Siege of Diu (1531)
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The Siege of Diu occurred when an Ottoman imperial fleet captured the Indian city of Diu in 1531, then held by the Portuguese. The conquest was partly the result of Muslim firepower over the Portuguese deployed by Mustafa Bayram, an Ottoman expert. As a result of the victory the Portuguese
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Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

were repelled from Diu.
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