Alfredo Pedro de Almeida | |
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| Governor-General of Portuguese India | |
| In office 12 July 1929 –25 August 1929 | |
| Preceded by | Acúrcio Mendes da Rocha Dinis |
| Succeeded by | João Carlos Craveiro Lopes |
Alfredo Pedro de Almeida was a major from Portugal who served as Governor-General of Portuguese India [1] from 12 Jul 1929 to 25 Aug 1929 [2] .
Namibe Province is a province of Angola. Under Portuguese rule it was the Moçâmedes District. It has an area of 57,091 km²and had a 2014 census population of 495,326. The port and city of Moçâmedes is the capital of the province with a population of 250,000 in 2014. Iona National Park lies within the province.
The State of India,also referred as the Portuguese State of India or simply Portuguese India,was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama,a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal. The capital of Portuguese India served as the governing centre of a string of military forts and trade posts scattered all over the Indian Ocean.
Dom Francisco de Almeida,also known as the Great Dom Francisco,was a Portuguese nobleman,soldier and explorer. He distinguished himself as a counsellor to King John II of Portugal and later in the wars against the Moors and in the conquest of Granada in 1492. In 1505 he was appointed as the first governor and viceroy of the Portuguese State of India. Almeida is credited with establishing Portuguese hegemony in the Indian Ocean with his victory at the naval Battle of Diu in 1509. Before Almeida returned to Portugal he lost his life in a conflict with indigenous people at the Cape of Good Hope in 1510. His only son Lourenço de Almeida had previously been killed in the Battle of Chaul.
João da Nova was a Portuguese-Galician explorer of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the service of Portugal. He is credited as the discoverer of Ascension and Saint Helena islands.
Manuel de Almeida was a native of Viseu who entered at an early age into the Society of Jesus and went out as a missionary to India. He is noted to have travelled to Ethiopia and Eritrea and Lake Tana and built a number of churches and monasteries,particularly on the small islands of the lake.
In the Siege of Almeida,Portugal,the French corps of Marshal Michel Ney captured the border fortress from Brigadier General William Cox's Portuguese garrison. This action was fought in the summer of 1810 during the Peninsular War portion of the Napoleonic Wars. Almeida is located in eastern Portugal,near the border with Spain.
Avintes is a Portuguese civil parish in the municipality of Vila Nova de Gaia. The population in 2011 was 11,497,in an area of 8.82 km2.
Manuel Alfredo Tito de Morais,was a Portuguese politician.
The Castle/Fortress of Almeida is a castle situated in the civil parish of Almeida,in the municipality of Almeida in the Portuguese district of Guarda,in the former-northwestern province of Beira Alta. It was constructed in this region due to its significant strategic importance,due to its close proximity to the border between Portugal and Spain. It is classified as a National Monument.
The Forty Conspirators were a Portuguese nationalist group during the Iberian Union. The Conspirators were composed of forty men of the Portuguese nobility,and many clergy and soldiers. Their goal was to depose the House of Habsburg king,Philip III.
Events in the year 1899 in Brazil.
Events in the year 1930 in Brazil.
Events in the year 1965 in Brazil.
Caetano Alexandre de Almeida e Albuquerque was a Portuguese colonial administrator and a military officer. He was governor general of Cape Verde from 29 March 1869 until 26 February 1876,succeeding JoséGuedes de Carvalho e Meneses. He was succeeded by Guilherme Quintino Lopes de Macedo. In June 1876,he was appointed governor general of Angola,succeeding JoséBaptista de Andrade. He was succeeded by Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses in July 1878. From 3 December 1878 until 10 April 1882 he was governor-general of Portuguese India.
Maximiano Alves was a Portuguese sculptor.
The Macao Central Library is a library of the Macao Public Library system,in São Lázaro,Macau.
Camarão Indians' letters,also known as Tupi letters from Camarão Indians,are a series of six letters exchanged between Potiguara Indians during 1645,in the first half of the 17th century,in the context of the Dutch invasions of Brazil. They are the only known texts written by Brazilian Indians until the Independence of Brazil. The Camarão Indians' letters are also the only record of Old Tupi writing in Colonial Brazil. Today,the correspondence is stored in the archives of the Royal Library of the Netherlands,and has been preserved there for almost 400 years.
Alfredo Pedro de Almeida at Geneall
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