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Bartolomeu Dias Portuguese navigator and explorer Bartolomeu Dias shown holding an astrolabe.

Bartolomeu Dias

Portuguese explorer
Also known as: Bartholomew Dias, Bartolomeu Dias de Novais, Bartolomeu Diaz(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.
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Bartolomeu Dias (born c. 1450—died May 29, 1500, at sea, near Cape of Good Hope) was a Portuguese navigator and explorer who led the first European expedition to round the Cape of Good Hope (1488), opening the sea route to Asia via the Atlantic and Indian oceans. He is usually considered to be the greatest of the Portuguese pioneers who explored the Atlantic during the 15th century. Almost nothing is known of Dias’s early life....

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