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Siege of Famagusta
Part of the Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War
Venetian Walls of S. Luca ("Bastioni San Luca") in Famagusta
The siege of Famagusta happened in Venetian-controlled Famagusta, the last Christian possession in Cyprus. Famagusta fell to the Ottomans in August 1571 after a siege that lasted nearly a year.[4]
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^Clodfelter, Micheal (2017). Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015, 4th ed. McFarland. p. 26. ISBN 978-0786474707.
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