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@Xavi Bizkaya Xavi, it Wa a civil war...King of Spain Was also the King of Portugal, at the time (King Filipe I of Portugal and II of Spain). In Terceira island, in the City of Praia da Vitória (Victory Beach) they had a great defeat against the islanders. Miguel Cervantes, the autor of D.Quixote de Lá Mancha, Was one of the defeated soldiers in that batle...
As a "Couto", I'm a brazilian with portuguese ancestry. Here in my coutry, they had to manage a country fifteen times larger than they "metropolis" home City (in the begin of their "discovery"). Even If historically prevails the winner version, they thrived many dangers nearly trading their lives for the profitable adventure of navigation, colonization and many clashes with foreign powers.
I am of Tamil-Portuguese Ancestry. My ancestors fought the Battle of Diu alongside our Portuguese allies. We are a sea faring people and settled predominantly today around the coasts of Tamil Nadu & Sri Lanka.
Hai mi name is Fernando, It is with emotion that i read your comment and know that you are prod of your Portuguese roots. A strong embrace of the de city of Porto Portugal. MI frend
Portuguese history is full of fantastic things and heroism! It is a small country only in geography, as in values, achievements, culture and history it is one of the largest in the world. Brazilian greetings!
I'm Brazilian, very connected to the Portuguese, and I have to admit that the Portuguese were very brave to fight with ottoman empire at its peak. Many respects for my irmãos. ✝️🇵🇹
@Abed AL Rahman Diab you didn't win the war, the ottomans and Portuguese both had equal influence from the balance of power point of view, the Portuguese dominated the Indian ocean and the ottomans the red sea, it can be seen as a Portuguese victory given the fact that you were way bigger and wealthier than the Portuguese and couldn't check their influence... Crying is left for you
@Abed AL Rahman Diab old enemies learn history to respect each other and learn how to live in this world together. Religion was used as an excuse to fight for power and money. Nowadays, Portugal is a very peaceful country that in the end of the ditactorship of 1974 gave independence to all the remaining colonies and nowadays has good relationship with all of them. Lets learn from history. Atheist, Christian or Muslim. Whatever the ethnicy, whatever the language we speak and whatever the past. Big hug my friend. Spread the word ; )
We have a story/legend from this siege. It was said that when the part of the wall fell, 5 men jumped to fill the gap and held the line against 300-400 ottoman soldiers. The narrow passage was enough for them to hold the line while being wounded, this ended up giving the rest of the men a morale boost to keep fighting. Another story tells of 2 other artillery soldiers who held part of the wall alone with their spears killing several ottoman soldiers. Fun legends we managed to pull from the writtings of that time.
“A fortuna do mundo é serem eles tão poucos, porque a Natureza, como aos leões, felizmente os fez raros” Gaspar Correia, “Lendas da Índia” (referindo palavras do inimigo, durante o cerco de Diu, em 1538)
Good evening. Never heard anyone implying it is just legends, it was against 500 however. Besides, their names are recorded. One of these died, although I can’t recall which one at the moment: - Sebastiam de Sá; - António Pessanha; - Bento Barbosa; - Bartolomeu Corrêa; - Master Joam, surgeon of Diu. Best regards.
Damn, never was there a word mentioned regarding the Ottomans in any of my Indian school history books ! All thanks to you guys for bringing this content to us (even when India doesn't provide you with much viewership currently)
Mas Dhillom it must be some weird Portuguese influence.... We don't learn about this fight too and we won. Maybe Portuguese and Indians are just not "war centric countries" and are chill about there wins?
jaffer raza lol the living quality of Portugal and turkey is vastly different..turkey is like Russia..Russia has only Moscow anf st petersburg..just like turkey has ankara and Istanbul..the rest are very poor land..while Portugal living condition is very rich
As a Brazilian, everything that I learned in school about the Portuguese Empire was related to Brazil only. It is funny to know that at the same time, they were fighting countless battles and colonizing places all around the world
@Aimal Naveed have you seen the movie 300? And the kid killing the wild wolf between the rocks? It’s called strategy, they used their brain, the first empire, portuguese were very intelligent and ahead of their time. Btw Portugal didn’t fight the ottomans behind a wall, Portugal fight with 17 warships in Diu against 200 ottoman ships, and Portugal won, Portugal had the most advanced warships back then. This video is not accurate, Portugal only went to war in Diu to fight the Sultan of Egypt, Indians and ottomans cos the vice king of Portugal wanted to revenge the death of his son who died 1 year earlier on the battle of Chaul. This battle wouldn’t happen otherwise cos they had orders from the Portuguese king to attack the red sea instead.
*Fun fact:* The Ottoman’s inability to consistently maintain a large fleet of galleons in the Indian Ocean meant that Admiral Sefer Reis would often counter the larger Portuguese galleons by timing his rowed galley attacks against them so that they would be forced to sail against the wind. Thus separating one galleon from the rest of the fleet and defeating them in detail. Often his strategy would prove incredibly effective due to his ability to hug the coastline and evade the open sea.
江俊杰 1. Then you clearly haven’t read the book if you’re claiming there were no details about Admiral Sefer Reis. 2. After your paradox analogy didn’t work, did you seriously just comment on my channel and try to justify a fucking genocide?
Nowadays the currencies of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iran... are called Ryal.. The name of portuguese currency on XV and XVI centuriões and brazilian today... This a proof how the portuguese dominated the Indian ocean and their currency was valuable and trustworthy by many nations
Really, what impresses me most is that only 40 men remained able to fight in Diu at the end, yet the Portuguese managed to trick the numerically superior Ottomans to abandon the siege altogether. De Silviera was truly a master of warfare by deceit.
I live in India in a town named VASAI ( called BASSIEN by the Portugese) , my town was also captured by the Portuguese Admiral Nuno Da cuna and we also have Portuguese era Forts and churches in my town. Portuguese ruled in my town for 250 Years until the Marathas liberated it in 18th century.
@Carlos Pereira not exactly but during Portuguese rule people in my town converted to roman Christianity and took Portugese names although there are like 5%ppl in my town that have some Portugese ancestry and many might even be mixed but don't know abt exact demographics.
In the 1500's, Portugal had the most advanced navy in the world. In the battle of Diu in 1509, Portugal won with 18 ships against over 200 ships on the ottoman side. They were pretty much unchallenged until the king of Portugal died with no heir, making the King of Spain that was half Portuguese the king of Portugal and begining the Iberian Union. This was when Portugal started to weaken as Spain's enemies were now Portugal's enemies, and Spain didnt help defend portuguese territories so the dutch stole most of the spice trade in the indian ocean, shifting the global superpower from the portuguese to the dutch.
@P S Thanks for your answer. Since the Vikings never wrote down their adventures, I get it from the Portuguese. I find it strange and a pity that people don't know where the American city Albuquerque got its name from. He is after all the greatest sea captain that has ever sailed the sea. Did I tell you that I found Vasco da Gama's grave in an old Portuguese church in Cochin? Well, they took his remains back to Lisbon after a couple of years and gave him a suitable burial place there, but originally, when Vasco died of cholera in Cochin, they buried him there. These men are true heroes and great examples of what men can do when they have the right spirit for adventures. Go out and find the world and put it on a map. It's a great achievement for all mankind. The Portuguese didn't fear their foes. The letter the Portuguese captain sent the Turkish eunuch in Goa is an insult that echoes down the history. I can only imagine the impotent rage of the eunuch. The Portuguese history is rich and something to be proud of and even if time changes, I like to think that the spirit of these men is still alive. It's the Viking spirit of men who never see the limits, who cross the borders, may it be to sail down the Russian rivers to Constantinople, to sail around Cape Horn in icy winds or to travel in a rocket to the moon. They have all a Viking inside fighting to get out. Cheers, my Portuguese brother.
@Jan T. Carlsson i admite your passion for our History. A bit of trivia: Out navy, the worlds oldest existing navy is 705 yo. The word "commando" usually used to name special unit troops comes from the Portuguese self commanded exploratory navy units called "comandos" . They where named like that because with the lack of modern communication systems they were given autonomy from (non existing) central HQ commands to make their own strategical decisions on the ground wherever those Portuguese troops were sent.
And nothing has changed. Now it's not at sea in a greater international and political context, but in football... being underdogs with a small population and still winning 'once in a while'.
Yeah!! Another video about Portuguese history! Thank you kings and generals for this, I know me and my fellow Portuguese always appreciate having our history told. Would love to see more about Portuguese adventures in Ethiopia! Another great battle I'd like to see you guys cover is the siege of Cochin, that battle is one of my favorites in all of history simply because of the characters and just the drama of it all. But still thank you for this video.
