Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Viscount of Serpa Pinto (aka Serpa Pinto; 20 April 1846 – 28 December 1900) was a Portuguese explorer of southern...
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Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer Alexandre Portier (born 1990), French politician Alexandre Quintanilha, Portuguese scientist Alexandre de Serpa Pinto...
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honour of Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese colonial administrator. It runs south to north in the central part of the Plateau, parallel to Rua 5 de Julho...
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teacher Alexandre de Serpa Pinto (aka Serpa Pinto; 1846–1900), Portuguese explorer of southern Africa and colonial administrator Fernão Mendes Pinto (c. 1509–1583)...
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Bartolomeu Dias (redirect from Bartholomeu Diaz de Novaes)
Catholic Church’s calendar. When they weighed anchor at what today is Porto Alexandre, Angola, Dias left the supply ship behind so that it could re-provision...
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RMS Ebro (redirect from Serpa Pinto (ship))
With changes of ownership she was renamed Princesa Olga in 1935 and Serpa Pinto in 1940. She was scrapped in Belgium in 1955. Ebro was launched for the...
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Ferdinand Magellan (redirect from Fernão de Magalhães)
de Magalhães, was a minor member of Portuguese nobility and mayor of the town. His mother was Alda de Mezquita. Magellan's siblings included Diogo de...
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Vasco da Gama (redirect from Vasco de gama)
Teresa da Gama, who married Lopo Mendes de Vasconcelos. Little is known of da Gama's early life. Teixeira de Aragão suggests that he studied at the inland...
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the Cinfães municipality. Alexandre de Serpa Pinto (1846 at the castle of Polchras in Tendais – 1900) Viscount of Serpa Pinto, a Portuguese explorer of...
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its African territorial claims through three expeditions led by Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, first from Mozambique to the eastern Zambezi in 1869, then to...
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