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		Having got that far, da Gama was able to employ a pilot at Malindi, who brought the expedition the rest of the way to Calicut (the exact Malayalam name is Kozhikode) on the southwest coast of India on May 20, 1498.
		Eventually da Gama was able to gain an ambiguous letter of concession for trading rights, but had to sail off without warning after the Zamorin insisted on his leaving behind all his goods as collateral.
		Da Gama assaulted and exacted tribute from the East African Arabian port of Kilwa, which had been one of those involved with frustrating the Portuguese; he played privateer amongst Arab merchant ships; and then finally smashed a Calicut fleet of twenty-nine ships and essentially conquered that port city.
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		Having gotthat far, da Gama was able to employ a pilot at Malindi, who brought the expedition the rest of the way to Calicut (theexact Malayalam name is Kozhikode) on the southwest coast of India on May 20, 1498.
		Upon his return to Portugal in September 1499, da Gama was richly rewarded as the manwho had brought to fruition a plan that had taken eighty years.
		Da Gama assaulted and exacted tribute from the East African Arabian port of Kilwa, which had been one of those involved withfrustrating the Portuguese; he played privateer amongst Arab merchant ships; andthen finally smashed a Calicut fleet of twenty-nine ships and essentially conquered that port city.
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		Having got that far, da Gama was able to employ Ibn Majib, a Gujarati pilot at Malindi, who employed the common understanding of the monsoon in those waters to bring the expedition the rest of the way to Calicut (modern Kozhikode) on the southwest coast of India; there they arrived on May_20, 1498.
		One new development was made especially clear from da Gama's voyage: the farther coast of Africa, the ''Contra Costa'', was going to be essential to Portuguese interests: its ports provided fresh water and provisions, timber and harbors for repairs and to wait out unfavorable seasons.
		Da Gama had six sons and one daughter: Francisco_da_Gama,_Conde_da_Vidigueira; EstevÃ£o_da_Gama; Paulo da Gama; ChristovÃ£o_da_Gama; Pedro_da_Silva_da_Gama; Alvaro_de_Athaide; and Isabel de Athaide da Gama.
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	A Majestic Irony
		Pero da Covilhã eventually reached Calicut (modern Kozhikode) and Goa on the Mlabar coast of southwestern India, where he witnessed a prosperous trade in Arabian horses, spices, fine cottons, and precious stones.
		Pero da Covilhã's letter to King John II described Calicut as a vital commercial center for the Orient, branching out through a complex network of routes that linked the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea to the Gulf of Cambay, Bengal, and the Malaccas.
		Vasco da Gama's ground-breaking voyage to India was hardly a mission of discovery, since India's geographical location and commercial importance were already known from reports by Pero da Covilhã and other explorers.
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	Vasco da Gama - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Vasco da Gama (1469?-December 24, 1524), was a Portuguese explorer who was the first person to sail from Europe to Malabar, India.
		Born in Sines, Portugal, da Gama was just shy of thirty years old as these long-term plans were coming to fruition.
		Bartolomeu Dias had returned from rounding the Cape of Good Hope and exploring as far as the Fish River in modern-day South Africa, while from India Pero da Covilhã had explored south for some of the distance intervening between Dias' explorations and the subcontinent.
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		In the meantime, João sent Pêro da Covilhã and Afonso de Paiva, who were versed in warfare, diplomacy, and Arabic, on a mission in search of the mythical Christian kingdom of Prester John.
		Da Covilhã then left for Ethiopia where he was received by the emperor but not allowed to leave.
		Vasco da Gama's fleet rounded the Cape of Good Hope on November 27, 1497, and made landfall at Natal in present-day South Africa on December 25.
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		Here he was honorably received by the Emperor Eskander; lands and lordships were bestowed upon him, but Eskander refused to grant him permission to leave, and his successors evaded granting Covilhã permission.
		In 1507, he was joined by João Gomez, a priest sent by Tristão da Cunha, who had reached Ethiopia by way of Socotra.
		Francisco Alvarez, "Chapter CIV: How Pero de Covilham, a Portuguese, is in the country of the Prester, and how came here, and why he was sent", The Prester John of the Indies (Cambridge, Hakluyt Society, 1961), pp.
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		In Greek mythology, Pero was a daughter of Neleus and Chloris, and the wife of Bias.
		Pero's beauty attracted many suitors, but Neleus, her father, refused to give his daughter to any man unless he could raid the cattle of Iphicles from Phylace.
		Pero is a common Croatian and Serbian male given name, whose English equivalent is Pete.
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		Eventually da Gama was able to gain an ambiguous letter of concession for trading rights, but had to sail offwithout warning after the Zamorin insisted on his leaving behind all his goods as collateral.
		Da Gama kept his goods, but leftbehind a few Portuguese with orders to start a trading post.
