• Gaspar Correia (1492 – c. 1563 in Goa) was a Portuguese historian considered a Portuguese Polybius. He authored Lendas da Índia (Legends of India), one...
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    have learned mathematics and navigation. Da Gama's near-contemporary Gaspar Correia and others have claimed that he studied under Abraham Zacuto, an astrologer...
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    Albuquerque: Le Lion des Mers d'Asie, Paris, Éditions Desjonquères, p. 168 Gaspar Correia (1558–1563) Lendas da Índia, 1864 edition, Academia Real das Sciencias...
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    Tarikh al-Shihri, Ottoman forces amounted to 80 vessels and 40,000 men. Gaspar Correia provides a more specific account, claiming that the Turks assembled...
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    famous letter giving an account of its fate. According to chronicler Gaspar Correia, Pero de Ataíde was a "very honored nobleman, a good knight, of virtuous...
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  • appears with the name "Gaspar da Gama" or "Gaspar of the Indies" in the chronicles and reports of discovery written by Gaspar Correia, Fernão Lopes de Castanheda...
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    use may have expanded across continents, e.g. Portuguese chronicler Gaspar Correia (writing in the 1550s), claims that in 1502, an Indian ruler, the Zamorin...
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    suggest that this happened on his return from India in 1499. However, Gaspar Correia, who was one of the earliest sixteenth-century chroniclers, suggests...
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    artillery salvo; "The ships appeared to be on fire", as the eyewitness Gaspar Correia would later recount. Hormuz was found fortified and prepared for a drawn-out...
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    Manuel de Faria e Sousa's Asia Portugueza. The main conflict is with Gaspar Correia's Lendas da Índia, who omits Pêro de Ataíde and Aires Gomes da Silva...
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    Gaspar Correia (who is not always reliable, and acknowledges this is hearsay) and also the 16th-century chronicler Francisco de Andrada. Both Correia...
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    Kerr 1824[page needed] De Souza 1990, pp. 220–221 Dalgado 1982, p. 382 Gaspar Correia Lendas da Índia, book II tome II, part I pp.440–441, 1923 Edition de...
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    The Portuguese governor of India Nuno da Cunha, sketched by Gaspar Correia....
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    Huntingford, translators, Prester John, p.307; paraphrasing the account of Gaspar Correia. Apparently Álvares never learned this, for in his narrative he repeats...
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    family in Brazil and have three children: Gaspar, Gabriel and Jorge, all named knights by Tomé de Sousa. Correia was born in Viana do Castelo. He departed...
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    identity has been widely speculated on. The 16th-century chronicler Gaspar Correia suggests that it was André Gonçalves (Lendas da India, p.152). Greenlee...
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    Portuguese attack in 1517 by Gaspar Correia (c. 1496–1563) - originally from Lendas da India by Gaspar Correia....
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    attacked and killed by the father of the girl, according to the account by Gaspar Correia. Then another man intervened and claimed that the murdered New Christian...
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  • allow opposition to mount against Gama's rapid appointment. Chronicler Gaspar Correia tells a slightly different story – he does not mention Sodré's command...
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    Thierry Rendall Correia (born 9 March 1999) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a right-back for La Liga club Valencia. Born in Amadora...
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    piece dedicated to resolving battles by gunnery alone. According to Gaspar Correia, the typical fighting caravel of Gama's 4th Armada (1502) carried 30...
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  • 1894, p.400. Gaspar Correia (1495-1561). Lendas da Índia 1858 edition, Typographia da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, p. 390 Correia 1858, p. 390...
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    be Camões' poetic interpretation of an alleged meeting (reported in Gaspar Correia) between Vasco da Gama and the older Abraham Zacuto at a monastery by...
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    p. 82. ISBN 9783515032049. Carvalho, Maria João Loução de (2009). Gaspar Correia e dois perfis de Governador: Lopo Soares de Albergaria e Diogo Lopes...
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    Brazil has varied over the centuries: Until 1817 – 3 May (according to Gaspar Correia) 1817 – 22 April (according to the letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha, which...
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  • due to Castanheda. Finally, as usual, chronicler Gaspar Correia tends to deviate from the rest: Correia is the only one to suggest that 'Pedro Cão' was...
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    Ophir - Whence Brought and by Whom? (1901) 16th century chronicler Gaspar Correia insists it was Aguiar; Osório, only mildly corroborated by Barros, suggests...
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    flourished: João de Barros, Fernão Lopes de Castanheda, António Galvão, Gaspar Correia, Duarte Barbosa, and Fernão Mendes Pinto, among others, described new...
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    Barros (Decadas da Asia, vol. 1, p. 390) claims it was Gaspar de Lemos; chronicler Gaspar Correia (Lendas da India, p. 152) identifies him as André Gonçalves...
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    discovery. A third discovery story, told by 16th-century historian Gaspar Correia, holds that the island was found by Portuguese nobleman and warrior...
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