Portugal: Portrait of Vasco da Gama (1460 or 1469-1524), explorer and imperialist, by Gregorio Lopes (1490-1550), 1524. Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (1460 or 1469-1524) was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. For a short time in 1524 he was Governor of Portuguese India under the title of Viceroy.

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