Pedro de Sintra

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Pedro de Sintra († 1484 in Guinea ), also known as Pêro de Sintra , Pedro da Cintra or Pedro da Sintra , was a Portuguese explorer of the 15th century . On one of his trips in 1460/61 he gave the mountain range on the Sierra Leone Peninsula the name Serra Lyoa (Portuguese for Lion Mountains ), which later extended to the entire surrounding coast.

On another expedition he reached the Kingdom of Benin and Nigeria .

De Sintra died in Guinea in 1484.

A report of one of his journeys has been passed down by the Venetian Alvise Da Mosto and was first published in 1507 as part of the anthology Paesi novamente retrovati ("Recently rediscovered countries") edited by Fracanzano da Montalboddo .

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  1. See Ankenbauer (2010), 166–167.
  2. See Zack-Williams (2004).