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The '''Dutch–Portuguese War''' ({{Lang-nl|Nederlands-Portugese Oorlog}}; {{Lang-pt|Guerra Luso-Holandesa}}) was a global armed conflict involving Dutch forces, in the form of the [[Dutch East India Company]], the [[Dutch West India Company]], and their allies, against the [[Iberian Union]], and after 1640, the [[Portuguese Empire]]. Beginning in 1598, the conflict primarily involved the Dutch companies and fleet invading Portuguese colonies in the [[Americas]], [[Africa]], and the [[East Indies]]. The war can be thought of as an extension of the [[Eighty Years' War]] being fought in Europe at the time between [[Habsburg Spain|Spain]] and the [[Dutch Republic|Netherlands]], as [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]] was in a [[dynastic union]] with Spain after the [[War of the Portuguese Succession]], for most of the conflict.
However, the conflict had little to do with the war in Europe and served mainly as a way for the Dutch to gain an overseas empire and control trade at the cost of the Portuguese. English forces also assisted the Dutch at certain points in the war (though in later decades, the English and Dutch would become fierce rivals). Because of the commodity at the center of the conflict, this war would be nicknamed the Spice War.
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