Attack on Otranto

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Attack on Otranto

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On 1480, Mehmed II would reconcile with his son, Bayezid and Mehmed II would make his son, Bayezid as his official heir that he has chosen, causing his rival siblings to flee to surrounding countries due to their lack of support.[1]

The support of Mehmed II of his son, Bayezid would mean a smoother transition to his son on his death on 1490, his son, Bayezid would reap all the efforts of Mehmed II from Constantinople to Naples.

On July 28, 1480, an Ottoman fleet of 128 ships -including 28 galleys – arrived near the Neapolitan city of Otranto. Many of these troops had come from the siege of Rhodes. The garrison and citizens of Otranto retreated to the Castle of Otranto. On 11 August, after a 15-day siege, Gedik Ahmed ordered the final assault. When the walls were breached the Turkish army methodically passed from house to house, sacking, looting and setting them on fire. Upon reaching the cathedral, "they found Archbishop Stefano Agricolo, fully vested and crucifix in hand" awaiting them with Count Francesco Largo, the garrison commander and Bishop Stefano Pendinelli, who distributed the Eucharist and sat with the women and children of Otranto while a Dominican friar led the faithful in prayer. A total of 12,000 were killed and 5,000 enslaved, including victims from the territories of the Salentine peninsula around the city, and the cathedral turned into a mosque.

Between August and September 1480, King Ferdinand of Naples, with the help of his cousin Ferdinand the Catholic and the Kingdom of Sicily, tried unsuccessfully to recapture Otranto. The Christian forces besieged the city on May 1, 1481. The Christians in Otranto surrendered in August and left Otranto in September 1481, starting the conquest of Naples.

In two years time, the Trastamaras are expelled from Naples by the Ottomans in the battle of Naples in March 2, 1483, this would be a victory of Islam and a major defeat on the part of Christendom since the Ottomans would covet the city of Rome, the christians would be very vigilant of this victory.

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[1]The POD

edit: new wikibox, thanks @Golfman76
 
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On 1188, Isabella of Castille would betroth Joanna of Aragon, her young daughter to Charles VIII, Charles VIII due to the pope in his mercy would also have Louis, Duke of Orleans released from the vows with Joan of France and was betrothed to Anne of Brittany, Isabella and Ferdinand are desperate due to the annexation of Naples by the Ottomans that they made friend with their former enemy.

The young Margaret of Austria, the young princess, the daughter of Mary of Burgundy would be married to Vladislaus of Bohemia as recognition to the treaty of succession of the Habsburgs, causing the Habsburg Possessions including Austria, Low Countries as Philip the Fair, her brother would succumb to tuberculosis on 1490 later on and the children of Maximilian with his other wives are all daughters, the marriage needed the annulment of the earlier marriages of the King of Bohemia which the pope granted as soon as the request was made.

the Newly formed Spanish Kingdom would be desperate for allies against the Turkish Sarracens led by the Old and Victorious Mehmed II who is about to be replaced by Bayezid II, who is already middle aged and slightly the same age as the King of England, Henry VIII.
Another problem to the Spanish monarchs is that Joanna la Beltraneja accepted the offer of Prince Bayezid to be his own concubine and came to the harem of the Ottomans.

the Catholic Monarchs would be alarmed of the threat, this came worse as their son, Juan contracts pneumonia dies leaving their daughter Isabella as heiress and Princess of Asturias, they would support the marriage to Alfonso who is 5 years younger than Isabella as it would unite Iberia or the Spains completely as recognized in an earlier treaty.
 
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On 1488, the Pinatubo erupted, however it imploded causing a lake to form after a storm instead of a cataclysm, the earthquakes would also cause destruction to the Province of Selurong of Majapahit which includes Selurong(known in OTL Tondo Empire) and Luyag na Kaboloan, the Kingdoms inside the province of Selurong of Majapahit.

Around the same time some Majapahit Merchants from Okinawa while sailing back to Selurong would be drifted Northeast, finding new land in the West, however the Merchants would want to return to their homeland, in process they find new lands in the North as well, they found gold in those areas.

