Significant1512 – 1605 · 93 years

Portuguese Conquest of the Spice Islands

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Moluccas · Banda Islands · Indonesia

Estimated casualties

100Ksingle estimate · no range published

Portuguese traders and soldiers fought to monopolize spice trade in the Moluccas, establishing fortified trading posts before being displaced by the Dutch. The Moluccas became the source of Europe's spice wealth.

Belligerents4

Portugal
Dutch
Spanish
Indonesian sultanates

ON THE MAPKingdom of PortugalDutch RepublicSpanish Empire (Americas)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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