Georgian kings on the political stage of the 16<sup>th</sup> century and the Eastern Politics of Spanish monarchy

Abstract

The present paper is an analytical study of the relationship between the 16th century Mediterranean main political forces, the Spanish Universal Monarchy, and the Ottoman Empire. Luis José Velázquez de Velasco (1722-1772), Marquis of Valdeflores and a well-known Spanish historian of the 18th century, was the first to call the Spanish literature of the 16th century a