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{{Infobox military conflict<br />
| conflict = Second Siege of Diu<br />
| partof = [[Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–1557)]]<br />
| image = Earlybattle2.jpg<br />
| image_size = 300<br />
| caption = A battle between the Portuguese Armada and Turkish soldiers on horseback in Goa, western India<br />
| date = 20 April – 10 November 1546<br />
| place = [[Diu, India|Diu]], Portuguese India<br />
| map_type = India<br />
| coordinates = {{coord|20.71|70.98|type:event|display=inline}}<br />
| map_caption = Location of Diu in present-day India<br />
| territory = <br />
| result = Portuguese victory<br />
| status = <br />
| combatant1 = {{flag|Portuguese Empire}}<br />
| combatant2 = {{flagicon image|Gujarat Sultanate Flag.gif}} [[Gujarat Sultanate]]<br />
| combatant3 = <br />
| commander1 = João de Mascarenhas<br>[[João de Castro]]<br />
| commander2 = [[Khadjar Safar]]{{KIA}}<br />
| commander3 = <br />
| units1 = <br />
| units2 = <br />
| units3 = <br />
| strength1 = 18 May 440 men<ref name="India 1600, p. 218">History of the Portuguese navigation in India, 1497–1600, K. M. Mathew, p. 218, 1988</ref><br />
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19 July reinforcements consisting of 20 Fustas and 6 caturs with men arrived<ref name="India 1600, p. 218"/><br />
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On 7 November Governor Castro arrived with 35 Fustas, caturs, 3 galeons, naus and gales, with 3,000 Portuguese and 300 Indian men<ref>History of the Portuguese navigation in India, 1497–1600, K. M. Mathew, p. 219, 1988</ref><br />
| strength2 = 10,000 men<ref>The Cambridge history of the British Empire, John Holland Rose, Ernest Alfred Benians, Arthur Percival Newton, p. 16, 1960</ref><br />
| strength3 = <br />
| casualties1 = More than 200<ref>History of the Portuguese navigation in India, 1497–1600, K. M. Mathew, pp. 218/219, 1988</ref><br />
| casualties2 = 3,000 killed<br>600 prisoners<ref>The Cambridge history of the British Empire, John Holland Rose, Ernest Alfred Benians, Arthur Percival Newton, p. 17, 1960</ref><br />
| casualties3 = <br />
| notes = <br />
}}<br />
{{Portuguese battles in the Indian Ocean}}<br />
{{Portuguese colonial campaigns}}<br />
{{Campaignbox Ottoman-Portuguese conflicts (1538-1557)}}<br />
The '''Second Siege of Diu''' was a siege of the [[Portuguese India]]n city of [[Diu, India|Diu]] by the [[Gujarat Sultanate]] in 1546. It ended with a major Portuguese victory.<br />
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== Background ==<br />
At the beginning of the 16th century, the Muslim Sultanate of Gujarat was the principal seapower in India. Gujarat fought the Portuguese fleets in collaboration with the [[Mamluk]]s. The Portuguese were defeated by a combined Mamluk-Gujarati fleet in 1508, which was in turn destroyed by a Portuguese fleet in the [[Battle of Diu (1509)]]. By 1536, the Portuguese had gained complete control of Diu, while Gujarat was under attack from the [[Mughals]].<br />
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In 1538, the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottomans]], who had taken over [[Egypt]] (1517) and [[Aden]] (1538), joined hands with the Gujarat Sultanate to launch an anti-Portuguese offensive. They [[First Siege of Diu|besieged Diu in 1538]], but had to retreat.<br />
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== The siege ==<br />
After the failed siege of 1538, the Gujarati General Khadjar Safar besieged Diu again in an attempt to recapture the island. The siege lasted seven months from 20 April 1546 to 10 November 1546, during which João de Mascarenhas defended Diu.<ref name="TonyJaques_Dictionary">{{cite book<br />
| title = Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity Through the Twenty-first Century<br />
| volume = 1 (A-E)<br />
| editor = Tony Jaques<br />
| publisher = Greenwood<br />
| year = 2007<br />
| isbn = 978-0-313-33537-2<br />
| page = 304<br />
}}</ref><br />
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The siege ended when a Portuguese fleet under Governor [[João de Castro]] arrived and routed the attackers.<ref name="TonyJaques_Dictionary"/><br />
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Khadjar Safar and his son Muharram Rumi Khan (who were probably of Albanian origin) were both killed during the siege.<ref>{{cite book<br />
| title = Firearms: a global history to 1700<br />
| url = https://archive.org/details/firearmsglobalhi1700chas<br />
| url-access = limited<br />
| author = Kenneth Warren Chase<br />
| edition = illustrated<br />
| publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]]<br />
| year = 2003<br />
| isbn = 978-0-521-82274-9<br />
| page = [https://archive.org/details/firearmsglobalhi1700chas/page/n154 136]<br />
}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Siege of Diu]]<br />
* [[Siege of Diu (1531)]]<br />
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* [[Catarina Lopes]]<br />
* [[Isabel Madeira]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Second Siege of Diu}}<br />
[[Category:Sieges involving Portugal|Diu 2]]<br />
[[Category:History of Daman and Diu]]<br />
[[Category:Gujarat Sultanate]]<br />
[[Category:1546 in India]]<br />
[[Category:Conflicts in 1546]]<br />
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