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    Livermore, Harold V. "Afonso de Albuquerque". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 22 August 2010. Diogo do Couto, Décadas da Ásia, década X, livro I Sanceau, Elaine...
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    were Duarte Pacheco Pereira's Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis (c. 1509) and João de Lisboa's Livro da Marinharia (c. 1514). Relative to the ships of other nations...
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    Portuguese maritime exploration (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Nuttall Encyclopedia)
    his name. Portuguese sailors landed on Madagascar. 1509—The Bay of Bengal crossed by Diogo Lopes de Sequeira. On the crossing he also reached Malacca....
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    Portuguese: [ˈpeðɾu ˈalvɐɾɨʃ kɐˈβɾal]; born Pedro Álvares de Gouveia; c. 1467 or 1468 – c. 1520) was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and...
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    in his Esmeraldo de situ Orbis (c. 1507, p. 58). João de Barros, in his Decadas de Asia (1552: I.16 p. 133) adds that he was also a master instrument-maker...
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    Dom João de Castro (27 February 1500 – 6 June 1548) was a Portuguese nobleman, scientist, writer, and the fourth viceroy of Portuguese India. He was called...
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    Vasco da Gama (redirect from Vasco de gama)
    Strong a Spirit, Marshall Cavendish, 2005, pp. 75-76. Subrahmanyam, 1997, pp. 343–345. See also Diogo do Couto (Decadas de Asia, Dec. IV, Lib. 8, c. 2);...
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    settlement in India. 1511: de Albuquerque conquers Malacca, after Diogo Lopes de Sequeira's visit there in 1509. Malacca becomes a strategic base for Portuguese...
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    Press, 1993, pp. 130-131. António Bocarro: Década 13 da História da Índia, parte I, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, 1876, pp. 301-314. Jorge Flores:...
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    Agnadello (1509). Only a year later, Ferdinand joined the Holy League against France, seeing a chance at taking both Naples (to which he held a dynastic...
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