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Part I - An Imperial Ecology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2012

Sam White
Sam White
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Oberlin College, Ohio
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Introduction to Part I: Rebuilding the Fleet

In October 1571, Sultan Selim II, successor to Süleyman the Magnificent, ruler of lands stretching from the Danube to the Nile, “lord of the two seas and two continents,” received news of a devastating setback in his war with the Christians. In a battle in the Bay of Lepanto off the western shore of Greece, his navy had been crushed. Some 200 of his 230 ships had fallen victim to Spanish and Venetian galleys, and perhaps 59,000 men had been lost altogether in the single largest encounter on the Mediterranean Sea since Roman times.

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The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire , pp. 15 - 19
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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  • An Imperial Ecology
  • Sam White, Oberlin College, Ohio
  • Book: The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
  • Online publication: 05 February 2012
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