@Wolraad Tuis my house is your house. If you ever come to Portugal let me know here. I will sort you out with a place to stay and a car to drive around. My respect and admiration to you my friend. 👏🏼💪🏼
I admire them too. Years ago as a loudmouth no back-down youngster. I once helped a Portuguese guy get his old jalopy going after he stopped for me hiking on the road. We pulled away in his VW beetle and it stalled and wouldn't start. My oldman was a avid fan of VW Beetles and we owned six through the years. He was a part-time mechanic and taught me well. I just set the points and we were off. About 4 months later I was in a town away from home and picked up shit with 2 bullies but I pounded them both. Walking back to my friends house I saw them in 2 cars in a group of 8 getting out behind me and charging I laid out the first but the 2nd and 3rd bashed me too much and before the others got too close I gapped it across traffic with all these punks chasing me. Then I saw my Portuguese buddy and a friend driving by in the opposite direction with his eyes wide open looking at me. I couldnt stop because the ones chasing me were just like 7-8 m away. But my buddy turned the vw around and they came by shouting at me to get in. I jumped in and we got away but my buddy decided to turn back. As they were getting back in their cars we stopped by them, My buddy said wait here but I didnt. I got out with them and the 3 of us Pounded the CRAP out of 7 of them. 1 managed to get away with my buddy hot on his tail but he still got away. They helped me because I fixed his car with a screwdriver. We are still friends and even the guy who got away, we became friends later. He ended up marrying my sisters friend. A cute chick which I had an interest in but she had none for me. Good because I married a beautiful girl 4 years later with whom I have 4 children. She and I have till today not once argued about anything. I met her at another Portuguese friend of mine's house. She was his chick's best friend. I became an admirer of the Portuguese because many of them are upright no nonsense helpful friendly true friends and I love their history. I just love their amazing alone against the world history.
Great video! I was actually expecting the 1509 battle when I saw Diu in the title. Due to the events that led to the battle, the battle itself and the repercusions in the geopolitics of the time after the battle I believe it's a much more interesting and important one in History knowledge. Also Afonso de Albuquerque deserves it's own video. The things he did were just wild and wicked!
“The Spice has great value to us. The spice must flow. That is...the law” As always, here are games and mods that we used in the making of this video: -Portuguese revamped mod (TW:Shogun 2) -NTW3 (TW:Napoleon) -1600AD (TW:Empire) Best wishes, ڤمنه ملايو
The battle of Diu is probably the most important battle to the modern world 🌎 Its like a real life Hollywood epic! Legendary! Vivas a Portugal 🇵🇹 Vivas aos portugueses! Vivas a toda a lusofonia!
@Luis Brito India's share of global gdp when British arrived was 25 percent in 1700. By 1947 they reduced it to under 3 percent. Robbed and maimed in the end, British left nothing but English language.
@Luis Brito You quite right, in some ways. Major East Asian economies (China, S. Korea, Japan) are leading the growth (economically, technologically, socially speakin) far more better than say, their West Europe counterparts recently. Even some nations in Southeast Asia (e.g. Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand) are part of the asia pacific region that have been projected to have positive growth for the mid term. In a way too, it is Karma for West Europe. They (i.e. British, Portugal, France Spain) wreaked havoc in Asia from 1500 to 1950. Pre 1500, the global maritime trade involving previous china dynasty, south asia, east asia, southeast asia, the arabian peninsular were far far more peaceful.
El Imperio portugués sobre todo defendía factorías y puertos para efectuar la compra de especies y la trata de esclavos. No colonizaron ni exploraron grandes territorios en sus viajes. Excepto Brasil la costa y Angola y Mozambique capturando y comprando negros para llevar a América o venderlos a los ingleses y holandeses mayoritariamente.
@Aasams P B Goa was not a colony long time before 1961...theres nothing you can do abou it...Goa was part of Portugal for 450 years...and its part of India since 1961 LOL....deal with that
@br3menPT are you saying that Goa was part of Portugese before the portugese set foot on India 😂 or are you saying that Portugese never colonised it at any point of time. Both of them will be wrong
I am from Diu where the Battle was fought. I never knew that on this land where I stand had encountered such a fierce battle. Thank you for imparting education.
Great video guys! Thank you so much for this! Also may I suggest a video into the the Portuguese legendary figure and national hero Nuno Álvares Pereira known as the Saint Constable! With your expertise in making videos about interesting historical figures, you have so much good material in his history - By 13 years old was already scounting for castillian troops for the army, he went and fought against his elder brother in the battle of Aljubarrota, participated in the battle of Ceuta the beginning of the Portuguese Empire, after that retired to monastic life and gave away all his posessions to his comrades in arms wich was nearly half the country! Without this great general there would be no independent Portugal. Thank you!
In Brazil we hardly learn about Portugal amazing exploits during the Age of Discovery, save for Cabral's discovery of the Brazilian lands and sometimes Vasco da Gama's voyage. We should learn more about Portugal's rich history!
@爱国人 Yes. And every country that becomes socialist turns into a cesspool of crime, corruption, and a distancing from God which allows for perversion disrespect abuse, blatant daylight robbery and a breakdown of society and law and order. European countries usually just take longer to turn to shit. But they will until communism or as they prefer to say: socialism, is thrown out of government. Just look at South America. Or the United States in the next few years. Or even now in many cities in the U.S. Look it up and see for yourself. That is Socialism. It's Communism with a nice name. A lighter version of Communism. But its communism and it always gets much worse.
Great video. This is an area of history I know little about. I generally knew that the Portuguese had altered the trade routes of Asia away from the Arab world, and that it was a major reason for the long decline of the Ottoman Empire. This also caused a major shift in wealth to Europe. However, I have no idea of the people involved, the battles, and the process by which it was done. It is fascinating. I look forward to more.
We in Malaysia for example, appreciate the little heritage that Portugal left after they conquered Malacca. But only that, nothing to glorify, when they couldn't even leave any real, positive impact. According to historian, the portugal action in southeast asia was far more damaging, and actually destabilized the whole spice trade.
Supreme Godzilla Yes. When a small nation demonstrates it's power over a much larger amoubt of land and people than it should, it is glorious. It's glorious when Finland embarasses the USSR in the Winter War. It's glorious when Greeks held off the Persians at Thermopolyae, and it's glorious when little Portugal, one of the weakest nations in Europe, owns a vast empire.
I mean, you just DON’T get great historical content like this anymore. There are only a few other channels which I hold in the same regard as y’all. Great video as always, looking forward to more.
Something this channel has taught me is that for all the focus we tend to give to outnumbered forces sacrificing themselves for their cause, it seems we often overlook the small garrisons that have won against rediculous odds.
You should research about Afonso de Albuquerque, a great warrior, the lion of the seas, the terrible, the portuguese mars! Lots of streets in his name here in Portugal
Another great video! If someone is interested in more information on this topic I highly recommend Conquerors by Roger Crowley. Its a great book on history of Portuguese exploration and covers this battle also.
Great video! It was nice to learn about a topic in Ottoman history that is rarely covered. *the thumbnail of this video has the portrait of Selim II and not Suleyman I which I found odd.
The Portuguese attack of Diu in 1509 wasnt planned. That attack occurred when the joint Mamluk-Gujarat navy attack Cochin in 1508 and killed Lourenço de Almeida, the son of Francisco de Almeida the 1st Viceroy of India. For 3 days he mourned the death of his son, when he approach his men he said: "He who ate the chick must also eat the rooster or pay for it". Refusing to accept the orders of his King by giving the position of Viceroy to Afonso de Albuquerque, due to Francisco's hate for him as Afonso was responsible to intercept any Muslim fleet coming out of the Red Sea and die to the fact that Francisco wanted to personally destroy the Mamluk fleet. Before moving his navy to Diu he wrote a letter to the captain of Diu, Malik Ayyaz: "I the Viceroy say to you, honored Meliqueaz captain of Diu, that I go with my knights to this city of yours, to take the people who were welcomed there, who in Chaul fought my people and killed a man who was called my son, and I come with hope in God of Heaven to take revenge on them and on those who assist them, and if I don't find them I will take your city, to pay for everything, and you, for the help you have done at Chaul. This I tell you, so that you are well aware that I go, as I am now on this island of Bombay, as he will tell you the one who carries this letter." P. S. : Don't underestimate the love of a father for his son.
Why sultan of gujrat lost ...... The reason was Bahadur shah of Gujrat was facing hardships. He went on war with mewar, malwa sultanate, Deccan sultanate ,Mughals and kept on expanding his kingdom. Bahadur shah went to deal with Potugese was assasinated and thus sultanate falling end started .Many years before Mahmud Begada defeated Portugese with the iron hand known as battle of chaul.
@Ustanik Francisco de Almeida died in 1509 or 1510 so no... The Battle of Diu 1509 was a Portuguese counterattack of the Mamluk-Gujarat attack in Chaul in 1508. The 2nd siege of Diu (in 1546), Diu was in Portuguese hands since 1536, the first siege was in 1538. Gujarat, with Ottoman support, had an army of 10.000 soldiers vs the Portuguese 440 men, receiving reinforcements, near the end of the siege, of 3.000 soldiers including Indian (hindu) militias. As soon the fleet arrived they bombarded the enemy and they had to retreat. The Portuguese always had cities like Goa and Diu bcz those cities were basically islands extremely defensable by using cannons of the ships to disperse the enemy.
