Battle of Diu

Battle of Diu
	Part of the Mamluk–Portuguese conflicts , Gujarati–Portuguese conflicts and Ottoman-Portuguese confrontations
	; Notable victory achieved by the Viceroy D. Francisco de Almeida against the navies of the Sultan of Egypt and the Kings of Cambay and Calicut. Lithograph by Maurício José do Carmo Sendim, 1840
Date	3 February 1509
Location	Diu, present-day Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, India20.72°N 70.99°E
Result	Portuguese victory Establishment of Portuguese naval hegemony in the Indian Ocean.;
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire	Mamluk Sultanate; Gujarat Sultanate; Kingdom of Calicut;
Commanders and leaders
Dom Francisco de Almeida	Amir Husain Al-Kurdi; Malik Ayyaz; Kunjali Marakkar;
Strength
9 carracks; 6 caravels; 2 galleys; 1 brigantine; 800 Portuguese; 400 Nairs;	10 carracks; 6 heavy galleys; 30 light galleys; 70–150 boats; 450 Mamluks; 4,000–5,000 Gujaratis;
Casualties and losses
332 total 32 killed; 300 wounded;	All Mamluk ships sunk or captured; 4 Gujarati carracks captured; 1,300 Gujaratis killed; 428 Mamluks killed;
	Diu Location within South Asia Diu Diu (Gujarat)

The Battle of Diu was a naval battle fought on 3 February 1509 in the Arabian Sea, in the port of Diu, India, between the Portuguese Empire and a joint fleet of the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt and the Zamorin of Calicut.

The Portuguese victory was critical: the great Muslim alliance was soundly defeated, easing the Portuguese strategy of controlling the Indian Ocean to route trade down the Cape of Good Hope, circumventing the historical spice trade controlled by the Arabs and the Venetians through the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. After the battle, the Kingdom of Portugal rapidly captured several key ports in the Indian Ocean including Goa, Ceylon, Malacca, Bom Baim and Ormuz. The territorial losses crippled the Mamluk Sultanate and the Gujarat Sultanate. The battle catapulted the growth of the Portuguese Empire and established its political dominance for more than a century. Portuguese power in the East would begin to decline with the sackings of Goa and Bombay-Bassein, Portuguese Restoration War and the Dutch colonisation of Ceylon.

The Battle of Diu was a battle of annihilation similar to the Battle of Lepanto and the Battle of Trafalgar, and one of the most important in world naval history, for it marks the beginning of European dominance over Asian seas that would last until the Second World War.

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