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Battle of Ash-Shihr
Part of Ottoman–Portuguese confrontations
Date1531
LocationAsh-Shihr, Yemen
Result Ottoman victory[1][2][3]
Belligerents
Flag Portugal (1578) Portuguese Empire Ottoman Flag Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Manoel de Vasconcellos Sefer Reis
Strength
9 sails 100 levends
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown


The Battle of Ash-Shihr was a conflict between the Ottoman admiral Sefer Reis and Portuguese forces that arrived at the port of Ash-Shihr in 1531.[1][2]

In 1530 Mustafa Bey and Sefer Reis arrived at the port of Ash-Shihr in Yemen.[1] The Ottomans advised the Emir of Ash-Shihr, Badr, to not submit to the Portuguese and left cannons and 100 levends with the Emir of Ash-Shihr.[1] Mustafa Bey left Ash-Shihr in December 1530 while Sefer Reis remained with Badr.[1] A Portuguese force of 9 sails led by Manoel de Vasconcellos immediately arrived at the port of Ash-Shihr, however Sefer Reis prevented the Portuguese from entering Ash-Shihr, he defeated and drove out the Portuguese forces.[4][2][5][3][6][7]

See also[]

  • Second Battle of Ash-Shihr

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Öztuna, Yılmaz. Kanuni Sultan Süleyman. Turkey: Kültür Bakanlığı, 1989
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Tarih Enstitüsü dergisi. Turkey: İstanbul Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Tarih Enstitüsü, 1974.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Mughul, Muhammad Yakub. Kanunî devri: Osmanlıların Hint Okyanusu politikası ve Osmanlı-Hint Müslümanları münasebetlerı, 1517-1538. Turkey: Fetih Yayınevi, 1974.
  4. Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner; Conquistadores, Mercenaries, and Missionaries: The Failed Portuguese Dominion of the Red Sea. Northeast African Studies 1 April 2012; 12 (1): 1–28. p.9.
  5. Önalp, Ertuğrul. Osmanlının güney seferleri: XVI. yüzyılda Hint okyanusu'nda Türk-Portekiz mücadelesi. Turkey: Berikan Yayınevi, 2010.
  6. R.B.Serjeant, The Portuguese Off the South Arabian Coast: Ḥaḍramī Chronicles, with Yemeni and European Accounts of Dutch Pirates Off Mocha in the Seventeenth Century, 1963, Clarendon Press, p. 57
  7. ابن حميد الكندي, العدّة المفيدة الجامعة لتواريخ قديمة وحديثة مكتبة الإرشاد، صنعاء عام 1991م, صفحة 168[1]
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