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Afonso de Albuquerque

Portuguese conqueror
Also known as: Afonso de Albuquerque, the Great, Afonso the Great(Show More)
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Harold V. Livermore
Emeritus Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Author of Origins of Spain and Portugal and others.
Harold V. Livermore
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Afonso de Albuquerque (born 1453, Alhandra, near Lisbon, Portugal—died December 15, 1515, at sea, off Goa, India) was a Portuguese soldier, conqueror of Goa (1510) in India and of Melaka (1511) on the Malay Peninsula. His program to gain control of all the main maritime trade routes of the East and to build permanent fortresses with settled populations laid the foundations of Portuguese hegemony in the Orient. Albuquerque was the second son of the senhor...

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