• Alvise Cadamosto (surname cf. Ca' da Mosto, da Cadamosto, da Ca' da Mosto; also known in Portuguese as Luís Cadamosto; mononymously Cadamosto)(Portuguese...
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    the records of 15th-century, Portuguese-financed Italian traveller Alvise Cadamosto, who mentioned well-established Islamic Wolof chiefs advised by Muslim...
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    cede them to Castile in 1418. In 1455 and 1456 two Italian explorers, Alvise Cadamosto from Venice and Antoniotto Usodimare from Genoa, together with an unnamed...
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    sizeable state in the 15th century. At that time, the Venetian explorer Alvise Cadamosto and Portuguese traders confirmed that the peoples who settled within...
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  • service of the Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator. Jointly with Alvise Cadamosto, Usodimare discovered a great stretch of the West African coast in...
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  • Cape Roxo) would not be surpassed for ten years, until the voyage of Alvise Cadamosto in 1456. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates...
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  • Cape") further north, on the Petite Côte of Senegal. Alvise Cadamosto, "Navigatione di Messer Alvise Ca da Mosto Gentilhuomo Venetiano" originally published...
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    récits et légendes' (in French). Paris: P. Bertrand. Alvise Cadamosto (1460s) "Il Libro di Messer Alvise Ca da Mosto Gentilhuomo Venetiano" & "Navigatione...
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    point in time, Italian cartographers consulted the Italian explorer Alvise Cadamosto about the name of the mountains. He referred to them as Sierra Leone...
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    (1474–1557) Umberto Cagni (1863–1932) Giovanni Caboto (1450–1500) Alvise Cadamosto (1432–1483) Gaetano Casati (1838–1902) Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766)...
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