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Vasco da Gama - Wikipedia  Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India (14971499) was the...
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World Book Student | Print - World Book Online  In 1497, King Manuel I of Portugal asked da Gama to find a sea route to India by sailing around Africa. The king ... Da Gama arrived in Lisbon in September 1499. King Manuel rewarded him and gave him the title of Admiral of the Sea of India.
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Vasco da Gama facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  1460-1524) was the first to travel by sea from Portugal to India. ... When he was commissioned for his famous voyage, he was a gentleman at the court of King Manuel I. ... to cooperate with da Gama and lent him the services of the famous Indian pilot Ibn ... A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497-1499 (1898).
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Vasco da Gama - New World Encyclopedia  May 4, 2015 ... Commissioned by King Manuel I of Portugal to find Christian lands in the East ... Da Gama's voyage was successful in establishing a sea route from Europe .... He was given the title "Admiral of the Indian Ocean," and the feudal rights ... The port city of Vasco da Gama in Goa is named for him, as is the Vasco...
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Appendix IV Honors Granted To Vasco Da Gama, 14991502  Brill ...  Keywords: D. Manuel's royal grant; Indian seas; Vasco Da Gama. ... 1499-1502: (i) D. Manuel's royal grant 24 December 1499 promising to give Vasco da ... grant of 10 January 1500 conceding the title of admiral of the Indian seas to Vasco da Gama etc. ... in order to conduct the Captain major to where the king awaited him.
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Viceroy - Wikipedia  A viceroy /vas.r/ is a regal official who runs a country, colony, city, province, .... of sea route to India by Vasco da Gama, in 1505, under first Viceroy Francisco de ... Lord Mountbatten served as the last Viceroy of British India, but continued on as the ... In the 18th20th centuries, a namestnik was a person in charge of...
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Elementary Themes Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama Arrives in ...  1469-1524), Portuguese explorer and navigator, who was the first European to ... reached Kozhikode (Calicut) on the Malabar Coast of India on May 20, 1498.
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Vasco da Gama reaches India - May 20, 1498 - HISTORY.com  May 20, 1989 ... Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. Da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, in July 1497, rounded the Cape...
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The European Explorers to India creating settlements (15th Century ...  Aug 31, 2016 ... The route followed in Vasco da Gama's first voyage (14971499) ... The fleet arrived in Calicut on 20 May 1498 and had completed the voyage in less than 10 months. ... up the east coast of Africa, and then crossed the Indian Ocean to reach Calicut ... He also secured permission to set up a factory at Surat.
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Portuguese India - Wikipedia  The State of India (Portuguese: Estado da ndia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India ... After 1510, the capital of the Portuguese viceroyalty was transferred to Goa. Until the 18th century, ..... Stamps of India were first used 29 December 1961, although the old stamps were accepted until 5 January 1962. Portugal...
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Gama, Vasco da  Commissioned by Manuel, king of Portugal, to reach India by sea, da Gama sailed ... of Good Hope (first rounded in 1488 by the Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias) ... and on May 20, 1498, reached Calicut on the Malabar Coast of India.
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Full text of "The story of Portugal" - Internet Archive  The early history of the country, which took the name of Portugal from the ...... of a royal navy, commanded by a new official, entitled the " Almirante Mor,"'or Lord ...... were the discovery of the island of Porto Santo by Bartholomeu Perestrello, ...... arms with his own, and was granted the office of Admiral of the Indian seas, with...
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jeopardy/1432_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  RELIGIOUS LEADERS | In the 16th century Prince Altan Khan gave this Tibetan religious leader his title, a Mongol term meaning "ocean" | Dalai Lama ... RELIGIOUS LEADERS | In July 1505 he was struck by lightning; as a result, he entered a...
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Magellan, Ferdinand  Magellan set out to reach the East Indies by sailing westward from Europe, ... In 1512 Magellan returned to Portugal, and in 1513 he battled the Moors in Morocco. ... The king canceled a promotion Magellan had received for his valor against the ... Magellan renounced his Portuguese citizenship and in 1517 went to Spain to...
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Vasco da Gama | Biography, Facts, Timeline - The History Junkie  Learn more facts about the Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama in this brief biography and timeline ... This is all that is known of his childhood and adolescent years. ... Upon his return he would receive the title The Admiral of the Indian Seas.
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Student Resources in Context - Document - Gale  By the middle of the fourteenth century many cartographers felt that there was a sea route to India; ... In 1419 or 1420, less than five years after the fall of Ceuta, a Portuguese expedition under the ... In 1432, Gil Eannes successfully rounded Cape Bojador. ... In 1442, Prince Henry sent Nuo Tristo on another expedition.
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Pedro lvares Cabral - Wikipedia  Pedro lvares Cabral was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and ... His fleet of 13 ships sailed far into the western Atlantic Ocean, perhaps .... Finally, the Portuguese Crown sought a share in the lucrative West African trade in ... They were proven correct the next afternoon, Wednesday 22 April 1500,...
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Medina Sidonia, Alonso Prez De Guzmn, 7th Duke of (15491615 ...  MEDINA SIDONIA, ALONSO PREZ DE GUZMN, 7TH DUKE OF (15491615) ... of his coastal estates, and revenues from the county of Niebla made him the richest ... In summer 1580, he led the Andalusian militia to the peaceful conquest of the ... general of the Ocean Sea and command of the Armada waiting in Lisbon.
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Vasco da Gama - Wikipedia  Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India (14971499) was the first to link Europe and Asia ..... By early March, they had arrived in Mossel Bay, and crossed the Cape of Good Hope in the opposite direction on 20 March,...
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Portuguese India - New World Encyclopedia  In 1510, Portuguese admiral Afonso de Albuquerque defeated the Bijapur sultans on ... acting in the Indian state of Goa and the rest of the Portuguese empire in Asia. ... The Portuguese colonial administration enacted anti-Hindu laws with the ... In December 1961, India militarily invaded Goa, Daman and Diu, where they...