The merchants who were able to travel to the lands far west would return travel, however they passed through the Northern Straits, Karafuto, Nihon and Okinawa before going back to Selurong, the merchants in 1491 would return to Java and report their new discoveries to Brawijaya V, both the Wukou and Majapahit would know of this discovery which would cause the japanese and the majapahitans to be interested in the place, however it would not stop Aceh from replacing Majapahit as Majapahit is disintegrating.

The Wukou, not the declining Empire of Majapahit would benefit in this discovery as the efforts in Majapahit in the discovery would waver as the Empire wavers and disappear in 1530, replaced by Mataram in Java but Aceh would begin to be a great player due to it propagating Islam.
 
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Portrait of a man said to be Christopher Columbus
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On the evening of 5 August 1492, Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera with three ships: a larger carrack, the Santa María ex-Gallega ("Galician"), and two smaller caravels, the Pinta ("The Pint", "The Look", or "The Spotted One") and the Santa Clara, nicknamed the Niña ("Girl") after her owner Juan Niño of Moguer. The monarchs forced the citizens of Palos to contribute to the expedition. The Santa María was owned by Juan de la Cosa and captained by Columbus. The Pinta and the Niña were piloted by the Pinzón brothers (Martín Alonso and Vicente Yáñez).

Columbus first sailed to the Canary Islands, which belonged to Castile. He restocked provisions and made repairs in Gran Canaria, then departed from San Sebastián de La Gomera on 6 September, for what turned out to be a five-week voyage across the ocean. At about 2:00 in the morning of 12 October, a lookout on the Pinta, Rodrigo de Triana (also known as Juan Rodríguez Bermeo), spotted land, and immediately alerted the rest of the crew with a shout. Thereupon, the captain of the Pinta, Martín Alonso Pinzón, verified the discovery and alerted Columbus by firing a lombard. Columbus later maintained that he himself had already seen a light on the land a few hours earlier, thereby claiming for himself the lifetime pension promised by Ferdinand and Isabella to the first person to sight land.

Columbus called the island (in what is now The Bahamas) San Salvador; the natives called it Guanahani. Exactly which island in the Bahamas this corresponds to is unresolved. Based on primary accounts and on what one would expect from the geographic positions of the islands given Columbus's course, the prime candidates are San Salvador Island , Samana Cay, and Plana Cays.
Columbus would sail a bit more inland to find more dry land as dryland as he did not seen ther Japanese or the Chinese.

However Columbus would land in a dryland settled by people named the Mayans[1], Colombus found that a miniscule number Malays and Javanese and Japanese traders have been also in this land.

Columbus would state this to Queen Isabella of Castile on 1495 on his return about the new lands including the "Indian" and Japanese traders in the area.

Columbus though that the land is India but this is not india but rather a new land east of India and India is far west of the new lands.

1.(OTL known as Guatemala and Panama)
 
"THE TURKISH EMPIRE IS THE EMPIRE WHERE THE SUN NEVER SETS" ~ anonymous
Something to show the muslim nature, like in the Turkish empire,a citizen is always praying, as we muslim have a 'death time' between prayers(after Isha and before Fajhr) so if a empire is full fledge that would work as someone is always on praying time, regardless nice series of update so far.
 
the european powers should be careful as the ottomans might try to get colonies in the Americas...via Morocco..as a proxy..even if Granada is no more..
 
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Isabella of Aragon’s first marriage was to Prince Afonso, the only son and heir of king John II of Portugal from his marriage with Eleanor of Viseu. The wedding, by proxy, took place in the spring of 1490 in Seville. On 19 November of that year, Isabella arrived in Badajoz, where she was welcomed by Afonso's uncle Manuel, the future King Manuel I of Portugal, whom she would eventually marry six years after her husband's death. Afonso and Isabella were reunited in Elvas on 22 November and, on the following day, Isabella met her mother-in-law, Queen Eleanor, in the Convento do Espinheiro in Évora, where the court had gathered to ratify the marriage that had been celebrated earlier in Seville.

Though the marriage had been arranged by the Treaty of Alcáçovas, the marriage quickly became a love match. Isabella proved a popular figure with the Portuguese royal family due to her knowledge of their language and customs brought about by the years she spent in Portugal as a child.

Isabella of Aragon, would give birth to a son named John on January 2, 1493, without much difficulty.

Due to the arrival of Small Pox diseases in the new world the Caribbean was rapidly conquered by Columbus and the survivors of the Smallpox diseases become slaves of the Spanish in the Gold and other Metal Mines in the area.