Im a lover of history! Ive watched almost all the videos man..i recommend you guys to upload the American civil war too..love to know the history especially with your animation..Looking forward to it..❤️❤️
@G博远 Actually Arariboia fought with the portuguese against the french. And for his assistance received the region of Niterói, and his descendants still exist today
I Agree! The conquest of Rio de Janeiro. Arariboia and his two cannon against the portuguese governor Estácio de Sá! Estácio who died on the battle of the conquest of Rio de Janeiro!
the secret of Portugal's success in the Ottoman confrontation was already having closed-back firearms. These cannons were very powerful. They fired five shots and with another kilometer longer in distance (one detail - 300 years later the Battle of Waterloo still used front loading cannons)
Can’t wait for the next episode. Finally a bit of Ottoman history in the Horn of Africa and for the first time I get to see from European sources the history of the Somali Sultanates. 🇸🇴 💪🏿🙌🏿💪🏿💪🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
The Abyssinia-Adal War series will be great! There is a legend about a portuguese musketeer who risked his own life to kill Ahmad Gragn (the Adal sultan), because the Emperor of Ethiopia promised to gave his sister in marriage to any man who could kill Gragn. João de Castilho was the name of this mysterious portuguese hero, who died after killing Gragn.
Amazing! I knew about the Portuguese help to Ethiopians against Somalis, they even thought the Ethiopian Emperor was Prester John, but I didn't know about this story
Legend says that the ottoman commander was a eunuch and that when he wrote the letter to Captain Silveira. The Portuguese captain replied. " Most honourable commander Pacha. May you know that behind these walls there are men with balls bigger than your cannonballs and they do not fear those who don't have them". There is also the story of a Dutch priest that says that a portuguese soldier who ran out of bullets started shooting his own teeth
Hi! Thank you for creating such a rich content like this. I would love to be able to create content like this, and i was wondering what is your sources of research, is it mainly The Great Courses Plus website or do you have more than one source, if it's no secret? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Keep making content like this!
@Leonor Sousa This Leonor Sousa is not who she seems to be. She is a troll who nurtures racist ideas against Portugal and the Portuguese. He or she does not deserve a joule of our energy except to be exposed and embarrassed as being someone very intolerant.
Great video! Would also love to see a video about Duarte Pacheco Pereira, a famous portugese Admiral who fought and won many battles against the odds :) especially in Calicut at the very same time. Would you give it a thought??
@Vantablanc They do. People who are not as well informed about the vernacular or indigenous names use anglicised names. Like the Ganges instead of Ganga, etc.
Does anyone actually even say Cambay anymore? I've only ever heard it as Khambhat. But it feels bad when people say "Broach" instead of "Bhrigukachchha" or "Seringapatam"instead of "Srirangapatnam"
I'm from gujrat diu is 200 km from my home town it's controlled by central government now here is the fun part. In my state gujrat drinking alcohol or beer is illegal so we gujrati people go diu for drinking. Yap there is a European style church and castle .
Isabel da Veiga, wife to a portuguese officer and Ana Fernandes, wife to the garrison's medical officer both organized and led the remaining women in the fort, fighting in the walls by day, tending to the wounded by nightfall. P.S: Portugal, Caralho.
Im from diu, have been to the diu fort many times, its still treacherous to attack it even by todays standards the engineering is something else. One of the bastion overlooks the the ocean unhindered massive midieval cannons still lie there overlooking the ocean, looking at the huge cannons it could fire at a ship a kilometre away easily.
@Vishal Parekh that's the difference between portugal and other colonial powers we actually tried to learn from other cultures and actively incentivised interracial marriage it's just extremely infuriating people judging every colonial nation in the same light as the french and the brits
A recommendation: Please don't occupy the subtitles space to show movements of battles, it can be annoying for those who don't know english as much as others. Thanks! And long live K&G!
@Aimal Naveed So don't take it personally and rewrite history for your own benefit. The Ottomans remained powerful for a long time but, as with everything, technological advancements changed the rules and new players entered the game. Even the colonial empires, who had first surpassed the Ottomans and others, would, themselves, lose out to new sentiments like nationalism, independence movements, global industrial warfare and be supplanted by new superpowers - the USA and the Soviet Union. Which brings us to today where only the USA is left as the sole superpower. Countries in Africa and East Asia are rising fast now so in a couple hundred years or more - who knows? There may be an entirely new world order from what we see today.
@Aimal Naveed this reads like poor nationalist revisionism. Controlling trade from India was a huge advantage for any empire since the classical era and the Ottoman sultan would have known this - it's why he wanted to maintain strong ties with India in the first place. The problem for the Ottomans wasn't that they didn't care about India, it was that they were facing a new kind of enemy. The Ottomans were a relic from the past where having huge continuous land-based holdings was the epitome of power and (you were right about this) most of their forces were tied up on land as a result. Portugal was tiny in comparison, however, it was a forerunner of a new kind of empire - the colonial empire - which used naval advancements to emphasise control of the seas and trade routes as well as to capture and settle territory far away from home. Portugal would have never beaten the entirety of Ottoman forces on land but they never had to - being too far away and using their superior navy to shut the Ottomans and others out of lucrative trade-routes was enough. Colonial empires would eventually become global powers - culminating in the largest empire of all time - the British Empire - which, at its height, controlled over 26% of the entire world, vast amounts of its wealth and substantially surpassed the next largest empire in history - the Mongol Empire.
Ottomans lost to portuguse beacuse portuguse were at their peak and the force that to fight them were new, junior and less professional. The main forces were fighting and defeating whole Europe and safavid. Also sultan himself was not interested in India. If he was he would send his professional force and Kick out the portuguese from India. Also, portuguese fort was well constructed and have unlimited supplies.
You might think that arming women is a sign of desperation, but my mother is portuguese, and believe me, you don't want to see a portuguese woman angry.
@MultiSuperGuide Her name was Brites de Almeida. Some historians say that maybe she has the credits for the feats of several women. Beware of the Portuguese Mothers!! :-)
Yeah, we did pretty amazing thing in the 15th century... We even managed to sink a US carrier with a smelly diesel sub a few years ago in a war games around europe... Go figure that.
This seems like a great video. And I can tell that the conflict between these two empires is going to be a fun set of video's. When is the next video on the Imjin War. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
Battle Alqacer Qibir 1578 was a Turkish Portuguese Rivality too. These time in North Africa The Ottomans was there with Yanissaries and Cannons. The Ottomans supported a Side And Portugues supported a Side Portugal lost not only Influence in Morocco, they lost their King and their Independence to Spain for 60 years. Ottomans where the Superior Continental Power and Portugal Maritime Power at these Time. Alfonso de Albuqerque's main goal was to reach Mecca through the Red Sea and exchange the Corpses of the Prophet Mohammed and Mecca for Jerusalem. In Terms of Trade, too, he had aims to bring the spice trade to Portugal via the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa. These goals could no longer be achieved after the emergence of the Ottomans as the successor to the Mameluks. The Priority of the Turks was the Land and the Security of the Red Sea & Aden. The Portuguese put their Priority on the Trading Posts and Fortresses on the High Sea.
Love Ottoman history. Cant wait for the one between the Somali Adal sultanate and Abyssinian forces. Please also consider doing a video on the Portuguese and Ajuran wars.
Thank you fot all these video's on Ottoman history! There is so much to learn about the Empire's activities that we have to learn thanks to you (rather than Turkish sources).
@Sadiq Javed We did only when they took Constantinople and WW1 , rest of the history is useless in Indian history as history is written by winners and winners impact most on Indian society , today Diu , Goa still remains , Portuguese won , they wrote , and UK won , they wrote
l would love to see something about my mother land Argentina... Even though we dont have an actual history of large or long battles,l would love to see a video from this channel dedicated to one of our battles during the independence period/Revolitionary era. Great production as always.
Vasco Da Gama, Afonso de Albuquerque and Tristão Da Cunha all tried to permanently capture Somali port cities of Adal and Ajuuraan but received so much resistance that they sailed towards India instead and knighted themselves for surviving the Somali battles. A few years later Cristóvão da Gama died protecting Abyssinia from Adal. Looking forward to the next video.
@graciano neves Thanks for the source. As for Barawa even there, the Portuguese couldn't hold the city after attacking it twice in eighty years because the population was too hostile and Portuguese manpower was too stretched across the planet for a long-term war, which is why they signed peace-treaties instead. Holding medieval Somalia would have been a major strategic win because you would control the mouth to the Red Sea and the African part of the Indian Ocean plus eliminate a big threat to Christian Abyssinia, so its not like the Portuguese didn't try, its just that the Somalis had muskets, cannons, ships and walled cities too. Cheers.
@Dragon Ball Super by the way, most portuguese don't know about these wars, it was too long ago, and Africa is always seen as something that consumed money and men with no profit or positive results in the long term. Only at university level can a portuguese student learn about these wars.
Can you make few episodes on modern wars India fought? For example 1965 war between India and Pakistan had the distinction of having largest tank battles after WW2.
