The Portuguese nobleman Afonso de Albuquerque (ca. 1460-1515) is best known as governor of India. He is also considered to be the founder of the Portuguese imperial system. Afonso de Albuquerque was born to a family of minor Portuguese nobility. He...

(1453–1515), Portuguese viceroy. Born in Alhandra, south of Lisbon, Afonso de Albuquerque was the architect of the Portuguese maritime empire in the Indian Ocean. His strategy of securing key points along major trade routes and establishing...

1453-1515 Portuguese military officer and strategist who contributed significantly to Portuguese efforts to control the main trade routes to Asia. He conquered India and established a colony in Goa (India) in 1510 and a colony in Melaka (Malay...

Dom Afonso de Albuquerque (or Afonso d'Albuquerque - disused) (pron. IPA [ɐ'fõsu dɨ aɫbu'kɛɾk(ɨ)]) (1453, Alhandra - Goa, December 16, 1515) was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, a naval general officer whose military and administrative...

This book contains perhaps the best example yet written of the application of new trends in textual analysis to early European sources on Southeast Asia. The vehicle for this contribution is T.F. Earle's introduction to this volume, entitled "History, rhetoric, and intertextuality". Earle...

New Mexico, qualifies as a city in which technology in the form of research and development conducted in federally funded laboratories has played a major role in the development of its economy. This paper profiles Albuquerque through the historical factors that contributed to...