In 1565, Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman leader, sent a great fleet west to lay siege to Malta and capture it for his empire. Victory would mean control of trade across the Mediterranean and ...

Stephen Spiteri’s The Great Siege Knights vs Turks ... armada that arrived off Marsaxlokk around midday on 18 Malta in May 1565 as “the biggest Ottoman naval effort ever assembled to date.

The inscription of ‘Malta 1565’ on the barrel of one of the New Zealand terrorist’s rifle shows how widespread the Great Siege’s appropriation by far-rightists and racists is. The New Zealand mosque ...

On The Great Siege of Malta, by Marcus Bull. Clashing civilizations ... Malta was to join the list. In 1565, Suleiman the Magnificent, the ruler of the Ottoman Empire, whose forces had conquered ...

This year marks the 450 th anniversary of the Great Siege of Malta; the epic 1565 battle that made a legend out of a little island that, against all odds, withstood invasion from an empire.

On 18 May 1565 ... their fleet; and Malta did have strategic significance as a possible stepping stone to Spain. Nevertheless, for anyone who wants an account of the siege rich in the latest ...

The Great Siege of Malta is one of, if not the most, marketable episode from Maltese history. The 1565 clash between the Hospitaller Knights and the Ottoman fleet has all the right ingredients of ...

In 1565, Malta was the setting for a brutal clash between ... warrior monks led by the iron-willed Jean de Valette. This extraordinary siege pitted faith against empire, innovation against ...

Andy Busuttil, the leader of the musical group Skorba speaks with Joe Axiaq, about the audio visual concert about the Great Siege of Malta in 1563. It is comprised of 13 songs and tunes each of ...