Sultanate of Oman Confronts Portuguese

1534

Portuguese naval commanders extended their control of the Arabian Sea by installing garrisons at Muscat and other Omani ports. The local population periodically resisted, and Portuguese abuses fueled decades of anti-European sentiment that would culminate in the Omani expulsion of the Portuguese later in the next century. Portuguese abuses fueled decades of anti-European sentiment that culminated in the Omani expulsion of Portugal the following century.