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# A cannonball fired by Ottoman troops during the siege of Nice in 1543 is still embedded in the wall of a residential building in the city
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/v-stene-zhilogo-doma-v-nitstse-sokhranilos-pushechnoe-iadro-vypushchennoe-osmanskimi-voiskami-vo-vremia-osady-goroda-v-1543-godu/
- Published: 2024-03-24T09:02:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:34:13.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Architecture, The East, Monarchies, Heritage, Society

A cannonball fired by Ottoman troops during the siege of Nice in 1543 is still embedded in the wall of a residential building in the city. How did it come to be there?

The Turkish siege of Nice was one of many operations of the Franco-Ottoman military alliance against the Habsburgs and their allies in the Mediterranean. The growing might of the Habsburgs forced the French to look for a way out of their encirclement: the dynastic possessions of the Habsburgs in Spain and in the Holy Roman Empire left France no room for manoeuvre.

King Francis I resolved to forge an Ottoman alliance after the crushing defeat at Pavia in 1525\. Naturally, the very fact of a Catholic monarchy allying itself with a Muslim empire that was invading other Catholic lands caused great difficulty: before long the Ottomans had destroyed the Kingdom of Hungary and become the immediate neighbours of the Habsburgs. But times were changing, and questions of faith no longer seemed as categorical as questions of politics and so-called state interests.

The Habsburgs, for their part, also concluded an alliance with a Muslim power, Persia, which likewise sought to settle its own accounts, for the Safavids were sworn enemies of the Ottomans, and an alliance with the Habsburgs allowed them to encircle the Ottomans quite literally.