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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 123. Chapters: Battle of Mohacs, Selim II, Piri Reis, Battle of Preveza, Franco-Ottoman alliance, Hayreddin Barbarossa, Italian War of 1542-1546, Mimar Sinan, Siege of Szigetvar, Sokollu Mehmed Pa a, Siege of Malta, Siege of Castelnuovo, List of campaigns of Suleiman I, Siege of Vienna, Siege of Nice, Siege of Eger, Sieges of Oran and Mers El Kebir, Siege of Rhodes, Roxelana, The Wedding at Cana, Suleymaniye Mosque, Pargal brahim Pasha, Battle of Djerba, Siege of Diu, Siege of Tripoli, Little War in Hungary, Algiers expedition, Ottoman expedition to Aceh, Expedition of Mostaganem, Ay e Hafsa Sultan, Siege of Guns, Indian Ocean campaigns, Battle of Alboran, ehzade Mustafa, Capture of Algiers, Siege of Corfu, Siege of Esztergom, Capture of Muscat, Ottoman-Safavid War, Rustem Pasha, Ottoman campaign against Hormuz, Battle of Wadi al-Laban, Battle of Sokhoista, Battle of Ponza, Capture of Baghdad, Siege of Buda, Mahidevran, ehzade Beyaz t, Lutfi Pasha, Conquest of Tunis, Capture of Aden, Siege of Van, Suleymaniye hamam, Battle of Formentera, Semiz Ali Pa a, Ayas Mehmed Pasha, Kara Ahmed Pasha, Siege of Oran, Hadim Suleiman Pasha. Excerpt: The Franco-Ottoman alliance, also Franco-Turkish alliance, was an alliance established in 1536 between the king of France Francis I and the Turkish ruler of the Ottoman Empire Suleiman the Magnificent. The alliance has been called "the first non-ideological diplomatic alliance of its kind between a Christian and non-Christian empire." It did however cause quite a scandal in the Christian world, and was designated as "the impious alliance," or "the sacrilegious union of the Lily and the Crescent"; nevertheless, it endured since it served the objective interests of both parties. The strategic and sometimes tactical alliance was one of the most important foreign alliances of France and lasted for m...
