Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

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If Kristof's supposition is correct, then this remote African outpost retains an echo of one of history's most astonishing ... Arabia, and East Africa. The fleet consisted of giant nine-masted ...

A teeming MOMA series highlights the political power of Portuguese filmmakers’ innovative methods, from the nineteen-sixties ...

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Flight and ferry times vary by season and if you do take the ferry, know that it could take hours to get somewhere that looks close by on a map ... history and colorful, centuries-old Portuguese ...

In English, it means “This is where Portugal was born.” These words carry more than 1,000 years of history and the weight ...

From Christopher Columbus to Marco Polo, these celebrated—and controversial—explorers made groundbreaking journeys across the ...

For nearly 400 years, Mozambique Island was the capital of Portuguese East Africa, when the region was ... site for its colonial architecture and history as a trading post.

Observations on the elephants of Northern Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa ... Langworthy III, H. 1969. A history of the Undi’s Kingdom to 1890: aspects of Chewa history in east central Africa.

The cheapest time of year to fly from Portugal to South Africa is usually January and costs around £460. If you're not sure when you want to go, and January doesn't work for you, we can help. Just ...

he united several of West Africa’s kingdoms to defeat Ghana’s king, Sumanguru. He then began to conquer more land in the area, calling his new kingdom the Mali Empire. Records of oral history ...