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Name: Pemba (Portugal)

Type: Polity

Start: 1507 AD

End: 1698 AD

Nation: pemba

Parent: portugal

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This article is about the specific polity Pemba (Portugal) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Pemba, an island off the coast of Tanzania, was intermittently an independent polity and a Portuguese possession in the period 1507-1698.

Establishment


  • January 1507: The island of Pemba was occupied by Portugal.
  • Chronology


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    1. War of the Portuguese Succession


    Was a succession crisis caused by the death of the King of Portugal without heirs. The conflict saw two main claimants to the Portuguese throne: António, Prior of Crato, proclaimed in several towns as King of Portugal, and his first cousin Philip II of Spain, who eventually succeeded in claiming the crown, reigning as Philip I of Portugal.

  • October 1580: Philip II of Spain succeeded in claiming the Portuguese crown, reigning as Philip I of Portugal.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1511: Pemba occupide by Portugal.

  • January 1526: Pemba is conquered by Portugal.

  • January 1607: Pemba conquered by Malindi ad freed from Portuguese domain.

  • January 1694: Pemba conquered by Portugal.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1699: Pemba conquered by Muscat and Oman.
  • Selected Sources


  • Fernández Álvarez, M. (1998): Felipe II y su tiempo, cuarta edición, p. 523
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