• Tristão Ferreira da Cunha (Teófilo Otoni, 27 July 1890 – Rio de Janeiro, 2 January 1974) was a Brazilian politician, lawyer and scholar. In 1934, he was...
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    Carneiro da Cunha (born 1973), Brazilian artist Tristão da Cunha (1460–1540), Portuguese explorer and naval commander Tristão de Bragança Cunha (1878–1938)...
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  • Ferreira da Cunha (4 January 1927 in Teófilo Otoni – 3 October 2010 in Belo Horizonte) was a Brazilian politician. Son of politician Tristão Ferreira...
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    Barros di Pietro, footballer Fahel, footballer Lobão, footballer Tristão Ferreira da Cunha, politician List of municipalities in Minas Gerais Roman Catholic...
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    grandfather, Tristão Ferreira da Cunha, and his father Aécio Cunha were congressmen representing the state of Minas Gerais. His paternal grandfather, Tristão Ferreira...
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    son of Antónia Pais and Tristão da Cunha, the famous Portuguese navigator, admiral and ambassador to Pope Leo X. Nuno da Cunha proved his mettle in battles...
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    Vasco da Gama (/ˌvæsku ˈɡɑːmə, -ɡæmə/ VAS-koo GA(H)M-ə; European Portuguese: [ˈvaʃku ðɐ ˈɣɐmɐ]; c. 1460s – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer...
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    and rich". In 1507, he was joined by João Gomes, a priest sent by Tristão da Cunha, who had reached Ethiopia by way of Socotra. When the Portuguese embassy...
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  • The Neves-Cunha family Tancredo Neves (President-elect of Brazil) Tristão Ferreira da Cunha (Congressional Deputy from Minas Gerais) Aécio Cunha (Congressional...
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    João Maria Ferreira do Amaral (4 March 1803 – 22 August 1849) was a Portuguese military officer and politician. While he was governor of Macau, he was...
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    Portuguese Empire. Captured from the Mahra dynasty of Qishn in 1507 by Tristão da Cunha and Afonso de Albuquerque, it was later abandoned in 1511 and it reverted...
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    strengthened by the arrival of Tristão da Cunha's squadron. Afonso de Albuquerque's squadron had, however, split from that of Cunha off east Africa and was independently...
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    in the fleet of sixteen sailing for India in early 1506, headed by Tristão da Cunha. The aim of the expedition was to conquer Socotra and build a fortress...
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  • Roberto da Matta (born 1936) anthropologist Ruy Barbosa (1849–1923) political theorist Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902–1982) historian Tristão de Athayde...
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    Almeida Miguel Corte-Real Gaspar Corte-Real Tristão da Cunha Martim Afonso de Sousa João de Castro Cristóvão da Gama Tomé de Sousa Fernão de Magalhães, also...
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    strengthened by the arrival of Tristão da Cunha's squadron. Afonso de Albuquerque's squadron had split from that of Cunha off East Africa and was independently...
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    Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira. Vida e obra do grande naturalista brasileiro. São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, 1939. O. R. Cunha. O naturalista Alexandre...
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  • colonizer of Africa Pedro Mascarenhas, explorer of the Indian Ocean Tristão da Cunha, naval general and discoverer Ferdinand Magellan, led the first successful...
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    Hugo Bezerra and Arlindo Mauriti da Cunha Menezes. Silva 1971, p. 183. Exército Brasileiro, s/d also lists Tristão de Alencar Araripe [pt], Newton de...
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    seven years after the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco da Gama, with the nomination of the first Portuguese viceroy Francisco de Almeida...
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    of Dom Luís de Ataíde, Helena de Ataíde, with Tristão da Cunha (grandson of his namesake, Tristão da Cunha, the famous navigator), who a few generations...
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    D. Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva, 1st Viscount and 1st Count of Paço de Arcos (17 December 1834 – 5 November 1905), was a Portuguese statesman. The Count...
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    Bernardes 03/02/1961 – 31/05/1961 Vasco Tristão Leitão da Cunha 25/10/1960 – 03/02/1961 Edmundo Penna Barbosa da Silva 11/08/1959 – 25/10/1960 Fernando...
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    Portuguese Army officer who was the last Governor of Macau. He is the son of João da Silva Vieira (b. Lagoa or Faro on 9 November 1913) and his wife, Maria Vieira...
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  • High commissioner (1924–1925) Francisco Cunha Rêgo Cháves, High commissioner (1925–1926) António Vicente Ferreira, High commissioner (1926–1928) António...
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    and a Portuguese nobleman in service of the royal family, he married Ana Cunha in Praia, Azores, daughter of Sargento-Mor Diogo de Campos Moreno, with...
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    (1st time) 1566–1567 Tristão Vaz da Veiga (1st time) 1567–1568 António de Sousa 1568–1569 Manuel Travassos 1569–1571 Tristão Vaz da Veiga (2nd time) 1571–1572...
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  • Saldanha returned to the Indian Ocean in 1506, with the 8th Armada under Tristão da Cunha, albeit not as a captain of his own ship. He came principally as a...
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    Kings, Rulers & Statesmen, Clive Carpenter, Guinness Superlatives Ltd Heads of State and Government, 2nd Edition, John V da Graca, MacMillan Press 2000...
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  • Joaquim Germano Pinto Machado Correia da Silva (16 June 1929 – 14 March 2011) was the 124th Governor of Macau from 15 May 1986 to 8 July 1987. As a physician...
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