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Assuming you are referring to Malta^
After the death of Suleiman in 1566, the Ottomons took only two important new territories: Cyprus in 1571 and Crete in 1669. The gradual but steady decline of Ottoman power and control began with their unsuccessful siege of Malta in 1565. Although the Knights of St John, who had moved there when the Turks drove them out of Rhodes, were heavily outnumbered, they beat off the Ottoman forces with heavy losses. A more serious disaster was the complete destruction of the Turkish fleet in 1571 at the Battle of Lepanto by a European Christian fleet of allied nations commanded by Don John of Austria; the Ottomans lost 210 of their 230 war galleys. Although the Ottoman fleet was quickly rebuilt, this victory ended Ottoman encroachments in the Mediterranean Sea.