SO COOL !! I'm Portuguese, so, of course, I have liked this video, I hope it comes into a series like the napoleon wars series. "The discovery era" was our most glorious era, I'm looking forward to seeing more videos where Portugal is featured.
Ger Many Portugal is a NATO member, we have declared war on Iraq when USA invaded, we helped East Timor our former colony from the Indonesian invasion. I don't remember what we did during the cold war after we become a democracy, but we fought a long very expensive war against our former African colonies during our dictatorship regime, it only ended in 1974. We have done small countries to United Nations blue helmets defensive force in Central Africa.
"Oh, cool, another Kings and Generals video" (It's about Portuguese colonial wars). "Bring me Pastéis de Nata, and a coffee! And don't disturb me for the next 23 minutes".
@Aimal Naveed the Ottoman Empire did managed to do inmense during the centuries it existed. So did the portuguese. The main amazing thing about the portuguese is how a small kingdom with very few people did managed to build an empire, going against the major powers in the world back then. One thing is that the portuguese never considered themselves as an empire, but a kingdom. And that is because its people were strong minded, corageous, their faith in God and seeking glory. The Ottoman empire knew that the small kingdom of Portugal was an expert in fighting the moors, and also knew that when the portuguese sent a 100 men to help defend Malta was going to make the conquest more dificult. The famous ottoman admiral Reis knew that when the portuguese arrived at the indian ocean, never has another kingdom done that, the ottoman were going to loose its market monopoly. About India, the portuguese had only a few men in Goa. I actually knew one of the soldiers that was a prisioner there. Portugal was fighting a war in Africa, in three fronts, it didnt had manpower nor resources to defend Goa or Diu not even Timor
I can't wait for either a series on the Dutch-Portuguese War or The War of The Spanish Succession since they've been doing my favorite war, The Thirty Years' War. (says I with a picture of Maurits van Oranje)
Woow you guys are incredible.. Lot of informations that we live the war scene like if we were there.. A Big thanks to all members of the channel you're amazing 👊🏻🌹
Ottoman series is back, baby! New and improved! Please, consider liking and sharing the video - that will allow more people to see it and will tell us that this series is in demand. :-)
Fought for the Dominican of a very tiny part of India bro, India is very big, even British never managed to subdue it entirely
What happened to the portugese soldiers who were captured by ottomans??
Ottoman series is one of my most favorite ones you’ve made.
u guyz din speak about bassein even though its treaty is spoken
the somali map is incorrect
Portugal is such a tiny country with limited manpower. It's amazing that they could create an overseas empire like this!
@Nuno Amaro u guys only focusedon maritiem and plundered
Brain power.
@Xavi Bizkaya Xavi, it Wa a civil war...King of Spain Was also the King of Portugal, at the time (King Filipe I of Portugal and II of Spain). In Terceira island, in the City of Praia da Vitória (Victory Beach) they had a great defeat against the islanders. Miguel Cervantes, the autor of D.Quixote de Lá Mancha, Was one of the defeated soldiers in that batle...
As a "Couto", I'm a brazilian with portuguese ancestry. Here in my coutry, they had to manage a country fifteen times larger than they "metropolis" home City (in the begin of their "discovery"). Even If historically prevails the winner version, they thrived many dangers nearly trading their lives for the profitable adventure of navigation, colonization and many clashes with foreign powers.
@NC Don,t we all have one ?😁😆
Grandes portugueses, fizeram de um país minúsculo, um império espalhado por todo o planeta, graças ao dom da navegação .
Um abraço do Brasil.
Avante império brasil
@Gil Rodrigues faz algo em vez de lamentar !
Falou bonito, só esqueceu de falar pra eles devolver nosso ouro kkkkkkk (zueira)
País minúsculo????
I am of Tamil-Portuguese Ancestry. My ancestors fought the Battle of Diu alongside our Portuguese allies. We are a sea faring people and settled predominantly today around the coasts of Tamil Nadu & Sri Lanka.
@Wilson Dsouza yet Goa is in India with its original inhabitants and original pre-500 year old culture is flourishing.
according to history muslim kings always think khaliphas like profet or god they will do anything for spreading islam
Hai mi name is Fernando, It is with emotion that i read your comment and know that you are prod of your Portuguese roots. A strong embrace of the de city of Porto Portugal. MI frend
Camilo Fernando (nome português), um abraço de Portugal.
Portuguese history is full of fantastic things and heroism! It is a small country only in geography, as in values, achievements, culture and history it is one of the largest in the world. Brazilian greetings!
Portugal is like a tourist who goes everywhere. No matter whose history you research. If they existed in the 1500s you can bet portugal was there
@Mike Rodrigues And then the British replaced the Dutch in the 1700s-early 1900s. And now America are the tourists.
@Miguel Silva the spanish where only strong in the americas if you see iberian names else where it‘s portuguese names for sure.
@Alias Anybody to late though portuguese where first everywhere
I'm Brazilian, very connected to the Portuguese, and I have to admit that the Portuguese were very brave to fight with ottoman empire at its peak. Many respects for my irmãos. ✝️🇵🇹
We portuguese are not your brothers. Our only bros are the spanish, and the rest of the europeans
Spain too. At Lepanto, no less. Kicked Ottoman ass.
@Abed AL Rahman Diab you didn't win the war, the ottomans and Portuguese both had equal influence from the balance of power point of view, the Portuguese dominated the Indian ocean and the ottomans the red sea, it can be seen as a Portuguese victory given the fact that you were way bigger and wealthier than the Portuguese and couldn't check their influence... Crying is left for you
@Abed AL Rahman Diab old enemies learn history to respect each other and learn how to live in this world together. Religion was used as an excuse to fight for power and money. Nowadays, Portugal is a very peaceful country that in the end of the ditactorship of 1974 gave independence to all the remaining colonies and nowadays has good relationship with all of them. Lets learn from history. Atheist, Christian or Muslim. Whatever the ethnicy, whatever the language we speak and whatever the past. Big hug my friend. Spread the word ; )
We have a story/legend from this siege. It was said that when the part of the wall fell, 5 men jumped to fill the gap and held the line against 300-400 ottoman soldiers. The narrow passage was enough for them to hold the line while being wounded, this ended up giving the rest of the men a morale boost to keep fighting. Another story tells of 2 other artillery soldiers who held part of the wall alone with their spears killing several ottoman soldiers. Fun legends we managed to pull from the writtings of that time.
“A fortuna do mundo é serem eles tão poucos, porque a Natureza, como aos leões, felizmente os fez raros”
Gaspar Correia, “Lendas da Índia”
(referindo palavras do inimigo, durante o cerco de Diu, em 1538)
@Sylva Hodracyrda 7
Good evening. Never heard anyone implying it is just legends, it was against 500 however. Besides, their names are recorded. One of these died, although I can’t recall which one at the moment:
- Sebastiam de Sá;
- António Pessanha;
- Bento Barbosa;
- Bartolomeu Corrêa;
- Master Joam, surgeon of Diu.
Best regards.
Damn, never was there a word mentioned regarding the Ottomans in any of my Indian school history books ! All thanks to you guys for bringing this content to us (even when India doesn't provide you with much viewership currently)
@Doctor Strange most people outside Africa originated from India... It was from India that humans travelled everywhere
@Doctor Strange
With invader we mean people not native to the region, maurya was native to the region so he wasn’t an invader.
🙋From Gujarat, had no idea about ottoman.
Mas Dhillom it must be some weird Portuguese influence.... We don't learn about this fight too and we won.
Maybe Portuguese and Indians are just not "war centric countries" and are chill about there wins?
You can find this in old NCERTs and many history books but currently it isn't included
Right now they are Only glorifying mughals and gandhi....
Imagine if Portugal was a big country. Portuguese are incredible brave and strategistic warriors.
@Vlad the impaler nice to meet you :)
@TheBosphorusbridge 🤣🤣🤣loser
jaffer raza lol the living quality of Portugal and turkey is vastly different..turkey is like Russia..Russia has only Moscow anf st petersburg..just like turkey has ankara and Istanbul..the rest are very poor land..while Portugal living condition is very rich
Our Empire was dissolved by the USA
As a Brazilian, everything that I learned in school about the Portuguese Empire was related to Brazil only. It is funny to know that at the same time, they were fighting countless battles and colonizing places all around the world
@Real Ramone 705 anos feitos há dois dias.
@Aimal Naveed Battle of Aljubarrota,
Portugal - 5k
Castlile - 30k
The Castillians fled after a major defeat and there was a 3 year mourn for the dead.
@Kalil Tannuri Procura um livro chamado "Homens, espadas e tomates" e vais ver que essa de não haver coragem é ignorância.
@Aimal Naveed yes... U were better right? Thousands trying to fight hundreds! And lost... 👌👌👌
@Aimal Naveed have you seen the movie 300? And the kid killing the wild wolf between the rocks? It’s called strategy, they used their brain, the first empire, portuguese were very intelligent and ahead of their time.
