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Portuguese India Armada
The Portuguese India Armada (Carreira da Índia) was a royally organized annual fleet regularly sailing between Lisbon and India after the Cape route …
Timeline
- 1501–1505Goa · GoaBetween 1501 and 1505 Portugal yearly sent armed merchant fleets to the west coast of India and the Malabar Coast to buy spices, establishing trading posts at Calicut, Cochin, and elsewhere; the fleet became a regular organization linking European and Asian trade.
- 1505–1510Diu · GujaratIn 1505 Afonso de Albuquerque took office as Governor-General of India, commanding the fleet and eastern fortresses; in the 1509 Battle of Diu the Portuguese fleet defeated the combined Ottoman and Gujarati fleet, consolidating the military escort system of the India route.
Sources
- Encyclopaedia Britannica: Portuguese India https://www.britannica.com/place/Portuguese-India
- A. J. R. Russell-Wood, The Portuguese Empire, 1415–1808 — A. J. R. Russell-Wood (1998)