A depiction of a sea battle between a convoy of Turkish ships sailing from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople" class="extiw" title="w:Constantinople">Constantinople</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria" class="extiw" title="w:Alexandria">Alexandria</a> and carrying a number of pilgrims bound for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca" class="extiw" title="w:Mecca">Mecca</a>, which were attacked by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Hospitaller" class="extiw" title="w:Knights Hospitaller">Knights Hospitaller</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta" class="extiw" title="w:Malta">Malta</a> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_28_September_1644" class="extiw" title="w:Action of 28 September 1644">Action of 28 September 1644</a>. (The year "1645" in the image caption appears to be a mistake.)
<p>On the left, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/galley" class="extiw" title="w:galley">galley</a> labelled "Capitaine de Malte" ("Maltese captain") engages a vessel labelled "Griechisches Schiff" ("Greek ship"). In the middle, two ships labelled "S. Iohann" and "S. Ioseph" engage another Turkish sailing vessel labelled "Türckisches Schiff" ("Turkish ship"); and on the right, three galleys labelled "S. Laurentz", "S. Maria" and "Victoria" surround a ship labelled "Türckische Gallion" ("Turkish galleon"). In the distance on the right are more vessels labelled "Türckische Schiff" ("Turkish ship[s]"), while on the left the land is marked "Rhode" in German and "Rhodis" in Latin ("<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes" class="extiw" title="w:Rhodes">Rhodes</a>"). The sea is labelled "Mediterrannee".</p>
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<p>Originally from <cite class="book" style="font-style:normal">Johann Peter Lotichius; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matth%C3%A4us_Merian" class="extiw" title="w:Matthäus Merian">Matthaeus Merian</a> (1707)      <i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dilibri.de/rlbdfg/content/titleinfo/643433">Theatri Europaei Fünffter Theil / Das ist: Außführliche Beschreibung Aller Denckwürdigen Geschichten. Die sich in Europa, Als Hoch- und Nieder-Teutschland / Franckreich / Hispanien / Jtalien / Groß-Britannien / Dennemarck / Schweden / Polen / Moscaw / Böhmen / Hungarn / Siebenbürgen / Wallachey / Moldaw: Jn der Türckey und Barbarey ... vom Jahr 1643. biß ins 1647. Jahr / allerseits begeben und verlauffen [Theatrum Europaeum [Theatre of Europe], Fifth Part / That is: A Detailed Description of All Significant Events in Europe, that is, Upper and Lower Germany / France / Spain / Italy / Great Britain / Denmark / Sweden / Poland / Muscovy / Bohemia / Hungary / Transylvania / Wallachia / Moldova: but also in Turkey and the Barbary Coast ... that Occurred and Transpired Everywhere from the Year 1643 to the Year 1647]</a></i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Frankfurt" class="extiw" title="w:en:Frankfurt"><span title="most populous city in Hesse, Germany">Frankfurt</span></a>:  Andreä; Merian  <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Computer_Library_Center" class="extiw" title="en:Online Computer Library Center">OCLC</a>:   <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/551856324">551856324</a>. </small></cite>
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<ul><li>Derivative work: <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Amada44" title="User:Amada44"><span style="font-family:Geneva;color:black;text-shadow:0px 0px 2px #00ff00;font-weight:bold">Amada44</span></a>  <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Amada44" title="User talk:Amada44"><sup><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-size:smaller;color:gray"><i>talk to me</i></span></sup></a> on 7 December 2011, 16:29 (UTC).</li></ul>