Pengepungan Malta (juga dikenal sebagai Pengepungan Besar Malta) terjadi pada tahun 1565 ketika Kesultanan Utsmaniyah menyerbu Malta. Ksatria Hospitaller berhasil memenangkan pertempuran ini.
| Pengepungan Malta | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ilustrasi Pengepungan Malta | ||||||
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| Pihak terlibat | ||||||
| Kesultanan Utsmaniyah | Penduduk Malta | |||||
| Tokoh dan pemimpin | ||||||
| Kızılahmedli Mustafa Pasha Piyale Pasha Turgut Reis † Salih Reis Uluç Ali Reis | Jean de Valette Goncales de Medran† Melchior de Robles† Colonel Mas † Mathurin Romegas | |||||
| Kekuatan | ||||||
| 22.000-48.000 | 6.100-8.500 | |||||
| Korban | ||||||
| <25.000-35.000 | 2.500 tentara 7.000 penduduk 500 budak |
Selanjutnya, Turki Utsmaniyah tidak pernah lagi mencoba untuk mengepung Malta.
Referensi sunting
- Francesco Balbi di Correggio translated by H. A. Balbi (1568). The Siege Of Malta 1565. Copenhagen 1961.
- Francesco Balbi di Correggio translated Ernle Bradford (1568 translated 1965). "chapter II". The Siege Of Malta 1565. Penguin 2003. ISBN 0-14-101202-1.
- Ernle Bradford (1961). The Great Siege: Malta 1565. Wordsworth 1999. ISBN 1-84022-206-9.
- Tim Pickles. Malta 1565: Last Battle of the Crusades; Osprey Campaign Series #50, Osprey Publishing, 1998.
- Stephen C. Spiteri. The Great Siege: Knights vs. Turks, 1565. Malta, The Author, 2005.
- Tony Rothman, "The Great Siege of Malta," in History Today, Jan. 2007.
- Bradford, Ernle, The Sultan's Admiral: The Life of Barbarossa, London, 1968.
- Wolf, John B., The Barbary Coast: Algeria under the Turks, New York, 1979; ISBN 0-393-01205-0
- Crowley, Roger. "Empires of the sea: the final battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580". London: Faber, 2008. ISBN 978-0-571-23230-7
- E. Hamilton Currey, “Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean’’, London, 1910
- Aurel Decei - Istoria imperiului otoman, Editura ştiinţifică şi enciclopedică, Bucureşti 1978, pages 185-186
Pranala luar sunting
Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Siege of Malta.
- "History's bloodiest siege used human heads as cannonballs" by James Jackson - An account of the siege