		Da Gama assaulted and exacted tribute from the East African Arabian port of Kilwa, which had been one of those involvedwith frustrating the Portuguese; he played privateer amongst Arab merchant ships;and then finally smashed a Calicut fleet of twenty-nine ships and essentially conquered that port city.
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	Pêro da Covilhã
		Sândalo, resinas aromáticas para opor à pestilência das ruas.
		E Pêro da Covilhã reserva lugar numa frota de paraus e zambucos que, aproveitando os ventos favoráveis, largará em breve para a Índia.
		Esta anotação de Pêro da Covilhã daqui a dez anos decidirá Vasco da Gama a rumar da contracosta africana directamente para Calecute.
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	vidas lusófonas (normais)
		King John dies and is succeeded by King Manuel I. The new King reverses the policies of his predecessor and permits the return of the privileges of the nobility.
		Paulo da Gama, the gentle brother, is the best loved captain among the sailors, always ready to defend them from the captain major's fits of rage.
		Da Gama exalts the nobility, wealth and power of King Manuel I. The Zamorin is thinking about an alliance with this far away and powerful king.
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	Pero da Covilhã (English Version)
		1450 (?): Pêro da Covilhã is born in Covilhã.
		He commissions Pêro da Covilhã, who he trusts will be as loyal to the son as he had been to the father, to act as his agent Pêro da Covilhã assumes his new role very happily, since he cannot bear the arrogance of the Portuguese nobility.
		Pêro da Covilhã is now a squire in the royal guard and therefore much sought after by maidens of a marriageable age.
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	Vasco da Gama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		See Clube de Regatas Vasco da Gama for the football club.
		Vasco da Gama (1469?-December 24, 1524), was a Portuguese explorer who was the first person to sail from Europe to India.
		The Portuguese "national epic", the Lusiadas of Luís Vaz de Camões largely concerns Vasco da Gama's voyages.
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	Additional Reading (from Covilha, Pero da) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Brazilian author Euclides da Cunha is famous for his classic historical narrative Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands), the first written protest on behalf of the forgotten inhabitants of Brazil's frontier.
		It describes the clash between the backlands with their timeless tradition and the cities as the focus of modernity—the conflict between the “two...
		An Italian artist in all but birth, Giovanni da Bologna was the greatest Mannerist sculptor in Italy during the last quarter of the 16th century.
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	FREE In-depth report - Sea Route To India - Portugal
		In the meantime, João sent Pêro da Covilhã; and Afonso de Paiva, who were versed in warfare, diplomacy, and Arabic, on a mission in search of the mythical Christian kingdom of Prester John.
		Afonso de Paiva went to Ethiopia, and Pêro da Covilhã; headed for Calicut and Goa in India by way of Ormuz, returning to Cairo via Sofala in Mozambique on the east coast of Africa.
		Da Covilhã; then left for Ethiopia where he was received by the emperor but not allowed to leave.
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	Embassy of India - Welcome!
		It is housed in a modern villa overlooking river Tejo and the tower of Belem from where Vasco da Gama set sail for India in the 15th Century.
		The 'Samudramanthan' is a two storey building with a basement of the same constructed area and has gardens both in front and behind.
		On commencement of Diplomatic relations in 1975 the Embassy functioned from a flat in Rua das Amoreiras until it was shifted to Restelo in 1987.
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		Here he was honorably received by the Emperor of Ethiopia Emperor Eskander; lands and lordships were bestowed upon him, but Eskander refused to grant him permission to leave, and his successors evaded granting Covilhã permission.
		* Francisco Alvarez, "Chapter CIV: How Pero de Covilham, a Portuguese, is in the country of the Prester, and how came here, and why he was sent", ''The Prester John of the Indies'' (Cambridge, Hakluyt Society, 1961), pp.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Pêro da Covilhã.
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	Covilha, Pero da -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		As a boy, Pêro served the duke of Medina-Sidonia in Sevilla (Seville) for six or seven years, returning to Portugal with the duke's brother late in 1474 or early in 1475, when he passed into the service of King Afonso V, first as a junior squire and then as squire, …
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		Tryp Dona Maria- Alameda Pero Da Covilha 6200 Covilha
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		Born at Covilha in Beira, Pero da Covilhão had, in his early years, moved to Castile, where he had for seven years been employed in the service of the duke of Medina Sidonia, in Seville.
		After his return to Portugal in 1474 he had attached himself to King Afonso V and fought in the war of succession for the throne of Castile (1475-79).
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		1st July: Pero da Covilhã discovers the pagan kingdom of Zimbabwe.
		8th May, 1494: Pero da Covilhã dies fighting natives north of Ilhéus.
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		Alameda Pero Da Covilha 6200, Covilha, PT, 507
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