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People: Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi
Topic: Portuguese Conquest of Goa
Location: Messina Sicilia Italy

Portuguese Conquest of Goa

Years: 1510 - 1510

The Portuguese conquest of Goa occurs in 1510 on behalf of the Portuguese admiral Dom Afonso de Albuquerque.

Goa (also Old Goa or Velha Goa) is not among the cities Albuquerque had received orders to conquer: he had only been ordered by the Portuguese king to capture Hormuz, Aden and Malacca.

"Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?"

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Orator (46 BCE)