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	The Knights Templar \| The Templars In Portugal \| templarhistory.com
		Dinis' promotion of agriculture earned him the name, "The Farmer", while his love of literature, especially poetry, of which he is said to have written volumes, was perhaps his reason for establishing a university at Lisbon.
		Dinis was instrumental in the growth of industry within Portugal forming a commercial treaty with King Edward I of England in 1294.
		Dinis argued with the Pope that the lands occupied by the Templars did not truly belong to the order, but rather they were only granted perpetual use of the properties.
	www.templarhistory.com /portugal.html (2810 words)

	Portugal
		Dinis was able to prevail upon the pope to give this wealth to a newly founded Portuguese military-religious order called the Order of Christ, which was initially situated at Castro Marim but was later moved to Tomar.
		Dinis chartered many settlements of colonists on lands conquered from the Muslims and authorized the holding of fairs and markets in each of these, thereby creating a national economy.
		Dinis provided the impetus for the development of Portuguese as a national language when he decreed that all official documents of the realm were to be written in the vernacular.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/portugal/all.html (18969 words)

	Dinis Dias Summary
		Dias called the area the "green cape" in honor of its tall trees and abundant plants.
		In 1445 Dinís Dias was commissioned by Prince Henry to lead an expedition of caravels to the west coast of Africa.
		Dinis Dias was a 15th century Portuguese explorer.
	www.bookrags.com /Dinis_Dias (1576 words)

	DIAS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dias (meaning Days) is also a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil.
		Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, Angolan politician.
		Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DIAS (196 words)

	European Voyages of Exploration: Africa
		This inspired Dinis Dias raised enough capital to have Prince Henry grant him a license and a caravel.
		He sailed pass the Senegal River eventually arriving at the Cape of Verde that was the western limits of the African continent.
		Bartolomeu Dias continued this exploration by rounding the southern extremity of the African continent in 1488, naming it the Cape of Good Hope.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/africa.html (1262 words)

	The Atlantic World: Timeline of European Exploration / De Atlantische Wereld: Tijdsbalk van de Europese Ontdekkingen
		The Portuguese explorer Dinis Dias is the first European to sail down the west coast of Africa to its westernmost point, which he names Cape Verde.
		Bartholomeu Dias of Portugal is the first European to sail from the Iberian Peninsula to the southern tip of Africa.
		De Portugese ontdekkingsreiziger Dinis Dias is de eerste Europeaan, die langs de westkust van Afrika zeilt en het meest westelijke punt Kaap Verde noemt.
	international.loc.gov /intldl/awkbhtml/kb-1/kb-1-1-3.html (1254 words)

	Dinís Dias \| Science and Its Times: 700-1449
		In his quest to establish Portugal as a world leader in sea trade, Prince Henry the Navigator sent Dinís Dias, his captain, on an expedition to Africa in 1445.
		Dias reached the mouth of the Sénégal River, which the Portuguese later believed to be the western branch of the Nile, then went on to discover Cape Verde in western Africa.
		Dias named the area "Green Cape" because of its lush vegetation.
	www.bookrags.com /research/dins-dias-scit-021 (110 words)

	Henry the Navigator
		On 25 May 1420, the Pope issued a bull "In Apostolice dignitatis specula", in response to a petition from King João, naming Prince Henry the administrator of the Order of Christ.
		Dinis Fernandes is given the credit for first reaching Cape Verde and both he and D. Lançarote entered the estuary of the Senegal.
		TPS says that in 1445, Dinis Dias passed the mouth of the Senegal and reached Cabo Verde.
	www.thornr.demon.co.uk /kchrist/phenry.html (3608 words)

	Kings of Portugal
		Afonso the brave conquered the Algarve from the Moors and introduced a period of cultural advance.
		Dinis ('the farmer') carried out much reform, and exerted himself to control the military orders.
		In his reign the Templars met their downfall, which led to the foundation of the Order of Christ.
	www.thornr.demon.co.uk /kchrist/kings.html (531 words)

	Recent Portuguese Publications Bulletin 37 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A poet, critic, and fiction writer, the author was born in Mexilhoeira Grande, Algarve in 1949.
		His poetry has received the Prize of the Pen Clube in 1985, the Prémio D. Dinis of the Fundação Casa de Mateus in 1990, and that of the Associação Portuguesa de Escritores in 1994.
		Her first book of poems, Os dedos os dias as palavras (1987) was awarded the Prémio Cidade de Lisboa for 1987.
	www.livroraro.com /B37/B37pt14.htm (3608 words)

	Chronology
		Lanzarote to islands of Naar and Tider to raid for Negroes.
		Dinis Dias to Cape Verde and Ilha da Palma.
		Bartolomeu Dias sailed around Cape of Good hope to east coast of Africa to about present-day Great Fish River.
	www.balagan.org.uk /war/iberia/1492/chronology.htm (593 words)

