Portuguese King Manuel I (who ruled from 1495-1521), commissioned this Belgian tapestry to commemorate explorer Vasco da Gama's "discovery" of India in 1498. Da Gama is the figure at the left, ...
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Sharjah ruler launches translation of 21-volume Portuguese-Gulf history spanning 250 years
The extensive works will allow historians to follow political and commercial change year by year ...
The economy of the Portuguese Empire / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Costs and financial trends in the Portuguese Empire, 1415--1822 / Jorge M. Pedreira -- Markets and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean ...
High on the cliffs above the Cuanza River in Angola, the fortress of Cambambe is a crumbling but imposing remnant of Portuguese colonial ambition. Built in 1604, this stone bastion played a central ...
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