Tripoli
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A Spanish Enclave in North Africa.
Establishment
January 1511: Tripoli (1510-1530), then ceded to the Knights Hospitaller, was lost in 1551.
Chronology
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1. Events
January 1517: King Charles I, known as Emperor Charles V, in 1516 united all the kingdoms on the Iberian peninsula, save the Kingdoms of Portugal and the Algarve. At the same time his territories also encompassed the Habsburg domains in central Europe and in the Low Countries.
July 1530: During an Ottoman siege in 1522, the Knights Hospitaller were expelled from Rhodes. They subsequently entered negotiations with Spanish Emperor Charles V. The Hospitallers eventually accepted Tripoli, Malta and Gozo as a fief on 23 March 1530, and they took control of the city of Tripoli on 25 July.
Disestablishment
July 1530: During an Ottoman siege in 1522, the Knights Hospitaller were expelled from Rhodes. They subsequently entered negotiations with Spanish Emperor Charles V. The Hospitallers eventually accepted Tripoli, Malta and Gozo as a fief on 23 March 1530, and they took control of the city of Tripoli on 25 July.
