Pepper Wars
| Pepper Wars | |||||||
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| Part of Zamorin–Portuguese conflicts | |||||||
A Portuguese boat on the Malabar Coast, from Navigatio Acitinerarium by Iohannis Hugonis Linscotani, 1599 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Kingdom of Portugal Kingdom of Cochin |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Jorge Cabral Anrique de Sousa Sousa e Sepúlveda Afonso de Noronha Gomes da Silva |
Rajah of Pimenta † Zamorin of Calicut | ||||||
The Pepper Wars (Portuguese: Guerras da pimenta) were a series of military conflicts in India between the Kingdom of Portugal, its ally, the Kingdom of Cochin, and the Zamorin of Calicut with his vassals.