Khoja Zufar
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Khoja Zufar or Coje Çafar, also called Coge Sofar, or Safar Aga in Portuguese, Cosa Zaffar in Italian, and also as Khwaja Safar Salmani or Khuádja Tzaffar, was a soldier and local ruler in Western Ind
Drawing from 1520–1790
"Portuguese drawing of Khoja Zufar (Coge Cofar) from 1798"
Siege of Diu (1538)
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The siege of Diu occurred when an army of the Sultanate of Gujarat under Khadjar Safar, aided by forces of the Ottoman Empire, attempted to capture the city of Diu in 1538, then held by the Portuguese
Khoja Zufar
…Safar Salmani or Khuádja Tzaffar (خوجا زفار), was a soldier and local ruler in Western India during the 16th century. He was a leader in the failed Siege of Diu. Zufar was an experienced merchant with the distant markets of the Arabian Gulf around the Strait of Mecca and Lepanto at the Mediterranean. For…
First siege of Diu. Suleiman, Ottoman general, is constrained to lift it, and run away. Lithograph by Manuel Luís da Costa, 1840
Portuguese depiction of a Gujarati foot-soldier (and his wife)
"Tiro de Diu", a Gujarati basilisk captured by the Portuguese in the 1538 siege.
16th century Portuguese sketch of Diu by Dom João de Castro.