Bento de Góis (1562 – 11 April 1607), was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and explorer. His name is commonly given in English as Bento de Goes or Bento...

Gois, De Góis or Degois can refer to: Bento de Góis (1562-1607), Portuguese traveller, probably the first European to travel overland from India to China...

via the Great Wall came in 1605, when the Portuguese Jesuit brother Bento de Góis reached the northwestern Jiayu Pass from India. Early European accounts...

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...

China–Cathay controversy, the India Jesuits sent a Portuguese lay brother, Bento de Góis, on an overland expedition north and east, with the goal of reaching...

early map of the northwestern region of the subcontinent. In 1595, Bento de Góis travelled to Lahore and Agra as a companion of Jerome Xavier, paying...

Portuguese Jesuit lay brother Bento de Góis visited the Tarim Basin on his way from India to China (via Kabul and Kashgar). De Góis and his traveling companions...

in the knowledge of the activities and travels of Bento de Góis, António de Andrade, Francisco de Azevedo, Estêvão Cacella, Johann Grueber, Albert d'Orville...

mouth of the Pearl River, just south of Canton. 1602: In September, Bento de Góis left Goa with a small group in search of the legendary Grand Cathay...

name or a surname. It may refer to: Bento Teixeira (circa 1561 – circa 1618), Portuguese-Brazilian poet Bento de Góis (1562–1607), Portuguese Jesuit missionary...

orange plantations, and later, from pineapple production. In July 1562, Bento de Góis was born in this town. He undertook, between 1602 and 1606, the greatest...

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 Mina...

next 10 years as advisor to the shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu. 1602–1607: Bento de Góis, first European to travel overland from India to China. 160?–1611: Robert...

of the book was among his belongings, with handwritten annotations. Bento de Góis, inspired by Polo's writings of a Christian kingdom in the east, travelled...

H. Goddard, American rocket scientist (1975) Bento de Góis, missionary, explorer (1968) Damião de Góis, philosopher (1974; 2002) Guilherme Gomes Fernandes...

recorded as having visited Kafiristan was the Portuguese Jesuit missionary Bento de Góis, SJ. By his account, he visited a city named "Capherstam" in 1602, during...

Even though Matteo Ricci and Bento de Góis had already proven that Cathay is simply another name for China, the English cartographer John Speed in 1626...

Fernão Pires de Andrade (also spelled as Fernão Peres de Andrade; in contemporary sources, Fernam (Fernã) Perez Dandrade) (d. 1552) was a Portuguese merchant...

early map of the northwestern region of the subcontinent. In 1595, Bento de Góis travelled to Lahore and Agra as a companion of Jerome Xavier, paying...

Benedict Goëz (1562–1697), Portuguese Jesuit missionary and explorer (Bento de Góis) Benedict Gregorios (1916–1994), Metropolitan Archbishop of the Malankara...

among the first to reach Japan Bento de Góis, explorer Cristóvão Jacques, explorer of the Brazilian coast Cristóvão de Mendonça, some have claimed he...

(c.1520–1570), author of the first book on China in Western Europe Bento de Góis (c.1562–1607), historian from China Alfredo Co Ali bin Ghanem Al-hajiri...

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...

ISBN 0-8047-2514-4. Bento, Carlos Melo (2008), História dos Açores: Da descoberta a 1934 (in Portuguese), Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal: Câmara Municipal de Ponta...

Afonso de Albuquerque, 1st Duke of Goa (c. 1453 – 16 December 1515), was a Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman. He served as viceroy of Portuguese...

pronunciation: [ˈpeɾu ðɐ kuviˈʎɐ̃]; c. 1460 – after 1526), sometimes written Pero de Covilhã, was a Portuguese diplomat and explorer. He was a native of Covilhã...

several contemporary sources. These were jesuit priests Jerome Xavier and Bento de Góis. These include physician Francois Bernier and priests Ippolito Desideri...

from 1592 until 1609. In 1603, he was visited by Portuguese Jesuit Bento de Góis, who was searching land route from India to Ming China. He headed a...

one of the first Western visitors to Angkor (now Cambodia). 1602–1606—Bento de Góis, a Jesuit missionary, was the first known European to travel overland...

Portuguese Barros, João de. Décadas da Ásia, Década I. bk. III., esp. ch. 3; Ruy de Pina, Chronica d'el Rei D. João II.; Garcia de Resende, Chronica; Luciano...