

The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century

Christine Isom-Verhaaren

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In 1543, the Ottoman fleet appeared off the coast of France to bombard and lay siege to the city of Nice. The operation, under the command of Admiral Barbarossa, came in response to a request from François I of France for assistance from Sultan SĂŒleyman the Magnificent in France's struggle against Charles V, the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. This military alliance between mutual 'infidels', the Christian French King and the Muslim Sultan, aroused intense condemnation on religious grounds from the Habsburgs and their supporters as an aberration from accepted diplomacy. Allies with the Infidel places the events of 1543 and the subsequent wintering of the Ottoman fleet in Toulon in the context of the power politics of the sixteenth century. Using contemporary Ottoman and French sources, it presents the realpolitik of diplomacy with 'infidels' in the early modern era.Th e result is essential reading for students and scholars of European

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Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2011
ISBN
9780857732279
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
European History
Index
History

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