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The Welcome to History of Europe, Key Battles, the Battle of Lepanto of 1571, part one of five.

Thank you. of 1571, part one of five. At around high noon on the 7th of October, 1571, two great fleets slowly approached each other

in the waters of the Gulf of Patras, just off the western coast of Greece, and engaged in what was the

largest naval battle in Western history since Roman times, involving more than 400 warships.

On one side were the Ottomans, the masters of the Eastern Mediterranean, and a great power

still on the rise. On the other were the combined forces of the

Holy League, a coalition of Catholic maritime states hastily arranged by Pope Pius I, and

comprising mostly the forces of King Philip II of Spain and the Venetian Republic.

The Battle of Lepanto is seen today by many as the climax of a century's long struggle

for supremacy between the forces of Christianity and Islam in the Mediterranean.

The seemingly ever-growing Turkish foot to the Western Mediterranean

had a decisive impact on Christendom in the 16th century,

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