The First Portuguese-Turkish War was an armed military conflict between the Portuguese Empire and the Ottoman Empire during 1509 in the Indian Ocean. It was an attempt by the Mamluk Egyptian state, supported by Turkish ships and local Indian allies, to prevent Portugal from setting up a regular trade connection between South Asia and Europe in the process of the expansion of the Portuguese Empire. Previously, all trade had passed through the Midd...
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The First Portuguese-Turkish War was an armed military conflict between the Portuguese Empire and the Ottoman Empire during 1509 in the Indian Ocean. It was an attempt by the Mamluk Egyptian state, supported by Turkish ships and local Indian allies, to prevent Portugal from setting up a regular trade connection between South Asia and Europe in the process of the expansion of the Portuguese Empire. Previously, all trade had passed through the Middle East, but since the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope sea route from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean by Vasco da Gama in 1498, this monopoly could now be broken. Moreover, Portugal had begun to impose a licensing system on Indian Ocean trade that threatened to ruin many Muslim merchants and tried to divert trade to ports it controlled.
Turkish forces also assisted the Sultan of Gujarat at certain points in the war against Portugal.
In February 3, at the Battle of Diu, the Portuguese fleet, under Dom Francisco de Almeida, won over an...
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