Portugal claims ownership of the region of Guinea, subsequently the centre of their slave trade on the west African coast. The caravel, a sailing ship developed in the Mediterranean and used down the west coast of Africa, is adapted by the Portuguese for Atlantic use.
The Portuguese settlers on the Cape Verde islands are granted a monopoly on the new slave trade. The Portuguese establish a further presence on the west coast of Africa, at the mouth of the Congo river. Go to Congo in World Encyclopedia 1 ed.
Bartolomeu Dias, sailing for the king of Portugal, becomes the first European navigator to round the Cape of Good Hope. In negotiations about the New World at Tordesillas, the king of Portugal insists on a new demarcation line which later brings him Brazil. Vasco da Gama reaches the southern coast of India, at Calicut, after sailing across the Indian Ocean from east Africa. Go to da Gama, Vasco c. Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral, with a fleet of thirteen ships, makes landfall in Brazil.
The Portuguese establish trading posts in east Africa, on the coast of Mozambique. Vasco da Gama wins a trading treaty for Portuguese merchants after bombarding the Indian port of Calicut into submission. The Portuguese set up a trading post on the east African island of Zanzibar.
Go to Zanzibar in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. The Portuguese establish a presence in Sri Lanka, trading in the island's crop of cinnamon. The Portuguese seize Goa and make it their colonial capital in India. The Portuguese take control of Malacca, in the Malay peninsula, as a base for trade further east. Go to Malacca in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. The Portuguese make treaties in the Moluccas or Spice Islands , to trade in cloves and nutmeg. Go to Moluccas in World Encyclopedia 1 ed.
The Portuguese capture Hormuz and establish a garrison to control the Gulf of Oman. The Portuguese force the local ruler to cede to them the island of Bombay. Brazil becomes a Portuguese royal province, under the control of a governor general. The first Portuguese governor general of Brazil selects Bahia now Salvador as his capital. Find in Worldcat. Go to page:. Your current browser may not support copying via this button. Search within book.
Subscriber sign in You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Username Please enter your Username. Password Please enter your Password. Forgot password? You could not be signed in, please check and try again. In , Portuguese rule in Africa came under severe stress. In its colony of Angola an attempt to release political detainees from the Luanda prisons by Angolan nationalists unleashed a wave of reprisals against the inhabitants of the muceques , thereby undermining the regime's cherished image of racial harmony.
A few weeks later, an uprising in the Northern district of Congo triggered another cycle of violence which would soon evolve to a long and bloody counterinsurgency conflict. Later that year, with the annexation of Goa by Nehru's India, the Portuguese empire seemed on the verge of collapse.
But contrary to many expectations, the first of the European overseas empires would also be the last to be dismantled - a somewhat intriguing fact that continues to puzzle many students of decolonization. Convened by three of Portugal's leading research centers, this conference, interdisciplinary in intent, aims to gather contributions in the fields of imperial and colonial history and of decolonization studies, in order to create a comparative framework within which researches about the main social, political, cultural and economic historical processes that led to end of the Portuguese colonial empire can be evaluated and assessed.
The organizers invite the submission of abstracts max.
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