Btw Portugal didn’t fight the ottomans behind a wall, Portugal fight with 17 warships in Diu against 200 ottoman ships, and Portugal won, Portugal had the most advanced warships back then. This video is not accurate, Portugal only went to war in Diu to fight the Sultan of Egypt, Indians and ottomans cos the vice king of Portugal wanted to revenge the death of his son who died 1 year earlier on the battle of Chaul. This battle wouldn’t happen otherwise cos they had orders from the Portuguese king to attack the red sea instead.
Herois do Mar, Nobre Povo, Nacao Valente e Imortal. Portugal, SEMPRE...:)
AMÉN IRMÃO
Já cá faltavam os patrioteiros!
They maybe brave. But they were not immortal all the time, half of them were not heroes and noble.
I know that anthem. A friend of mine translated it for me. I get goose-bumps just writing this.
*Fun fact:* The Ottoman’s inability to consistently maintain a large fleet of galleons in the Indian Ocean meant that Admiral Sefer Reis would often counter the larger Portuguese galleons by timing his rowed galley attacks against them so that they would be forced to sail against the wind. Thus separating one galleon from the rest of the fleet and defeating them in detail. Often his strategy would prove incredibly effective due to his ability to hug the coastline and evade the open sea.
@Luis Coutinho Thanks for the info. I will impress my Portuguese buddies with my new knowledge.
@Judge Magister rsss You're right...
江俊杰
1. Then you clearly haven’t read the book if you’re claiming there were no details about Admiral Sefer Reis.
2. After your paradox analogy didn’t work, did you seriously just comment on my channel and try to justify a fucking genocide?
江俊杰 Imagine viewing real life historical empires in terms of paradox game mechanics.
Nowadays the currencies of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Iran... are called Ryal.. The name of portuguese currency on XV and XVI centuriões and brazilian today... This a proof how the portuguese dominated the Indian ocean and their currency was valuable and trustworthy by many nations
Really, what impresses me most is that only 40 men remained able to fight in Diu at the end, yet the Portuguese managed to trick the numerically superior Ottomans to abandon the siege altogether. De Silviera was truly a master of warfare by deceit.
Ottoman's lost 1200... They where against all odds
@Aimal Naveed 😑
@Giorgi Jioshvili nothing
@Aimal Naveed what?
@Giorgi Jioshvili ...
I live in India in a town named VASAI ( called BASSIEN by the Portugese) , my town was also captured by the Portuguese Admiral Nuno Da cuna and we also have Portuguese era Forts and churches in my town. Portuguese ruled in my town for 250 Years until the Marathas liberated it in 18th century.
Technically we can be neighbours....
ok poojeet
Are u crew member ?
@Carlos Pereira not exactly but during Portuguese rule people in my town converted to roman Christianity and took Portugese names although there are like 5%ppl in my town that have some Portugese ancestry and many might even be mixed but don't know abt exact demographics.
The Portuguese always seem to amaze me the more I learn. They're basically the underdogs every time and still win like, half the time.
In the 1500's, Portugal had the most advanced navy in the world. In the battle of Diu in 1509, Portugal won with 18 ships against over 200 ships on the ottoman side. They were pretty much unchallenged until the king of Portugal died with no heir, making the King of Spain that was half Portuguese the king of Portugal and begining the Iberian Union. This was when Portugal started to weaken as Spain's enemies were now Portugal's enemies, and Spain didnt help defend portuguese territories so the dutch stole most of the spice trade in the indian ocean, shifting the global superpower from the portuguese to the dutch.
@P S Thanks for your answer. Since the Vikings never wrote down their adventures, I get it from the Portuguese. I find it strange and a pity that people don't know where the American city Albuquerque got its name from. He is after all the greatest sea captain that has ever sailed the sea. Did I tell you that I found Vasco da Gama's grave in an old Portuguese church in Cochin? Well, they took his remains back to Lisbon after a couple of years and gave him a suitable burial place there, but originally, when Vasco died of cholera in Cochin, they buried him there. These men are true heroes and great examples of what men can do when they have the right spirit for adventures. Go out and find the world and put it on a map. It's a great achievement for all mankind. The Portuguese didn't fear their foes. The letter the Portuguese captain sent the Turkish eunuch in Goa is an insult that echoes down the history. I can only imagine the impotent rage of the eunuch. The Portuguese history is rich and something to be proud of and even if time changes, I like to think that the spirit of these men is still alive. It's the Viking spirit of men who never see the limits, who cross the borders, may it be to sail down the Russian rivers to Constantinople, to sail around Cape Horn in icy winds or to travel in a rocket to the moon. They have all a Viking inside fighting to get out. Cheers, my Portuguese brother.
@Jan T. Carlsson i admite your passion for our History. A bit of trivia:
Out navy, the worlds oldest existing navy is 705 yo.
The word "commando" usually used to name special unit troops comes from the Portuguese self commanded exploratory navy units called "comandos" . They where named like that because with the lack of modern communication systems they were given autonomy from (non existing) central HQ commands to make their own strategical decisions on the ground wherever those Portuguese troops were sent.
And nothing has changed. Now it's not at sea in a greater international and political context, but in football... being underdogs with a small population and still winning 'once in a while'.
Yeah!! Another video about Portuguese history! Thank you kings and generals for this, I know me and my fellow Portuguese always appreciate having our history told. Would love to see more about Portuguese adventures in Ethiopia!
Another great battle I'd like to see you guys cover is the siege of Cochin, that battle is one of my favorites in all of history simply because of the characters and just the drama of it all. But still thank you for this video.
Proud to be portuguese,no matter what haters say..
plunders
The Ottoman's forgot to turn off "fire at will" during the assault.
Lul
@Skylighter !!!! we have amost ter same name
Brawlhalla ranked be like
@Jacob Perschbacher Empire Total War
What game is it?
it's a beautiful video. as a Turk, I admire Portugal and the Portuguese 🇹🇷🤝🇵🇹
Hug from Portugal.
👏👏👏what a beautiful message you posted
🇵🇹 🇹🇷 from Portugal
@Wolraad Tuis my house is your house. If you ever come to Portugal let me know here. I will sort you out with a place to stay and a car to drive around. My respect and admiration to you my friend. 👏🏼💪🏼
I’m Portuguese I know we had our differences in the past with the Turks but hopefully 🙏 we move on and try to get along and bring peace
I admire them too. Years ago as a loudmouth no back-down youngster. I once helped a Portuguese guy get his old jalopy going after he stopped for me hiking on the road. We pulled away in his VW beetle and it stalled and wouldn't start. My oldman was a avid fan of VW Beetles and we owned six through the years. He was a part-time mechanic and taught me well. I just set the points and we were off. About 4 months later I was in a town away from home and picked up shit with 2 bullies but I pounded them both. Walking back to my friends house I saw them in 2 cars in a group of 8 getting out behind me and charging I laid out the first but the 2nd and 3rd bashed me too much and before the others got too close I gapped it across traffic with all these punks chasing me. Then I saw my Portuguese buddy and a friend driving by in the opposite direction with his eyes wide open looking at me. I couldnt stop because the ones chasing me were just like 7-8 m away. But my buddy turned the vw around and they came by shouting at me to get in. I jumped in and we got away but my buddy decided to turn back. As they were getting back in their cars we stopped by them, My buddy said wait here but I didnt. I got out with them and the 3 of us Pounded the CRAP out of 7 of them. 1 managed to get away with my buddy hot on his tail but he still got away. They helped me because I fixed his car with a screwdriver. We are still friends and even the guy who got away, we became friends later. He ended up marrying my sisters friend. A cute chick which I had an interest in but she had none for me. Good because I married a beautiful girl 4 years later with whom I have 4 children. She and I have till today not once argued about anything. I met her at another Portuguese friend of mine's house. She was his chick's best friend. I became an admirer of the Portuguese because many of them are upright no nonsense helpful friendly true friends and I love their history. I just love their amazing alone against the world history.
Great video!
I was actually expecting the 1509 battle when I saw Diu in the title. Due to the events that led to the battle, the battle itself and the repercusions in the geopolitics of the time after the battle I believe it's a much more interesting and important one in History knowledge.
Also Afonso de Albuquerque deserves it's own video. The things he did were just wild and wicked!
As a portuguese, im very sad that we lost all the importance that we had around the world, making all this sacrifices unworthit today
“The Spice has great value to us. The spice must flow. That is...the law”
As always, here are games and mods that we used in the making of
this video:
-Portuguese revamped mod (TW:Shogun 2)
-NTW3 (TW:Napoleon)
-1600AD (TW:Empire)
Best wishes,
ڤمنه ملايو
@Yolo Yolo they have one video on it
@Tony Truong A man of culture, I see.
Why did you not cover Ottoman Safavid war? You are missing out
House Ordos?
Arab melayu kah tu?
The battle of Diu is probably the most important battle to the modern world 🌎
Its like a real life Hollywood epic! Legendary!
Vivas a Portugal 🇵🇹
Vivas aos portugueses! Vivas a toda a lusofonia!
