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    Pêro or Pero Vaz de Caminha (c. 1450 – 15 December 1500; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpeɾu ˈvaʒ ðɨ kɐˈmiɲɐ]; also spelled Pedro Vaz de Caminha) was a Portuguese...
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    In his letter to Manuel I of Portugal, Pero Vaz de Caminha gives what is considered by many today as being one of the most accurate accounts of what Brazil...
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    Neither of the two eyewitnesses—an anonymous Portuguese pilot and Pêro Vaz de Caminha—give a list of captains in their sources. The Second Armada was to...
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    relating to the Portuguese discoveries, the Carta de Pêro Vaz de Caminha (Letter from Pêro Vaz de Caminha), was also inscribed on the Memory of the World...
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    of Western Africa. Pêro Vaz de Caminha, chronicler of Cabral's expedition, wrote: "On the night of Monday next, at sunrise, Vasco de Ataíde was lost from...
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  • in Bosnia and Herzegovina Pero or Pedro Tafur (c. 1410–c. 1484), Castilian traveler, historian and writer Pero Vaz de Caminha (c. 1450–1500), Portuguese...
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  • poet Luís Vaz Pereira Pinto Guedes, Portuguese military commander María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, Uruguayan teacher and poet Pêro Vaz de Caminha, 15th century...
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    Brazilian literature is the Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha (Pero Vaz de Caminha's letter). It is written by Pero Vaz de Caminha to Manuel I of Portugal, which...
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    Ravenstein, Ernst Georg (2010). Bartolomeu Dias. William Brooks Greenlee, Pero Vaz de Caminha. England: Viartis. ISBN 978-1-906421-03-8. OCLC 501399584. Ravenstein...
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    Island. Pero is an archaic variant of Pedro. Rocha, Carlos (24 September 2013). "O plural de pêro-botelho (e uma nota etimológica)" [The plural of pêro-botelho...
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    Cabrália, on the southern coast of Bahia. The event was described by Pêro Vaz de Caminha in a Letter to the King D. Manuel, which he sent to the King of Portugal...
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    1500 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Cruz. Cabral claims the land for the Kingdom of Portugal. May 1 – Pêro Vaz de Caminha finishes writing his chronicle of the Portuguese discovery of Brazil...
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    Coelho, Sancho de Tovar, Simão de Miranda, Pero de Ataíde did the entire trip to India. Among other passengers were: Pêro Vaz de Caminha and the Franciscan...
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    únicos testemunhos do descobrimento do Brasil. In: CAMINHA, Pero Vaz de. Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Aguilar, 1999. pp. 31–59. Cavalcante...
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    19th-century Greek cursive letter forms Letter to Manuel I of Portugal by Pêro Vaz de Caminha reporting the discovery of Brazil (1 May 1500) A letter from Lessing...
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  • João Carta de Pêro Vaz de Caminha 2nd Portuguese India Armada (Cabral, 1500) Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro, Rio de Janeiro, 1843...
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    continents. Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia (1415–1481), nautical explorer Pêro Vaz de Caminha (1450–1500), wrote the letter Carta do Achamento do Brasil, announcing...
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    his own surname's coat of arms, certainly for religious reasons. Pêro Vaz de Caminha Afonso Eduardo Martins Zúquete (1987). Armorial Lusitano. 3rd Edition...
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    The First Mass in Brazil was inspired by the letter written by Pero Vaz de Caminha to the king of Portugal describing the first mass held in the country...
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  • in Brazil, namely referred to in the letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha of 1500. It is recorded in Caminha's letter that, while returning from a voyage to the...
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    Muslims on December 16 and several Portuguese, including the scribe Pêro Vaz de Caminha, died. After bombarding Calicut as a retaliation, Cabral went to...
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  • 1570 Jaintia Kingdom was founded in what is now northeastern India Pêro Vaz de Caminha, a Portuguese knight and secretary to the royal factory, died in...
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    beginning of the Portuguese colonization. In the famous letter by Pero Vaz de Caminha, for example, in which Brazil was first described by the Portuguese...
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    and his interest in the natives' way of life became apparent to Pêro Vaz de Caminha, the fleet's secretary and chronicler, who recorded these impressions...
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    since the beginning of the colonisation. In the famous letter by Pero Vaz de Caminha, for example, in which Brazil was first described by the Portuguese...
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    Sancho de Tovar, Simão de Miranda, Pero de Ataíde completed the trip to India. Among others who undertook the voyages were Pêro Vaz de Caminha and the...
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    on the Discovery of Brazil) 1943: A carta de Pêro Vaz de Caminha (Map by Pero Vaz de Caminha) 1949: Eça de Queiroz e a questão social (Eça Queiroz and...
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    Cangaço (redirect from Jose Alves de Matos)
    state of Bahia, he met Maria Alia da Silva (a.k.a. Maria de Déia), wife of shoemaker Zé de Nenê. Later she would be better known as Mrs. Lampião, Maria...
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  • Philippine Chief Justice Pedro Zamora, cast member on The Real World Pero Vaz de Caminha, Portuguese knight Don Pedro, a character from Much Ado About Nothing...
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    decided to deal with the Spanish directly. The Portuguese envoys Pero Diaz and Ruy de Pina arrived in Barcelona in August, and requested that all expeditions...
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