The Portuguese in the Sea of Oman

_ 29 _ In the same year (1516) A war broke out between the Turkish Sultan and the Egyptian Sultan, in which the Egyptian Sultan was defeated and all parts of his country were conquered. At that time, Ismail the Persian Safavid tried to intervene. This came in a letter sent from one Turk to another, Constantinople, in 1516:(5) Praised be that God who made us his servants from nothing, to be and feel and hear the good faith of Masurmanj. Praised be God again, and Mohammed, our greatest leader loved by all, who in the nine hundred and eighteenth year of his thousand raised to Lordship our great and renowned Lord. In the nine hundred and twenty-third year of his thousand inspired this our great Lord to take vengeance (5) Document no. and reference.

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