The time when Spices were the Oil of their century...
@Juan De la Cruz it seems like india need some democracy
As indian i feel thank god that spice is not now a days oil😌
@Luis Brito India's share of global gdp when British arrived was 25 percent in 1700.
By 1947 they reduced it to under 3 percent.
Robbed and maimed in the end, British left nothing but English language.
Portugal and Netherlands were the USA of that time lol
@Luis Brito
You quite right, in some ways.
Major East Asian economies (China, S. Korea, Japan) are leading the growth (economically, technologically, socially speakin) far more better than say, their West Europe counterparts recently.
Even some nations in Southeast Asia (e.g. Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand) are part of the asia pacific region that have been projected to have positive growth for the mid term.
In a way too, it is Karma for West Europe. They (i.e. British, Portugal, France Spain) wreaked havoc in Asia from 1500 to 1950.
Pre 1500, the global maritime trade involving previous china dynasty, south asia, east asia, southeast asia, the arabian peninsular were far far more peaceful.
What an incredible subject! Portugal has a rich history of conquests in the Orient.
El Imperio portugués sobre todo defendía factorías y puertos para efectuar la compra de especies y la trata de esclavos.
No colonizaron ni exploraron grandes territorios en sus viajes.
Excepto Brasil la costa y Angola y Mozambique capturando y comprando negros para llevar a América o venderlos a los ingleses y holandeses mayoritariamente.
I love how the Portuguese casually had 400 ships in India in 1538 lol
A mere trifle for the curry plugs
@Aasams P B Goa was not a colony long time before 1961...theres nothing you can do abou it...Goa was part of Portugal for 450 years...and its part of India since 1961 LOL....deal with that
@br3menPT are you saying that Goa was part of Portugese before the portugese set foot on India 😂 or are you saying that Portugese never colonised it at any point of time. Both of them will be wrong
@Aasams P B its not colonialism.....Goa was Portugal before colonialism exist
My god, that is a heroic defence. What absolute legends.
I am from Diu where the Battle was fought.
I never knew that on this land where I stand had encountered such a fierce battle.
Thank you for imparting education.
Great video guys! Thank you so much for this! Also may I suggest a video into the the Portuguese legendary figure and national hero Nuno Álvares Pereira known as the Saint Constable! With your expertise in making videos about interesting historical figures, you have so much good material in his history - By 13 years old was already scounting for castillian troops for the army, he went and fought against his elder brother in the battle of Aljubarrota, participated in the battle of Ceuta the beginning of the Portuguese Empire, after that retired to monastic life and gave away all his posessions to his comrades in arms wich was nearly half the country! Without this great general there would be no independent Portugal. Thank you!
In Brazil we hardly learn about Portugal amazing exploits during the Age of Discovery, save for Cabral's discovery of the Brazilian lands and sometimes Vasco da Gama's voyage. We should learn more about Portugal's rich history!
@Mazakan TC lol
@Bartolomeu Lança Turkish landforces 209bc...
@爱国人 Yes. And every country that becomes socialist turns into a cesspool of crime, corruption, and a distancing from God which allows for perversion disrespect abuse, blatant daylight robbery and a breakdown of society and law and order. European countries usually just take longer to turn to shit. But they will until communism or as they prefer to say: socialism, is thrown out of government. Just look at South America. Or the United States in the next few years. Or even now in many cities in the U.S. Look it up and see for yourself. That is Socialism. It's Communism with a nice name. A lighter version of Communism. But its communism and it always gets much worse.
@Wolraad Tuis I have to agree with you that the Portuguese government is socialist af
VIVA PORTUGAL 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
I'm proud that we share the Iberian Peninsula with the Portuguese
Saludos de España🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦
Deviamos ter lutado os dois no mar da india :P
É recíproco no que me toca 🙏
As a Portuguese I enjoy this new series! But I will cry in the last episode
Diu is still a major tourist destination in India. A must visit for anyone planning a trip to India.
Great video. This is an area of history I know little about. I generally knew that the Portuguese had altered the trade routes of Asia away from the Arab world, and that it was a major reason for the long decline of the Ottoman Empire. This also caused a major shift in wealth to Europe. However, I have no idea of the people involved, the battles, and the process by which it was done.
It is fascinating. I look forward to more.
Good old Portugal.... love as always from the UK.
I love Portugal 🇬🇧🇵🇹
By the way thanks for the archers in Lisbon conquering. Quite a forgotten help that so much influence in our push against the moors.
Our oldest ally
600 years later here we are 😉 and toghether we stand
Love from Pakistan.
Portugal is one of those countries that were a quiet powerhouse.
They have their skeletons in the closet too, but they deserve alot of glory.
We in Malaysia for example, appreciate the little heritage that Portugal left after they conquered Malacca.
But only that, nothing to glorify, when they couldn't even leave any real, positive impact.
According to historian, the portugal action in southeast asia was far more damaging, and actually destabilized the whole spice trade.
@FaithRox Its good to see a man that values glory and does not look at things with some 'modern' sensibility. Good on you
Supreme Godzilla Yes. When a small nation demonstrates it's power over a much larger amoubt of land and people than it should, it is glorious. It's glorious when Finland embarasses the USSR in the Winter War. It's glorious when Greeks held off the Persians at Thermopolyae, and it's glorious when little Portugal, one of the weakest nations in Europe, owns a vast empire.
@upublic Sissy
Yes!!!! Thank you love the Portuguese history. Keep posting more Portuguese videos!!!
@luis marques Portuguese were kick out
@Aimal Naveed ????
@luis marques Go and study or wait for this channel to upload about that war.
Have a nice day.
Allah Hafiz.
@Aimal Naveed what happened?
@luis marques Yeah what happened to Portuguese in Somalia.
Portugal is a country of heroes and warriors that could very well be a saga of movies 🇵🇹
I mean, you just DON’T get great historical content like this anymore. There are only a few other channels which I hold in the same regard as y’all. Great video as always, looking forward to more.
Thank you so much for making videos on India. Please continue to do so, no one makes such high quality material on India as you guys do !
Something this channel has taught me is that for all the focus we tend to give to outnumbered forces sacrificing themselves for their cause, it seems we often overlook the small garrisons that have won against rediculous odds.
You should research about Afonso de Albuquerque, a great warrior, the lion of the seas, the terrible, the portuguese mars! Lots of streets in his name here in Portugal
Another great video! If someone is interested in more information on this topic I highly recommend Conquerors by Roger Crowley. Its a great book on history of Portuguese exploration and covers this battle also.
Cant wait to see more on the Portuguese-Ottoman wars! The Abyssinia campaign was EPIC! Looking forward to the next episode.
Thanks for your work.
As a Portuguese, it's really cool to see such quality vídeos about my country's history.
Great video! It was nice to learn about a topic in Ottoman history that is rarely covered.
*the thumbnail of this video has the portrait of Selim II and not Suleyman I which I found odd.
The Portuguese attack of Diu in 1509 wasnt planned.
That attack occurred when the joint Mamluk-Gujarat navy attack Cochin in 1508 and killed Lourenço de Almeida, the son of Francisco de Almeida the 1st Viceroy of India.
For 3 days he mourned the death of his son, when he approach his men he said:
"He who ate the chick must also eat the rooster or pay for it".
Refusing to accept the orders of his King by giving the position of Viceroy to Afonso de Albuquerque, due to Francisco's hate for him as Afonso was responsible to intercept any Muslim fleet coming out of the Red Sea and die to the fact that Francisco wanted to personally destroy the Mamluk fleet.
Before moving his navy to Diu he wrote a letter to the captain of Diu, Malik Ayyaz:
"I the Viceroy say to you, honored Meliqueaz captain of Diu, that I go with my knights to this city of yours, to take the people who were welcomed there, who in Chaul fought my people and killed a man who was called my son, and I come with hope in God of Heaven to take revenge on them and on those who assist them, and if I don't find them I will take your city, to pay for everything, and you, for the help you have done at Chaul. This I tell you, so that you are well aware that I go, as I am now on this island of Bombay, as he will tell you the one who carries this letter."
P. S. : Don't underestimate the love of a father for his son.
@Luzitanium Agree, a movie realized by Riddley Scott on this subject would be epic.
As Francisco de Almeida watched the city burn, he said "no torch was lit on your funeral. Today, I lit up this city for you, my son"
Why sultan of gujrat lost ......
The reason was Bahadur shah of Gujrat was facing hardships. He went on war with mewar, malwa sultanate, Deccan sultanate ,Mughals and kept on expanding his kingdom. Bahadur shah went to deal with Potugese was assasinated and thus sultanate falling end started .Many years before Mahmud Begada defeated Portugese with the iron hand known as battle of chaul.
@Ustanik Francisco de Almeida died in 1509 or 1510 so no...
The Battle of Diu 1509 was a Portuguese counterattack of the Mamluk-Gujarat attack in Chaul in 1508.
The 2nd siege of Diu (in 1546), Diu was in Portuguese hands since 1536, the first siege was in 1538.
