Lepanto, Also Nafpaktos, Inebahti
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Lepantoليبانتو
The 1571 sea battle where a Holy League fleet destroyed the Ottoman navy.
Off Lepanto (Nafpaktos) in western Greece, a fleet of Spain, Venice and the Pope destroyed the Ottoman navy in 1571. The Ottomans rebuilt their fleet within a year and kept Cyprus, but their unchallenged rule of the Mediterranean was over.
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- Arafat
- Cave of Hira
- Cave of Thawr
- Ta'if
- Wadi Nakhla
- al-Hudaybiyyah
- Hunayn
- Jeddah
- Madinah
- al-Masjid al-Nabawi
- Quba Mosque
- Masjid al-Qiblatayn
- Jannat al-Baqi
- Mount Uhud
- Badr
- Khaybar
- Tabuk
- Mu'tah
- Najran
- Dumat al-Jandal
- Jerusalem
- al-Masjid al-Aqsa
- al-Sham
- Canaan
- Hebron (al-Khalil)
- Sodom and the Dead Sea
- Jericho (Ariha)
- Valley of Elah
- Bethlehem
- Nazareth
- Galilee and Tiberias
- Hawran and Busra
- Baalbek
- Antioch
- Damascus
- Aleppo
- Urfa (Edessa)
- Harran
- Mesopotamia
- Uruk
- Ur
- Akkad
- Babylon (Babil)
- Nineveh
- Mosul
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- Baghdad
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- Mount Sinai (al-Tur)
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- Junction of the Two Seas
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- Iram of the Pillars
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- Hadramawt
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- Fez
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- Rabat
- Tangier
- Timbuktu
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- Djenne
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- Dakar
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- Mogadishu
- Gibraltar (Jabal Tariq)
- Cordoba
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- Aachen
- Palermo
- Larnaca (Cyprus)
- Rome
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- Gaugamela
- Cave of the Sleepers
- Mongolia (Karakorum)
- Istanbul (Constantinople)
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- Konya
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- Tus
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- Samarkand
- Khwarazm (Urgench)
- Talas
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- Debal
- Multan
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- Ghazni
- Kabul
- Lahore
- Delhi
- Agra
- Panipat
- Plassey
- Calicut
- Samudra Pasai
- Malacca
- Aceh
- Xi'an (Chang'an)
- Guangzhou (Canton)
- Quanzhou (Zaytun)
- Nanjing
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- Riyadh
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- Arabia
- Palestine
- The Euphrates
- Nubia
- Punjab
- al-Abwa
- Ukaz
- al-Muraysi'
- Bi'r Ma'unah
- al-Yamamah
- Amwas (Emmaus)
- Lod (Ludd)
- Machaerus
- Siffin
- Nahrawan
- al-Namara
- Zafar
- The Valley of the Ants
- Thebes (Luxor)
- Pi-Ramesses (Avaris)
- Persepolis
- Nicaea (Iznik)
- Balkh
- Otrar
- Sarai
- al-Mansurah
- Chaldiran
- Gallipoli
- Khartoum
- Deoband
- Aligarh
- Koumbi Saleh
- Niani
- Kanem (Njimi)
- Mazara
- Mascara
- Gunib
- Palembang
- Jakarta
- al-Zallaqa (Sagrajas)
- Covadonga
- Battle of the Masts
- Valencia
- Srebrenica
- Cox's Bazar
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