The setting in 1550s Spain was evidently regarded as an attraction. Don Juan
is presumed to be a bastard son of the emperor Charles V
, who has abdicated and retired to a monastery, leaving...
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7 October 1571: At the battle of Lepanto on the Gulf of Corinth,...
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7 October 1571
At the battle of Lepanto on the Gulf of Corinth, Turkish or Muslim sea power was crushed by Venetian and Spanish forces commanded by Don John of Austria
.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
