Naus de vasco da gama biography
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Vasco da Gama
Born 1460 or 1469
Sines or Vidigueira, Alentejo, Portugal
Died 24 December 1524 (aged 54-64)
Kochi, India
Occupation Explorer, Governor of Portuguese India
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Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvaʃku dɐ ˈɡɐmɐ]) (c. 1460 or 1469 – 24 månad 1524) was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of upptäckt and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. For a short time in 1524 he was Governor of Portuguese India under the title of Viceroy.
In 1460[1] or 1469[2] in Sines, on the southwest coast of Portugal, probably in a house near the church of Nossa Senhora das Salas. Sines, one of the few seaports on the Alentejo coast, consisted of little more than a cluster of whitewashed, red-tiled cottages, tenanted chiefly by fisherfolk.
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Vasco da Gama
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| Vasco da Gama | |
|---|---|
| Admiral of the Seas of Arabia, Persia, India and all the Orients (more...) | |
| Count of Vidigueira | |
| Tenure | 29 December 1519 – 23 December 1524 |
| Successor | Francisco da Gama |
| Spouse(s) | Catarina de Ataíde |
Among others IssueD. Francisco da Gama, 2nd Count of Vidigueira D. Estêvão da Gama, Viceroy of India D. Cristóvão da Gama, Captain of Malacca | |
| Full name Vasco da Gama | |
| Father | Estêvão da Gama |
| Mother | Isabel Sodré |
| Born | 1460 or 1469 Sines or Vidigueira, Alentejo, Kingdom of Portugal |
| Died | 23 December 1524 (aged c. 55–65) Kochim, Portuguese India |
| Burial | Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal |
| Occupation | Explorer, Viceroy of India |
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VASCO DA GAMA explorer
Postby aukepalmhof » Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:29 pm
Dom Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira, (c. 1460s – 23 December 1524) was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean route, as well as the Atlantic and the Indian oceans entirely and definitively, and in this way, the West and the Orient. This was accomplished on his first voyage to India (1497–1499).
Da Gama's discovery was significant and opened the way for an age of global imperialism and for the Portuguese to establish a long-lasting colonial empire in Asia. The route meant that the Portuguese would not need to cross the highly disputed Mediterranean nor the dangerous Arabian Peninsula, and that the whole voyage would be made by sea. The sum of the distances covered in the outward and return voyages made this expedition the longest ocean voyage ever made until then, far longer than a full voya