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Topic: Turkish-Portuguese War, Fourth

Turkish-Portuguese War, Fourth

Years: 1580 - 1589

The fourth Turkish-Portuguese War is an armed military conflict between Portugal and the Turkish Empire, in the Indian Ocean.The Ottoman Navy, from 1580 to 1584 for the first time attacks only the Portuguese ships in the Indian Ocean.

In 1585 Mirali Beg seizesthe Portuguese harbors in East Africa (Baraawe, Jumbo and Muqdishu).

Murat Reis, the Turkish admiral, captures Lanzarote in the Canary Islands.

"[the character] Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree."

― Michael Crichton, Timeline (November 1999)