Francisco Álvares (c. 1465 – 1536-1541) was a Portuguese missionary and explorer. In 1515 he traveled to Ethiopia as part of the Portuguese embassy to...
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Look up álvares in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Álvares (sometimes Alvares), a Portuguese and Galician surname, originally a patronymic meaning Son...
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Juiz de Fora Airport (redirect from Francisco Álvares de Assis Airport)
Francisco Álvares de Assis Airport (IATA: JDF, ICAO: SBJF), also called Serrinha Airport, is an airport in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Since December 29, 1952...
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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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Jeddah, the principal port of Arabia, and penetrated (as he told Francisco Álvares many years later) even to Mecca and Medina. Finally, via Mount Sinai...
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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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by arguing that the evidence in Álvares account provides enough information to date her death to April, 1522. Álvares makes it clear that she died while...
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the age of 25, Magellan enlisted in the fleet of 22 ships sent to host Francisco de Almeida as the first viceroy of Portuguese India. Although his name...
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(15th century/16th century), Portuguese explorer who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil. Gonçalves was one of Cabral's captains...
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early as the sixteenth century as reported by Portuguese explorer Francisco Álvares however the most prominent Mesob is of Harar origin. In the mid 1970s...
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