Battle of Ash-Shihr (1523)

Battle of Ash-Shihr
	; Painting depicting Portuguese soldiers attacking and burning the city
Date	February 28 – March 2, 1523
Location	Ash-Shihr, Kathiri Sultanate
Result	Portuguese victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Portugal; Mahra Sultanate	Kathiri Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Duarte de Meneses; Luís de Meneses	Badr Abu Tuairq al-Kathiri; Mutran bin Mansur †; Atif bin Dahdah; Yaqoub Al-Haridi †; Salem Baaween †; Hussein Al-Aidaroos †; Ahmed ba-Fadl †; Fadl ba-Fadl †; Ahmed bin Abdullah ba-Fadl †;
Strength
8 ships ; 6 galleons ; 400-700 soldiers	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown	480+ killed

The Battle of Ash-Shihr was an attack launched by the Portuguese navy in 1523 on the city of Ash-Shihr which was a part of the Kathiri Sultanate.^[4]

^ Liebhaber 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c Monteiro 1989, p. 25.
^ ^a ^b R. B. Serjeant: The Portuguese Off the South Arabian Coast. Hadrami Chronicles, 1974, Oxford University Press, pp. 171-172.
^ Luiz, Francisco de San (1875). Obras completas do Cardeal Saraiva d. Francisco de S. Luiz Patriarcha de Lisboa: Precedidas de uma introducção pelo Marquez de Rezende. Publicadas por Antonio Correia Caldeira (in Brazilian Portuguese). National Press.