Basra

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Establishment

• January 1596: From 1595 the Portuguese acted as military protectors of the Basra.

Chronology

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1. Portuguese Restoration War

Was a revolution organized by the Portuguese nobility and bourgeoisie sixty years after the crowning of Philip I (Philip II of Spain), the first "dual monarch", that ended the Iberian Union.

• November 1640: A revolution organized by the nobility and bourgeoisie on 1 December 1640, sixty years after the crowning of Philip I (Philip II of Spain), the first "dual monarch", ended the Iberian Union between Portugal and Spain.

Disestablishment

• January 1669: Basra was captured by the Ottoman Empire in 1668.

Selected Sources

• de Oliveira Marques , A. H. R.(1972): History of Portugal, Columbia University Press, p. 322-325