Fakhr ad-Din’s increasing ties with the Grand …
Years: 1611 - 1611
Fakhr ad-Din’s increasing ties with the Grand Duchy of Tuscany have aroused the suspicion of the Ottomans.
Ahmed, informed of Fakhr’s secret treaty with Tuscany, is alarmed by this development, regarding it as making possible a crusader state in the Fertile Crescent.
The sultan in 1611 orders Ahmad al Hafiz, the pasha of Damascus, to begin a punitive expedition against Fakhr ad-Din.
Locations
People
Groups
- Christians, Maronite
- Muslims, Shi'a
- Druze, or Druse, the
- Ottoman Empire
- Mount Lebanon Emirate
- Tuscany, Grand Duchy of
