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Exploits of Vasco Da Gama - English
URL: http://www.mariner.org/age/dagama.html

Portugal's slow progress down the west coast of Africa in search for a route to the east finally came to fruition with Vasco da Gama (1469 - 1524). He followed Bartolomeu Dias' route to the Cape of Good Hope in [1497] to 1498 and continue sailing into unknown waters along the eastern coast of the African continent. He eventually located a route to India, but had to contend with Arab strongholds.

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Vasco da Gama: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/d/dagama.shtml

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Vasco da Gama (1460-1524) was a Portuguese explorer who discovered an ocean route from Portugal to the East.

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1Up Info - Gama, Vasco da (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia - English
URL: http://www.1upinfo.com/encyclopedia/G/Gama-Vas.html

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1469–1524, Portuguese navigator, the first European to journey by sea to India. His epochal voyage (1497–99) was made at the order of Manuel I. With four vessels, he rounded the Cape of Good Hope, passed the easternmost point reached by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, continued up the east coast of Africa to Malindi, and sailed across the Indian Ocean to Calicut. This voyage opened up a way for Europe to reach the wealth of the Indies, and out of it grew the Portuguese Empire.

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Васко Да Гама - Russian
URL: http://www.zoohall.com.ua/findex.php?page=http://zoohall.com.ua/leftframes/ecolo

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( 1469 — 1524 ) — португальский мореплаватель, прошел в 1497-98 во главе флотилии из 3 судов морским путем из Европы в Индию, подтвердив открытие Б. Диаша. В 1502-03 совершил второе плавание по тому же пути.

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ГАМА (Gama) Васко да (1469-1524) - Russian
URL: http://explorers.narod.ru/gama.htm

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Португальский мореплаватель. В 1497-99 совершил плавание из Лиссабона в Индию, обогнув Африку, и обратно, впервые проложив морской путь из Европы в Юж. Азию. В 1502-03 и 1524 совершил еще 2 плавания в Индию.

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500 years after Vasco da Gama arrived in India - English
URL: http://www.rediff.com/news/jun/09gama.htm

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A controversy erupts over commemoration of the event.

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Vasco da Gama - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06374a.htm

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An article from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

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Vasco da Gama: Round Africa to India, 1497-1498 CE - English
URL: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497degama.html

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Translation of da Gama's original account.

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