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Franco-Ottoman alliance

1536 · 16th century

The Franco-Ottoman alliance was the long-lasting partnership between the Kingdom of France and the Ottoman Empire, formed by Francis I and Suleiman the Magnificent against the Habsburgs and formalised in 1536. Its best-known joint action was the siege of Nice in 1543, after which the Ottoman fleet wintered at Toulon. The alliance also brought France trading privileges, the capitulations, in the Ottoman Levant.

Franco-Ottoman alliance
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County of Nice

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Franco-Ottoman alliance. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/franco-ottoman-alliance
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