Pedro de Sintra, also known as Pero de Sintra, Pedro da Cintra or Pedro da Sintra, was a Portuguese explorer. He was among the first Europeans to explore...
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Sintra (/ˈsɪntrə, ˈsiːntrə/, Portuguese: [ˈsĩtɾɐ] ) is a town and municipality in the Greater Lisbon region of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera...
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Sintra (Santa Maria e São Miguel, São Martinho e São Pedro de Penaferrim) is a civil parish in the municipality of Sintra, Lisbon District, Portugal....
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Gonçalo de Sintra or de Cintra (d.1444/45), was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer and servant of Prince Henry the Navigator. According to chronicler...
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of Sierra Leone is named after the range. The Portuguese explorer Pedro de Sintra named in 1462 the mountains Serra Leoa (Lioness Mountains). At a later...
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Miguel, São Martinho e São Pedro de Penaferrim), a civil parish within the municipality Sintra Mountains Palace of Sintra Opel Sintra, a minivan Cintra (disambiguation)...
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São Pedro de Penaferrim (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃w ˈpeðɾu ðɨ pɨnɐfɨˈʁĩ]) is a former civil parish in the municipality of Sintra, Lisbon District...
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With his sponsorship, explorers João de Santarém, Pedro Escobar, Lopo Gonçalves, Fernão do Pó, and Pedro de Sintra made it beyond those goals. They reached...
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Ferdinand Magellan (redirect from Fernão de Magalhães)
c. 1480. His father, Pedro de Magalhães, was a minor member of Portuguese nobility and mayor of the town. His mother was Alda de Mezquita. Magellan's...
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Castle of the Moors (redirect from Castelo dos Mouros (Sintra))
1988), "A Capela de S. Pedro de Canaferrim, em Sintra", Aedificiorum (in Portuguese), pp. 35–39 Ribeiro, José Cardim, ed. (1996), Sintra. Património da...
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Cape du Mont, a French word meaning the Cape of the Mount. In 1461, Pedro de Sintra, a Portuguese explorer charting the West Coast of Africa, saw the prominent...
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pepper). Gomes employed explorers João de Santarém, Pedro Escobar, Lopo Gonçalves, Fernão do Pó and Pedro de Sintra, He exceeded the requirements of his...
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1456, until the expedition of Pedro de Sintra in 1462. Cadamosto acquired the details of that expedition from Sintra's clerk upon its return. Cadamosto's...
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Serra Leoa (Portuguese for 'lioness mountains') by Portuguese explorer Pedro de Sintra in 1462, the modern name is derived from the Venetian spelling, which...
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Bartolomeu Dias (redirect from Bartholomeu Diaz de Novaes)
later he was one of the captains of the second Indian expedition, headed by Pedro Álvares Cabral. This flotilla was the first to reach Brazil, landing there...
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Vasco da Gama (redirect from Vasco de gama)
Sodré, Vasco da Gama, Pedro da Gama and Aires da Gama. Vasco also had one known sister, Teresa da Gama, who married Lopo Mendes de Vasconcelos. Little is...
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Pedro Álvares Cabral (European Portuguese: [ˈpeðɾu ˈalvɐɾɨʃ kɐˈβɾal]; born Pedro Álvares de Gouveia; c. 1467 or 1468 – c. 1520) was a Portuguese nobleman...
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illustrious monarch, Dom João the Second of Portugal – Diogo Cão, Pedro Anes, Pedro da Costa, Alvaro Pires, Pero Escolar". Information regarding Cão's...
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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...
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Cascais. Maria Teresa de Noronha died of prolonged disease at her house of São Pedro de Sintra on the July 5, 1993. Maria Teresa de Noronha’s particularity...
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Sintra Station (Portuguese: Estação Ferroviária de Sintra) is a railway station in the town Sintra and the terminus of the Sintra Line from Rossio, one...
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Pero Escobar (redirect from Pedro Escobar)
Pedro Escobar, also known as Pero Escobar, was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator who discovered São Tomé (December 21, 1471), Annobón (January 1, 1472)...
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Ali Bey Mihaloğlu captures Michael Szilágyi. Portuguese navigator Pedro de Sintra reaches the coast of modern-day Sierra Leone. A famine breaks out in...
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navigators working for Fernão Gomes, joining João de Santarém, Pedro Escobar, Lopo Gonçalves, and Pedro de Sintra, a merchant from Lisbon who was granted a monopoly...
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Portugal", The New York Times, Sao Pedro de Sintra, Portugal, 22 July 1964 de Montjouvent, Philippe. Le Comte de Paris et sa Descendance. Editions du...
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parish of São Pedro de Penaferrim, in Sintra Municipality, Portugal. Its creation was associated with the Portuguese Viceroy of India, D. João de Castro, and...
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violence and jihads. Sierra Leone was named by Portuguese explorer Pedro de Sintra, who mapped the region in 1462. The Freetown estuary provided a good...
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Gonçalves (15th century/16th century), Portuguese explorer who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil. Gonçalves was one of Cabral's...
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Pêro da Covilhã (redirect from Pedro de Covilham)
pronunciation: [ˈpeɾu ðɐ kuviˈʎɐ̃]; c. 1460 – after 1526), sometimes written Pero de Covilhăo, was a Portuguese diplomat and explorer. He was a native of Covilhã...
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Mira Sintra-Meleças Station (Portuguese: Estação Ferroviária de Mira Sintra-Meleças) is a railway station located in the city of Sintra, Portugal. Located...
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