Editing Lipari (section)

====Franco-Ottoman attack====

[[File:Lipari castle on acropolis.jpeg|thumb|View of the 16th century Lipari castle on the old Greek acropolis as seen from Piazza Marina Corta]]
In 1544, [[Hayreddin Barbarossa]], together with the French fleet of [[Captain Polin]] under a [[Franco-Ottoman alliance]], [[Sack of Lipari|ransacked Lipari]] and enslaved the entire population.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eACqCQAAQBAJ&q=Battle+of+A%C3%AFn-el-Turk&pg=PA453|title=Concise History of Islam|last1=Syed|first1=Muzaffar Husain|last2=Akhtar|first2=Syed Saud|last3=Usmani|first3=B. D.|date=2011-09-14|publisher=Vij Books India Pvt Ltd|isbn=9789382573470|language=en}}</ref> [[Jérôme Maurand]] lamented about the depredation to his Christian fellow men during the campaign at Lipari: "To see so many poor Christians, and especially so many little boys and girls [enslaved] caused a very great pity." He also mentioned "the tears, wailings and cries of  these poor Lipariotes, the father regarding his son and the mother her daughter... weeping while leaving their own city in order to be brought into slavery by those dogs who seemed like rapacious wolves amidst timid lambs".<ref name="d249">{{cite web | last=Piccirillo | first=Anthony | title="A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty": The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal | website=DigitalGeorgetown | date=2012-05-10 | url=https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/555505 | access-date=2024-05-20}}</ref>

A number of the citizens were ransomed in Messina and eventually returned to the islands.

Charles V then had his Spanish subjects repopulate the island and build the massive city walls atop the walls of the ancient Greek [[acropolis]] in 1556.

The walls created a mighty fortress still standing today.  The acropolis, high above the main town, was a safe haven for the populace in the event of a raid. While these walls protected the main town, it was not safe to live on the rest of the island until [[Barbary pirates|Mediterranean piracy]] was largely eradicated, which did not occur until the 19th century.