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40,000 Janissaries against 700 Knights and a handful of Maltese. Four months of hell. A result that changed the history of a continent.
In 1551 pirates enslaved the ENTIRE population of Gozo — all 5,000 people. The trauma built this fortress. Today the view from the walls is one of the finest on Malta.
For 300 years the Knights built walls, bastions and forts. They feared the Ottomans, pirates and the French. Today we have the finest backdrops in Europe.