La guerra del turco

Synopsis of La guerra del turco

The War of the Turk: Spain against the Ottoman Empire. The clash of two giants, by Fernando Martínez Laínez, is a book that narrates the tenacious and prolonged war that Spain fought against the Turkish Empire for more than 200 years. The main scenario was the Mediterranean Sea and the bordering countries, a titanic confrontation that forced a huge waste of resources and energies, leaving a large part of the Spanish coast almost depopulated. In this ruthless contest, political and religious factors were mixed, and without Spain's intervention, central and southern Europe could have fallen into the hands of Ottoman Islam.