# Hoca Sefer

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'''Hoca Sefer''' ([Ottoman Turkish](/source/Ottoman_Turkish): '''خواجه سفر'''; {{floruit}} 1536–38) was an [Ottoman](/source/Ottoman_Empire) captain in charge of pro-Ottoman forces in [Gujarat](/source/Gujarat) in the first half of the 16th century. Hoca Sefer, who had been installed by the Ottoman captain [Selman Reis](/source/Selman_Reis), attempted to maintain Ottoman influence in [Diu](/source/Diu%2C_India) against the [Portuguese](/source/Portugal), who had established the [Diu Fort](/source/Diu_Fort) there. The conflict between the Ottomans and the Portuguese would escalate with the [Siege of Diu](/source/Siege_of_Diu_(1538)) in 1538, following the request for [Ottoman](/source/Ottoman_Empire) intervention by [Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat](/source/Bahadur_Shah_of_Gujarat) in 1536.

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*{{cite book|author=Halil Inalcik|title=An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ovg_RQlklU4C&pg=PA326|date=1997|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-57456-3|pages=326–}}

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Category:Gujarat Sultanate

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