Turkish-Portuguese Wars

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Portuguese–Turkish Wars

The Turkish-Portuguese Wars refers to a series of different military conflicts between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire, or between other European powers and the Ottoman Empire in which relevant Portuguese military forces participated. Some of this conflicts were pontual, while others lasted for many years. Most of these wars were in the Indian Ocean, in the process of the expansion of the Portuguese Empire.

The different wars were the following:

[edit] References

  • Attila & Balázs Weiszhár, Háborúk lexikona, Atheneaum, Budapest, 2004 (in Hungarian; title means in English Lexicon of Wars)

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