• Alvise Cadamosto (surname cf. Ca' da Mosto, da Cadamosto, da Ca' da Mosto; also known in Portuguese as Luís Cadamosto; mononymously Cadamosto)(Portuguese...
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    the records of 15th-century, Portuguese-financed Italian traveller Alvise Cadamosto, who mentioned well-established Islamic Wolof chiefs advised by Muslim...
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    sizeable state in the 15th century. At that time, the Venetian explorer Alvise Cadamosto and Portuguese traders confirmed that the peoples who settled within...
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  • III of Scotland (at the Battle of Sauchieburn; b. c. 1451) July 18 – Alvise Cadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432) July 28 – Edward Woodville, Lord Scales...
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  • service of the Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator. Jointly with Alvise Cadamosto, Usodimare discovered a great stretch of the West African coast in...
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    cede them to Castile in 1418. In 1455 and 1456 two Italian explorers, Alvise Cadamosto from Venice and Antoniotto Usodimare from Genoa, together with an unnamed...
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    point in time, Italian cartographers consulted the Italian explorer Alvise Cadamosto about the name of the mountains. He referred to them as Sierra Leone...
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    terms had been used and applied before him. The Venetian explorer Alvise Cadamosto used the term "un altro mondo" ("another world") to refer to sub-Saharan...
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  • Cape") further north, on the Petite Côte of Senegal. Alvise Cadamosto, "Navigatione di Messer Alvise Ca da Mosto Gentilhuomo Venetiano" originally published...
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    used in a letter he wrote in 1447 and also adopted by Alvise Cadamosto in his Voyages of Cadamosto, to Heinrich Barth's Timbúktu and Timbu'ktu. French spelling...
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    récits et légendes' (in French). Paris: P. Bertrand. Alvise Cadamosto (1460s) "Il Libro di Messer Alvise Ca da Mosto Gentilhuomo Venetiano" & "Navigatione...
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    within the Cabo Verde exclusive economic zone. Its name refers to Alvise Cadamosto, who discovered the Cape Verde islands in 1456. The seamount is c....
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    service of Prince Henry Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia Álvaro Fernandes Alvise Cadamosto Antão Gonçalves António de Noli Antoniotto Usodimare Bartolomeu Perestrelo...
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  • Cape Roxo) would not be surpassed for ten years, until the voyage of Alvise Cadamosto in 1456. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates...
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    (1474–1557) Umberto Cagni (1863–1932) Giovanni Caboto (1450–1500) Alvise Cadamosto (1432–1483) Gaetano Casati (1838–1902) Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766)...
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    the constellation a coincidence. The 15th century Venetian navigator Alvise Cadamosto made note of what was probably the Southern Cross on exiting the Gambia...
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    service of Prince Henry Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia Álvaro Fernandes Alvise Cadamosto Antão Gonçalves António de Noli Antoniotto Usodimare Bartolomeu Perestrelo...
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    service of Prince Henry Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia Álvaro Fernandes Alvise Cadamosto Antão Gonçalves António de Noli Antoniotto Usodimare Bartolomeu Perestrelo...
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    Henry's behalf, and the first private mercantile expeditions began. Alvise Cadamosto explored the Atlantic coast of Africa and discovered several islands...
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    first Europeans to reach Guinea-Bissau were the Venetian explorer Alvise Cadamosto in 1455, Portuguese explorer Diogo Gomes in 1456, Portuguese explorer...
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  • drawing from larger evidence (including the accounts of Diogo Gomes and Cadamosto), have generally dismissed this claim and now generally agree that Nuno...
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    service of Prince Henry Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia Álvaro Fernandes Alvise Cadamosto Antão Gonçalves António de Noli Antoniotto Usodimare Bartolomeu Perestrelo...
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    Spanish 16th California Estêvão Cacella Portuguese 16th Himalayas Alvise Cadamosto Italian 15th Cape Verde islands Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac French...
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  • survivors of the Vivaldi expedition. (Usodimare's travelling companion, Alvise Cadamosto, mentions no such meeting in his memoirs.) Usodimare gives more details...
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    in May 1456, when a Portuguese expedition led by Italian explorers Alvise Cadamosto and Antoniotto Usodimare moored off the island. They buried one of...
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    from the Venetian spelling, which was introduced by Venetian explorer Alvise Cadamosto and subsequently adopted by other European mapmakers. Sierra Leone's...
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    service of Prince Henry Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia Álvaro Fernandes Alvise Cadamosto Antão Gonçalves António de Noli Antoniotto Usodimare Bartolomeu Perestrelo...
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  • 1375 on the trans-Saharan trade route linking Sijilmasa and Timbuktu. Alvise Cadamosto learned in 1455 that Taghaza salt was taken to Timbuktu and then on...
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  • the Atlantic islands Álvaro Martins, explorer of the African coast Alvise Cadamosto, explorer of the Atlantic islands and of the African coast André Gonçalves...
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    in his Geographia, may have been the Cape Verde islands. In 1456, Alvise Cadamosto, Antoniotto Usodimare (Venetian and Genoese captains, respectively...
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