Paulo Dias de Novais
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Paulo Dias de Novais (ca 1510 – 1589), a nobleman of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese colonizer of Africa in the 16th century and the first Captain-Governor of Angola. He was the grandson of the explorer Bartolomeu Dias.
Novais arrived in what is now Angola on February 11, 1575.[1] Attracted by the prospect of the famous silver mines of Cambambe, he established a settlement at São Paulo de Luanda, near the island of Luanda.
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- ^ Luanda was born on Cape Island (portuguese)
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