D.Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (1465–1530) was a Portuguese
fidalgo
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, sent to analyze the
trade
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An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct excha ...
potential in
Madagascar
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and
Malacca
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. He arrived at Malacca on 11 September 1509 and left the next year when he discovered that
Sultan Mahmud Shah was planning his
assassination
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. This gave
Afonso de Albuquerque
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the opportunity to embark upon his expedition of conquests.
Sequeira was subsequently made
governor
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of
Portuguese India
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(1518–1522), and in 1520 led a
military campaign
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into the
Red Sea
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which hastened the first legitimate Portuguese
embassy
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to
Ethiopia
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.
See also
*
Portuguese Malacca
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*
Portuguese India
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References
Further reading
* Ronald Bishop Smith, Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, "Diogo Lopes de Sequeira: Elements on His Office of Almotacé Mor", Silvas, 1975 (Inclui o texto de cinco cartas (Fev.1524-Dez.1524) trocadas entre o rei, D.João III e Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, regulador real de pesos, medidas e preços).
* David B. Quinn, Cecil H. Clough, Paul Edward Hedley Hair, "The European outthrust and encounter", p. 97, Liverpool University Press, 1994,
* Henry Morse Stephens, "Albuquerque", p. 97 – the conquest of Malacca
* James Maxwell Anderson, "The history of Portugal", p. 72, conquest of the city of Malacca, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000,
* Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "The Career and Legend of Vasco Da Gama", p. 300, Cambridge University Press, 1997
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1465 births
1530 deaths
Captain-majors of Portuguese Gold Coast
History of Malacca
Maritime history of Portugal
Portuguese admirals
16th century in Ghana
16th-century explorers
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