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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Vasco da Gama
		Bartolomeu Dias had proceeded as far as the Great Fish River (Rio do Infante), and had in addition established the fact the coast of Africa on the other side of the Cape extended to the northeast.
		Pedro de Corvilhão on his way from India had descended the east coast of Africa as far as the twentieth degree of south latitude, and had become cognizant of the old Arabic-Indian commercial association.
		On 16 December, the fleet arrived at the furthest landing point of Dias, gave its present name to the coast of Natal on Christmas Day, and reached by the end of January, 1498, the month of the Zambesi, which was in the territory controlled by the Arabian maritime commercial association.
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	Bartolomeu Dias - MSN Encarta
		Five years later, the king gave Dias command of an expedition to continue the exploration of the western coast of Africa, begun in 1482 by the navigator Diogo Cam, who had sailed south to a point near Walvis Bay.
		Dias set sail from Lisbon in August 1487; in February 1488 he rounded the southern end of the African continent as far as the estuary of what was later named the Great Fish River.
		Dias thus opened a sea route from Europe to East Asia, which European merchants and statesmen considered essential to the prosperity of Europe.
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	Bartolomeu Dias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dias was a cavalier of the royal court, superintendent of the royal warehouses and sailing-master of the man-of-war São Cristóvão (San Christovao).
		The supply-ship was commanded by Bartolomeu's brother, Pêro Dias.
		Dias' grandson Paulo Dias de Novais was a Portuguese colonizer of Africa in the 16th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bartolomeu_Dias (683 words)

	Bartolomeu Dias Summary
		Dias was a cavalier of the royal court, superintendent of the royal warehouses and sailing-master of the man-of-war São Cristóvão (San Christovao).
		Dias' grandson Paulo Dias de Novais was a Portuguese colonizer of Africa in the 16th century.
		Dias became an explorer when King John II appointed him on October 10, 1486, as the head of an expedition which was to sail around the southern coast of Africa.
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	Bartolomeu Dias
		Dias was a cavalier of the royal court, superintendent of the royal warehouses and sailing-master of the man-of-war "San Christovao", when King John (João) II appointed him on 10 October, 1486, as the head of an expedition which was to endeavor to sail around the southern end of Africa.
		Dias sailed first towards the mouth of the Congo, discovered the year before by Cao and Behaim, then following the African coast, he entered Walfisch Bay, and probably erected the first of his stone columns near the present Angra Pequena.
		In 1500 Dias commanded a ship in the expedition of Cabral; his vessel, however, was one of those wrecked not far from the Cape of Good Hope, which he had discovered thirteen years before.
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	Bartolomeu Dias Biography (Navigator/Explorer) — FactMonster.com
		Bartolomeu Dias was a Portugese navigator whose 1487-88 Atlantic voyage around the southern tip of Africa opened sea routes between Europe and Asia.
		In 1486 King João II (King John II) assigned Dias, a member of the royal court, to command a voyage with both spiritual and material aspirations: Dias was to search for the lands of Prester John -- a legendary Christian priest and African king -- and challenge the Muslim dominance of trade with Asia.
		In 1497 Dias accompanied Vasco da Gama on a voyage as far as the Cape Verde Islands, and in 1500 he joined Pedro Alvares Cabral's westward expedition.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bartolomeu Dias
		Several Portuguese historians state that he was a relative or descendant of João Dias who sailed around Cape Bojador in 1434, and of Diniz Dias who is said to have discovered the Cape Verde Islands.
		Dias was a cavalier of the royal court, superintendent of the royal warehouses and sailing-master of the man-of-war "San Christovao", when King John (João) II appointed him on 10 October, 1486, as the head of an expedition which was to endeavor to sail around the southern end of Africa.
		In 1500 Dias commanded a ship in the expedition of Cabral; his vessel, however, was one of those wrecked not far from the Cape of Good Hope, which he had discovered thirteen years before.
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	Bartolomeu Dias - Definition, explanation
		Dias was a cavalier of the royal court, superintendent of the royal warehouses and sailing-master of the man-of-war "San Christovao".
		King John II of Portugal appointed him on October 10, 1486 as the head of an expedition which was to endeavor to sail around the southern end of Africa in hopes of finding a trade route leading to Asia.
		Dias' grandson Paulo Dias de Novais was a Portuguese colonizer of Africa in the 16th century.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/b/ba/bartolomeu_dias.php (746 words)

