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Alexandre de Almeida Silva Júnior (born 23 January 2001), commonly known as Juninho, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a centre midfielder for Goiás. Career
Caetano Alexandre de Almeida e Albuquerque (15 April 1824 – 8 September 1916) was a Portuguese colonial administrator and a military officer. He was governor general of Cape Verde from 29 March 1869 until 26 February 1876, succeeding José Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses .
D. Jorge de Almeida, Bishop of Coimbra from mid-1490s. D. Pedro da Silva - used his mother's surname, sent on king's 1494 mission to Pope Alexander VI. D. Fernando de Almeida - sent with Pedro on the papal mission. D. Francisco de Almeida - commander of 1505 expedition to India, first Vice-roy of Portuguese India.
Almeida was born at Lisbon.As was customary for men in his social circle, he joined the military at an early age. In 1476 he took part in the Battle of Toro.Then he fought in conflicts in different parts of Morocco and in 1492 participated in the Christian conquest of Granada on the side of the Castilians.
Afonso de Albuquerque, 1st Duke of Goa (c. 1453 – 16 December 1515), was a Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman. He served as viceroy of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515, during which he expanded Portuguese influence across the Indian Ocean and built a reputation as a fierce and skilled military commander.
With the Alexanders facing multiple charges of sex trafficking, a federal judge has knocked down escalating offers to secure the release of the three Miami-born brothers: Oren, Tal, and Alon.
João da Nova fought in the Battle of Diu in February 1509, his ship, the Flor de la Mar, being used by the vice-roy Francisco de Almeida as the flagship of the Portuguese battle fleet. In March of that year, Afonso de Albuquerque, by then in Cochin himself, invoked his own secret credentials to relieve Francisco de Almeida as governor of India.
The arms of Almeida from Anselmo Braamcamp Freire's "Salões da Sala de Sintra" The Marquesses of Lavradio are chiefs of one of the branches of the Almeida family of Portugal, whose noble origins and genealogy are described in detail in all Portuguese nobiliaries, notably "História Genealógica da Casa Real Portuguesa" [17] and "Memórias Históricas e Genealógicas dos Grandes de Portugal ...