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    Caramuru (c. 1475-1557) was the Tupi name of the Portuguese colonist Diogo Álvares Correia, who is notable for being the first European to establish contact...
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    state of Bahia (dates unknown) and was married to Portuguese sailor Diogo Álvares Correia, also known as "Caramuru". She and Caramuru became the first Brazilian...
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    Pedro Álvares Cabral (European Portuguese: [ˈpeðɾu ˈalvɐɾɨʃ kɐˈβɾal]; born Pedro Álvares de Gouveia; c. 1467 or 1468 – c. 1520) was a Portuguese nobleman...
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  • 1980), Brazilian swimmer Diogo Álvares Correia (aka Caramuru) (1475-1557), Portuguese settler in the colony of Brazil Diogo Cão (1452–1486), Portuguese...
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    Diogo Cão (c. 1452 – 1486), also known as Diogo Cam, was a Portuguese mariner and one of the most notable explorers of the fifteenth century. He made...
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  • old Duarte Galvão at Kamaran. Álvares and Mattheus were forced to wait until the arrival of Soares' replacement, Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, who successfully...
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  • possibility that Diogo Dias also did precisely that in 1500.) Although Correia's account is not corroborated by other chroniclers, Diogo Fernandes Pereira...
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    was accompanied by five other junks. Álvares himself was accompanied by two other Portuguese mariners. Álvares made first contact on Chinese soil on...
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    coast as early as 1478. In 1481, Dias accompanied an expedition, led by Diogo de Azambuja, to construct a fortress and trading post called São Jorge da...
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  • Diogo Dias accompanied the 2nd armada of Pedro Álvares Cabral as one of the captains of the fleet, with a commission to open trade at Sofala. Diogo Dias...
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