A pre-Mercator nautical chart of 1571, from Portuguese cartographer Fernão Vaz Dourado ( c. 1520 – c.

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

It has long been believed that Jehuda Cresques is the same person as ' Mestre Jacome ', a Majorcan cartographer induced by the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator to move to Portugal in the 1420s to train Portuguese map-makers in Majorcan-style cartography.

Figure of the heavenly bodies — An illustration of the Ptolemaic geocentric system by Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer Bartolomeu Velho, 1568 ( Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris )

A pre-Mercator nautical chart of 1571, from Portuguese cartographer Fernão Vaz Dourado ( c. 1520-c. 1580 ).

' Mestre Jacome ', was a Majorcan cartographer induced by Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator to move to Portugal in the 1420s to train Portuguese map-makers in Majorcan-style cartography.

The Cantino map contains evident corrections, made either in the course of 1501-02, while it was being composed by the anonymous Portuguese cartographer, or shortly after it was delivered in November 1502, possibly by an unknown Italian draftsman.

Figure of the heavenly bodies — An illustration of the Geocentric model # Ptolemaic_system | Ptolemaic geocentric system by Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer Bartolomeu Velho, 1568 ( Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris ).

Luís Teixeira or Ludovico Teixeira was a sixteenth-century Portuguese Jesuit, cartographer, and mathematician.

Portuguese explorers may have been the first Europeans to discover the island of Diego Garcia.

Some Portuguese scholars believe that Garcia's supposed Christian name, " Diego ", was a misnomer or a misreading that came into use towards the end of the 16th century.

The Portuguese mariner Diego Dias became the first European to set foot on Madagascar when his ship, bound for India, blew off course in 1500.

The first European to find Ulithi was the Portuguese navigator Diego da Rocha, in 1526, but it remained undisturbed by Europeans until rediscovered by Captain Don Bernard de Egui in 1712, and later visited by Spanish Jesuit missionaries led by Juan Antonio Cantova in 1731.

The Portuguese Diego Rodrigues explored the Indian Ocean in 1528, he explored the islands of Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues, naming it the Mascarene or Mascarenhas Islands, after his countryman Pedro Mascarenhas, who had been there before.

By 1128, the Archbishop of Braga and the main Portuguese feudal nobles had had enough of her persistent Galician alliance, which the first feared could favour the ecclesiastical pretensions of his new rival the Galician Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, Diego Gelmírez, who had just started to assert his pretensions to an alleged discovery of relics of Saint James in his town, as his way to gain power and riches over the other cathedrals in the Iberian Peninsula.

Sashti became part of the northern province of Portuguese India, which was governed from Baçaím ( present-day Vasai ) on the north shore of Vasai Creek, it was leased to Dom Diogo Rodrigues also called as Mestre Diego from 25 October 1535 to 1548.

Gough Island, also known historically as Gonçalo Álvares ( after the Portuguese explorer ) or mistakenly as Diego Alvarez, is a volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Confusion of the unusual Portuguese saint name Gonçalo with Spanish Diego led to the misnomer " Diego Alvarez island " in English sources from 1800s to 1930s.

Diego de Astor, a Portuguese, drew a map of Bengal, which was published as Descripção do Reino de Bengalla in the book Quarta decada da Asia ( Fourth decade of Asia ) by João de Barros in 1615.

Influenced by many other artists, including Diego Velázquez who was also of Portuguese descent, Coello is considered the last great Spanish painter of the 17th century.

On the West Coast in California there are Portuguese communities in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Santa Cruz, the Central Valley, and San Diego, in connection to Portuguese fishermen and settlers emigrating to California from the Azores.

The patronymic for Diego is Díaz in Castillian ( used for example by Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid ) and Dias in Portuguese.

D. Diego Roiz Rodrigues ( c. 1501 ; Lagos, Portugal-† 21 April 1577 ; Colvá, Goa ) was a Portuguese explorer of the Indian Ocean who begin sailing as an ordinary helmsman in the fleet with Dom Pedro Mascarenhas to Goa before he rose to the rank of a knight ( cavaleiro ).

Paternal grandson of Francisco Carazo Soto and wife and cousin Jacoba Alvarado Baeza, great-grandson of Pedro Alvarado Guevara and wife Manuela Baeza Baroto and great-great-grandson of Pedro Alvarado Vidamartel and wife Ángela Guevara Sáenz, daughter of Alvaro Guevara Sandoval and wife María Sáenz Vázquez and paternal granddaughter of José Guevara Maldonado and wife Inés Sandoval Pereira, daughter of José Sandoval Ocampo and wife Isabel Pereira Peláez and maternal granddaughter of Portuguese Sebastián ( Sebastião ) Pereira Cardoso and wife Antonia Peláez Vázquez de Coronado, daughter of Diego Peláez de Lermos and wife Andrea Vázquez de Coronado Rodríguez, daughter of Gonzalo Vázquez de Coronado Arias and wife Ana Rodríguez del Padrón, and paternal granddaughter of Juan Vázquez de Coronado y Anaya and wife Isabel Arias-Dávila.

The legal system was based on Portuguese and customary law but was weak and fragmented.

Trade was mostly with the Portuguese colony of Brazil ; Brazilian ships were the most numerous in the ports of Luanda and Benguela.

By this time, Angola, a Portuguese colony, was in fact like a colony of Brazil, paradoxically another Portuguese colony.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

Amalaric ( Gothic: Amalareiks ), or in Spanish and Portuguese, Amalarico, ( 502 – 531 ) was king of the Visigoths from 526 until his assassination in 531.

Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.

Lisbon was recovered by the Portuguese in 1147.

Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.

His campaigns were successful and, on 25 July 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of the Portuguese by his soldiers, establishing his equality in rank to the other realms of the Peninsula.

Afonso II (; English Alphonzo ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin version ), nicknamed " the Fat " ( Portuguese o Gordo ), King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city.

Afonso, born in Lisbon, was the rightful heir to the Portuguese throne.

A peace treaty was signed in Seville in 1339 and, in the next year, Portuguese troops played an important role in the victory of the Battle of Rio Salado over the Marinid Moors in October 1340.

But perhaps his most important contribution was the importance he gave to the Portuguese navy.

Opposition rose and without any important ally among the Portuguese aristocracy other than Afonso, Count of Barcelos, the illegitimate half brother of King Edward and count of Barcelos, the queen's position was untenable.

The San Agustin was commissioned into the Portuguese Navy as the Santo Agostinho, and command of her was given to Phillip.

The construction of the Abbey at Batalha commenced in 1388 and was added to by various Portuguese Kings over these next two centuries.

A very successful Portuguese feature film was made in the early 20th century that dramatically captured the primitive and dangerous life of these fishermen.