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    João de Barros (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈɐ̃w dɨ ˈβaʁuʃ]; 1496 – 20 October 1570), nicknamed the "Portuguese Livy", is one of the first great Portuguese...
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    Dominican Gaspar de Cruz (who had preached in Guangzhou for a month), and the coverage of China in the 3rd Década of the Décadas da Ásia by João de Barros (the...
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    Duarte de Menezes), Lisboa 1778 Decada Undecima (lost or stolen, during the lifetime of the author); Decada Duodecima ("Tratado os Cinco Livros da Década XII")...
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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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  • Gaspar da Cruz (c. 1520 – 5 February 1570; sometimes also known under an Hispanized version of his name, Gaspar de la Cruz) was a Portuguese Dominican...
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    Portuguese, a study of the struggle of Islam in Southeast Asia, p. 53 Mark Dion, Sumatra through Portuguese eyes: excerpts from Joao de Barros Decadas de Asia...
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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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    produced written document, dating back to 900 A.D. Following contact with the Spanish beginning in 1570 and the defeat of local rulers in the Manila Bay...
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    descobrimento dos mares e terras do Oriente. Vol. V. Lisbon: Lisboa. 3a Década, pp. 186–204 (originally Vol. II, Ch. vii). Waldron 1990, pp. 204–05. Lach...
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  • cousin (primo) of Sultan Babullah of Ternate (r. 1570–1583) while Babullah's father Hairun (r. 1535–1570) was a brother-in-law (cunhado) of Sultan Mir of Tidore...
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