Portuguese conquest of Goa
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The Portuguese conquest of Goa occurred when the governor Afonso de Albuquerque captured the city in 1510 from the Sultanate of Bijapur. Old Goa became the capital of Portuguese India, which included
Afonso de Albuquerque
Mercenary Turkic horseman, depicted by the Portuguese in the Códice Casanatense
Portuguese carrack
Mandovi river seen from Ribandar
Sultanate of Bijapur
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The Sultanate of Bijapur was an early modern kingdom in the western Deccan and South India, ruled by the Muslim Adil Shahi dynasty. Bijapur had been a taraf of the Bahmani Kingdom prior to its indepen
Portuguese conquest of Goa
…The Portuguese conquest of Goa occurred when the governor Afonso de Albuquerque captured the city in 1510 from the Sultanate of Bijapur. Old Goa became the capital of Portuguese India, which included territories such as Fort Manuel of Cochin, Bom Bahia, Damaon, and Chaul. It was not…
India and the Deccan sultanates in 1525; the Sultanate of Bijapur is center-left.
A page from Nujum-ul-Ulum, a manuscript on astrology and metaphysics completed during the reign of Ali Adil Shah I
The House of Bijapur, a 1680 painting of the nine Bijapur sultans and Shah Ismail of the Safavid dynasty
Painting by the Bijapuri Ali Riza of Ibrahim Adil Shah II venerating a Sufi saint