What the records say
- When
- 7 Mar 1523
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 14.76° N, 49.61° E
- Description
- 1523 battle
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Battle of Ash-Shihr (1523)
1523 Portuguese-Kathiri engagement
The Battle of Ash-Shihr was an attack launched by the Portuguese navy in 1523 on the city of Ash-Shihr which was a part of the Kathiri Sultanate.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of al-Shihr on the Arabian Peninsula (in what is now Yemen): Troops from Portugal fight against the Kathiri Sultanate”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page