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    Prince Henry the Navigator, famed leader of the Age of Discoveries and prince of the House of Aviz....
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    originating in the 16th century, during the Portuguese Renaissance and Age of Discoveries. Manueline architecture incorporates maritime elements and representations...
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    European occupation process in America, in the first phase of the age of discoveries. According to information from the municipal Department of Culture...
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    The Age of Discovery also known as the Age of Exploration, part of the early modern period and largely overlapping with the Age of Sail, was a period from...
    210 KB (24,588 words) - 08:46, 13 May 2024
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    foreigners. Historically its origins can be traced to the Portuguese Age of Discoveries when their caravels passed regularly through Madeira island, a territory...
    44 KB (4,856 words) - 16:15, 19 April 2024
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    The history of Seychelles dates back to the fourth of the Portuguese India Armadas led by Vasco da Gama, though Seychelles was likely already known to...
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    birth, best known as a navigator and explorer during the Portuguese age of discoveries. He was the vice-admiral (soto-capitão) of the fleet that discovered...
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    Jerónimos Monastery. It is often portrayed as a symbol of Europe's Age of Discoveries and as a metonym for Portugal or Lisbon, given its landmark status...
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    time the Portuguese Empire spanned the globe. As the pioneer of the Age of Discoveries, Portugal flourished in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, with voyages...
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    Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes...
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    Sephardic Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדֵי סְפָרַד‎, romanized: Yehudei Sfarad, transl. 'Jews of Spain'; Ladino: Djudíos Sefardíes), also known as Sephardi Jews...
    172 KB (19,805 words) - 05:02, 28 April 2024
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    and South Asia Sanjay (February 2007). Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800. Cambridge University Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-521-78041-4...
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    Prince Henry the Navigator, 1st Duke of Viseu, important figure of the Age of Discoveries Afonso I, Duke of Braganza, founder of the House of Braganza Afonso...
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  • (1998). "Beyond price: pearls and pearl-fishing: origins to the age of discoveries". Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society. 224. American Philosophical...
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    Encounters with Sri Lanka and the Maldives: Translated Texts from the Age of Discoveries. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 95, 110–111, 137. ISBN 978-0-7546-0186-9...
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  • A. Donkin Beyond price: pearls and pearl-fishing : origins to the Age of Discoveries. American Philosophical Society, 1998, p. 100. Gazetteer of the Bombay...
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    the Gold Coast, and on the Slave Coast. Founded in 1443, during the Age of Discoveries, under the auspices of Prince Henry the Navigator, the Casa da Guiné...
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  • Encounters with Sri Lanka and the Maldives: Translated Texts from the Age of Discoveries. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 225. ISBN 9780754601869. Vidyodaya Journal...
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    statues of leading figures of Portuguese culture and literature in the Age of Discoveries: Fernão Lopes, Pedro Nunes, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, João de Barros...
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    museum covering Sesimbra's history as a fishing village. During the Age of Discoveries, Sesimbra became an important seaport. Even king Manuel I lived here...
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