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Ottoman Conquest of Tripoli

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Tripoli · Libya · North Africa

Estimated casualties

20Ksingle estimate · no range published

Ottoman forces conquered Tripoli from the Knights of Malta, establishing Ottoman control over North Africa. This victory secured Ottoman dominance of Mediterranean trade routes.

Belligerents3

Ottoman Empire
Knights of Malta
Spain

ON THE MAPOttoman EmpireSpanish Empire (Americas)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Ottoman Conquest of Tripoli (1551). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/ottoman-conquest-tripoli · Sources & methodology