…Ravasco is challenged by the Zanzibari fleet, …
Years: 1503 - 1503
October
…Ravasco is challenged by the Zanzibari fleet, but gets the better of it and seizes a few more ships.
The sheikh of Zanzibar agrees to submit and pay a yearly "tribute" of one hundred maticals (gold coins) to the King of Portugal.
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
