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Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese navigator who first rounded the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa in 1488
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Portugal’s Bartolomeu Dias sailed round the southern tip of Africa into the Indian Ocean, opening the way to India around Africa.
Themes this person appears in
- The Age of Discovery1415 – 1600
From Ceuta to the Manila galleons — two centuries in which European ships crossed the oceans and bound the world together by sea