Siege of Diu (1531)
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The siege of Diu occurred when a combined Ottoman-Gujarati force defeated a Portuguese attempt to capture the city of Diu in 1531. The victory was partly the result of Ottoman firepower over the Portuguese besiegers deployed by Mustafa Bayram, an Ottoman expert.[1]
Shortly before the siege they encountered roughly 800 enemy soldiers at Siyâl Bet island[a], engaged them in combat, and killed them all.[2] There were 9[3] or 17 Portuguese killed and 120 wounded.[4] They then sailed for Diu, but the Muslim alliance defeated them and killed 14.[5]
Although Diu was successfully defended, victory was short-lived: Diu was blockaded and the Portuguese armada was diverted towards more exposed Gujarati cities.[6] Ghogha, Surat, Mangrol, Somnath, Bassein, Tarapur, Kelva, Mahim, Bulsar, Agashi, Patam, Pate, and many smaller settlements were assaulted and sacked, some never recovering from the attacks.[7][8][9]
In 1534, Sultan Bahadur of Gujarat signed a peace treaty with Governor Nuno da Cunha, granting the Portuguese the territory of Bassein, including Bombay. In 1535, the Portuguese were allowed to construct a fortress at Diu.
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Notes
- ^[a] Gujarati name for jackal island, one of three islands near Diu, João de Barros calls it Ilha de Bet.
References
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- ↑ Guns for the sultan: military power and the weapons industry in the Ottoman Empire, Gábor Ágoston, page 194, 2005
- ↑ Monteiro (1991), p.205
- ↑ Frederick Charles Denvers: The Portuguese in India, W.H. Allen & Company, 1894, p. 401.
- ↑ Monteiro (1991), p.205
- ↑ Monteiro, 1991, p.209
- ↑ Denvers, 1894, p.403.
- ↑ Pearson, Michael Naylor (1976). Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portuguese in the Sixteenth Century. University of California Press, pg. 76
- ↑ Denvers 1894, p.402-404
- ↑ Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume 13, Government Central Press, 1882, p.451
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