Battle of Ash-Shihr (1523)

Battle of Ash-Shihr
	; Purple: Portuguese presence in Yemen, 16th and 17th century.; Pink: Allied sultan territories
Date	February 28 – March 2, 1523
Location	Ash-Shihr, Kathiri Sultanate
Result	Kathiri victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Portugal	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 †;
Units involved
Portuguese Navy	Al-Mishqas Region army
Strength
8 ships. ; 6 galleons. ; 400-700 soldiers	unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown	more than 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.

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^ ^a ^b R. B. Serjeant: The Portuguese Off the South Arabian Coast. Hadrami Chronicles, 1974, Oxford University Press, pp. 171-172.
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