Selman Reis leads a Mamluk fleet of …
Years: 1515 - 1515
September
Selman Reis leads a Mamluk fleet of nineteen ships into the Indian Ocean in 1515 following the Portuguese disruption of the spice trade between India and Mamluk Egypt.
He leaves Suez on September 30 leading the fleet, which includes three thousand men, thirteen hundred of whom are Turkish soldiers.
Locations
People
- Afonso de Albuquerque
- António de Saldanha
- Diogo Fernandes Pereira
- Duarte Pacheco Pereira
- Lopo Soares de Albergaria
- Manuel I of Portugal
- Selim I
- Tristão da Cunha
Groups
- Hinduism
- Arab people
- Jews
- Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East)
- Nair
- Islam
- Kolattunādu (Kingdom of Cannanore)
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Cochin, Kingdom of
- Venice, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Ormus, Kingdom of
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
- Kozhikode, or Calicut, Kingdom of
- Egypt and Syria, Mamluk Burji Sultanate of
- Portugal, Avizan (Joannine) Kingdom of
- Gujarat Sultanate
- Portuguese Empire
- Ottoman Empire
- Portuguese Mozambique
Topics
- India, Medieval
- Yemen, Medieval
- Age of Discovery
- Portuguese Conquests in India and the East Indies
- Colonization of Asia, Portuguese
- Portuguese–Mamluk naval war
- Portuguese Ceylon
- Persia–Portugal war
Commodoties
Subjects
- Commerce
- Watercraft
- Engineering
- Labor and Service
- Conflict
- Exploration
- Faith
- Government
- Custom and Law
- Technology
- Finance
