Portuguese conquest of Goa occurred when the governor Afonso de Albuquerque captured the city in 1510 from the Adil Shahis. Old Goa became the capital of the...

Livermore, Harold V. "Afonso de Albuquerque". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 22 August 2010. Diogo do Couto, Décadas da Ásia, década X, livro I Sanceau, Elaine...

in his Esmeraldo de situ Orbis (c. 1507, p. 58). João de Barros, in his Decadas de Asia (1552: I.16 p. 133) adds that he was also a master instrument-maker...

Jacinto Freire de Andrade Vida de D. João de Castro, Lisbon, 1651 (English translation by Sir Peter Wyche in 1664). Diogo de Couto, Décadas da Ásia, VI....

Strong a Spirit, Marshall Cavendish, 2005, pp. 75-76. Subrahmanyam, 1997, pp. 343–345. See also Diogo do Couto (Decadas de Asia, Dec. IV, Lib. 8, c. 2);...

take the Laguna de Sayula. Purépecha held the area for only a few years until they were defeated at the end of the Salitre War in 1510. The place was conquered...

1507-1510: de Albuquerque captures the kingdom of Hormuz (Ormus) in the Persian Gulf. It is so named after the Viceroy of India in 1508. In 1510 Goa was...

alliance against the Zamorin of Calicut and Goa was captured by Afonso de Albuquerque in 1510. The Sultanate of Gujarat was hostile towards the Portuguese but...

D. Luís de Ataíde, 1st Marquess of Santarém and 3rd Count of Atouguia (c. 1516 – March 10, 1581), was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander and statesman...

Portuguese established several forts and trading posts between 1500 and 1510. In East Africa, small Islamic states along the coast of Mozambique, Kilwa...