Sicily (Chaos)

The island of Sicily was originally under the Hohenstaufen. But in 1266, came to power in -Sicily after defeating and killing regent Manfred. In 1268 Konradin, the last descendant of Friedrich II, was killed by him. This had consequences: 1282, the Sicilian vespers broke out, and all French on the island were killed. Sicily became part of. In 1285, the French started the Aragonese Crusade as a revenge for Sicilian vespers, but with no success.

In the year 1414 for the first time for centuries, people in were horrified again of "Asian hordes": A Seljuk-Barbary fleet crossed the Adria, lands near Taranto / Otranto, swept through Apulia. The king of Naples was horrified and asked anyone he could contact for help. Without success: was still locked in a hard war with  and ; the Hungarian king would have actually liked to help, but the powerful nobles forbad him to send an army south while  proper was threatened; the northern Italian states were busy mopping up the smaller states in the region. The pope called for a crusade, but even that didn't help much. Being desperate, the king made an alliance with Naples' old enemy Aragon, ceding Sicily officially, for once and ever, to them. The new alliance managed to defeat the in the South. Especially their cannons helped them a lot to reconquer the cities. Only Taranto and Bari in Apulia were held by the Seljuks. In 1418, an armistice was made - but both sides planned to restart war, when the time was right. Naples was conquered in the, and Aragon-Sicily watched; but later, they would have to suffer themselves. 1453, Aragon actually provoked the Seljuks by landing troops in Calabria, winning some battles in the beginning. When the main army of the Seljuks arrives, they were beaten back to Sicily, however. In 1455, the Seljuks landed on Sicily, conquering it completely in 1456.

Under Seljuk rule
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