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The Weapons

                 the system of Portuguese weapons and the
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                 tackling three points, that
                 -The Portuguese age in the Gulf and Southern
                 Arabian peninsula and its military aims.
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                 ،،Portuguese Navy in controlling the Gulf.
             The Importance of the Study:
             The importance of this study lies in concentrating light on the
             system of the Portuguese Weapons during the military Portuguese
             domination on the eastern waters specially in the Gulf Area by its two
             coasts the eastern and the western and the coast of Oman during the
             16th century and comparing it with the local weapons in the Eastern
             Islamic.
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             The Portuguese era in the           Maritime Power which in a few
             Gulf and the south Arabian          years in the 16th century could
             Peninsula                           establish the first European
             Portugal, that small kingdom that   Empire in the East World, it
             lies on the southern western to     extended from East Africa and
             the western Europe was founded      the Arabian Gulf   Steoa.In(1d) onesia
             in 1147. It was the first European  Islands and China

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