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[18] [24] Da Gama Textiles has made shweshwe from cotton imported from Zimbabwe and grown locally in the Eastern Cape. [16] [22] The local textile industry, including shweshwe production by Da Gama Textiles, has been threatened by competition from cheaper inferior quality imitations made locally and imported from China and Pakistan.
Leopoldo Copriano Gama was born in c. 1843 in Saligão, Goa, Portuguese India, during the Portuguese Empire (now in India) to Luis Antonio Gama and Carlota Guilhermina Gonsalves. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was an alumnus of the Latinidade and Portuguese School for boys in Saligão, which was established by Fr. Lazaro de Souza and was among the first four ...
Zwelitsha was created in 1947 as corridor township to King William's Town to provide labour for the Good Hope Textile Factory of the Da Gama Group, South Africa. As a vestige of the liberal United Party government it had "middle class" pretensions in terms of neat schools, clinics, shopping centers, dairy, inhouse plumbing, bathrooms and toilets.
Estêvão da Gama (c. 1505–1576) was the Portuguese governor of Portuguese Gold Coast (1529–1535) and Portuguese India (1540–1542). Named after his paternal grandfather Estêvão da Gama , Estêvão was the second son of Vasco da Gama , and the brother of Cristóvão da Gama .
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Da Gama led two of the Portuguese India Armadas, the first and the fourth. The latter was the largest and departed for India three years after his return from the first one. For his contributions, in 1524 da Gama was appointed Governor of India, with the title of Viceroy, and was ennobled as Count of Vidigueira in 1519. He remains a leading ...
Sanskriti Museums are a set of three museums namely, Museum of ‘Everyday Art’, Museum of Indian Terracotta and Textile Museum.It is housed within Sanskriti Kendra complex, at Anandagram, [1] an artist village complex, spread over eight acres, situated 10 km south of New Delhi, [2] [3] near Aya Nagar on Mehrauli–Gurgaon Road, on the outskirts of Delhi. [4]
Gaspar da Gama, also known as Gaspar da India and Gaspar de Almeida (c. 1444 – c. 1510), was an interpreter (língua in old Portuguese) and guide to several Portuguese exploratory fleets. He was of Jewish origin and was probably born in Poznań in the Kingdom of Poland.