Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Malacca in Portugal. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
The Portuguese follow the Battle of Diu by capturing key areas such as Mombasa, Socotora, Muscat, Ormuz, Goa, Sri Lanka & Malacca. After the battle Diu, Portugal rapidly captures key ports in the Indian Ocean like Goa, Ceylon, Malacca and Ormuz, crippling the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and the Gujarat Sultanate, greatly assisting the growth of the Portuguese Empire
Malacca commands the passage from the Indian Ocean to the south China seas. Completes a line of naval bases & posts from the Red Sea via Goa to the Far East
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