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    The Casa da Índia (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈkazɐ ðɐ ˈĩdiɐ]; English: India House or House of India) was a Portuguese state-run commercial organization...
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    The Portuguese East India Company (Portuguese: Companhia do commércio da Índia or Companhia da Índia Oriental) was a short-lived and ill-fated attempt...
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    The Portuguese Indian Armadas (Portuguese: Armadas da Índia; meaning "Armadas of India") were the fleets of ships funded by the Crown of Portugal, and...
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    auspices of Prince Henry the Navigator, the Casa da Guiné would later be absorbed into the Casa da Índia in 1503. It monitored and enforced the Crown's...
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    Castile in 1509 for the Casa. The Casa was the Spanish counterpart of the Portuguese organization, the Casa da India, or House of Índia of Lisbon, established...
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    Ribeira Palace, by holding the Portuguese Cortes and installing the Casa da Índia, the imperial administration, in the palace's walls. The palace of King...
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    of India (Portuguese: Estado da Índia [ɨʃˈtaðu ðɐ ˈĩdiɐ]), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Portuguese: Estado Português da India, EPI)...
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    João de Barros (category Historians of India)
    Lisbon in 1532 the king appointed Barros factor of the "Casa da Índia e da Mina" (House of India and Mina)— a position of great responsibility and importance...
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    building of a port, shipbuilding facilities (the Ribeira das Naus), the Casa da Índia and other administrative buildings that regulated the commerce between...
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    and Portuguese India, and oversaw the establishment of a vast trade empire across Africa and Asia. Manuel established the Casa da Índia, a royal institution...
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  • Company (Trade Company Poland) Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Casa da Índia Compagnie de Chine Compagnie de Saint-Christophe Compagnie des Îles de...
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    consisting of ten ships: four galleons and six naus, sent out by the Casa da Índia, a government trade organization, to Goa, then under Dutch blockade...
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    expanded its commercial trading operations. It eclipsed the Portuguese Estado da Índia, which had established bases in Goa, Chittagong, and Bombay – Portugal...
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    House of Mina (respectively, the Casa da Guiné, Casa de Guiné e Mina, and Casa da Mina in Portuguese). Casa da Índia maintained a royal monopoly on the...
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    Dutch India consisted of the settlements and trading posts of the Dutch East India Company on the Indian subcontinent. It is only used as a geographical...
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  • monopoly with India through Casa da Índia, a relationship that lasted until 1570 Jaintia Kingdom was founded in what is now northeastern India Pêro Vaz de...
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    as Bangladesh. The first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean was the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who reached Calicut in 1498 in search...
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    expanded by the Casa da Índia ("India House") in the Ribeira Palace in Lisbon, Portugal. It was hung from the ceiling of the Casa da Índia's Division of Maps...
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    Crown rule in India, or Direct rule in India, and lasted from 1858 to 1947. The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous...
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    exhibition he gave before the Court on 8 August 1709, in the hall of the Casa da Índia in Lisbon, when he propelled a ball to the roof by combustion. The king...
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    French India, formally the Établissements français dans l'Inde (English: French Settlements in India), was a French colony comprising five geographically...
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    Goa, then to Portugal where they were traded in the Casa da Índia, which also managed exports to India. There they were sold, or re-exported to the Royal...
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    Sky lantern (section India)
    first man to fly a hot air balloon on 8 August 1709, in the hall of the Casa da Índia in Lisbon, Portugal, long before the Montgolfier brothers. Brazilian...
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    Deputation of Spain Casa de Contratación Spanish colonization of the Americas for the Portuguese empire: Casa da Índia "LAS INDIAS - Spanish Indies". Hubert...
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    East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria. The British Raj lasted until 1947, when the British provinces of India were...
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    15th century, Portuguese sailor Vasco da Gama became the first European to re-establish direct trade links with India by being the first to arrive by circumnavigating...
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    such example is the Cantino planisphere, which was stolen from the Casa da Índia, the Portuguese royal ministry for all things maritime, for the Duke...
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    other for "India", that is to say, for the colonies, despite several conflicts over jurisdiction, until the creation of the Conselho da Índia in 1604. In...
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    Company rule in India (sometimes Company Raj, from Hindi: rāj, lit. 'rule') was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent....
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    British India was divided into the following administrative divisions: Provinces of British India Presidencies of British India Divisions of British India Districts...
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