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Pêro da Covilhã (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpeɾu ðɐ kuviˈʎɐ̃]; c. 1460 – after 1526), sometimes written Pero de Covilhăo, was a Portuguese diplomat and explorer. [1] He was a native of Covilhã in Beira .
Pêro da Covilhã was an early Portuguese explorer of Africa, who established relations between Portugal and Ethiopia. As a boy, Pêro served the duke of Medina-Sidonia in Sevilla (Seville) for six or seven years, returning to Portugal with the duke’s brother late in 1474 or early in 1475, when he
1494 - Pero da Covilhã no Reino do Preste João. 1508 - Pero da Covilhã é conselheiro da rainha Helena, que ocupou o trono do Reino do Preste João. 1520 - Pero da Covilhã narra as suas vivências no Reino do Preste João ao Padre Francisco Álvares, que delas toma notas. 1530 - Ano provável do falecimento de Pero da Covilhã.
- explorador, diplomata
- 1530, Etiópia
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Pêro da Covilhã. c. 1460-after 1526. Portuguese explorer who helped establish diplomatic relations between Portugal and Abyssinia (Ethiopia). Determined to find Prester John, a mythical Christian king in the East, Portugal's John II in 1487 sent Covilhã to India and Afonso de Paiva to Ethiopia. The two men agreed to meet in Cairo, but when ...
Mar 5, 2023 · Pêro da Covilhã: 15th century merchant-spy. In the history of the Portuguese Age of Discoveries, the focus has been on the maritime exploits of the day, with Bartolomeu Dias sailing round the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa in 1488, paving the way for Vasco da Gama's historic crossing of the Indian Ocean to arrive at Calicut ...
The voyage of Pêro da Covilha. This map is part of a series of 16 animated maps showing the history of The Age of Discovery. In the 15th century, while the Portuguese navigators gradually progressed along the west coast of Africa, the Indian Ocean remained a mystery to the Europeans. In 1487, King Joao II of Portugal summoned two of his ...
