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Battle of Diu
  • 1509
  • Early modern era

Battle of Diu

1509 Portuguese naval victory in India

Photo: Maurício José do Carmo Sendim (1786-1870) · Commons · Public domain · Cropped & Resized

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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.

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Image: Maurício José do Carmo Sendim (1786-1870), Public domain · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0