Fernando de QuintanilhaeMendonçaDias GCC, TO, ComA, GOA, GCA, MPBS, MOBS, GOI, GOIH, ECMM (Chaves, 15 November 1898 - Lisbon, São Vicente de Fora, 9 June 1992) was an officer of the Portuguese Navy, and a political and colonial…
Dom Francisco de Almeida ( Portuguese pronunciation: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku ðɨ alˈmɐjðɐ]; c. 1450 – 1 March 1510), was a Portuguese nobleman, soldier and explorer.
During 1528–29, Lopo Vaz de Sampaio seized the fort of Mahim from the Gujarat Sultanate, when the King was at war with Nizam-ul-mulk, the emperor of Chaul, a town south of Bombay.