_ 185 _ (27) Document no. and reference. In the same year (1535) The King of Portugal sent a letter to the Pope, in Lisbon, on the 22th of July 1535, in which he described the Turkish Sultan among the prostitutes and the wretched and wounded soldiers:(27) I wrote to Your Holiness about the great defeat inflicted on the Turk by the Sophy in the city of Tabriz, which was no lie but greater than I told Your Holiness. Now I must give you an account of the great preparations made by the Turk in a noble city called [Alerida]. A muster was taken and it was found that more than thirty thousand men were not fit to fight because they had been wounded and had suffered from the hard time spent on the roads, and now they were in no condition to fight. He gathered together as many other men as he could, and
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