The Battle of Cannanore took place in 1506 off the harbour of Cannanore

Kannur

Kannur , also known as Cannanore, is a city in Kannur district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is the administrative headquarters of the District of Kannur and 518km north of state capital Trivandrum. During British rule in India, Kannur was known by its old name Cannanore, which is still in...

 in India

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, between the Indian fleet of the Samorin

Šamorín

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 and a Portuguese fleet under Lourenço de Almeida

Lourenço de Almeida

Lourenço de Almeida , son of Francisco de Almeida, acting under him, distinguished himself in the Indian Ocean, and made Ceylon tributary to Portugal...

, son of the Viceroy Almeida.

The Indian fleet, consisting of about 200 ships equipped with cannons manufactured with the help of two Milanese

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 Italians, was manned by Hindu

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, Arab

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 and Turkish

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 crews. Ottoman Empire

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 soldiers were also participating on the Indian side.

This encounter ended in a Portuguese victory. It was followed by another Portuguese success in the Siege of Cannanore (1507)

Siege of Cannanore (1507)

The Siege of Cannanore was a four-month siege, from April to August 1507, when troops of the local ruler , supported by the Zamorin of Calicut and Arabs, besieged the Portuguese garrison at St. Angelo Fort in Cannanore, in what is now the Indian state of Kerala...

, but then, a Portuguese defeat at the Battle of Chaul in 1508.