The Ottoman expeditions to Aceh were dispatched in 1566 and the following years by the Ottoman Empire in support of the Aceh Sultanate in its fight against...

diverse. In addition to the native Malay warriors, the Ottomans had repeatedly sent military expeditions to nearby Aceh. The expeditions were composed mainly...

instigated by the Ottoman expeditions to Aceh from 1564, whom also supplied cannonneers and mercenaries from all the Turkish Empire to the Aceh-Kalinyamat Sultanate...

The Aceh Expedition was a military expedition launched by the Portuguese against the Acehnese to force them to build a Portuguese fortress near Aceh. However...

The Ottoman expedition to Messina in 1613 was an attempt by the Ottoman Empire to deliver a disguised attack in the port of Messina, in the Spanish viceroyalty...

In 1565, Sultan Alaaddin of Aceh declared allegiance to the Ottoman Empire and sent a request for assistance to the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent...

The Sultanate of Aceh, officially the Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam (Acehnese: Acèh Darussalam; Jawoë: اچيه دارالسلام‎), was a sultanate centered in the...

under the protection of the Ottomans, thereby transforming Mostaganem into an Ottoman dominion. Previous Spanish expeditions had taken place in 1543 and...

the Ottoman Empire attempted to conquer the island of Malta, then held by the Knights Hospitaller. The siege lasted nearly four months, from 18 May to 8...

century. Sometimes, Ottoman assistance to Aceh (in Sumatra, Indonesia), in 1569 is also considered to be a part of these expeditions (see Kurtoğlu Hızır...

envoys to the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent in the 1560s. Alauddin was the second son of Sultan Ali Mughayat Syah, founder of the Aceh Sultanate...

The Aceh War (Indonesian: Perang Aceh), also known as the Dutch War or the Infidel War (1873–1904), was an armed military conflict between the Sultanate...

against unfavourable weather, led to the failure of the expedition. Algiers had been under the control of the Ottoman emperor Suleiman the Magnificent...

and the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman aim was to resume the advance in central Europe, conquer Vienna and subdue Austria. The Ottomans managed to capture...

An Ottoman raid of the Balearic islands was accomplished by the Ottoman Empire in 1558, against the Spanish Habsburg territory of the Balearic islands...

Pasha's Pulya expedition). After loading many prisoners and booty captured during the plunder of the region onto ships, the Ottoman navy advanced to the Messina...

Crusade, also called in Ottoman sources The Disaster Years (Turkish: Felaket Seneleri), was a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy...

with the Ottoman Empire (Turkey's predecessor state) began with the 16th century Ottoman expedition to Aceh, in with the response to the Aceh Sultanate's...

Spanish military expedition was launched to reconquer the exclave of Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, which was under the control of the Ottomans. The campaign...

they managed to block the land route from Oran to the Ottomans; however, the sea route was left exposed, and to seize it, the Spanish had to seize Mostaganem...

The Algiers expedition of 1516 was an unsuccessful military campaign by the Spanish Empire and the Sheikh of Ténès to overthrow the newly formed Sultanate...

expeditions were sent to take over the city, first in 1516 under Don Diego de Vera, and then in 1519 under Don Ugo de Moncada, but both expeditions ended...

The Battle of Cape Gelidonya took place on 14 July 1616 during the Ottoman–Habsburg struggle for the control of the Mediterranean. During its course,...

The siege of Vienna, in 1529, was the first attempt by the Ottoman Empire to capture the city of Vienna in the Archduchy of Austria, part of the Holy...

the Ottoman Empire waged a series of wars on the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary and several adjacent lands in Southeastern Europe from 1526 to 1568...

case, the Ottomans sent armies to aid its easternmost vassal and territory, the Sultanate of Aceh in Southeast Asia.: 84  The Spanish–Ottoman wars took...

Hugo of Moncada. This expedition ended in disaster. Charles V ordered Viceroy of Sicily Hugo of Moncada to organise an expedition to conquer Algiers. This...

and massacred. Adelanto tried to swim but was killed. in the ensuing massacre, 500 or 1,000 were killed in the expedition. Arne Zuidhoek, The Pirate Encyclopedia...

was said “you could swap a Christian for an onion”. Moreover, it was said to be “raining Christians in Algiers”. The Barnes Review, Volume 12 TBR Company...

was a military expedition by the Knights Hospitallers to capture the city of Modon held by the Ottomans. Initially, the knights managed to capture the city...