Electric Power System of the Balearic Islands Electric Power System of the Balearic Islands Description of the electric power supply of the Balearic Islands. On Menorca just a single power plant exist at Mahon ( Maó ) at . It has a net generation capacity of 245 MW. From it 2 132 kV-lines run to Dragonera substation. Beside the connection between Mahon ( Maó) power station and Dragonera substation, there is a 132 kV-line interconnecting the following substations. A 132 kV-line links Ciutadella substation on Menorca with Es Bessons substation on Mallorca. It runs from Ciutadella substation overhead to Celan Bosch cable terminal at where the submarine
Ottoman invasion of the Balearic Islands (1558) Sorrento, then part of the possessions of Spain in southern Italy, where they took 3,000 captives. In July, the fleet then started to ravage the Balearic islands. The Ottoman force consisted of 15,000 soldiers on 150 warships. The Ottomans, after repulsing an attack on Mahón, attacked the citadel of Ciutadella in Menorca, which was only garrisoned with 40 soldiers. On 9 July 1558, the Ottomans under Piyale Pasha and Turgut Reis put the town under siege for eight days, then entered and decimated the town. After the fall of the citadel, the city was ravaged and the population enslaved. All