Capitolo 94
Danube, Mohammed grabbed Otranto, and from the principle at the end upward in the Alps
there was no strength able to withstand him/it to. Only he died then,,
Otranto was lost, and the enterprise was not renewed. His/her people
it was a nation of soldiers not a nation of sailors. For operations
over their sea they counted on the sailors of the Aegean one, generally
Cristiano, as they had forced the help of Genoese ships to ferry
them on the Hellespont.
Under Bajazet, the successor there was some rest for Europe.
His/her brother that was a dangerous competitor as the crown went
what survived, run away for the safety to the Cristiano and it was
held as a hostage, over the possibility of ransom from the
Riders of St. John, and then from the Pope. The Sultan paid,
what probable is that he is kept calm.
For years the Turks were busy in the east. Selim conquered Syria
and part of Persia. He conquered Arabia, and you/he/she was admitted from
the Sheriff of caliph in Mecca and protector of the holy shrine. Him
conquered Egypt and faked the prerogative of the Imaum that
you/he/she had been a shade to Cairo, but it became, to Constantinople, the
supreme authority in Islam. Gathering on the assembled one
resources of the Levant, Solyman that the Magnificent ones have turned, finally,
against the enemy that protected the gates of civilized Europe.
Having taken Belgrade, him undertaken, in 1526, the crowning
country of Turkish history. To the battle of the Mohacs Ungheria
lost his/her independence. The Turks found a magnate of Transylvanian
who was prepared to receive the crown from them; and the breadth
valley of the Danube continued to be their battleground up to that the
days of Sobieski and Eugene. But the legitimate heir of King
Ladislas that fell to Mohacs was Ferdinando, only brother of
Charles V; and Hungary, with the enormous region that belongs then to
the Bohemian crown, passing to the same hands as the venerable old man
inheritance of the Habsburgs, constituted the great Austrian
monarchy to which it extended him from the Adriatic the distant Sarmatian