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Preliminary Remarks and Acknowledgments
Preface: The Waterfront of the Ottoman Empire
Introduction: The Rise of Ottoman Turkey from Principality to Empire
- First War with Venice, 1416-1418
- Second War with Venice, 1463-147923
- The Siege of Rhodes, 1480; the Campaign in Puglia (Pulya seferi), 1480-1481
- The Conquest of Kilia and Akkerman, 1484
- Ottoman Gazi-Corsairs
- Third War with Venice, 1499-1502
- The Great Sixteenth Century
- The Conquest of Mamluk Syria and Egypt, 1516-1517
- The Conquest of Algiers, second decade of the 16th century
- The Conquest of Rhodes, 1522
- The Rising Fame of Hayreddin Barbarossa
- A Historic Appointment, and the First Conquest of Tunis, 1534
- The Loss of Tunis to the Habsburg Emperor, 1535
- Fourth War with Venice, 1537-1540
- The Siege of Corfu, 1537
- The Battle of Preveza, 1538
- Sidesteps into the Indian Ocean: the Campaigns of Diu (1538), of Hormuz (1552)
- The Adventures of Seydi Ali Reis, 1554-1556
- The Siege of Algiers by the Habsburg Empetor, 1541
- The Sensation of 1543-1544
- The Conquest of Tripoli, 1551, and the Cruises of the Ottoman Imperial Fleet at the Peak of the Ottoman Naval Supremacy
- The Battle of Djerba, 1560 23. The Great Siege of Malta, 1565
- The Conquest of Chios, 1566
- Second Sidestep into the Indian Ocean, 1567
- Fifth War with Venice, 1570-1573, and the Conquest of Cyprus, 1571
- The Battle of Lepanto, 1571 28. The Definitive Conquest of Tunis, 1574
- Sixth War with Venice, 1645-1669, and the conquest of Crete, 1669
- Seventh War with Venice, 1684-1699
- First Naval War with Russia, 1686-1700 Recapituation and Further Thoughts
Conclusion
Appendix I: Chronology
Appendix II: The Kaptanpaşas from Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa to Mezomorto Hüseyn Paşa, 1534-1701
Appendix III: Brief Glossary of Basic Terms
Bibliography
Index