Diogo de Azambuja information

Diogo de Azambuja or Diego de Azambuja (1432–1518) was a Portuguese noble and explorer. He was born at Montemor-o-Velho, and became a knight of the Order...

as early as 1478. In 1481, Dias accompanied an expedition, led by Diogo de Azambuja, to construct a fortress and trading post called São Jorge da Mina...

Diogo Fernandes Pereira, sometimes called simply Diogo Fernandes, was a Portuguese 16th-century navigator, originally from Setúbal, Portugal. Diogo Fernandes...

begins in 1482 with an agreement between the Portuguese navigator Diogo de Azambuja and the ruler of Elmina, called Caramansa by the Portuguese. In it...

construction for Elmina Castle to maximize defensibility. A nobleman named Diogo de Azambuja was appointed by the Portuguese king, John II, to construct the coastal...

along with provisions for six hundred men. Under the command of Diogo de Azambuja, the fleet set sail on 12 December 1481 and arrived at Elmina, in...

further instruction from the king. Increasingly isolated, he wrote to Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, who arrived in India with a new fleet, but was ignored as...

following Portuguese Captains: 1506–09 - Diogo de Azambuja, Sr. c. 1510–16 - Francisco Mendes 15..–c. 22 - Diogo de Azambuja, Jr. 152.–25 - Gonçalo Mendes Sacoto...

Diogo de Silves (fl. 15th century) is the presumed name of an obscure Portuguese explorer of the Atlantic who allegedly discovered the Azores islands in...

town grew around São Jorge da Mina Castle, built by the Portuguese Diogo de Azambuja in 1482 on the site of a town or village called Amankwakurom or Amankwa...

Oman by Afonso de Albuquerque. 1508 – The capture of Safi in Morocco by Diogo de Azambuja. 1510 – The capture of Goa in India by Afonso de Albuquerque....

Subrahmanyam, 1997, pp. 343–345. See also Diogo do Couto (Decadas de Asia, Dec. IV, Lib. 8, c. 2); Teixeira de Aragão pp. 15–16, and Castanhoso (1898: p...

Diogo Dias, also known as Diogo Gomes, was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer. He was the brother of Bartolomeu Dias and discovered some of the Cape Verde...

São Jorge da Mina. In 1481, King John II of Portugal commissioned Diogo de Azambuja to build the Elmina Castle, which was completed in 3 years. By 1598...

countryman Diogo Barbosa and soon married the daughter of Diogo's second wife, Maria Caldera Beatriz Barbosa. They had two children: Rodrigo de Magallanes...

fort shortly after coming to the Portuguese throne. He appointed Diogo de Azambuja to fulfill the task, and supplying him with a pre-fabricated fort...

Gonçalves Bartolomeu Dias Cadamosto Cristóvão de Mendonça Lourenço de Almeida Diogo Cão Diogo de Azambuja Diogo Gomes Francisco Serrão Dinis Dias Fernão do...

Diogo de Teive (fl.  1451-1472) was a maritime captain and squire to the House of Infante D. Henrique (1394-1460) during the Portuguese period of discovery...

astrolabe for navigational purposes are by the Portuguese explorers Diogo de Azambuja (1481), Bartholomew Diaz (1487/88) and Vasco da Gama (1497–98) during...

as legendary as that of the Pygmies of Aristotle. Diogo Cão Diogo de Azambuja Bartolomeu Dias Pêro de Alenquer João Infante João Grego Álvaro Martins Pêro...

2008 at the Wayback Machine "Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky: Consisting of His Military Operations in Poland, His Exile into...

D.Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (1465–1530) was a Portuguese fidalgo, sent to analyze the trade potential in Madagascar and Malacca. He arrived at Malacca on...