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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Oct 31, 2020 6:10:27 GMT
Upon reading a section on Wikipedia on the potential pretenders to the throne of Cyprus, there was a section over there where Venice contemplated on choosing Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, as the new claimant on the throne of Cyprus because the claims were diverse and weak that former Queens of Cyprus were being persuaded to cede their claims to potential future claimants. After ending up ceding its claims to Venice without ever appointing a king, Cyprus become a Venetian colony.
Was there any way for the Cypriot Kingdom to survive after Catarina Cornaro's abdication and death? It is a bit of a shame that Cyprus had ended up as a Venetian colony since it eventually fell to Ottoman rule during Selim II's reign, but what would a surviving Kingdom of Cyprus have an impact on the Middle East, North Africa and Europe? Would Cyprus still be used as a base of operations by the West against the Ottoman Empire?
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Post by stevep on Oct 31, 2020 10:03:30 GMT
Upon reading a section on Wikipedia on the potential pretenders to the throne of Cyprus, there was a section over there where Venice contemplated on choosing Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, as the new claimant on the throne of Cyprus because the claims were diverse and weak that former Queens of Cyprus were being persuaded to cede their claims to potential future claimants. After ending up ceding its claims to Venice without ever appointing a king, Cyprus become a Venetian colony. Was there any way for the Cypriot Kingdom to survive after Catarina Cornaro's abdication and death? It is a bit of a shame that Cyprus had ended up as a Venetian colony since it eventually fell to Ottoman rule during Selim II's reign, but what would a surviving Kingdom of Cyprus have an impact on the Middle East, North Africa and Europe? Would Cyprus still be used as a base of operations by the West against the Ottoman Empire?
I don't know much about it but would suspect, unless the new king was also the ruler or close ally of another major western power, that Cyprus would be too weak on its own to keep the Turks out. True from what little I know the Venetians weren't that popular and many Greeks seem to have welcomed the Turks as a less abusive alternative but it did have the strength to defend the island for a while. [Although checking her wiki entry before Catarina brought the island under Venetian control it was actually a tributary state of the Mameluks so it might have stayed under their sway and then come under Ottoman control when they seize Syria and Egypt.
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Post by TheRomanSlayer on Oct 31, 2020 23:43:15 GMT
Venice only made Cyprus a colony once Cornaro sold her rights to the island to the Venetians, and they took control of it without appointing anyone to rule on their behalf.
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