Turkish-Portuguese Wars

Turkish-Portuguese Wars

The Turkish-Portuguese Wars refers to a series of different military conflicts between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire, or between other European powers and the Ottoman Empire in which relevant Portuguese military forces participated. Some of this conflicts were pontual, while others lasted for many years. Most of these wars were in the Indian Ocean, in the process of the expansion of the Portuguese Empire.

The different wars were the following:
* Turkish-Portuguese War (1509)
* Conquest of Tunis (1535)
* Turkish-Portuguese War (1538–1557)
* Turkish-Portuguese War (1558–1566)
* Turkish-Portuguese War (1580–1589)
* Turkish-Venetian War (1714–1718)

References

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

ee also

*History of Portugal
*Military history of Portugal


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