Renaissance · South Asia · Politics
1505
Portuguese Build Fort Manuel at Cochin
1505
The Portuguese raised the first European fortress in India on the pepper coast at Cochin, with the permission of a local raja who hoped to weaken his Zamorin rival at Calicut. Stone walls faced with laterite bricks went up within months. The military-commercial template for European Asia was being cut.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.