Gujarat, with Ottoman support, had an army of 10.000 soldiers vs the Portuguese 440 men, receiving reinforcements, near the end of the siege, of 3.000 soldiers including Indian (hindu) militias. As soon the fleet arrived they bombarded the enemy and they had to retreat.
The Portuguese always had cities like Goa and Diu bcz those cities were basically islands extremely defensable by using cannons of the ships to disperse the enemy.
Didn't this happen in the second siege of Diu?
I've recently finished the book "Conquerors" by Roger Crowley and I feel very happy that all the things I read there appeared in this video :D
Wow, again a surprisingly well-done video I can't believe I never learnt about this in my history books... 😅
Im a lover of history! Ive watched almost all the videos man..i recommend you guys to upload the American civil war too..love to know the history especially with your animation..Looking forward to it..❤️❤️
Right, now i want a colonial portuguese series.
And an episode about the expel of the french from Rio de Janeiro, with the Araribóia night attack.
@Marcus Vinicius Magalhães de Almeida you are right, I wrote Arariboia but I was thinking in Cunhambebe. Sorry
@G博远 Actually Arariboia fought with the portuguese against the french. And for his assistance received the region of Niterói, and his descendants still exist today
I Agree! The conquest of Rio de Janeiro.
Arariboia and his two cannon against the portuguese governor Estácio de Sá!
Estácio who died on the battle of the conquest of Rio de Janeiro!
@ComradeKenobi reddit
That eould be awesome, indeed
the secret of Portugal's success in the Ottoman confrontation was already having closed-back firearms. These cannons were very powerful. They fired five shots and with another kilometer longer in distance (one detail - 300 years later the Battle of Waterloo still used front loading cannons)
Very well made, Kudos to everyone that made it possible 👍
Can’t wait for the next episode. Finally a bit of Ottoman history in the Horn of Africa and for the first time I get to see from European sources the history of the Somali Sultanates. 🇸🇴 💪🏿🙌🏿💪🏿💪🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
Dont worry ALLAH with us my brother turkey began to return to the old Ottoman glorious power will be again in 2030 🇹🇷🤝🇸🇴
Portuguese involvement in Ethiopia, Somalia, Quénia, Tanzania and the Omani empire wars.
I love to see my country in these videos! More Portugal videos please!
Love your videos. They're well animated and well explained.
Great video keep it up.
Originally Bombay is Portuguese city burhan shah of nizam dynasty gifted this city to Garcia who was his physician !
Certo, correto, and your second name is portuguese, Sousa. abraço de Portugal
The Abyssinia-Adal War series will be great!
There is a legend about a portuguese musketeer who risked his own life to kill Ahmad Gragn (the Adal sultan), because the Emperor of Ethiopia promised to gave his sister in marriage to any man who could kill Gragn.
João de Castilho was the name of this mysterious portuguese hero, who died after killing Gragn.
Makes sense, Ethiopian chicks are smoking hot
I hope they cover the Ajuuran Portuguese conflict aswell since that is just as interesting
@PTLemon lol
Amazing! I knew about the Portuguese help to Ethiopians against Somalis, they even thought the Ethiopian Emperor was Prester John, but I didn't know about this story
Legend says that the ottoman commander was a eunuch and that when he wrote the letter to Captain Silveira. The Portuguese captain replied. " Most honourable commander Pacha. May you know that behind these walls there are men with balls bigger than your cannonballs and they do not fear those who don't have them".
There is also the story of a Dutch priest that says that a portuguese soldier who ran out of bullets started shooting his own teeth
@Jaif No. Servant is hizmetçi/hizmetli. Hadım means eunuch. Hadım etmek means to castrate someone.
Yes. He was eunuch. "Hadım" is actually his nickname, which means eunuch in Turkish. His full name is Hadım Süleyman Paşa (Suleiman "Eunuch" Pasha)
Nothing is stopping the Portuguese from their spices, not even the Ottomans
in kerala(india) war between dutch vs portugese ..portugese failed in that war
we do fkn love them! XD
@Bernard Ronnious de Silva Endymion copium
Portugal is gangsta till fighting in land wars 😂😂 you were owner of the sea, appreciate it... but we were owner of the land as Ottoman Empire...
Hi! Thank you for creating such a rich content like this. I would love to be able to create content like this, and i was wondering what is your sources of research, is it mainly The Great Courses Plus website or do you have more than one source, if it's no secret? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Keep making content like this!
This is so high quality work. Amazing. Thank you for the history lessons
@Leonor Sousa This Leonor Sousa is not who she seems to be. She is a troll who nurtures racist ideas against Portugal and the Portuguese.
He or she does not deserve a joule of our energy except to be exposed and embarrassed as being someone very intolerant.
@Ar Af Yet again, you described yourself perfectly. Cheers
@Leonor Sousa Childish bitterness...LOLOLOL
look up *Battle of Villanueva de Barcarrota* and learn real history. Cheers
Nothing is comparable to Lepanto, that battle definitely decided the fate of the entire world 🌎🌍
@19A_9155 Shanto inanmıyorum...
Lepanto decided nothing after lepanto ottoman navy conquered create even raid England and Iceland
Great video!
Would also love to see a video about Duarte Pacheco Pereira, a famous portugese Admiral who fought and won many battles against the odds :) especially in Calicut at the very same time.
Would you give it a thought??
As a Gujarati thank you for not using anglicised 'Cambay'. The correct name is Khambhat.
@Vantablanc They do. People who are not as well informed about the vernacular or indigenous names use anglicised names. Like the Ganges instead of Ganga, etc.
Does anyone actually even say Cambay anymore? I've only ever heard it as Khambhat. But it feels bad when people say "Broach" instead of "Bhrigukachchha" or "Seringapatam"instead of "Srirangapatnam"
I'm from gujrat diu is 200 km from my home town it's controlled by central government now here is the fun part. In my state gujrat drinking alcohol or beer is illegal so we gujrati people go diu for drinking. Yap there is a European style church and castle .
@Lion King nop, it's a dry state because of some other reasons, it is the land of Gandhi.
Alcohol is vegan
@The_Logician And ?
I remember seeing something about that. If I’m not mistaken, one of the beers you can get there is super bock. Portuguese beer.
Isabel da Veiga, wife to a portuguese officer and Ana Fernandes, wife to the garrison's medical officer both organized and led the remaining women in the fort, fighting in the walls by day, tending to the wounded by nightfall.
P.S:
Portugal,
Caralho.
Im from diu, have been to the diu fort many times, its still treacherous to attack it even by todays standards the engineering is something else. One of the bastion overlooks the the ocean unhindered massive midieval cannons still lie there overlooking the ocean, looking at the huge cannons it could fire at a ship a kilometre away easily.
@Vishal Parekh that's the difference between portugal and other colonial powers we actually tried to learn from other cultures and actively incentivised interracial marriage it's just extremely infuriating people judging every colonial nation in the same light as the french and the brits
@luis marques yup still a very impressive design, they also used many indian designs like pike studded doors to prevent elephants from ramming it.
Portuguese design....
A recommendation: Please don't occupy the subtitles space to show movements of battles, it can be annoying for those who don't know english as much as others.
Thanks! And long live K&G!
Miguel Quezada I use full screen in such cases it works for me the subs does not get in the way
Would love to see more content on the Mamluks as well!! Especially the first Battle of Diu.
Outstanding content and informative as always. Thank you
I did the Cape of Good Hope Run in 5 parsecs smuggling from the spice mines of India. Had to ditch the cargo midway because of the Turks.
Ha, Han Solo reference. Respect from Portugal.
Had heard of Han Chinese, but not Han Portuguese.
@Aimal Naveed So don't take it personally and rewrite history for your own benefit. The Ottomans remained powerful for a long time but, as with everything, technological advancements changed the rules and new players entered the game. Even the colonial empires, who had first surpassed the Ottomans and others, would, themselves, lose out to new sentiments like nationalism, independence movements, global industrial warfare and be supplanted by new superpowers - the USA and the Soviet Union. Which brings us to today where only the USA is left as the sole superpower. Countries in Africa and East Asia are rising fast now so in a couple hundred years or more - who knows? There may be an entirely new world order from what we see today.
@Aimal Naveed this reads like poor nationalist revisionism. Controlling trade from India was a huge advantage for any empire since the classical era and the Ottoman sultan would have known this - it's why he wanted to maintain strong ties with India in the first place. The problem for the Ottomans wasn't that they didn't care about India, it was that they were facing a new kind of enemy. The Ottomans were a relic from the past where having huge continuous land-based holdings was the epitome of power and (you were right about this) most of their forces were tied up on land as a result. Portugal was tiny in comparison, however, it was a forerunner of a new kind of empire - the colonial empire - which used naval advancements to emphasise control of the seas and trade routes as well as to capture and settle territory far away from home. Portugal would have never beaten the entirety of Ottoman forces on land but they never had to - being too far away and using their superior navy to shut the Ottomans and others out of lucrative trade-routes was enough. Colonial empires would eventually become global powers - culminating in the largest empire of all time - the British Empire - which, at its height, controlled over 26% of the entire world, vast amounts of its wealth and substantially surpassed the next largest empire in history - the Mongol Empire.