	Bartolomeu Dias - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Bartolomeu Dias - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Dias, Bartolomeu (1450?-1500), Portuguese navigator, first to round the Cape of Good Hope, Africa.
		Bartolomeu Dias, sometimes Bartolomeu Dias de Novais (pron.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bartolomeu Dias
		Dias was a cavalier of the royal court, superintendent of the royal warehouses and sailing-master of the man-of-war São Cristóvão (Saint Christopher).
		Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope with two caravels, then Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of Africa, in 1488.
		Dias' grandson Paulo Dias de Novais was a Portuguese colonizer of Africa in the 16th century.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bartolomeu_Dias (681 words)

	DIAS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dias (meaning Days) is also a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil.
		Paulo Dias de Novais, Portuguese colonizer of Africa.
		This page disambiguates a four-character combination which might be any or all of: an abbreviation, an acronym, an initialism, a call sign, a word in English, or a word in another language.
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	Bartolomeu Dias
		Bartolomeu Dias en sy manne was, volgens die heersende beskouing, die eerste Westerlinge wat in Suid-Afrika voet aan wal gesit het.
		IE karveel, die nederige soort seilskippie waarmee Dias sy epiese ontdekkingstog onderneem het, is in Portugal ontwikkel tydens die eerste jare van daardie land se bloeityd as seemoondheid.
		ARTOLOMEU DIAS (1450?-1500) was die opsigter van die koninklike Guinee-pakhuise in Lissabon, en die bevel oor die karveel Sao Cristovao is in 1486 deur koning Joao II aan hom opgedra.
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	Bartholomew Dias (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nevertheless, the voyage of Dias was fraught with consequences, for at the time the search for a passage to the Indies was a move in the great struggle between the Moslem world and Christendom.
		Dias sailed for some days in False Bay and it is very likely that he saw Table Mountain from here, as the side of the mountain is clearly seen fro this position.
		Dias gained experience in trading at Mina and brought back with him a cargo of gold and slaves, which were sold to provide finances for further expeditions.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/dias-b.htm (1970 words)

	Bartolomeu Dias Biography (Navigator/Explorer) — Infoplease.com
		Bartolomeu Dias was a Portugese navigator whose 1487-88 Atlantic voyage around the southern tip of Africa opened sea routes between Europe and Asia.
		In 1486 King João II (King John II) assigned Dias, a member of the royal court, to command a voyage with both spiritual and material aspirations: Dias was to search for the lands of Prester John -- a legendary Christian priest and African king -- and challenge the Muslim dominance of trade with Asia.
		In 1497 Dias accompanied Vasco da Gama on a voyage as far as the Cape Verde Islands, and in 1500 he joined Pedro Alvares Cabral's westward expedition.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/bartolomeudias.html (368 words)

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		Bartolomeu Dias marca um ponto de viragem absolutamente decisivo na história de Portugal.
		Bartolomeu Dias era um marinheiro profissional, que começou a sua carreira como capitão do barco que fazia a rota do mediterrâneo.
		A história de Bartolomeu Dias resume-se, portanto, em duas ideias: foi o primeiro navegador a velejar longe da costa no Atlântico Sul, e a sua viagem, continuada por Vasco da Gama, abriu o caminho marítimo para a Índia.
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	The Mariners' Museum: Newport News, Virginia
		These expeditions moved slowly due to the mariners' belief that waters at the equator were at the boiling point, that human skin turned fl, and that sea monsters would engulf ships.
		It wasn't until 27 years after Henry's death that Bartolomeu Dias braved these "dangers" and rounded the Cape of Good Hope in [1487].
		He followed Bartolomeu Dias' route to the Cape of Good Hope in [1497] to 1498 and continued sailing into unknown waters along the eastern coast of the African continent.
	www.mariner.org /educationalad/ageofex/portuguese_exp.php (527 words)

	Les Grandes Découvertes : Bartolomeu Dias découvre le Cap de Bonne-Espérance
		Bartolomeu Dias est le premier explorateur à relier l'Océan Atlantique et l'Océan Indien par la voie des eaux, et ceci quatre ans avant la découverte du Nouveau Monde par Christophe Colomb, révélation qui a terni le succès des navigateurs portugais.
		Conduite par Bartolomeu Dias, cette exploration le long des côtes africaines est assurée par deux caravelles et une nef dédiée au transport du ravitaillement, afin de prolonger la durée des traversées au large.
		Bartolomeu Dias veut poursuivre l'exploration, mais son équipage, épuisé, se rebelle.
	www.linternaute.com /mer-voile/actualites/12-05/bartolomeu-dias.shtml (975 words)

