The battle of al-Shihr was a conflict between the Ottoman admiral
Khoja Zufar
Khoja Zufar or Coje Çafar (1500 – June 24, 1546), also called Coge Sofar, or Safar Aga in Portuguese, Cosa Zaffar in Italian, and Khwaja Safar Salmani in Turkish or Khuádja Tzaffar (خوجا زفار) in Arabic, was a soldier and local rule ...
and Portuguese forces that arrived at the port of
al-Shihr in 1531.
[Öztuna, Yılmaz.]
Kanuni Sultan Süleyman.
Turkey: Kültür Bakanlığı, 1989[Tarih Enstitüsü dergisi.]
Turkey: İstanbul Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Tarih Enstitüsü, 1974.
In 1530 Mustafa Bey and Khoja Zufar arrived at the port of al-Shihr in
Yemen.
The Ottomans advised the Sultan of al-Shihr, Badr, to not submit to the Portuguese and left cannons and 100
levends with the Sultan of al-Shihr.
Mustafa Bey left al-Shihr in December 1530 while Khoja Zufar remained with Badr.
A Portuguese force of 9 sails led by Manoel de Vasconcellos immediately arrived at the port of al-Shihr, however, Khoja Zufar prevented the Portuguese from entering al-Shihr, and he defeated and drove out the Portuguese forces.
[Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner]
Conquistadores, Mercenaries, and Missionaries: The Failed Portuguese Dominion of the Red Sea.
Northeast African Studies 1 April 2012; 12 (1): 1–28. p.9.[Mughul, Muhammad Yakub.]
Kanunî devri: Osmanlıların Hint Okyanusu politikası ve Osmanlı-Hint Müslümanları münasebetlerı, 1517-1538.
Turkey: Fetih Yayınevi, 1974.[ابن حميد الكندي, العدّة المفيدة الجامعة لتواريخ قديمة وحديثة مكتبة الإرشاد، صنعاء عام 1991م, صفحة 1]
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See also
* Battle of al-Shihr (1548)
References
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Battles involving the Ottoman Empire
1531 in military history
1531 in Portugal
1531 in the Ottoman Empire