Battle of Zeila

Battle of Zeila 1517
	Part of Somali-Portuguese conflicts
	; 19th century map of Zeila
Date	July 1517
Location	Zeila, modern-day Somaliland
Result	Portuguese victory, city sacked
Belligerents
Portuguese Empire	Adal Sultanate
Commanders and leaders
Lopo Soares de Albergaria	Unknown
Strength
34 ships	Unknown
Casualties and losses
Few or none	Unknown

The Battle of Zeila was an armed encounter that took place in the city of Zeila, in modern-day Somaliland, between the forces of the Sultanate of Adal and those of the Portuguese empire, under the command of the governor of India Lopo Soares de Albergaria. After a brief fight, the Portuguese captured and razed the city.

^ Francisco Álvares: "The Voyage of Sir Francis Alvarez, a Portugall Priest, made unto the Court of Prete Janni the great Christian Emperour of Ethiopia" in Samuel Purchas: Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, Volume 7, Cambridge University Press, p. 179.

[alvares-1] Francisco Álvares: "The Voyage of Sir Francis Alvarez, a Portugall Priest, made unto the Court of Prete Janni the great Christian Emperour of Ethiopia" in Samuel Purchas: Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, Volume 7, Cambridge University Press, p. 179.

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