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The Torre do Tombo National Archive (Portuguese: Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo), commonly known simply as the Torre do Tombo ([ˈtoʁɨ ðu ˈtõbu]; literally "Tower of the Tome") is the national archive of Portugal, located in Lisbon. Established in 1378, it is one of the oldest archival institutions in the world.
The 1571 atlas was reproduced in colour, with a reconstructed frontispiece, and, inexplicably, with the Eastern Mediterranean plate from the 1576 atlas included without any explanation, in "Atlas de Fernao Vaz Dourado : reprodcao fidelissima do exemplar do Torre do Tombo, datado de Goa, 1571", Porto: Livraria Civilizacao, 1948.
Arquivo Distrital da Guarda; Arquivo Distrital de Leiria; Arquivo Distrital de Lisboa (abolished in 2012; materials transferred to the Torre do Tombo National Archive) [1] [2] Arquivo Distrital de Portalegre; Arquivo Distrital do Porto (est. 1931) [3] Arquivo Distrital de Santarém; Arquivo Distrital de Setúbal ; Arquivo Distrital de Viana do ...
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Pero de Ataíde or Pedro d'Ataíde [a] (d'Atayde, da Thayde), nicknamed O Inferno (Hell), "for the damage he did to the Moors in Africa", [2] (c. 1450 – February/March, 1504, Mozambique Island) was a Portuguese sea captain in the Indian Ocean active in the early 1500s.
He was the son of Dom Álvaro de Ataíde, captain and governor of the Maluku islands between 1567 and 1560, by his wife D. Jerónima de Castro do Canto. He was thus a great-grandson, in the paternal line, of another Dom Álvaro de Ataíde, Lord of Castanheira (second-born son of the 1st Count of Atouguia), a participant in the conspiracy of the Duke of Viseu against King John II of Portugal.
In 2007, the Portuguese Government initiated a project to make available online by 2010 a significant part of the archives of the Portuguese Inquisition (more than 35,000 processes) currently deposited in the Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, the Portuguese National Archives. [102]
On February 6, 1742, the Gazeta de Lisboa reported that Queen D. Maria Ana and her children traveled to Belém to observe a scientific innovation: two machines constructed by Dr. Bento de Moura Portugal FRS, "which, through the weight of the air and the force of steam, lifted water, with cold providing the opportunity for the weight of the air to reconvert the vapors, in which the heat had ...