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Alvise Cadamosto (surname cf. Ca' da Mosto, da
Cadamosto, da Ca' da Mosto; also
known in
Portuguese as Luís
Cadamosto;
mononymously Cadamosto)(Portuguese...
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Cadamosto Seamount is a
seamount in the Cape
Verde islands, 25
kilometres (16 mi)
southwest of Brava. It
rises to a
depth of 1,380
metres (4,530 ft) and...
- 'Brak', and
Cadamosto gives the
personal name of the
Senegal river chieftain as "Zucholin"). The
confusion may have
arisen because Cadamosto says the Portuguese...
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terms had been used and
applied before him. The
Venetian explorer Alvise Cadamosto used the term "un
altro mondo" ("another world") to
refer to sub-Saharan...
- Henry's behalf, and the
first private mercantile expeditions began.
Alvise Cadamosto explored the
Atlantic coast of
Africa and
discovered several islands of...
- in time,
Italian cartographers consulted the
Italian explorer Alvise Cadamosto about the name of the mountains. He
referred to them as
Sierra Leone in...
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Scotland (at the
Battle of Sauchieburn; b. c. 1451) July 18 –
Alvise Cadamosto,
Italian explorer (b. 1432) July 28 –
Edward Woodville, Lord
Scales (at...
- and more were
exchanged as far as the
Niger River and beyond.
Alvise Cadamosto, a
Venetian explorer working for the Portuguese,
became the
first European...
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constellation a coincidence. The 15th century
Venetian navigator Alvise Cadamosto made note of what was
probably the
Southern Cross on
exiting the Gambia...
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state in the 15th century. At that time, the
Venetian explorer Alvise Cadamosto and
Portuguese traders confirmed that the
peoples who
settled within Gambia...
