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The Coont o Vidigueira
Admiral o the Seas o Arabie, Persie, Indie an Aw Orients
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| Viceroy o Portuguese Indie
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In office
5 September 1524 ? 24 December 1524
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| Monarch
| John III o Portugal
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| Precedit bi
| Duarte de Menezes
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| Succeedit bi
| Henrique de Menezes
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| Personal details
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| Born
| 1460 or 1469
Sines
,
Alentejo
,
Kinrick o Portugal
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| Dee'd
| 24 December 1524
(aged
c.
55?65
)
Kochi
,
Portuguese Indie
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| Restin place
| Monastery o the Hieronymites
,
Lisbon
,
Portugal
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| Spoose(s)
| Catarina de Ataide
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| Bairns
| Francisco da Gama, 2nt Coont o Vidigueira
Estevao da Gama, Viceroy o Indie
Cristovao da Gama, Caiptain o Malacca
Amang others
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| Mither
| Isabel Sodre
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| Faither
| Estevao da Gama
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| Thrift
| Explorer,
Viceroy o Indie
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| Religion
| Roman Catholic
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| Signatur
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Vasco da Gama
(
1469
? ?
24 December
1524
) wis a
Portuguese
sailor
. He wis the first
European
that gaed ti
Indie
aboot the
Cape o Guid Howp
, the sooth tip o
Africae
. He gaed ti Indie twice bi ship, atween
1497
an
1499
.
On
8 Julie
1497, fower ships (the
Sao Gabriel
, the
Sao Rafael
, the
Berrio
, an a bairge that's name isna kent) sailed frae
Lisbon
an his first trip ti Indie stairtit. Afore him naebodie haed raxed
Sooth Africae
. Wi
Christenmas
near, thay gied the coast thay war passin the name o
Natal
(Christenmas in
Portuguese
), that it aye haes til this day. Bi Januar thay haed raxed the laund nou kent as
Mozambique
, Arab-controlled laund on the
East Africae
coast that wis pairt o the
Indie Ocean
's netwark o troke. Haein gotten that faur, da Gama coud uise a pilot at
Malindi
, that brocht the expedeetion the lave o the gate ti
Calicut
(the
Malayalam
name is
Kozhikode
) on the soothwast coast o Indie on
20 Mey
1498
. He wun back ti Portugal in September 1499.
