[DOC] [TLE] jeopardy/1424_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub [PAR] SIEGES | In 1571, 70,000 Turks overcame 5,000 defenders of Famagusta, giving 
the Turks control of this island in the Mediterranean | Cyprus. right: Bob. Wrong:. [DOC] [TLE] Il Senato della Republica Venetiana: Collaborative AAR | Page 7 ... [PAR] Jun 20, 2005 ... But, at the end of September, 5000 Turks arrived from Wallachia, fresh off their 
victory against .... The Doge gives a long thought to the peace proposal. ..... In 
1346 the island was conquered by the Genoese who placed it under control of a 
commercial ... Left alone, the Moriscos were finally defeated in 1571. [DOC] [TLE] OttomanVenetian War (157073) - Wikipedia [PAR] The Fourth OttomanVenetian War, also known as the War of Cyprus (Italian: 
Guerra di Cipro) ... The large and wealthy island of Cyprus had been under 
Venetian rule since .... the Turkish cavalry appeared before the last Venetian 
stronghold, Famagusta. ... Thus on 12 May 1571, the intensive bombardment of 
Famagusta's... [DOC] [TLE] Venetian Cyprus - Wikipedia [PAR] The island of Cyprus was an overseas possession of the Republic of Venice from 
1489, when ... Famagusta and Nicosia were ringed with massive earthworks, 
cased with ... In 1489, the first year of Venetian control, Turks attacked the 
Karpass ... and put up a strong defense that lasted from September 1570 until 
August 1571. [DOC] [TLE] Cyprus - Wikipedia [PAR] Cyprus officially the Republic of Cyprus is an island country in the Eastern 
Mediterranean and ... Turkish leaders for a period advocated the annexation of 
Cyprus to Turkey as Cyprus was .... Following the death in 1473 of James II, the 
last Lusignan king, the Republic of Venice assumed control of the island, while 
the late... [DOC] [TLE] Search Results - Zimperialism - The 4 Freedoms Library [PAR] The Muslim Onslaught The Turks came on with 70,000 men, including their shock 
... former Crusader fortress of Famagusta as the only defensible point on the 
island. ..... Muslim Subterfuge leads to defeat of the Spanish defenders at the 
Battle of the ..... Control over Vienna would give the Turks a stranglehold over 
Europe's... [DOC] [TLE] Cyprus - Library of Congress [PAR] owed to the Embassy of Cyprus and the Turkish Cypriot Office, both in 
Washington, D.C. .... Size: Third largest island in Mediterranean, after Sicily and. 
Sardinia. [DOC] [TLE] text - Library of Congress [PAR] Since mid- 1974, northern 37 percent of island un- der separate Turkish Cypriot 
... Geography Size: Third largest island in Mediterranean, after Sicily and 
Sardinia. ..... This meant that some of Cyprus would remain under Turkish Cypriot 
control. ..... The fall of Famagusta marked the beginning of the Ottoman period in 
Cyprus. [DOC] [TLE] Lords of the Sea a History of the Barbary Corsairs - Scribd [PAR] Soon the ship was under the control of the pirates. .... The offspring of marriages 
between the Turkish overlords and local women ..... to give approval for Turkish 
corsairs to head to the western Mediterranean, ...... and most of the island had 
fallen to the Turks, and only the port of Famagusta (now Gazi-magusa) still held 
out. [DOC] [TLE] proceedings book - Girne Amerikan niversitesi [PAR] May 30, 2011 ... The Importance of Cyprus Island According to Geo-political Theories, ... and all 
Mediterranean civilizations to which Arabs, Iranians, Turks, Levantines, Helens, 
..... controls the Caucasus Region and the Central Asia. ...... Port of Beirut is100 
nautical miles away from southeast of Cyprus' Port of Famagusta. [DOC] [TLE] Ottoman-Venetian Wars 1. 1463-1573 - Scribd [PAR] The Eastern Mediterranean in 1450, just before the Fall of Constantinople. ... 
Lord Kinross, The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire, p. 
... 1280 however, with Venetian aid, the island gradually returned to Latin control. 
...... The Venetians engaged in repeated clashes with the defenders and with 
mer... [DOC] [TLE] Developing EU-Turkey Dialogue - clioh-world [PAR] A Short Chronology of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic . .... 
Convivencia under Muslim rule: the Island

Question: In 1571, 70,000 Turks overcame 5,000 defenders of Famagusta, giving the Turks control of this island in the Mediterranean
Answer: Cyprus