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...

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...

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...

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...

Ragamuffin War Bento de Góis, Portuguese Jesuit Bento Teixeira, Portuguese-Brazilian poet Bento Carneiro, a Chico Anysio character António Bento Bembe, Cabinda/Angolan...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

via the Great Wall came in 1605, when the Portuguese Jesuit brother Bento de Góis reached the northwestern Jiayu Pass from India. Ivan Petlin's 1619 deposition...

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

John the Baptist which is popular displayed during annual festivals; Bento de Góis (1562 in Vila Franca do Campo – 1607) a Jesuit brother, missionary and...

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...

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...

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...

name, known as Diogo Fernandes de Beja. In older chronicles, (e.g. Damião de Góis) his name is also written as Diogo Fernandes 'Piteira' or 'Peteira'. Diogo...

the Ming, Suzhou was the site where the Portuguese Jesuit missionary Bento de Góis was robbed and died in 1607 during the exploration that finally established...

D. Manuel (Chronicles of the most fortunate D. Manuel, 1558) by Damião de Góis, Lendas da Índia (Legends of India, 1561) by Gaspar Correia, História do...

Soares Moreno Pedro Teixeira Asia António da Madalena António de Andrade Bento de Góis Diogo Veloso Domingo Paes Estêvão Cacella Fernão Nunes Galeote...

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...

Atlantic Ocean as set out in the Treaty of Tordesillas. Together with Pero de Barcelos, Lavrador first sighted what is now known as Labrador in 1498. Lavrador...

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...