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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • football player Pero Vaz de Caminha (c. 1450 – 15 December 1500), Portuguese explorer, writer of the official report of the discovery of Brazil Pero is also a...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    would yield everything, because of its waters. — Pero Vaz de Caminha, Carta de Pêro Vaz de Caminha (Full text on Wikisource – in Portuguese) Brazilian...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 (published...
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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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    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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