While in the service of Spain, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European voyage of discovery to ...

A Portuguese territory, the 800 sq km island was discovered by accident in 1419 by Portuguese explorers on behalf of Prince Henry the Navigator. They first found nearby Porto Santo in 1418 ...

Portuguese-inspired Baleia opens in the South End this week Culinary and nautical history meet for a contemporary spin on global flavors. Portuguese-inspired Baleia opens in the South End on March 6.

Portuguese explorers, traders, and colonizers established footholds along Africa’s coasts, from Angola to Mozambique. Initially, the language served as a tool for commerce and governance.

The following year, Portuguese explorers returned from Africa with nearly thirty slaves. Within ten years, thousands of slaves had been transported by sea to Portugal and the Portuguese Islands.

According to legend, when 15th-century Portuguese explorers happened upon a rugged and foreboding string of islands—less than a week’s sail from the Iberian Peninsula—sailors sequestered ...

Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes place around 1579, during the campaign by the warlord Oda Nobunaga to unify Japan by force. This was a few decades after Portuguese explorers arrived in the ...

The explorers' cargo Lisbon's new Museu do Oriente shows off amazing collection. ... now-legendary Portuguese explorers such as Bartolomey Dias (d. 1500), Afonso de Albuquerque (1453-1515) ...