Ottomans lost to portuguse beacuse portuguse were at their peak and the force that to fight them were new, junior and less professional. The main forces were fighting and defeating whole Europe and safavid.
Also sultan himself was not interested in India. If he was he would send his professional force and Kick out the portuguese from India.
Also, portuguese fort was well constructed and have unlimited supplies.
We are getting closer to the much coveted Adal-Abysynian War 🤩🤩🤩
Really!!!! That would be awesome
👌🏾
this series is getting better and better!! keep 'em commin'!
Interesting. I don't believe I've ever heard much about the direct Ottoman involvement in India.
YES YES YES! FINALLY AN ENGLISH NARRATION ABOUT PORTUGAL AT ITS PEAK!!! Don't you think this is better movie material than most movies already made?
Sad that they still can't figure out the difference between Alfonso and Alfonso
You might think that arming women is a sign of desperation, but my mother is portuguese, and believe me, you don't want to see a portuguese woman angry.
Já dizia a padeira de Aljubarrota.
@Pedro Sabino ...ok tens razão
@Fábio Costa O chinelo tem o bônus de ser uma arma de longo alcance kkkk
@MultiSuperGuide Her name was Brites de Almeida. Some historians say that maybe she has the credits for the feats of several women. Beware of the Portuguese Mothers!! :-)
Oh no, you don't....
So Portugal fought the Ottomans in India. Colonial wars are fun!
And fought the Rothschild private East India Company Army.
@Salah ddine BensebaneRomans were colonial,
Not really 😬
Yeah, we did pretty amazing thing in the 15th century...
We even managed to sink a US carrier with a smelly diesel sub a few years ago in a war games around europe... Go figure that.
We love ottoman
Have only heard of these fights in brief instants. Thank you for the new stuff to learn about!
This seems like a great video. And I can tell that the conflict between these two empires is going to be a fun set of video's. When is the next video on the Imjin War. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
venezianos e turcos só tiveram aquilo que mereceram, o que um pai faz por vingança 🇵🇹
Esses tugas são fodas kk
Battle Alqacer Qibir 1578 was a Turkish Portuguese Rivality too.
These time in North Africa
The Ottomans was there with Yanissaries and Cannons.
The Ottomans supported a Side
And Portugues supported a Side
Portugal lost not only Influence in Morocco, they lost their King and their Independence to Spain for 60 years.
Ottomans where the Superior Continental Power and Portugal Maritime Power at these Time.
Alfonso de Albuqerque's main goal was to reach Mecca through the Red Sea and exchange the Corpses of the Prophet Mohammed and Mecca for Jerusalem. In Terms of Trade, too, he had aims to bring the spice trade to Portugal via the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa. These goals could no longer be achieved after the emergence of the Ottomans as the successor to the Mameluks. The Priority of the Turks was the Land and the Security of the Red Sea & Aden. The Portuguese put their Priority on the Trading Posts and Fortresses on the High Sea.
Aí é a batalha de Diu de 1509, o vídeo é sobre o cerco de Diu de 1538
Aí é a batalha de Diu de 1509, o vídeo é sobre o cerco de Diu de 1538
Vc assistiu o video do imperios ad ?
Love Ottoman history. Cant wait for the one between the Somali Adal sultanate and Abyssinian forces. Please also consider doing a video on the Portuguese and Ajuran wars.
Thank you fot all these video's on Ottoman history! There is so much to learn about the Empire's activities that we have to learn thanks to you (rather than Turkish sources).
As an indian,i never knew this happened until few days ago,and you guys showed it to me in full detail,thanks
It's oblivion protestant propaganda... they also killed the witches... :D
@rita Das I like history too . Unfortunately I was taught nothing about this in school in 70s
@ZUBOY Yup
@Sadiq Javed We did only when they took Constantinople and WW1 , rest of the history is useless in Indian history as history is written by winners and winners impact most on Indian society , today Diu , Goa still remains , Portuguese won , they wrote , and UK won , they wrote
i dont think student even hear of ottoman empire in schoola
l would love to see something about my mother land Argentina... Even though we dont have an actual history of large or long battles,l would love to see a video from this channel dedicated to one of our battles during the independence period/Revolitionary era.
Great production as always.
Argentina deserves a series about them. Confusing, I'm imagining have to learn that must be a bit complicated no?
Vasco Da Gama, Afonso de Albuquerque and Tristão Da Cunha all tried to permanently capture Somali port cities of Adal and Ajuuraan but received so much resistance that they sailed towards India instead and knighted themselves for surviving the Somali battles. A few years later Cristóvão da Gama died protecting Abyssinia from Adal.
Looking forward to the next video.
After earing that was “portuguese Piracy” i lost mi taste to se the next episodes
@Dragon Ball Super Somalia was never a Portuguese main place of interest. The goal was securing routes to facilitate trade with India.
@graciano neves Thanks for the source. As for Barawa even there, the Portuguese couldn't hold the city after attacking it twice in eighty years because the population was too hostile and Portuguese manpower was too stretched across the planet for a long-term war, which is why they signed peace-treaties instead. Holding medieval Somalia would have been a major strategic win because you would control the mouth to the Red Sea and the African part of the Indian Ocean plus eliminate a big threat to Christian Abyssinia, so its not like the Portuguese didn't try, its just that the Somalis had muskets, cannons, ships and walled cities too.
Cheers.
@Dragon Ball Super by the way, most portuguese don't know about these wars, it was too long ago, and Africa is always seen as something that consumed money and men with no profit or positive results in the long term. Only at university level can a portuguese student learn about these wars.
@Dragon Ball Super but is true, portuguese never conquered a single Somali city, except Barawa for a few years.
This channel is such an interesting and informative for those with taste of history, keep up good work.
Portugal stronk! Gotta have them spices! And the next episode also has some amazing battles, can't wait!
@Kings and Generals can you cover the conquest of Mallaca by the portuguese?
@ComradeKenobi
Next vid is on Somalia/Ethiopia or am I mistaken?
@Kings and Generals After all this time?
Always.
Spice must flow
Astonishing work of art and historical description
Thanks in deed
Can you make few episodes on modern wars India fought? For example 1965 war between India and Pakistan had the distinction of having largest tank battles after WW2.
SO COOL !! I'm Portuguese, so, of course, I have liked this video, I hope it comes into a series like the napoleon wars series. "The discovery era" was our most glorious era, I'm looking forward to seeing more videos where Portugal is featured.
Ger Many Portugal is a NATO member, we have declared war on Iraq when USA invaded, we helped East Timor our former colony from the Indonesian invasion. I don't remember what we did during the cold war after we become a democracy, but we fought a long very expensive war against our former African colonies during our dictatorship regime, it only ended in 1974. We have done small countries to United Nations blue helmets defensive force in Central Africa.
Thank you for stories about lesser known conflicts such as these
"Oh, cool, another Kings and Generals video"
(It's about Portuguese colonial wars).
"Bring me Pastéis de Nata, and a coffee! And don't disturb me for the next 23 minutes".
Ah Ah. I bought 6 yesterday.
@Aimal Naveed 600 Historical fact
@Felipe Maran 22:59
@Spade Jack yeah you are right they both were great.
have a nice day.
Chill.
@Aimal Naveed the Ottoman Empire did managed to do inmense during the centuries it existed. So did the portuguese. The main amazing thing about the portuguese is how a small kingdom with very few people did managed to build an empire, going against the major powers in the world back then. One thing is that the portuguese never considered themselves as an empire, but a kingdom.
And that is because its people were strong minded, corageous, their faith in God and seeking glory.
The Ottoman empire knew that the small kingdom of Portugal was an expert in fighting the moors, and also knew that when the portuguese sent a 100 men to help defend Malta was going to make the conquest more dificult.
The famous ottoman admiral Reis knew that when the portuguese arrived at the indian ocean, never has another kingdom done that, the ottoman were going to loose its market monopoly.
About India, the portuguese had only a few men in Goa. I actually knew one of the soldiers that was a prisioner there. Portugal was fighting a war in Africa, in three fronts, it didnt had manpower nor resources to defend Goa or Diu not even Timor
I can't wait for either a series on the Dutch-Portuguese War or The War of The Spanish Succession since they've been doing my favorite war, The Thirty Years' War. (says I with a picture of Maurits van Oranje)
Awesome video! Don't know if you done other videos about the Mughal empire. Regardless more about it would be great to make.
Portuguese in Japan, India, China, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique, OMG.
and Australia, US, Canada...
And SriLanka, Indonesia, South Africa, Angola, Persian Golf, Guinea, Molucas....
Yay! More of my history that I didn't learn in school!
Can't wait for more~
Woow you guys are incredible.. Lot of informations that we live the war scene like if we were there.. A Big thanks to all members of the channel you're amazing 👊🏻🌹
This is all so good, by far the best on KZclip. Very well done!