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Bartholomeu Dias

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  • Our relationship with Portugal stretches back more than five centuries to the time when Bartholomeu Dias first set foot on these shores.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • It was first named the Cape of Storms by Bartholomeu Dias, the Portuguese seafarer who was the first to sail round the Cape in 1488, the most south westerly point of Africa where the cold Benguela current on the West Coast and the warm Agulhus current on the East Coast, merge.

    unknown title 2009

  • Eastern Cape by Portuguese navigator Bartholomeu Dias in 1487,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • It all started with the first efforts by Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) who pushed the exploration of the South Atlantic and the coast of Africa and started the trend of the later great explorations of Pero da Covilha (1460-1545) who was the first to reach India overland, and referred to as the Portuguese Marco Polo; Bartholomeu Dias (?

    Stabroek News Stabroek staff 2010

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