Significant1500 – 1663 · 163 years
Portuguese colonial wars in Asia
India · Sri Lanka · Bahrain · Oman
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
Wars of the Portuguese Estado da Índia against Indian, Arabian, Malay and Ottoman powers, from Calicut and Diu to the loss of Hormuz and Cochin.
Belligerents6
- Portugal
- Calicut
- Kingdom of Kandy
- Egypt
- Gujarat
- Mughal Empire
ON THE MAPKingdom of PortugalMamluk SultanateMughal Empire (Babur–Humayun)
Conflict graph
SUB-CONFLICTS · 19
- Battle of Calicut1500
- Battle of Cochin1506
- Battle of Muscat1507
- Battle of Chaul1508
- Battle of Diu1509
- Battle of Goa1510
- Battle of Hormuz1515
- Battle of Bahrain1521
- Battle of Diu1546
- Battle of Goa1570
- Battle of Daman1580
- Battle of Colombo1587
+ 7 more in the atlas.
Sources
- Derived from HCED child battles; see Wikipedia
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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