Duarte de Meneses
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Dom Duarte de Meneses was a 16th-century Portuguese nobleman and colonial administrator, Governor of Tangier from 1508 to 1521 and 1536 to 1539, and Governor of India from 1522 to 1524.
Duarte de Menezes
Portuguese India Armadas
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The Portuguese Indian Armadas were the fleets of ships funded by the Crown of Portugal, and dispatched on an annual basis from Portugal to India. The principal destination was Goa, and previously Coch
Duarte de Meneses
…Manuel I of Portugal as the next governor of Portuguese India, succeeding Diogo Lopes de Sequeira. Duarte de Menezes left Lisbon in April, 1521, with an armada of 11 carracks destined for India. He was accompanied by his brother D. Luís de Menezes, who captained one of the ships. On the outgoing leg, Menezes's…
The large carrack, thought to be the Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai, and other Portuguese carracks of various sizes. From painting, attributed to either Gregório Lopes or Cornelis Antoniszoon, showing voyage of the marriage party of Portuguese Infanta Beatriz to Savoy, 1521.
A brief view of the Indian city of Vasco da Gama
Mozambique Island, with Fort São Sebastião in background
Principal cities of the Swahili Coast of East Africa, c. 1500.