Alvise Cadamosto

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Name:	Alvise da Cadamosto
Birth Date:	c. 1428
Death Date:	1483
Nationality:	Italian
Gender:	Male
Occupations:	trader, explorer

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Alvise da Cadamosto (ca. 1428-1483) was an Italian trader and traveler from Venice who discovered the Cape Verde Islands and described the Canary Islands and the Senegal-Gambia-Geba area. Alvise da Cadamosto sailed aboard Venetian galleys to North...

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1432-1488 Venetian trader who discovered the Cape Verde Islands and explored coastal West Africa. Cadamosto (sometimes rendered as Ca' da Mosto), sailed under the Portuguese flag at the behest of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460). In his...

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Alvise Cadamosto or Alvide da Ca' da Mosto, also known in Portuguese as Luís Cadamosto (Venice, c. 1432 – Venice, July 18 1488), pron. IPA: [aɫ'viz(ɨ) kɐða'moʃtu], was a Venetian sea captain and explorer, who was hired by the Portuguese...

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Alvise Cadamosto

About 3 pages (848 words) in 3 products