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Topic: Portuguese–Mamluk naval war
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Portuguese–Mamluk naval war

Years: 1505 - 1517

The Portuguese–Mamluk naval war is a naval conflict between the Egyptian state of the Mamluks and the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, following the expansion of the Portuguese after sailing around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497.

The conflict takes place during the early part of the sixteenth century, from 1505 to the fall of the Mamluk Sultanate in 1517.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)