• There are at least three statues of Bartolomeu Dias, the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa. This exploration, in 1488, led to...
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    between Europe and Asia. Bartolomeu Dias was born around 1455. His family had a maritime background, and one of his ancestors, Dinis Dias, explored the African...
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    Vasco da Gama (redirect from Vasco de gama)
    Problems of the XVth Century Related to the voyage of Bartolomeu Dias", Revista da Universidade de Coimbra, Vol. 34, pp. 275–347. offprint. Fernandez-Armesto...
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    statues that depict slavery in a positive light. Domingos Jorge Velho Antônio Rodrigues de Arzão Antônio Alvarenga António Raposo Tavares Bartolomeu Bueno...
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    was constructed in cement and rose-tinted stone (from Leiria), and the statues sculpted from limestone excavated from the region of Sintra. The new project...
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    Luciano Cordeiro, Diogo Cão in Boletim da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, 1892; Diogo Cão (pt) Os descobrimentos portugueses: Diogo Cão e Bartolomeu Dias...
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    Together with his fellow fleet commanders, Tristão Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo, he initiated the colonization of the islands in 1425. As a...
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    chief in the 2012 Gershwin pastiche Nice Work If You Can Get It Albanian: Bartolomeu Amharic: በርተሎሜዎስ (Berteloméwos) Arabic: بَرثُولَماوُس (Barthūlamāwus)...
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    August 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2012. "Número de Dias com Precipitação Maior ou Igual a 1 mm (dias)". Brazilian National Institute of Meteorology. Archived...
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    named after him in Lisbon, which also features a bronze statue, as well as a prominent statue of his enrobed figure in a garden square in Bairro Gomes...
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    Jorge Álvares (category People from Freixo de Espada à Cinta)
    peace". In May 1513, Álvares sailed under the Portuguese Malacca captain Rui de Brito Patalim in a junk from Pegu. The expedition was accompanied by five...
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    commerce in northern Terceira. He is also said to have accompanied Bartolomeu Dias on his journey around the Cape of Good Hope from 1487 to 1488. Notes...
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    Bartolomeu Dias Cristóvão de Mendonça Cristóvão Jacques Diogo Cão Diogo da Rocha Diogo de Azambuja Diogo Dias Diogo Fernandes Pereira Diogo Lopes de Sequeira...
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    the Secretariado Nacional de Informação, Cultura Popular e Turismo, during the regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. A statue of Corte-Real was erected...
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  • the 15th century, Portuguese sailors traveled all over the world: Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488; Vasco da Gama reached India...
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    Africa as far as present-day Sierra Leone. Twenty-eight years later, Bartolomeu Dias proved that Africa could be circumnavigated when he reached the southern...
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    meeting also proved unsuccessful, in part because not long afterwards Bartolomeu Dias returned to Portugal with news of his successful rounding of the southern...
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    António de Abreu Jorge de Menezes Pedro Mascarenhas Duarte Fernandes Diogo Lopes de Sequeira António de Noli Antão Gonçalves Bartolomeu Dias Cadamosto...
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  • Portuguese navigator and explorer who, together with João Gonçalves Zarco and Bartolomeu Perestrelo, was the official discoverer and one of the first settlers...
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    regiã, Antoine de La Salle, Mappemonde de la fin du XVe siécle J. P. de Oliveira Martins, «Godinho de Eredia», Portugal nos Mares: Ensaios de Critica, Historia...
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    Festival Sudoeste in Zambujeira do Mar, Festival de Paredes de Coura in Paredes de Coura, Festival Vilar de Mouros near Caminha, Boom Festival in Idanha-a-Nova...
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    The São Cristóvão and the São Pantaleão of Bartolomeu Dias...
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    chapel Municipal Palace Santa Cruz of Paraguassu Fort Main Church of São Bartolomeu Garcia d'Ávila's Castle Architectural, urban, natural and landscape site...
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  • 1931 Pedro Ernesto Baptista becomes mayor. Cristo Redentor statue built. 1936 Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport inaugurated. Manguinhos Airport opens. Santos...
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    Saint Pantaleon (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    cathedral, where they have been kept to this day. Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias, the first European known to have sailed around the Cape of Good Hope...
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    Teresa Velho Cabral, wife of Fernão Soares de Albergaria, and Violante Velho Cabral, wife of Diogo Gonçalves de Travassos also established settlements in...
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    Braga (redirect from Município de Braga)
    Igreja Paroquial de Ferreiros/Igreja de Santa Maria), constructed in 1560, under the orders of Archbishop Bartolomeu dos Mártires, as a church of the Society...
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  • because modern assessments favour the traditional decapitation instead Bartolomeu Dias, a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope. Drowned...
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    Alberto Santos-Dumont (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    César Ribeiro de Sousa [pt].: 308  Airships, powered aerostats, were first demonstrated and patented by the Brazilian priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão in 1709...
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    Fernão Dias Pais Leme (1608–1681) was a Portuguese bandeirante. He was known as the Emerald Hunter (Portuguese: o Caçador de Esmeraldas) and was one of...
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