At an early age, Catherine of Aragon was considered a suitable wife for Arthur, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the English throne, due to the English ancestry she inherited from her mother. By means of her mother, Catherine had a stronger legitimate claim to the English throne than King Henry VII himself through the first two wives of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster: Blanche of Lancaster and Constance of Castile. In contrast, Henry VII was the descendant of Gaunt's third marriage to Katherine Swynford, whose children were born out of wedlock and only legitimised after the death of Constance and the marriage of John to Katherine. The children of John and Katherine, while legitimised, were barred from inheriting the English throne, a stricture that was ignored in later generations. Because of Henry's descent through illegitimate children barred from succession to the English throne, the Tudor monarchy was not accepted by all European kingdoms. At the time, the House of Trastámara was the most prestigious in Europe, due to the rule of the Catholic Monarchs, so the alliance of Catherine and Arthur validated the House of Tudor in the eyes of European royalty and strengthened the Tudor claim to the English throne via Catherine of Aragon's ancestry. It would have given a male heir an indisputable claim to the throne. The two were married by proxy on 19 May 1499 and corresponded in Latin until Arthur turned fifteen, when it was decided that they were old enough to be married.

On 21 November 1499, Warwick appeared at Westminster for a trial before his peers, presided over by John de Vere, Earl of Oxford. He pleaded guilty, however, Warwick was spirited away to France.
 
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Portrait of Arthur, Prince of Wales and Catherine of Aragon

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Bayezid II would rise as the Emperor of the Ottomans and would retain the gains of the Ottomans in the Italian and the Balkans, during his time his advisors and the muslim scholars tied to him focused o the propagation of Islam would also envigorate the muslim missionaries in the east and supporting the propagation of Islam, which would lead to complete conversion areas of parts of Coastal Selurong(Faru and Manila Bay) and Sarawak to islam by 1570’s initially converted by Bruneian Missionaries, it was the later Acehnese missioanaries would complete the islamization of Faru and Manila bay area in Selurong as well as Sulu in the mid part of the 16th century.

On 1499, the King of France Charles VIII would ally and declare a war against the Ottomans with the help of the Catholic Monarchs in order to defeat the Ottomans in Italy.

The Pope Alexander VI and his son, General Ceasar Borgia(Otl Cesare Borgia) would support the French and Spanish troops, Charles VIII would renounce his claims to Naples in exchange of the betrothal of his relative, Anne of Navarre and John of Portugal, the son of Isabella of Castile and Aragon, this was adviced by Alexander VI.

The Ottomans would be expelled from the Italian Peninsula and Naples would be under Spanish control after 1500 as Bayezid II had weak will against the Christians.

Due to this the Kingdom of Naples was returned to the Christian world, just before the victory, the marriage for Mary of Aragon and Catherine of Aragon were confirmed, since Catherine was already married by Proxy to Arthur the marriage cannot be stopped even if Warwick escaped to France, Mary of Aragon would be married to Maximilian I the Holy Roman Emperor on 1499, however Mary of Aragon would not produce any further sons to Maximilian but rather daughters which would unite the Habsburg lands to the Bohemian Jagiellonians, which would cause the Jagiellonian Emperors in the Holy Roman Empire to happen.

Catherine of Aragon would arrive on the English court in 1500, however Prince Arthur was sick, the marriage with Arthur was deferred til Arthur was able to recover in 1502, the marriage quickly became a love match.


note: I changed the direction of the TL, so I changed the title of the TL.
 
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The Badge of Prince of Wales, Arthur and his wife, Catherine of Aragon

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On November 1503, the Princess of Wales, Catherine went into labor for hours well into the dawn and gave birth to a healthy son.
The child was born in November 10, 1503

The Prince was baptized in the Church of Observant Friars, posts with tapestries depicting scenes from the bible were erected from the great hall to make way for the Processional, the wideness of these was staggering for some. The archbishop of York officiated, and Jeanne, Queen of France, sister of Catherine of Aragon and Emperor Maximilian were one of the Godparents of the Prince. The boy was christened Henry, like his grandfather and uncle.

Protocol dictated that neither of the family were present in the baptism and the Princess of Wales would remain in her chamber.
 
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