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Group: Palas of Bengal, Empire of the
Topic: Paraguayan War (López War or War of the Triple Alliance)
Location: Puy de Dôme Auvergne France

The last thirty years of the sixteenth …

Years: 1572 - 1583
The last thirty years of the sixteenth century see the rapid onset of a decline in Ottoman power, symbolized by the defeat of the Turkish fleet by the Spanish and Portuguese at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 and by the unbridled bloody succession struggles within the imperial palace, the Seraglio of Constantinople.