ALMEIDA

Meaning of ALMEIDA in English

/ahl may"deuh/ , n.

Francisco de /frddahonn seesh"koo deuh/ , 1450?-1510, Portuguese military leader: first Portuguese viceroy in India.

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ALMEIDA — Almeida BrE AmE æl ˈmiːd ə
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TOLENTINO DE ALMEIDA, NICOLAU — born Sept. 10, 1740, Lisbon, Port. died June 23, 1811 Portugal's leading satirical poet of the 18th century. At age …
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GARRETT, JOO BAPTISTA DA SILVA LEITO DE ALMEIDA, VISCO — born Feb. 4, 1799, Porto, Port. died Dec. 9, 1854, Lisbon writer, orator, and statesman who was one of Portugal's …
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ALMEIDA, MANUEL ANTNIO DE — born , 1831, Mag, Rio de Janeiro died Nov. 28, 1861, at sea author of what is now considered to …
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ALMEIDA, LOURENO DE — died 1508, Chaul, India Portuguese sea captain and leader of a 1505 expedition to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), probably the …
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ALMEIDA, JOS VALENTIM FIALHO DE — born 1857, Vila de Frades, Port. died March 4, 1911, Alentejo Portuguese short-story writer and political essayist of the realist-naturalist …
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ALMEIDA, JOS AMRICO DE — born Jan. 10, 1887, Paraba, Brazil died March 10, 1980, Rio de Janeiro novelist whose works marked the beginning of …
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ALMEIDA, FRANCISCO DE — born c. 1450, , Lisbon, Port. died March 1, 1510, Table Bay [modern Cape Town, S.Af.] soldier, explorer, and the …
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ALMEIDA DE PORTUGAL, LEONOR DE — born 1750, Lisbon, Port. died 1839, Lisbon Marquesa de Alorna, pseudonym Alcipe or Alcippe Portuguese poet whose work forms a …
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EGAS MONIZ, ANTÓNIO CAETANO DE ABREU FREIRE — born Nov. 29, 1874, Avança, Port. died Dec. 13, 1955, Lisbon Portuguese neurologist and statesman. He introduced cerebral angiography (1927–37). …
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NOVA, JOO DA — born 15th century, , Galicia, Spain died 1509, Cochin, India Spanish Juan De Nova Spanish navigator who in the service …
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EGAS MONIZ, ANTNIO — born Nov. 29, 1874, Avana, Port. died Dec. 13, 1955, Lisbon in full Antnio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz …
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ALBUQUERQUE, AFONSO DE, THE GREAT — born 1453, Alhandra, near Lisbon died Dec. 15, 1515, at sea, off Goa, India Portuguese soldier, conqueror of Goa (1510) …
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