	2000 escudos banknote- Bartolomeu Dias
		Bartolomeu Dias became one of the most important names in the History of the Maritime Discoveries, since he was the first navigator to sail around the Cape of Storms which he renamed Cape of Good Hope.
		The discovery of this passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean, in 1488, was crucial to the future of the maritime expeditions of the Portuguese, opening the way to the voyage of Vasco da Gama to India.
		Bartolomeu Dias also took part in the discovery of Brazil, in 1500.
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	Bartolomeu Dias
		Bartolomeu calcula que já deve estar perto do extremo sul da África (engana-se como se enganou Diogo Cão...) e manda que a naveta dos mantimentos, comandada pelo seu irmão Diogo, ancore e espere na recém-descoberta e cognominada Angra Pequena, enquanto as duas caravelas demandam o fim do continente.
		Bartolomeu pede-lhes que aceitem navegar para norte durante mais alguns dias a ver que novidade encontram.
		Bartolomeu acompanha a frota mas comandando nau que se dirige, não para a Índia, mas para S. Jorge da Mina, para onde El-Rei D. Manuel I o destacara.
	www.vidaslusofonas.pt /bartolomeu_dias.htm (2117 words)

	An MBendi Travel Profile: Bartolomeu Dias Museum - Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa
		Bartolomeu Dias Museum - Mossel Bay, Western Cape, South Africa
		The Bartolomeu Dias Museum is a cultural pot of early South African history.
		The Bartolomeu Dias Museum complex consists of four museums and seven National monuments in a spectacular sea-side setting.
	www.mbendi.co.za /travel/attr/16/f121.htm (153 words)

	Portugal Paper Money with explorers to Africa
		But Cao never returned from his second voyage carried out around 1485.It was Bartolomeu Dias who continued his exploration rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488.He had left Lisbon In 1487 accompanied by Pero D'Alemquer who wrote the description of Vasco Da Gama's first voyage.
		Dias returned to Lisbon in 1488 after an absence of sixteen months.
		In 1500 Dias was also to command a ship in the expedition of Cabral.His vessel was one of those wrecked not far from the Cape of Good Hope which he had discovered some thirteen years earlier.
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	Bartholomew Dias (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Bartholomew Dias was young, he was one of the men who sailed down the coast looking for treasure.
		In 1485, King John the II gave Dias a command of an expedition to continue to explore the western part of Africa.
		In the 1500, Dias sailed again, but this time he was not the captain.
	www.esd.k12.ca.us /Matsumoto/TM30/history/Explorers/dias.html (374 words)

	epic voyages: dias' voyages (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dias and his crews did not see land for 13 days.
		Bartolomeu Dias accompanied that expedition as far as Mina.
		Dias thus participated in the discovery of Brazil.
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	Explorers - D - EnchantedLearning.com
		Dias may have originally called the southern tip of Africa the "Cape of Storms"; it was later renamed the Cape of Good Hope.
		On a later expedition (in 1500, with Pedro Álvares Cabral), Dias sailed near South America on the way to Africa, and spotted land at Espírito Santo in Brazil, calling it the "Land of the True Cross." Although they thought it to be an island, Dias was still among the first Europeans to see Brazil.
		Diogo Dias was a Portuguese navigator (and brother of Bartolomeu Dias) who was the first European to sail to Madagascar, an island off the southeastern coast of Africa.
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	Bartolomeu Dias @ All About Explorers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bartolomeu Dias was born in Tortugas, Portugal, in 1457 to wealthy parents.
		Dias nearly died, but was saved by a visiting English physician, Dr. Richard Kimball, and he went on to excel in school.
		Dias used his invention to explore and map the western coast of Africa.
	www.allaboutexplorers.com /explorers/dias.html (342 words)

	Search Results for "Dias"
		Dias, Antônio Gonçalves, (nto´nyoo goonsal´vs de´s) (KEY), 1823-64, Brazilian poet and dramatist.
		...1 HistoryAlthough the Cape of Good Hope was first circumnavigated in 1488 by Bartolomeu Dias and later (1497) by Vasco da Gama, the first European settlement of the...
		The two major Brazilian romantic poets were Antonio Goncalves Dias, who glorified the indigenous people and the native soil, and Antonio de...
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	Namibia Guidebook
		Beyond the structures huddled together beside the bay and a lighthouse on the peninsula, the surroundings are much as Bartolomeu Dias found them in 1487, when his flotilla of three small ships first sailed into the uncharted anchorage.
		Bartolomeu Dias sailed from Portugal in search of a sea route for trade with India.
		For nearly 400 years after Bartolomeu Dias dropped anchor in its waters, the bay remained an obscure anchorage on a barren part of the African coast, except for a rapacious scramble for whales and guano in the 19th century.
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