Alexandre de Serpa Pinto information

Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto, Viscount of Serpa Pinto (aka Serpa Pinto; 20 April 1846 – 28 December 1900) was a Portuguese explorer of southern...

honour of Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese colonial administrator. It runs south to north in the central part of the Plateau, parallel to Rua 5 de Julho...

teacher Alexandre de Serpa Pinto (aka Serpa Pinto; 1846–1900), Portuguese explorer of southern Africa and colonial administrator Fernão Mendes Pinto (c. 1509–1583)...

Catholic Church’s calendar. When they weighed anchor at what today is Porto Alexandre, Angola, Dias left the supply ship behind so that it could re-provision...

With changes of ownership she was renamed Princesa Olga in 1935 and Serpa Pinto in 1940. She was scrapped in Belgium in 1955. Ebro was launched for the...

de Magalhães, was a minor member of Portuguese nobility and mayor of the town. His mother was Alda de Mezquita. Magellan's siblings included Diego de...

Gama (who married Lopo Mendes de Vasconcelos). Little is known of da Gama's early life. The Portuguese historian Teixeira de Aragão suggests that he studied...

'Lubossi' (the spelling used) can be found in the Portuguese explorer Alexandre de Serpa Pinto's 1878–1879 travel narrative Como eu atravessei a África (How I...

government, but it had not managed to do so by 1886. In 1885-86 Alexandre de Serpa Pinto undertook a Portuguese expedition which reached the Shire Highlands...

its African territorial claims through three expeditions led by Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, first from Mozambique to the eastern Zambezi in 1869, then to...

– William Corby, American priest and academic (b. 1833) 1900 – Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. 1846) 1907 – Louise Granberg...

bandeirante Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, explorer of Brazil's interior Francisco de Lacerda, explorer of Africa Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, explorer of...

Seixas, composer (1974) António Sérgio, thinker and educator (1980) Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, explorer and colonial administrator (1980) José António Serrano...

term "Dark Continent" for Africa in an 1878 book), Silva Porto, Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, Rene Caille, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Gustav Nachtigal, George...

Paes recorded his impressions of Vijayanagara in his work Chronica dos reis de Bisnaga (Indo-Portuguese for "Chronicle of the kings of Vijayanagar"). His...

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...

316) Pinto-Correia (2003: 24) Appendix in Le Guat (1891, v.2: p.316) Gaspar Correia (c. 1550s) Lendas da Índia, pub. 1858-64, Lisbon: Academia Real de Sciencias...

empire, he sanctioned expeditions. Portuguese soldier and explorer Alexandre de Serpa Pinto led three such expeditions through which Portugal could attempt...

writer "Alcipe", 4th Marquise of Alorna, noted poet Alexandre de Serpa Pinto, notable explorer Alexandre Rey Colaço, famed pianist Alfredo Keil, composer...

Africa Afonso de Paiva Alexandre de Serpa Pinto André Álvares de Almada Francisco Álvares Francisco Barreto Francisco de Lacerda Gonçalo da Silveira Hermenegildo...

around the western shore of Lake Malawi. However, in 1885–86, Alexandre de Serpa Pinto had undertaken an expedition which reached Shire Highlands, which...