Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts

The Ottoman–Portuguese or Turco-Portuguese conflicts^[1][2][3] refers to a series of different military encounters between the Portuguese Empire and the Ottoman Empire, or between other European powers and the Ottoman Empire in which relevant Portuguese military forces participated. Some of these conflicts were brief, while others lasted for many years. Most of these conflicts were in the Indian Ocean, in the process of the expansion of the Portuguese Empire.

The different conflicts were the following:

• Turkish Crusade (1481)
• Battle of Diu (1509)
• Conquest of Goa (1510)
• Conquest of Tunis (1535)
• Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1557)
• Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1558–1563)
• Battle of Alcácer Quibir (1578)
• Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1580–1589)
• Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718)

Notes

1. ^ Mohammed Hasen al- Aidarous, The Ottoman-portuguese conflict in the Arabian Gulf during the second half of the 16th century.
2. ^ Suraiya Faroqhi, Approaching Ottoman history: an introduction to the sources, Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 68.
3. ^ Salih Özbaran, The Ottoman response to European expansion: studies on Ottoman-Portuguese relations in the Indian Ocean and Ottoman administration in the Arab lands during the sixteenth century, Isis Press, 1994, viii

References

• Attila & Balázs Weiszhár, Háborúk lexikona, Atheneaum, Budapest, 2004 (in Hungarian; title means in English Lexicon of Wars)