Alvise Cadamosto (surname cf. Ca' da Mosto, da Cadamosto, da Ca' da Mosto; also known in Portuguese as Luís Cadamosto; mononymously Cadamosto)(Portuguese pronunciation:[alˈvizɨkɐðaˈmoʃtu]; Italian pronunciation:[alˈvizeˌkadaˈmosto])(c. 1432 – 16 July 1483) was a Venetian explorer and slave trader,[1] who was hired by the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator and undertook two known journeys to West Africa in 1455 and 1456, accompanied by the Genoese captain Antoniotto Usodimare. Some have credited Cadamosto and his companions with the discovery of the Cape Verde Islands and the points along the Guinea coast from the Gambia River to the Geba River (in Guinea-Bissau), the greatest leap in the Henrican discoveries since 1446. Cadamosto's accounts of his journeys, including his detailed observations of West African societies, have proven invaluable to historians.
AlviseCadamosto (surname cf. Ca' da Mosto, da Cadamosto, da Ca' da Mosto; also known in Portuguese as Luís Cadamosto; mononymously Cadamosto)(Portuguese...
the records of 15th-century, Portuguese-financed Italian traveller AlviseCadamosto, who mentioned well-established Islamic Wolof chiefs advised by Muslim...
service of the Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator. Jointly with AlviseCadamosto, Usodimare discovered a great stretch of the West African coast in...
cede them to Castile in 1418. In 1455 and 1456 two Italian explorers, AlviseCadamosto from Venice and Antoniotto Usodimare from Genoa, together with an unnamed...
sizeable state in the 15th century. At that time, the Venetian explorer AlviseCadamosto and Portuguese traders confirmed that the peoples who settled within...
point in time, Italian cartographers consulted the Italian explorer AlviseCadamosto about the name of the mountains. He referred to them as Sierra Leone...
terms had been used and applied before him. The Venetian explorer AlviseCadamosto used the term "un altro mondo" ("another world") to refer to sub-Saharan...
used in a letter he wrote in 1447 and also adopted by AlviseCadamosto in his Voyages of Cadamosto, to Heinrich Barth's Timbúktu and Timbu'ktu. French spelling...
III of Scotland (at the Battle of Sauchieburn; b. c. 1451) July 18 – AlviseCadamosto, Italian explorer (b. 1432) July 28 – Edward Woodville, Lord Scales...
récits et légendes' (in French). Paris: P. Bertrand. AlviseCadamosto (1460s) "Il Libro di Messer Alvise Ca da Mosto Gentilhuomo Venetiano" & "Navigatione...
service of Prince Henry Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia Álvaro Fernandes AlviseCadamosto Antão Gonçalves António de Noli Antoniotto Usodimare Bartolomeu Perestrelo...
survivors of the Vivaldi expedition. (Usodimare's travelling companion, AlviseCadamosto, mentions no such meeting in his memoirs.) Usodimare gives more details...
within the Cabo Verde exclusive economic zone. Its name refers to AlviseCadamosto, who discovered the Cape Verde islands in 1456. The seamount is c....
Henry's behalf, and the first private mercantile expeditions began. AlviseCadamosto explored the Atlantic coast of Africa and discovered several islands...
Cape") further north, on the Petite Côte of Senegal. AlviseCadamosto, "Navigatione di Messer Alvise Ca da Mosto Gentilhuomo Venetiano" originally published...
service of Prince Henry Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia Álvaro Fernandes AlviseCadamosto Antão Gonçalves António de Noli Antoniotto Usodimare Bartolomeu Perestrelo...
Spanish 16th California Estêvão Cacella Portuguese 16th Himalayas AlviseCadamosto Italian 15th Cape Verde islands Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac French...
the constellation a coincidence. The 15th century Venetian navigator AlviseCadamosto made note of what was probably the Southern Cross on exiting the Gambia...
service of Prince Henry Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia Álvaro Fernandes AlviseCadamosto Antão Gonçalves António de Noli Antoniotto Usodimare Bartolomeu Perestrelo...
poet (d. 1484) date unknown – Pope Innocent VIII (d. 1492) probable – AlviseCadamosto, Italian explorer (d. 1488) January 1 – Alexandru cel Bun, Prince of...
1375 on the trans-Saharan trade route linking Sijilmasa and Timbuktu. AlviseCadamosto learned in 1455 that Taghaza salt was taken to Timbuktu and then on...
the mainland peninsula of Cape Verde and the Gambia River. 1456 – AlviseCadamosto and Diogo Gomes discover the Cape Verde Islands, 560 kilometres (350 mi)...
service of Prince Henry Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia Álvaro Fernandes AlviseCadamosto Antão Gonçalves António de Noli Antoniotto Usodimare Bartolomeu Perestrelo...
in his Geographia, may have been the Cape Verde islands. In 1456, AlviseCadamosto, Antoniotto Usodimare (Venetian and Genoese captains, respectively...
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