19265 - In the Great Siege of Famagusta

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Vicky Baklessi

In the Great Siege of Famagusta
the Ottomans and their magnitude
from 30.000 that were in Malta
became 200.000
with one hundred and fifty ships
to strike
7000 people
because they didn’t want
for the loss of 1565
to be repeated
so they bombarded
the city, the port
to crush
Marco Antonio Bragadin
but his heroic
resistance
gave time
to the Christians
to prepare
and to win
the naval battle of Nafpaktos
and to give end
to barbarity.