Ottoman Conquest of Iberia?

The Ottomans have bigger fish to fry in the Balkans and the Middle East. Launching a direct invasion against one of the premier world powers of the day would not necessarily be suicide, but it would be a waste of energy and a possible humiliation if the invading troops get stranded hundreds of miles from home.

Waste of resources is trying to secure Hungary while bashing on Vienna and trying to conquer only Western Persia knowingly that Persia will want te regions back.

Iberia is accessable from the Sea and it eliminates one major hostile power in the Mediterranean. Sounds fair to me. Although the possibility to invade is rather small after 1542.
 
I think anything lasting would recquire Ottoman control of Southern Italy at least, if not most of the boot.

At this point, it might lead a straight-out Crusade, and I doubt the Ottomans will be able to fight off half of Europe

In OTL it never lead to a Crusade. Even when the Ottomans wrecked the Hungarians in Mohacs in merely two hours and reaching Vienna in 1529 or earlier when Mehmed II had brought an Army to Southern Italy.

But as you said, Italy would help the Ottoman Campaign in Iberia.
 
In OTL it never lead to a Crusade. Even when the Ottomans wrecked the Hungarians in Mohacs in merely two hours and reaching Vienna in 1529 or earlier when Mehmed II had brought an Army to Southern Italy.

But as you said, Italy would help the Ottoman Campaign in Iberia.

Would't Ottomans in Southern Italy make the Pope basically freak out and ask the French and the Spanish to remove muslim invaders that close? Not to mention the Holy Roman Emperor, and we will probably see the Portuguese, too
 
Would't Ottomans in Southern Italy make the Pope basically freak out and ask the French and the Spanish to remove muslim invaders that close? Not to mention the Holy Roman Emperor, and we will probably see the Portuguese, too

The pope would freak out. But France won't work together with either the Habsburgs or Aragon. There was no unity among them. In 1480 France was in no position to intervene in Italy and Aragon had alone would not be enough.

The Ottomans did land in Southern Italy and they did want to conquer Rome. The response was silence from major Christian Powers. Neither liked each other to unite. Only when Bayezid II evacuated it after the death of his father, a Papal Army reconquered an abandoned Otranto.

In OTL France invaded Italy with 25,000 in 1495 unopposed to Naples. That may explain the situation in Italy. The Ottomans won't have difficulty after Naples.
 
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