siege, early modern

Siege of Goa

Name: Siege of Goa
Location: Goa, India

Siege of Goa was a siege conducted in 1517 at Goa, in what is now India. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Goa. It was part of Adil Shahi–Portuguese conflicts, which ran from 1506 to 1659. The recorded result: See #Aftermath.

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Fought1517

WhereGoa, India15.402N, 74.043E, placed at the location, approximate

OutcomeSee #Aftermath

BelligerentsPortuguese Empire; Supported by: Vijayanagara EmpireagainstSultanate of Bijapur; Supported by: Kingdom of Calicut; Sultanate of Ahmadnagar; Kingdom of Gerusoppa; Dutch East India Company

Part ofAdil Shahi–Portuguese conflicts1506 to 1659

Where it sits in Adil Shahi–Portuguese conflicts

6 placed engagements of Adil Shahi–Portuguese conflicts in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.

Record

Date	1517 (year precision) to 1517
Place	Goa, India 15.402N, 74.043E
Kind	Siege, early modern
Territorial change	Establishment of Portuguese Goa
Commanders	Francisco de Almeida Afonso de Albuquerque Nuno da Cunha João de Castro Luís de Ataíde, 3rd Count of Atouguia Timoji	Yusuf Adil Shah Ismail Adil Shah Ibrahim Adil Shah I Ali Adil Shah I Mohammed Adil Shah, Sultan of Bijapur Ali Adil Shah II

Placed at Goa; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

Nearest engagements

Siege of Ponda 1675, 2.5 km W
Operation Creek date unknown, 25 km W
Battle of Goa 1638, 30 km NW
Siege of Alorna 1746, 36 km NW
Siege of Anjadiva 1506, 69 km S

In the same war

Before: Capture of Banastharim 1512
After: Battle of Margão 1659
All 6 engagements of Adil Shahi–Portuguese conflicts

Elsewhere in 1517

Siege of Goa is one of 1,470 engagements of the 16th century in the atlas and one of 376 in present-day India.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q121335666, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Siege of Goa (1517), revision 1373580461, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.