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Bartolomeu Dias

Bartolomeu DiasPortuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias led the first European expedition round the Cape of Good Hope in 1488.

Bartolomeu DiasBartolomeu Dias, also called Bartholomew Diaz, was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed Europeans there was a feasible route to India around the storm-driven southern tip of Africa. He also discovered for Europe the south-east trade winds and the westerlies to the west and south of South Africa, thus establishing the wind system for those who sailed after him. King João II of Portugal financed Dias’s expedition. Dias took part in Cabral's expedition that discovered Brazil, but Dias’s ship sank during a storm.

Bartolomeu Dias In 1488, Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450-1500) became the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa, opening the way for a sea

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Bartolomeu Dias

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Bartolomeu Dias (/ˈdiːəs/;^[2]

Portuguese:

[baɾtuluˈmew ˈdi.ɐʃ]; Anglicized: Bartholomew Diaz; c. 1450 – 29 May 1500^[3]), a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first to do so, setting up the route from Europe to Asia later on. Dias is the first Europeanduring the Age of Discovery to anchor at what is present-day South Africa.^[4]

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