Vasco De Gama

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------------------------------------------------- Vasco da Gama From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Vasco de gama) For other uses, see Vasco da Gama (disambiguation). Vasco da Gama | | Born | 1460 or 1469 Sines or Vidigueira, Alentejo,Kingdom of Portugal | Died | 23 December 1524 (aged 54-64) Kochi, India | Occupation | Explorer, Governor of Portuguese India | Signature | | Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvaʃku ðɐ ˈɣɐmɐ]) (c. 1460 or 1469 – 24 December 1524) was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. For a short time in 1524 he was the Governor of Portuguese India, under the title of Viceroy. Contents [hide] * 1 Early life * 2 Exploration before Gama * 3 First voyage * 3.1 Journey to the Cape * 3.2 Mombasa * 3.3 Malindi * 3.4 Calicut, India * 3.5 Return * 4 Rewards * 5 Second voyage * 5.1 Pilgrim ship incident * 6 Third voyage * 7 Descendants * 8 Legacy * 9 See also * 10 References * 11 External links | ------------------------------------------------- Early life Vasco da Gama was born in either 1460[1] or 1469[2] in Sines, on the southwest coast of Portugal, probably in a house near the church of Nossa Senhora das Salas. Sines, one of the few seaports on the Alentejo coast, consisted of little more than a cluster of whitewashed, red-tiled cottages, tenanted chiefly by fisherfolk. Statue of Vasco da Gama at his birthplace, Sines, Portugal Vasco da Gama's father was Estêvão da Gama, who had served in the 1460s as a knight of the household of Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu[3] and went on to rise in the ranks of the military Order of Santiago. Estêvão da Gama was appointed alcaide-mór (civil governor) of Sines in the

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