Antonio de Saldanha

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António de Saldanha was a Portuguese navigator.

In 1503 he sailed with the fleet of Afonso de Albuquerque , as commander of three Naos , to India . As a result of a navigation error they landed while sailing around the Cape of Good Hope in a bay that he named Aguada da Saldanha (from 1601 Table Bay ). He met a few hundred local Khoe hunters and gatherers in the bay . To find his way around, Saldanha - the first European - climbed the nearby mountain, which he named Taboa do Cabo ( Table Mountain ).

From 1505 Portugal built up Portuguese India (Estado da Índia) and in 1506 conquered the Ilha de Moçambique , from where the colonization of the later Mozambique began. In 1506 he stayed again in Lisbon, from where he set sail again with Tristão da Cunha in the same year .

From 1509 to June 24, 1512 António de Saldanha was appointed by Portugal as the first captain of Sofala in eastern Mozambique. Sofala was previously part of the extensive Arab trade network on the East African coast and an Arab trading post, where primarily gold was traded .

In April 1517 Saldanha set out again with a fleet from Lisbon to the East Indies. Nuno da Cunha left him with a strong fleet in Diu, West India , where he destroyed many cities in the area.

aftermath

After Saldanha's visit to Table Bay, European seafarers regularly took water and provisions here.

The Dutch named the bay Saldanha Baai , 140 km north of Table Bay , today mostly Saldanha Bay.

literature

  • Alexandre Lobato: António de Saldanha, his times and his achievements. English edition by M. Freire de Andrade; Lisbon, Centro de Estudos Históricos Ultramarinos, 1962.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b François Angelier: Dictionnaire des Voyageurs et Explorateurs occidentaux du XIIIe au XXe siècle . Pygmalion (Éditions Flammarion), Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-7564-0156-0 , p. 609 .
  2. ↑ Eric Rosenthal: Southern African Dictionary of National Biography . Frederick Warne & Co., London 1966, p. 327
  3. ↑ http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10610a.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Mozambique.htm
  5. ^ Mark Häberlein:  Nürnberger, Lazarus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 372 f. ( Digitized version ).
  6. ^ Heinrich Schäfer: History of Portugal; P. 48
  7. ^ João de Barros: History of the discoveries and conquests of the Portuguese; Vol. 3/4, p. 224
personal data
SURNAME Saldanha, António de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese navigator, explorer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century