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In 1441, Tristão and Antão Gonçalves were sent by Henry the Navigator to explore the West African coast. With one of Henry's Moorish servants to act as an interpreter, Tristão, the expedition's leader, sailed to Cabo Blanco, the furthest any European had been at that time beyond the Río de Oro. During the next two years, he explored the coast down to Arguim, where he took 28 slaves. In 1445 he sailed further south to Guinea, "where there were many palms and other trees, and all the fields looked to be fertile". In 1446 Tristão landed near what is today the city of Bissau. This page is about the year 1441. ... Antão Gonçalves was a 15th century Portuguese explorer and slave trader who was the first European to take Africans as slaves. ... Infante Dom Henrique (4 March 1394 - 13 November 1460) was a prince of Portugal, often regarded as the most important figure in the early days of European colonial expansion. ... West Africa is the region of western Africa generally considered to include these countries: Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Côte dIvoire (Ivory Coast) Equatorial Guinea Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) Senegal Sierra Leone Togo Chad, Mauritania, and... For the terrain type see Moor Moors is used in this article to describe the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus and the Maghreb, whose culture is often called Moorish. For other meanings look at Moors (Meaning) or Blackamoors. ... Interpreter can mean one of the following: In communication, an interpreter is a person whose role is to facilitate dialogue between two parties that do not use the same language. ... Nouadhibou (formerly Port Etienne; pop. ... Arguin is an island off the west coast of Mauritania in the Bay of Arguin, at 20° 36 N., 16° 27 W. It is 6 km long by 2 broad. ... Events Discovery of Senegal and Cape Verde by Dinas Diaz Births March 1 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (d. ... Guinea is a traditional name for the region of Africa that lies along the Gulf of Guinea. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Events Mehmed II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire is forced to abdicate in favor of his father Murad II by the Janissaries. ... Bissau, estimated population 197,610 (1991), is the capital of Guinea-Bissau. ...

He was killed during a slave raid approximately 320 kilometres south of Cape Verde at an unknown date, probably in 1446. A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... Cape Verde (Portuguese: Cabo Verde) is a republic located on an archipelago of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the western coast of Africa. ...

See also

• Portugal in the period of discoveries
• Portuguese empire

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Reference

• Castlereagh, Duncan. Encyclopedia of Discovery and Exploration - The Great Age of Exploration. Aldus Books London, 1971.