During his trip, a tempest forced him to stop on an island near Guangzhou, China where he saw the rich merchant Diogo Pereira, an old friend from Cochin, who showed him a letter from Portuguese being held prisoners in Guangzhou asking for a Portuguese ambassador to talk to the Chinese Emperor in their favor.

In 1515 he traveled to Ethiopia as part of the Portuguese embassy to emperor Lebna Dengel accompanied by returning Ethiopian ambassador Matheus.

He was sent in 1515 as part of the Portuguese embassy to the ( Emperor of Ethiopia ), accompanied by the Ethiopian ambassador Matheus.

Their first attempt to reach the port of Massawa failed due to the actions of Lopo Soares de Albergaria, governor of Portuguese India, which got no closer than the Dahlak Archipelago and was aborted with the death of the Portuguese ambassador, old Duarte Galvão at Kamaran.

" In 1760, Pombal sent home the papal nuncio and recalled the Portuguese ambassador.

Beginning with arrival of Portuguese ambassador Duarte Fernandes in 1511, Ayutthaya, known to the Europeans as ' Kingdom of Siam ', came into contact with the West during the 16th century.

This does not mean that relations were always cordial, such as in 1536 when the Portuguese attacked the Muslims in the Moluccas and the ambassador to the Brunei court had to leave because of the sultan's hostility.

Under the Commonwealth, having submitted to the parliamentary visitors, he retained his university appointments, and was appointed by Oliver Cromwell to a special commission of oyer and terminer ( consisting of three judges, three civilians, and three laymen, for the trial of Don Pantaleone Sa, the brother of the Portuguese ambassador, for murder committed in a brawl ).

During World War II, Gabor was reported to have been the fiancée of the Portuguese ambassador to Hungary, Dr. Carlos Almeida Afonseca de Sampayo Garrido ; another source claims she was his mistress and another claims she was his aide.

After returning to Europe, Tristão da Cunha was sent as ambassador from king Manuel I to Pope Leo X in 1514 to present the new conquests of the Portuguese Empire, having Garcia de Resende as his secretary.

As the ambassador was to negotiate the liquidation of the Portuguese debt to England, which was of great importance, the Minister of Foreign Affairs asked Manuel to exercise his influence to clarify the situation.

Hanno, actually an Asian elephant, came to Rome in 1514 with the Portuguese ambassador Tristão da Cunha and quickly became the Pope's favorite animal.

* Antonio Fernandez Carvajal was a Portuguese merchant in London ; " like other Marranos in London, Carvajal prayed at the Catholic chapel of the Spanish ambassador, while simultaneously playing a leading role in the secret Jewish community, which met at the clandestine synagogue at Creechurch Lane.

In order to appease the King of Siam, Ayudhya, the Portuguese sent up an ambassador, Duarte Fernandes, who was well received by Ramathibodi in 1511.

In 1738, Melo received his first public appointment as the Portuguese ambassador to Great Britain.

In 1745, he served as the Portuguese ambassador to Austria.

In a long career, he followed these up by many further operas, supported as maestro di cappella in the households of aristocratic patrons, such as the commander of military forces at Naples, prince Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt, or of the Portuguese ambassador at Rome, for composing operas alone did not yet make a viable career.

The sovereign of Calicut, the Zamorin, had also sent an ambassador asking for help against the Portuguese.

In the garden facing the loggia, the Elephant Fountain, designed by Giovanni da Udine, commemorates the Indian elephant " Annone ", brought to Rome by a Portuguese ambassador for the consecration of Leo X in 1514.

Born in Bragança, he served as personal secretary to the Portuguese ambassador in France, and composed, during two voyages to Paris ( 1540 and 1546 ), a chivalric romance called Palmerin d ’ Angleterre ( Palmeirim de Inglaterra ; Palmerin of England ), a " spin-off " of the popular Amadis de Gaula series.

The Cappella del Cardinale del Portogallo to the left of the nave, " one of the most magnificent funerary monuments of the Italian Renaissance ", was built in 1473 as a memorial to Cardinal James of Lusitania, who died in Florence, to which he was Portuguese ambassador, in 1459.

Almeida was the son of the 1st Count of Abrantes and one of a number of highly distinguished siblings including two bishops, an ambassador to the Holy See and the Portuguese head of the Order of Malta.

After the Havana Riviera disaster, the narrator met the Portuguese ambassador with whom that woman wearing a snake ring come and he asked him " what did she do?

There was much sympathy for the Boers on mainland Europe and in October, President Kruger and members of the Transvaal government left Portuguese East Africa on the Dutch warship De Gelderland, sent by the Queen of the Netherlands Wilhelmina, who had simply ignored the British naval blockade of South Africa.