	Dinis Dias - Wikipedia
		Dinis Dias werden zwei Reisen zur afrikanischen Küste zugeschrieben, die er im Dienste von Heinrich dem Seefahrer durchführte.
		Des Weiteren erkundete er die zum heutigen Senegal gehörende Insel Goreia, die er jedoch auf den Namen Palma taufte.
		Dinis Dias war der erste portugiesische Seefahrer der im Auftrage Heinrich des Seefahrers gezielt auf „Sklavenfang“ ging, um durch deren Verkauf in Portugal die hohen Kosten der portugiesischen Entdeckungsreisen zu minimieren.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dinis_Dias (230 words)

	Shane's Hiking Journal
		In 1415, The Portuguese captured the Moroccan port of Ceuta and used it to launch expeditions towards the west coast of Africa.
		In 1445 Dinis Dias had rounded Cape Verde, and after that the Portuguese extended their voyages further down the coast and began capturing, enslaving and trading West Africans.
		In 1487 Bartolomeu Dias became the first European to round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.
	www.theplacewithnoname.com /hiking/sections/skills/navigation.htm (6365 words)

	Discoverers Web: The coast of Africa
		And this time it worked - Eannes passed Cape Bojador, and the mental barrier had finally been taken.
		After Eannes's voyage, the Portuguese travelled bit by bit further south: Eannes and Baldaya went beyond Cape Bojador in 1435, Baldaya reached Rio de Oro in 1436, Tristão Cape Blanco in 1441, Dinis Diaz Cape Verde in 1445.
		It is not known whether or not he returned from this voyage.
	www.win.tue.nl /cs/fm/engels/discovery/africa.html (1073 words)

	The Baobab tree in Senegal
		It generally blossoms from May to August, during one single night just the time for nocturnal nectar-lovers, particularly bats, to ensure pollination.
		In 1445, Portuguese navigators led by Gomes Pires reached the island of Goree where Dinis Dias had put in the year before ; they discovered Infant Don Henrique's coat of arms engraved on trees.
		Here is how chronicler Gomes Eanes de Zurara described the tree : " Very big strange-looking trees ; among them some had developed a 108 span girth at its foot (around 25 metres).
	www.senegal-online.com /anglais/parcs-faune-flore/baobab.htm (2315 words)

	Black Rice
		This was a barren coast that provided few terrestrial resources, albeit one whose offshore currents abounded in fisheries.
		Progress southward along this parched coastline over the next two decades as a consequence proved especially slow, but advanced rapidly when two Portuguese, Nuno Tristão and Dinis Dias, independently reached the Senegal and Gambia Rivers in the years 1444 and 1446.
		After hundreds of kilometers of barren coastline, the Senegal River presented a striking ecological divide, for at this point rainfall becomes just sufficient to support agriculture.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/c/carney-rice.html (3665 words)

	The island of GOREE
		Originally, this convex rock, in some cable's lengths of Dakar, did not attract the populations lébou of the continent because of its lack of fresh water.
		, when the Portuguese navigator Dinis Dias discovers her and in fact a stopover on the famous seaway of India "which will be buckled some decades later by Vasco de Gama".
		In the time, the Portuguese called the island, Beseguiche, name of a leader of the Peninsula of the Green Cape.
	www.afcam.org /Anglais/Doc_illustration/RELAIS/ILEGOREE.htm (270 words)

	Chapter 11
		At the Yogurt Bom Dia plant, 19 workers occupied the installations and set up a system of self-management.
		The Turiaga company, which had both tourist and agricultural interests, had also decided to purge the administration.
		Near Avo the factory of Manuel Dinis Dias employing 40 workers went into self-management.
	geocities.com /cordobakaf/portk.html (7258 words)

	Os fidalgos da Casa Mourisca by Júlio Dinis - Free eBook
		Os fidalgos da Casa Mourisca by Júlio Dinis - Free eBook
		Mas dias de maior provação estavam reservados para esta familia.
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	manybooks.net /titles/dinisj16421642816428-8.html (100 words)

	Elizabethan Explorers Timeline
		1445: Dinis Dias is the first Portuguese explorer and European to sail the west coast of Africa
		1488: Bartholomeu Dias of Portugal first European to sail from the Iberian Peninsula to the south of Africa.
		1500: Vicente Pinzon and Juan Dias de Solis discovered Brazil before Cabral
	www.elizabethan-era.org.uk /elizabethan-explorers-timeline.htm (833 words)

	PhiloBiblon (sm)(tm) BITAGAP Home Page
		Image: "Cantigas de D. Dinis, musicadas" / "Pergaminho Sharrer" (fol.
		Courtesy of the Arquivos Nacionais / Torre do Tombo.
		BITAGAP bibid 2598] for Fernão Lopes or that by António J. Dias Dinis (1949) [
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /PhiloBiblon/phhmbp.html (1135 words)

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