Cape Bojador
Cape Bojador Cape Bojador or Boujdour is a headland on the ... It is also known as the "Bulging Cape", and is sometimes spelled "Cape Boujdour". ...
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Cape Bojador   (translated from German)
Cape Bojador Cape Bojador is a Vorgebirge at the northwest coast ... instance 26° 7' northern latitude convenient. The cape Bojador forms the western Auslaeufer of ...
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Hendrik of the   (translated from Dutch)
... christus and established itself in Sagres, close Cape St. Vincent, where the hoofdkwartier of the ... had large fear for the seas beyond Cape Bojador. There all kinds of tales did the rondte: the cape would extend himself exactly under the surface ... of hendrik became, Gil Eannes, transmitted to cape Bojador. Also he failed, but this ...
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Gil Eanes   (translated from German)
... 1433 at the southMoroccan coast the lying Cape Bojador to umfahren, fails however and must turn around. Cape Bajador applies in the Middle Ages as ... well as the constant fog at the cape Bojador. 1434 Gil Eanes on only western ...
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Henry the Navigator
... its headquarters in 1413 at Sagres, near Cape St Vincent at the extreme southwestern tip ... the sole right to authorize expeditions beyond Cape Bojador (in present-day Western Sahara). When Duarte ... s explorers Until Henry's coastal explorations, Cape Bojador remained the most southerly point known ...
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Gil Eanes
... He was the first to sail beyond Cape Bojador in 1434 and return. The discovery of a passable route around Cape Bojador marked the beginning of the Portuguese exploration ... a Green Sea of Darkness , beyond the Cape Bojador. Eanes made another voyage, with ...
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History of Africa
... areas of the coastlands. Portuguese ships rounded Cape Bojador in 1434, Cape Verde in 1445, and by 1480 the ... discovered the mouth of the Congo, the Cape of Good Hope was rounded by Bartolomeu ... Vasco da Gama, after having rounded the Cape, sailed up the east coast, touched ...
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Portuguese Empire
... Africa and the Atlantic Ocean. In 1433 Cape Bojador was doubled; in 1434 the first consignment ... commerce. The Senegal was reached in 1445, Cape Verde was passed in the same year ... of Guinea was explored as far as Cape St Catherine , and three expeditions (1458, 1461 ... discovered the Congo in 1482 and reached Cape Cross in 1486. Portuguese ships organized ...
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History of Portugal
... discovered. In 1434, Gil Eanes turned the Cape Bojador, south of Morocco. The trip marked the ... in Europe about what lay around the cape. At the end of the 13th century ... were defeated. Bartolomeu Dias turning the Tormentas Cape, renamed Cabo da Boa Esperança (Cape of Good Hope), representing Portugal's ...
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Bartolomeeu Diaz   (translated from German)
... that 1434 together also Gil Eanes that Cape Bojador as well as around-apply the buyer ... where it to 12. March 1488 to Cape Padrone a further coat of arms column ... good hope , which it Cabo Tormentoso (storm cape) called. The Vorgebirge received its current name ... not clearly clarified whether slide the south cape and/or. Cape Argulhas (needle cape) ...
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