Vasco da Gama

Vasco da Gama

male, deceased (1524)
Count of Vidigueira, dom, Portuguese, Age of Discovery, Portuguese explorer, kochi…Explorer of Africa, Sines, Portugal, PortugalintheAgeofDiscovery, Explorer of Asia
Dom Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira ((Sines or Vidigueira, Alentejo, Portugal, ca. either 1460 or 1469 - December 24, 1524 in Kochi, India)...
Gracia Mendes Nasi

Gracia Mendes Nasi

female, deceased (1569)
Portuguese explorations, PortugalintheAgeofDiscovery, Archaic Portuguese, Kingdom of Aragon, Portuguese language, don…Politics of the Ottoman Empire, Culture of the Ottoman Empire, Women of the Ottoman Empire, dynasty of Mendes, House of Mendes
Gracia Mendes Nasi ("Gracia" is archaic Portuguese or Spanish for the Hebrew "Hannah", also known by her Christianized name "Beatrice de Luna...

Fernão Lopes

male, deceased (1459)
Autodidacticism, Chronicler, Edward I of Portugal, Autodidact, Portuguese, Chroniclers…Leonor of Aragon, Pedro, Duke of Coimbra, battle of Aljubarrota, PortugalintheAgeofDiscovery, Battle of Alfarrobeira
Fernão Lopes, was a Portuguese chronicler, appointed by King Edward I of Portugal. Fernão Lopes wrote the History of Portugal as it was known at th...

Fernão do Pó

male
cocoa, São Tomé, principe, Portuguese, west africa, 15th century…Gulf of Guinea, Explorer of Africa, PortugalintheAgeofDiscovery
Fernão do Pó, also Fernão Pó, Fernando Pó, Fernando Póo (15th century) was a Portuguese navigator and explorer of the West African coast. By tradit...