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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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  • Ottomans. In 1550, the Ottoman governor of Basra captured Qatif after having bribed part of the garrison of its fort, and upon arriving with a fleet, the...
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    Jacinto Freire de Andrade Vida de D. João de Castro, Lisbon, 1651 (English translation by Sir Peter Wyche in 1664). Diogo de Couto, Décadas da Ásia, VI....
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    Pero de Ataíde or Pedro d'Ataíde (d'Atayde, da Thayde), nicknamed O Inferno (Hell), (c. 1450 – February/March, 1504, Mozambique Island) was a Portuguese...
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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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    Hernani Donato, História de usos e costumes do Brasil 2005, p.18 Donato, 2005, p.18 Gaspar Correia (Lendas da India, c.1550: p.152) identifies the returning...
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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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    Gaspar Correia, c. 1550, Lendas da India, 1860 ed., vol. 2, pt.2, p.854-57 PDF Francisco de Andrade (1613) Crónica de D.João III (Pt. 1, c. 67, p. 76) Diogo...
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    mathematician and Portuguese cosmographer João Baptista Lavanha (Lisbon, c 1550 -. Madrid, March 31, 1624) and published in Madrid in 1615, long after his...
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    Mártir de (1949). Décadas del Nuevo Mundo, Tercera Década, Libro VII (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Editorial Bajel. Las Casas, Fray Bartolomé de (1966)...
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