Which strait is this?
The Portuguese government sent a fleet to India every year, determined to completely destroy the commercial trade of Egypt and the Arabs with Indian ports. They identified the post of vice-king of India, and the first person to be appointed to this position was Francisco de Almeda.
In March 1505, he left Lisbon with a large military fleet carrying 1,500 soldiers. Almeda built a fort at Quilowa, looted several cities in East Africa, and created a Portuguese procurement and supply area in Cochin. Since then, this sourcing and supply area has become the largest commercial trading point on the Malabar coast. Almeida's ships often hunted Arab and Iranian ships in the Arabian Seas.
In 1507, a fleet was sent from Lisbon to the Strait of Hormuz, the commander of which was Alfonso de Darbuqueki. The Portuguese plundered and burned many villages on both sides of the strait, killing and capturing many Arabs and Iranians.
Darbukki ordered to cut off the noses of all the captives, and not only that, but they also cut off the right hands of the men and cut off the ears of the women. Darbukki captured the city of Hormuz after shelling Iranian ships. He forcibly taxed the city and built a fortress there.
After a year, the Egyptians made their first and only attempt to defend their maritime trade with India. With the help of the Venetians, they built a fairly powerful fleet on the Red Sea. The Egyptians sent this fleet to the Indian Ocean, crushing the less powerful Portuguese fleet cruising on the northern coast of the Arabian Sea. So Francisco Almeda concentrated all his forces and in 1509 he defeated the Egyptians in a naval battle near the island of Diu. It was in the same year that he was recalled to Lisbon as a victor. Darbukki was appointed vice-king of India in Portugal, replacing Almeida. On the way back, Almeda landed at the Cape of Good Hope with a small force and was killed by the in a clash.
Butcher
During what the Portuguese called "the great" Alfonso de Darbuquechi, the Portuguese became the undisputed commercial hegemon of the Indian Ocean. They built a series of castles and forts on the western coast of India, ruling over many of India's largest port cities. No merchant ship dared to sail in the Indian Ocean without a Portuguese passport, for the Portuguese warships guarded the most important shipping lanes to the coast of India, and they often sank or robbed any ship that dared to sail in the waters without their permission, and they punished the seafarers on board as mercilessly as they did pirates. Arab cities in East Africa all paid tribute to the Portuguese. The Portuguese also penetrated deep into the Red Sea and established commercial trade links with Christian Ethiopia. They attacked many ports in western Arabia and even threatened the port of Jeddah.
Almeda himself believed that trade with the Indian side alone would not satisfy the desires of the Portuguese, and it was clear that the most valuable spices were not produced in India itself, but were transported from the distant "spice islands" through the Strait of Malacca. So Almeda sent a new expedition there in 1509. With the assistance of Arab pilots, five ships departed from Cochin and sailed for North Sumatra under the command of Diogu Laubis Sigueira. They sailed into the strait and anchored under the city of Malacca. Siguela forced the rulers of Malacca to sign a trade agreement favorable to the Portuguese, and began buying nutmeg and cloves in the city, as these products were much cheaper than in India. However, a few weeks later, when the Muslims of Malaya attacked his ships, Sigela fled from the city of Malacca.
Two years later, in 1511, Darbukki commanded a fleet of 19 ships with 1,400 soldiers and arrived at the city of Malacca. Through his spy connections, he colluded with influential adversaries among the city's rulers, who were attached to a large number of foreign merchants. With their help, Darbukki captured the city of Malacca. He plundered the whole city, sparing only the foreigners' settlements, but not the immigrants from Gujaratha (West India) who supported the ruler of the city of Malacca.
According to statistics, the amount of what they obtained was very large, and it was converted into about 35,000 grams of gold. On the orders of Darbukki, an observation post was set up in the city of Malacca. Hundreds of ships were to cross the strait near the city, and the Portuguese held them back, not to plunder, but to make a demand: each ship must carry a Portuguese sailor. In this way, they identified the shipping lanes in all corners of the Indonesian Islands, known as the Great Labyrinth. In the same year, in 1511, the Portuguese reached the densely populated island of Java, and it was especially important for them that they at the same time found a shipping route to the Maluku Islands, the real "Shanco Islands".
The desire to get rich led the Portuguese to the farther north, where they sailed into the seas of the Far East: for the Europeans they also "discovered" the coastlines of East Asia.
Where are the Spice Islands?
In 1517, they began maritime trade with China, and in 1520, they gained a foothold in the coastal city of Macao, south of China. Eventually, they sailed to Japan, which they had "discovered" in 1542.
On their way to the Spice Islands, they sailed far south away from the Indian Ocean to the northwest coast of Australia, drawing Australia into their secret map. In the 20th century, a cannon engraved with the head of the King of Portugal was found on the coast of Roebuck Bay, south of the Dampier region of Australia, and was built no later than the early 16th century.
Goa City was the most important Portuguese stronghold in India. Darbukki captured the city for the first time in March 1510, after locking it off for two months. In May of the same year, when a formidable enemy army approached the city of Goa, Darbukki carried out a horrific massacre of the city's inhabitants, sparing only a small number of people, mainly the rich men on whom he had relied for ransom. After this, Darbukki abandoned Goa, but after a few months, he returned to Goa with a large number of reinforcements. At the end of October 1510, the city of Dahl Keki was finally captured, and at the same time, a massacre was carried out against the city's inhabitants. In his letter to the king, he said that he had killed 6,000 people, including men, women and children, and that in 1515 Darbukki had conquered Hormuz again. Portugal occupied Hormuz for more than 100 years.
Darbukki received a notice in Hormuz that he was recalled to Portugal. He became seriously ill and died on his way back to the western part of India on a ship that was about to reach Goa City.
The ruins of the castle of Santiago de Malacca
In his dying letter to the king dictated in Hormuz, he stated that "all things in India have been arranged" and that all the king's instructions have been fulfilled. At the end of the letter, he advises: "...... If you want to rule India permanently, then you have to act as you did before and make India stand for itself. In other words, the dying Darbukki advised the king that the latter should follow his example and rule India by taking money from India itself, and that the way to get it was by plunder.
In the 16th century, the Portuguese successors of Darbuqueki did just that. From the 17th century, however, the Dutch, French, and English, the Portuguese's fierce rivals, pushed the Portuguese out of India.
It was built in 1562 on the front wall of the former Portuguese Cathedral of St. Paul's in Macau
Postscript: The so-called Western explorers are pirates, robbers, robbers at every opportunity, killing people and goods, the primitive accumulation of capital in the West, and every coin is forged by the blood of the people of the East.