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Topic: Portuguese–Mamluk naval war
Location: Ferrara Emilia-Romagna Italy

Portuguese–Mamluk naval war

Years: 1505 - 1517

The Portuguese–Mamluk naval war is a naval conflict between the Egyptian state of the Mamluks and the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, following the expansion of the Portuguese after sailing around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497.

The conflict takes place during the early part of the sixteenth century, from 1505 to the fall of the Mamluk Sultanate in 1517.

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress."

― H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol 2 (1920)