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Hotels in Diu are often required for tourists who need a place to stay. Some may want to stay at high quality hotels in the region that have access to culture and to entertainment.
Diu is a city in Diu district in the union territory of Daman and Diu, India. It is famous for being the location of the pivotal Battle of Diu in 1509 between Portugal and a combined force of Turkey, Egypt, Venice, Dubrovnik and the then Sultan of Gujarat, Mahmud Begada.
It is an island lying off the south coast of Gujarat's Kathiawar peninsula, separated from the mainland by a tidal creek. The town of Diu lies at the eastern end of the island, and is famous for its fortress and old Portuguese Cathedral. It is also a fishing town. The village of Ghoghla, which lies on the mainland opposite the eastern end of the island, is also part of the union territory.
In 1535 Bahadur Shah, the Sultan of Gujarat, concluded a defensive alliance with the Portuguese against the Mughal emperor Humayun, and allowed the Portuguese to construct a fortress and maintain a garrison on the island. The alliance quickly unravelled, and attempts by the Sultans to oust the Portuguese from Diu between 1537 and 1546 failed. The fortress, reconstructed by Dom João de Castro after the siege of 1545, still stands. The island was occupied by the Indian military on 19 December 1961.
Tourist destinations include the nearby Nagoa beach. The old fort, the church and the museum have a strong Portuguese feel.
The naval Battle of Diu was a critical sea battle that took place on 2 February 3, 1509 near the port town of Diu, India, between Portugal and a joint fleet of the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut and the Sultan of Gujarat, with o technical naval support from the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik). It is also referred to sometimes as the Second Battle of Chaul. This battle is critical from a strategic perspective since it marks the beginning of the dominance of the Europeans in the Asian naval theater. It also marks the spillover of the Christian-Islamic power struggle, in Europe and the Middle East, into the Indian Ocean which was the dominant region of international trade at that time. The battle set the stage for domination of trade in the Indian Ocean by the Portuguese for the next century, and thus greatly assisted the growth of the Portuguese Empire. The Portuguese followed this battle by rapidly capturing key ports/coastal areas around the Indian Ocean like Mombasa, Socotra, Muscat, Ormuz, Goa, Ceylon and Malacca. This allowed them to circumvent the traditional spice route controlled by the Arabs and the Venetians, and by routing the trade down the Cape of Good Hope, they also simultaneously crippled the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and the of Gujarat Sultanate. The Portuguese sea monopoly lasted until the advent of the British East India Company and the Battle of Swally in 1612.
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