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Noun: Bartolomeu Dias
  1. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)
    - Dias, Diaz, Bartholomeu Dias, Bartholomeu Diaz

Type of: navigator

Encyclopedia: Bartolomeu Dias