Armenian Merchants in Portuguese Trade Networks in the Western Indian Ocean in the Early Modern Age

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ID20071444
AuthorsJoão Teles e Cunha (0000-0002-2310-2056, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, corresponding author)
Year2007
Pages197-252
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueLes Arméniens dans le commerce asiatique au début de l'ère moderne (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherÉditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/books.editionsmsh.11400
OpenAlexW2921036609
ISBN9782735118489
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited22

According to Caspar Correia it was a Moorish pilot who gave Vasco da Gama the first information of Armenian presence in the Índian Ocean some 500 years ago. The pilot informed Gama in Mozambique Island haven that he could find fellow-Christian merchants in the great trade port of the Swahili Coast: Kilwa. Thus, Gama had reached one of the objectives set by King Dom Manuel I (r. 1495-1521) for his exploratory voyage, to collect information about Christians in Asia (Felner, 1921-1969, i, [1922]

Ancient history · Armenian · Geography · Indian ocean · Linguistics · Portuguese · Asian Studies and History · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy · Geology · Oceanography

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