Is There a History Which Explains Gaza?
4 min readApr 29, 2024
In 1571, the Spanish Naval fleet destroyed the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto, and from that time onward what had been known as Mare Nostrum, which covered the entire Mediterranean as part of the Roman Empire, became split in half between Western Civilization, a.k.a., Christendom being located on the Northern side, and Eastern Civilization known as Islam controlling the Southern half.