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| | Battle of Lepanto - MSN Encarta |
 | | Battle of Lepanto, naval engagement fought on October 7, 1571, in the Gulf of Lepanto (now Gulf of Corinth) between an Ottoman fleet and that of the Holy League, an alliance of Spain, Venice, Genoa, and the Papal States formed by Pope Julius II in 1511. |
 | | It was of small practical impact, however, for the Ottomans retained supremacy on land and quickly renewed their fleet. |
 | | The Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra took part in the Battle of Lepanto, and the battle figures prominently in his masterpiece Don Quixote (Part I, 1605; Part II, 1615). |
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