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three statues of Bartolomeu Dias, the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa. This exploration, in 1488, led to the discovery of a sea...

Bartolomeu Dias was born around 1450 in the Faro District of Portugal. His family had a maritime background, and one of his ancestors, Dinis Dias, explored...

Tavares Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva (the Anhanguera) Manuel de Borba Gato Brás Leme Fernão Dias Pais ("the Emerald hunter") Gabriel de Lara Another list of well-known...

and the statues sculpted from limestone excavated from the region of Sintra. The new project was enlarged from the original 1940 model as part of the commemorations...

surname with the same meaning as the above as a given name. Albanian: Bartolomeu Amharic: በርተሎሜዎስ (Berteloméwos) Arabic: بَرثُولَماوُس (Barthūlamāwus)...

possibilities of such developing independently are valid as well. The Portuguese mariner Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to explore the coastline of South...

Luciano Cordeiro, Diogo Cão in Boletim da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, 1892; Diogo Cão (pt) Os descobrimentos portugueses: Diogo Cão e Bartolomeu Dias...

details of the spice markets and trade routes. The breakthrough came soon after, when John II's captain Bartolomeu Dias returned from rounding the Cape of Good...

Commemorative Statues. London and Oxford: Savoy Press. ISBN 978-0951429600. Bradley, Simon; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2003). London 6: Westminster. The Buildings of England...

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 Diffie et al.,...

and Bartolomeu Perestrelo, he initiated the colonization of the islands in 1425. As a knight of the House of Avis, he participated in the siege of Tangier...

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 the...

first European to have reached China by sea during the Age of Discovery. His starting of settlements on an island in what is now Hong Kong is still considered...

Portuguese Age of Discovery, and was considered a household servant and shield-bearer of the Infante Henry the Navigator. He was a native of Lagos on which...

inaugurated in 2008 is located in Old Goa contains exquisite wax statues. The statues have been sculpted by Shreeji Bhaskaran, who owns the museum and...

career with his father-in-law Fernão Dias Pais. When he died in 1718 he held the office of Juiz ordinário of the town of Sabará. It is not known where he...

have been an explorer of a land called Terra Nova do Bacalhau (New Land of the Codfish), speculated to possibly have been a part of North America. These...

The theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia claims that early Portuguese navigators were the first Europeans to sight Australia between 1521 and 1524...

This is a timeline of the history of the area in present-day South Africa....

century, Portuguese sailors traveled all over the world: Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1488; Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498; and...