| LC control no. | n 84803595 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Dias, Bartolomeu |
| Variant(s) | Dias, Bartholomew Diaz, Bartolomeu Diaz, Bartholomew |
| Associated country | Portugal |
| Birth date | 1451~ |
| Death date | 15000529 |
| Place of birth | Portugal |
| Profession or occupation | Explorers Sailors |
| Found in | Mota, A. Teixeira da. Bartolomeu Dias, discoverer of Cape of Good Hope, 1955: t.p. (Bartolomeu Dias) LC data base, 7-10-84 (hdg.: Dias, Bartolomeu) Bartolomeu Dias, no 500o. aniversário da dobragem do cabo da Boa Esperança, 1989?: p. 9 (Bartholomew Dias) Exploration and discovery [VR] c1979: teacher's guide (explorer Bartholomew Diaz) Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1995 (Bartolomeu Dias, also spelled Diaz, Portuguese navigator and explorer, led first European expedition around the Cape of Good Hope, 1488; born ca. 1450, died May 29, 1500) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed April 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Dias, Bartolomeu; explorer, sailor; born c.1451 in Portugal; sailed around the southern coast of Africa (1488); was a member of the Portuguese royal court; accompanied Diogo de Azambuja on his expedition to the Gold Coast (1481); led the expedition to find a trade route to India (1486), sailed along the West African coast, reached its farthest point at Algoa Bay, erected a large stone cross and claimed the land for Portugal (1488); discovered the Cape of Good Hope, near modern-day Cape Town; his passage around the Cape of Good Hope opened Western Europe to trade with India and Asia; helped build two ships that were used by Vasco da Gama in his circumnavigation of Africa; sailed with da Gama (1497) to the Cape Verde Islands; commanded a ship in an expedition led by Pedro Alvars Cabral (1500); died 29 May 1500 at sea, off the coast of Cape of Good Hope) |
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