WI Venice sent help to Cyprus in 1571?

In 1570 Ottomans invaded Cyprus... In early1571 they besieged Famagusta which was defended by Marco Antonio Bragadin... Continuous requests for military help by Bragadin were ignored in Venice...
Famagusta abandoned by Venice fell on April 1571 and General Bragadin was executed brutally...
WI Venice send her fleet (which was stationed at Suda Crete by that time) Venetian fleet could easily defeat the Ottoman fleet lift the siege of Famagusta and bring a strong Venetian army to Cyprus from Crete...
Could they had repealed the Ottoman attack in Cyprus? Any thoughts?
 
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Cyprus was already doomed. The Turkish conquest could perhaps be delayed but not prevented. Most local Greeks disliked Venetian rule because of religious reasons.
 
best case scenario: the Venetians manage to defeat the Ottoman invasion. several years later, the Sultan returns with an even bigger army, more ships, and support of the Greek population who would prefer tolerant Ottomans to intolerant Italian catholics. Cyprus is doomed.
 

Valdemar II

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best case scenario: the Venetians manage to defeat the Ottoman invasion. several years later, the Sultan returns with an even bigger army, more ships, and support of the Greek population who would prefer tolerant Ottomans to intolerant Italian catholics. Cyprus is doomed.


Except that if the conquest is a century later it would lower the later Muslim population on Cyprus, and that would mean that if Greece later became independent Cyprus would become part of Greece.
 
That's interesting. Care to elaborate?

I think he going toward an idea that the Muslim population grew by a certain percentage annually, so if you reduce the amount of time the Muslim population has to grow, you reduce the Muslim population period. Except that the Muslim population probably didn't grow in some geometric fashion, but in fits and starts that have everything to do with very local conditions and larger things that were happening in the Empire. And with a POD so far back, I don't think that you can account for that kind of stuff.

If you want Cyprus easily into Greece, then have Greece intervene in World War I against the Turks. The British were offering Greece Cyprus in return for intervention, which I think was a pretty fair deal. Imagine, Greece could aid the Dardenelles Campaign (even if it fails, the Greeks will get enough allied aid that they will be able to hold out against the Central Powers), put themselves in a good position to take Constantinople after the war, and get Cyprus from the British at Versailles.
 

Valdemar II

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I think he going toward an idea that the Muslim population grew by a certain percentage annually, so if you reduce the amount of time the Muslim population has to grow, you reduce the Muslim population period. Except that the Muslim population probably didn't grow in some geometric fashion, but in fits and starts that have everything to do with very local conditions and larger things that were happening in the Empire. And with a POD so far back, I don't think that you can account for that kind of stuff.

More or less, but it's really not that long back.
 
Except that if the conquest is a century later it would lower the later Muslim population on Cyprus, and that would mean that if Greece later became independent Cyprus would become part of Greece.

the conquest wouldn't be a century later though, at most it would be a decade later, probably much sooner.
 
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