Franco-Ottoman alliance

I'm surprised they didn't invade through the Alsazts or Southern Netherlands. Why do through Italy?

>arabs allying with other arabs
so what?

Fuck the Habsburgs

Because at the time Italy was where real power and wealth was. Italy had everything. The greatest mind, artists, writers, poets, bankers, architects, traders, even military leaders. The Holy Roman emperors considered their German possessions a lot less valuable than what they had in Italy.

How fortunes change eh?

the eternal frogs

>Friendship ended with Spain. Now Ottoman is best friend.

>turks
>arabs

>Europe is against French
>French ally with Europe's ennemy

The Habsburgs, the Poles, and the Papacy tried to ally with Safavid Persia against the Ottomans several times, but communication was much harder since you couldn't just go there by ship. So envoys took several years to travel and would often arrive after the supposed coordinated war effort already took place or the ruler who was receiving it died.

Also, interestingly, the alliance ended with Napoleon's campaign in Egypt, which was aimed, among others, at sending help for Tipu Sultan in India against the British. Tipu Sultan was of course a Muslim ruler as well.

>implying anyone cares about the difference
nice try, mehmet.

Because they were up against Charles, by the grace of God, Holy Roman Emperor, forever August, King of Germany, King of Italy, King of all Spains, of Castile, Aragon, León, of Hungary, of Dalmatia, of Croatia, Navarra, Grenada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Sevilla, Cordova, Murcia, Jaén, Algarves, Algeciras, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, King of Two Sicilies, of Sardinia, Corsica, King of Jerusalem, King of the Western and Eastern Indies, of the Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Lorraine, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Limburg, Luxembourg, Gelderland, Neopatria, Württemberg, Landgrave of Alsace, Prince of Swabia, Asturia and Catalonia, Count of Flanders, Habsburg, Tyrol, Gorizia, Barcelona, Artois, Burgundy Palatine, Hainaut, Holland, Seeland, Ferrette, Kyburg, Namur, Roussillon, Cerdagne, Drenthe, Zutphen, Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire, Burgau, Oristano and Gociano, Lord of Frisia, the Wendish March, Pordenone, Biscay, Molin, Salins, Tripoli and Mechelen.

You know, places that surrounded France and took most of Western European territory.

French have always been greedy, cowardly little shits, willing to work with devil if it meant they could something out of it

What would you do if this was your enemy?

Maya were never an empire, and some of those Indians never even fought the Spaniards during his reign or ever.

>hurr how dare they try to protect themselves in a dangerous situation

>Willing to trade Europe

Funny how Germany gets the blame for ruining Europe all the time

To piss off charles V

They always had a love affair with the Muslims so they can have them now. They already betrayed Christian europe to the Ottomans and
so they are basically going to hell and good riddance.

>muh yurop
>muh christendom

none of that shit matters

>Allied with abassids
>Tried to ally the mongols
>Allied with the turks
>Allied with the protestants
Good job France

>abassids were THE super power at the time
>mongols would rape Europe of ogedei didnt die at the wrong time
>t*rks were THE super power at the time
>allied the protestants to fuck over the habsburgs

wew lad

sho sho kraut

they were both on opposite sides of the antipope/proddy germanic memepire, same reason we allied with the commies in ww2

>Ferdinand and Charles were forced to conclude a humiliating five-year treaty with Suleiman. Ferdinand renounced his claim to the Kingdom of Hungary and was forced to pay a fixed yearly sum to the Sultan for the Hungarian lands he continued to control. Of more symbolic importance, the treaty referred to Charles V not as 'Emperor' but as the 'King of Spain', leading Suleiman to identify as the true 'Caesar'.

TURKED

huehue

Charles V and the rise of the Spanish Empire. He try to stop Spain before they rise and he fail.

source

Brachycephalic brotherhood.

Europe always tried to fuck us (and failed miserably btw, even when they formed coalitions), so we eventually asked for the turkbros to help us.

No matter how hard anglos try, the word "eternal" will only ever be associated with one country, the most perfidious

Then what matters, cucko?

The state.
The king.
You fucking ingrate.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Constantinople_(1533)

>Ferdinand was to be considered as the King of Germany, and Charles V as the King of Spain, and they were equal to the Grand Vizier of Ottoman Empire. Moreover, they were banned to count anyone as 'Emperor' except the Ottoman Emperor.

I always thought that Catholic Cardinal Richelieu allying with Protestants against Catholic Spain was even worse than the alliance with the Turks.

Allied with the Scots, too.

wow, yoghurt contains gut flora that indeed might have helped displace a harmful pathogen responsible or at least aided recovery

suleiman sounds like a pretty nice guy, 10/10 would ally

Knowing that they fractured the Muslim advance into Europe at Poitiers single-handledly, I'd have that they have free-range for aligning themselves with Muslims then and now to serve their cause.

Also, I bid you good luck in finding me a single European country that hasn't been up to sketchy alliances with Muslims whenever it furthered their own gain.

>suleiman sounds like a pretty nice guy, 10/10 would ally
There is even a statue of him in the Capitol

And England, Sweden and Holland also reknownly allied (more like begged for help in the case of Eng and Hol) with the T*rks to fight together against other christians. It's always happened, yet people still gets mistified by it, because in their own little heads and peculiar worldview christians and muslims are in opposite sides since ever and forever.

In fact, I think every european country has at some point allied with muslims because reasons. Look at Murica nowadays f.i. Yet ameriposters talk as if they were not in bed with Jamal and Hassan.

>King of Jerusalem

>>Allied with abassids
Never happened
>>Tried to ally the mongols
The mongols were pro christians and wanted to convert to Catholicism.

>>Allied with the turks
Already answered

>>Allied with the protestants
Everyone did it

Israel?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbasid–Carolingian_alliance

they sent white elepehants and everything

Simple Definition of alliance
: a union between people, groups, countries, etc. : a relationship in which people agree to work together
: the state of being joined in some activity or effort : the state of being allied
: a group of people, countries, etc., that are joined together in some activity or effort

>sending gift between each others
>allying

And Harun Al Rashid was homosexual and drank wine, he wasn't really muslims.

Surrounded by Habsburgers and England was a prick, it was kinda inevitable.
kek

> formed during the 8th to 9th century through a series of embassies, rapprochements and combined military operations between the Frankish Carolingian Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate and pro-Abbasid rulers in Al Andalus

> Ctr-f
> no mention of balance of powers

jfc you guys.

>

The goal was to reconquer a christian land, and again Harun al rashiid wasn't muslim;

No one on Veeky Forums has a clue about IR theory and can't seem to fathom that statesmen don't really care about religion when allying themselves with another country. To do so would be irresponsible.

why does he wear the hat, Veeky Forums?

it's a big onion

Because pragmatic interest is what guides politics, not ideology or morality.
Those kings and their advisors
France also financed and supported the protestants during the 30 years wars against the Habsburgs while at the same time they slaughtered the protestants within their own borders.