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The first Portuguese feitoria overseas was established by Henry the Navigator in 1445 on the island of Arguin, off the coast of Mauritania. It was built to attract Muslim traders and monopolize the business in the routes traveled in North Africa.
Official Portuguese presence in Asia was established in 1500, when the Portuguese commander Pedro Álvares Cabral obtained from the King of Cochin Una Goda Varma Koil a number of houses to serve as a feitoria, or trading post in exchange for an alliance against the hostile Zamorin of Calicut.
First established as a trade settlement, the castle later became one of the most important stops on the route of the Atlantic slave trade. The Dutch seized the fort from the Portuguese in 1637, after an unsuccessful attempt in 1596, and took over all of the Portuguese Gold Coast in 1642. The slave trade continued under the Dutch until 1814.
Portuguese navigators reached ever more southerly latitudes, advancing at an average rate of one degree a year. [18] Senegal and Cape Verde Peninsula were reached in 1445. In the same year, the first overseas feitoria (trading post) was established under Henry's direction, on the island of Arguin off the coast of Mauritania.
Salazar managed to discipline the Portuguese public finances, after the chaotic First Portuguese Republic of 1910–1926, but consistent economic growth and development remained scarce until well into the 1960s, when due to the influence of a new generation of technocrats with background in economics and technical-industrial know-how, the ...
The first feitoria trade post overseas was established in 1445 on the island of Arguin, ... In Goa, Albuquerque began the first Portuguese mint in India in 1510. [57]
The British Factory House (Portuguese: Feitoria Inglesa), also known as the British Association House, is an 18th-century Neo-Palladian building located in the northern Portuguese centre of Porto, associated with the influence of Britain in the port wine industry.
On December 15, 1607, a Portuguese naval force numbering 13 galleons anchored before the city in preparation for an attack. [37] Further military action however, proved unnecessary. Upon spotting the Portuguese, the Sultan of Johor panicked, set his capital on fire and fled into the jungle, along with the resident Dutch merchants.