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
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.
Vasco da Gama
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Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese mariner, explorer and nobleman. His discovery of the first direct maritime route between Europe and India via the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean from Mali
Portuguese India Armadas
…armadas undertook the Carreira da Índia ('India Run') from Portugal, following the maritime discovery of the Cape Route, to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama in 1497–99. The annual Portuguese India armada was the main carrier of the spice trade between Europe and Asia during the 16th Century. The Portuguese…
Anonymous portrait, c. 1525
Bronze statue of Vasco da Gama at his birthplace, Sines, Portugal
Vasco da Gama leaving the port of Lisbon, Portugal
Monument to the Cross of Vasco da Gama at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa