HISTORY PRESENTATION

ON
“THE BATTLE OF DIU”
 BATTLE OF DIU

The Battle of Diu also referred as the 2nd Battle of

Chaul was a war  fought on February 3, 1509 in
the Arabian Sea, near the port of Diu, Gujarat,
India.
The war was between the Portuguese general
Francisco De Almeida and a joint fleet of the sultan
of Gujarat, the Mamluk Burji Sultanate of Egypt,
the Samuthri (Zamorin)  of Kozhikode with support
of Ottomans, the Republic of Venice and
The Portuguese victory was very critical . Mamluks
and Arabs were retreated, easing the Portuguese
strategy of controlling the Indian Ocean to route
trade down the Cape of Good Hope, avoiding the
tax & the traditional spice route controlled by
the Arabs and the Venetians through the Red Sea
and Persian Gulf.
 After the battle, Portugal rapidly captured key
ports in the Indian Ocean
like Goa, Ceylon, Malacca and Ormuz, crippling the
Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and the Gujarat
Sultanate.
 The Gujarat sultanate was greatly assisting the
growth of the Portuguese Empire and setting its
trade dominance for almost a century, until it was
taken during the Dutch-Portuguese Wars and
the Battle of Swally won by the British East India
Company in 1612.
 The Gujarat sultanate was greatly assisting the
growth of the Portuguese Empire and setting its
trade dominance for almost a century, until it was
taken during the Dutch-Portuguese Wars and
the Battle of Swally won by the British East India
Company in 1612.
Battle of Diu marks the beginning of the European
colonialism in Asia. It also marks the spillover of
the Christian-Islamic power struggle, in and around
the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East, into
the Indian Ocean which was the most important
region for international trade at the time.
!!!THANK YOU!!!
DONE BY –
JAY BARCHHA,8A