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 "id": "event/capture-santa-cruz-saadi-948",
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 "slug": "capture-santa-cruz-saadi-948",
 "label": {
  "ar": "فتح السعديين حصن سانتا كروز (٩٤٨هـ/١٥٤١م)",
  "en": "Sa'di capture of Santa Cruz (1541)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "حقق السعديون نصراً كبيراً على البرتغاليين وفتحوا حصن سانتا كروز — وكان الحاكم السعدي قد صار يملك المدفعية العثمانية والآلات الحربية وجنوداً مدربين، وظهرت تلك الإمدادات عند الحصار. ولما بلغ الملك البرتغالي جان الثالث الخبر أمر حاميتي آسفي وأزمور بالجلاء فوراً، وكتب إلى سفيره بمدريد رسالة في ٢٢ رمضان ٩٤٨هـ/ديسمبر ١٥٤١م يطلع بها شارل الخامس على أسباب القرار وأنه أمر بتحصين مازكان {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 227}.",
  "en": "The Sa'dis took the fortress of Santa Cruz — their ruler now fielding Ottoman-supplied artillery, war engines and drilled troops that showed at the siege. On the news João III ordered Safi and Azemmour evacuated at once, telling his Madrid ambassador in a letter of 22 Ramadan 948/December 1541 — for Charles V's eyes — that Mazagan would be fortified instead {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 227}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "time"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "maghreb"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/gunpowder-empires"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1541.0000889819778,
  "latest": 1541.9994250394968
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "1541",
   "hijri": "0948",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1541",
   "hijri": "0948",
   "calendar": "julian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "tradition",
   "derived": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi"
   ]
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 "data": {
  "kind": "conquest",
  "date": {
   "start": {
    "edtf": "1541",
    "hijri": "0948",
    "calendar": "julian",
    "precision": "year",
    "status": "tradition",
    "derived": true,
    "sources": [
     "source/dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi"
    ]
   }
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الدولة العثمانية لعلي محمد الصلابي (ط1 1421) ص 227",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
   "model": "SWE-2 Medium",
   "run": "salabi-uthmani-batch10"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "فتح السعديين حصن سانتا كروز من البرتغاليين سنة ٩٤٨هـ/١٥٤١م {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 227}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "العون العثماني",
     "markdown": "ينقل الصلابي عن رسالة [[person/joao-iii-portugal|جان الثالث]] إلى سفيره بمدريد — ٢٢ رمضان ٩٤٨هـ/ديسمبر ١٥٤١م — أن الحاكم السعدي صار يملك المدفعية العثمانية والآلات الحربية وجنوداً مدربين، وظهرت تلك الإمدادات عند حصار سانتا كروز، مما جعل الاحتفاظ بآسفي وأزمور شاقاً فأمر بالجلاء عنهما فوراً وتحصين مازكان {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 227}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/capture-santa-cruz-saadi-948",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "The Sa'di capture of the fortress of Santa Cruz from the Portuguese in 948/1541 {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 227}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The Ottoman aid",
     "markdown": "Al-Salabi quotes [[person/joao-iii-portugal|João III]]'s letter to his Madrid ambassador — 22 Ramadan 948/December 1541 — that the Sa'di ruler now possessed Ottoman artillery, war engines and drilled troops, shown at the siege; that made holding Safi and Azemmour too hard, so he ordered their immediate evacuation and the fortifying of Mazagan {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 227}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/capture-santa-cruz-saadi-948",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "948ھ/1541ء میں سعدیوں کا پرتگالیوں سے سانتا کروز کا قلعہ لینا {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 227}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عثمانی مدد",
     "markdown": "صلابی [[person/joao-iii-portugal|جان سوم]] کے میڈرڈ کے سفیر کو لکھے خط سے نقل کرتا ہے — 22 رمضان 948ھ/دسمبر 1541ء — کہ سعدی حاکم کے پاس اب عثمانی توپ خانہ، جنگی آلات اور تربیت یافتہ سپاہ تھے جو محاصرے میں ظاہر ہوئے؛ اس سے آسفی اور أزمور کا رکھنا مشکل ہوا تو اس نے ان سے فوری نکلنے اور مازگان کی مضبوطی کا حکم دیا {cite:dawlat-uthmaniyya-salabi p. 227}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "event/capture-santa-cruz-saadi-948",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  }
 },
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 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-23",
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   "to": "person/ahmad-al-araj-al-sadi",
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 "related": [
  "event/battle-bir-uqba-943",
  "person/hasan-ibn-khayr-al-din",
  "person/khayr-al-din-barbarossa",
  "polity/saadi-dynasty",
  "person/ahmad-al-araj-al-sadi",
  "person/joao-iii-portugal"
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