Grotius's 1604 seminal work on international law, De Iure Praedae ( Of The Law of Prize and Booty ), was an advocate's brief defending Dutch raids on Spanish and Portuguese shipping.

De La Soul also appeared on the LA Symphony single " Universal " and Posdnuos collaborated with the Portuguese MC Boss AC on a track called " Yo ( Não Brinques Com Esta Merda )" ( which translates to " Don't Play with This Shit ").

The situation for the colonists became so dire that the Portuguese ruler Count De Alwore went with his remaining supporters to the cathedral where the crypt of Saint Francis Xavier was kept, where they prayed for deliverance.

: " It first appears as Chalaque in the Portuguese narrative of De Soto's expedition, published originally in 1557, while we find Cheraqui in a French document of 1699, and Cherokee as an English form as early, at least, as 1708.

The story of the conquest of Santarém is told in a heroic tone in the mediaeval chronicle De expugnatione Scalabis, which celebrates and justifies the power of the first Portuguese King.

The SS Lusitania was a Portuguese twin-screw liner of 5557 tons, built in 1906 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, and owned by Empreza Nacional De Navegacao, of Lisbon.

* José Maria de Eça de Queiroz — De misdaad van Pater Amaro (" Father Amaro's Crime ", 1932 ; from Portuguese with R. Schreuder )

The name of the family varies, and the family seems to be identical with the Parambil family, translated into Portuguese as De Campo.

In 1647 De With was sent with a poorly equipped fleet to assist the Dutch colony of Brazil from attack by the Portuguese.

* Diogo Gomes De prima inventione Guineae ( Portuguese translation by Gabriel Pereira ( 1898 – 99 ) as " As Relações do Descobrimento da Guiné e das ilhas dos Açores, Madeira e Cabo Verde " in Boletim da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, no.

Anchieta's poem De Gestis Meni de Saa, written around 1560, described the " heroic deeds " of Portuguese soldiers fighting these wars of conquest " in the immense wilderness.

While the oldest Indo families descend from Portuguese traders and explorers, some family names of old Indo families include Simao, De Fretes, Perera, Henriques, etc.

The family names in the community come from Armenian ( the Galistan, the Dragon and the Avakian families ), British ( the Batchelor, the Branson, the Caine, the College, the Edwards, the Goodenough, the Hogan, the Philips, the Reeves, the Hale and the Smith families ), Danish ( the Lange, the Olsen, the Rasmussen and the Jensen families ), Dutch ( the Marbeck, the Ess ( formerly, " van Es "), the Hoeden ( or " van Hoeden "), the Van Cuylenberg, the De Bakker, the Westenra, the Ten Haken, the Feenstra, the Gronloh and the Vanderstraaten families ), French ( the Longue, the Poulier and the Cherbonnier families ), German ( the Hochstadt, the Oehlers, the Keller, the Kaiser and the Roelcke families ), Italian ( the Marini, the De Luca, the Esposito, the Angelucci and the Scarpa families ), Portuguese ( the Aeria, the Coelho, the Carvalho, the Conceicao, the de Almeida, the de Rosa, the de Silva, the de Souza ( or d ' Souza ), the de Cruz ( or D ' Cruz ), the de Cotta, the Nonis ( or " Nunis "), the Gomez ( or " Gomes "), the Lazaroo, the Monteiro, the Oliveiro, the Palmer, the Pereira, the Pestana, the Rodrigues and the Theseira families ), Spanish ( the Castellano, the Fernandez, the Lopez, the Zuniga, the Ferdinands and the Hernandez families ) and Swedish ( the Holmberg, the Johansson and the Lindblom families ) backgrounds.

De Souza was the only child of Annie Adeline Swift ( née Calvert ) and Edward Valentine De Souza Jr. ( Rangoon 1881 – 1947 ), a Cambridge Graduate of Portuguese Indian descent ( his father originated from Goa ).

In 1752 he published a two volume translation of the Latin book De Rebus Emanuelis, that was by a 16th century Portuguese Bishop Jerome Osorio da Fonseca, his English title was The History of the Portuguese during the Reign of Emanuel and is a history book with accounts of warfare, voyages of discovery from Africa to China including descriptions of the religious beliefs of these countries and also the initial colonisation of Brazil.

De Queyroz, the great Portuguese historian writing about Dominicus Corea noted that " he was able to read and write like a well bred man.

De Silva in his book ' A History of Sri Lanka ,' writes about Edirille Rala's revolt against the Portuguese: ' From the beginning however, there was resistance to Portuguese mastery over Kotte.

Formerly the town was known as Henrique De Carvalho, after the Portuguese explorer, Henrique de Carvalho, who visited the region in 1884 and contacted the local ( historically powerful ) Lunda people.

In November Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created The Lisbon Piece, for the Portuguese Companhia Nacional de Bailado: her first experience as a guest choreographer.