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| | Cyprus History: Lusignan Period - The Reign of Pierre I |
 | | King Pierre I, whose reign was the most brilliant of the Lusignan dynasty, was one of the last crusading kings. |
 | | On the return of the king to Cyprus, the Turkish sultan, Tacca, invested Adalia with considerable forces and, throughout the winter, when the supply of food and munitions by sea was difficult, the Cypriot garrison had great difficulty in repelling the repeated attacks of the Turks. |
 | | King Pierre, seeing himself left with the Hospitallers alone in the attempt to re-establish the kingdom of Jerusalem, the dream of his whole life, consented to allow an embassy to treat with the sultan in the name of himself, the Pope and the Italian republics, whose commerce had been ruined by the war. |
| www.cypnet.com /.ncyprus/history/lusignan/3pierre1.htm (1867 words) |
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