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1510 CE · military conflict

The Portuguese Capture Goa

Afonso de Albuquerque seized Goa, which became a major base of the Portuguese Estado da Índia.

Seventeenth-century printed city view of Old Goa published by Willem Blaeu in 1617 — The view was published in 1617, more than a century after the Portuguese capture of Goa in 1510. Use as early-modern Goa context, not as a depiction of the conquest itself. · Credit: Willem Blaeu · License: Public domain

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