…attack Mombassa. They don't reduce the …
Years: 1503 - 1503
October
…attack Mombassa.
They don't reduce the city to tribute, but nonetheless compel the ruler of Mombassa to agree to withdraw his troops and make peace with the sultan of Malindi.
With much of the East African coast having paid them off, Saldanha and Ravasco they proceed north to the Gulf of Aden to look for new targets.
Locations
People
- Afonso de Albuquerque
- Diogo Fernandes Pereira
- Duarte Pacheco Pereira
- Estêvão da Gama
- Gaspar da Gama
- João da Nova
- Manuel I of Portugal
- Nicolau Coelho
- Vasco da Gama
Groups
- Hinduism
- Arab people
- Khoikhoi
- Indian people
- Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East)
- Swahili people
- Nair
- Islam
- Kilwa Sultanate
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Cochin, Kingdom of
- Castile, Crown of
- Portugal, Avizan (Joannine) Kingdom of
- Portuguese Empire
- Vijayanagara, (Saluva) Kingdom of
- Adil Shahi dynasty (Bijapur, Sultanate of)
- Mutapa, Kingdom of
- Portuguese Mozambique
Topics
- India, Medieval
- Sub-Saharan Africa, Medieval
- Interaction with Subsaharan Africa, Early European
- Age of Discovery
- Colonization of the Americas, Portuguese
- Colonization of the Americas, Spanish
- Columbian Exchange
- Colonization of Asia, Portuguese
