 King, by the Grace of God, of Portugal, and of the Algarves, both on this side the sea and beyond it in Africa, Lord of Guinea and of the Conquest, Navigation, and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and India.  The History of Brazilby Robert M. Levine - 1999 - 208 lehteNo preview available - About this book
 | Philip D. Curtin - 1984 - 312 lehte
...Manoel "the Fortunate," the king who gained the first wealth from trade with India, took the grandiose title, "Lord of the Conquest, Navigation, and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and India" (little of which actually ever fell under Portuguese control). His contemporary fellow-monarch, Francis... | |
 | M. N. Pearson - 2006 - 208 lehte
...trade. Right from the start the method was to be force. Manuel in 1499 precipitously took the title of 'Lord of the conquest, navigation and commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia and India'. The second expedition, led by Cabral, indulged in various atrocities in Calicut and at sea in 1500.... | |
 | Justin Rosenberg - 1994 - 240 lehte
...more highly charged idiom of the time it was also debated by contemporaries: Dom Manoel styled himself 'Lord of the Conquest, Navigation and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia and India'; but Francis I, his French neighbour, dubbed him simply 'the grocer king'.15 Without entering too far... | |
 | Jerry Brotton - 1997 - 216 lehte
...Emperor, and the second the Portuguese House of Avis, ruled by Joao III, self-styled 'Ix1rd of Guinea and of the Conquest, Navigation and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia and India'.' To commemorate the union Joao commissioned a series of lavish tapestries entitled The Spheres from... | |
 | Roy Nash - 1968 - 512 lehte
...the King of Portugal, with the new title which he was trying on that morning for the first time — "LORD OF THE CONQUEST, NAVIGATION AND COMMERCE OF ETHIOPIA, ARABIA, PERSIA, AND INDIA." One of his trusty skippers, Pedro Alvares Cabral, was even then loading his ships with hardtack and... | |
 | Sanjay Subrahmanyam - 1997 - 434 lehte
...side and beyond the sea in Africa, and Lord of Guinea' (which may have seemed cumbersome enough), but 'Lord of the Conquest, Navigation and Commerce, of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia and India'.81 At the same time, the reader of the Florentine letters of 1499 realises rapidly that the... | |
 | Mohja Kahf - 1999 - 228 lehte
...rounded the southernmost point of Africa in 1497, his Portuguese king wasted no time in styling himself "Lord of the Conquest, Navigation, and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and China" (Abbott, i: 105). This would have been laughable had it been known to the inhabitants of those... | |
 | Philip D. Curtin - 2002 - 316 lehte
...grandiose titles to empire goes back at least to the early 1500s, when Manoel I of Portugal claimed the title "Lord of the Conquest, Navigation, and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and India." At the time, very few people in these territories had even heard of Portugal, but the claim is not... | |
 | Peter O. Koch - 2015 - 292 lehte
...Portugal and of the Algarve, both on this side of the sea, and beyond it in Africa, Lord of Guinea, and of the Conquest, Navigation, and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and India." Future historians simply shortened his title to "the Fortunate." Manuel also took great satisfaction... | |
 | Jacob Pandian, Susan Parman - 2004 - 358 lehte
...(after Vasco da Gama's successful return from India in 1499, the Portuguese King Manuel declared himself "Lord of the Conquest, Navigation, and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and India"), the Spanish bought into Columbus's insistence that he had sailed to Asia when he returned from his... | |
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