Actually I am from Ghana and our history has not been said in so much details like this. Great video Fan Fact: when they arrived at Ghana they discovered gold mines at the coast so they named there "El Mina" meaning "the mines" in Portuguese
It was the most informative historical coverage (video) that covered Portuguese 🇵🇹 exploration of three probabilities to ward's Indian 🇮🇳 peninsula explored... Thank you, (Flashpoint history)channel for sharing this wonderful video
The expeditions of Afonso de Paiva and Pêro da Covilhã would make an amazing TV Series. Heck, each of these legendary man have stories worthy of movies.
Im so happy you are deciding this serie to be focus on characters ( I really think your narrative style fits better like this). Will we have an Francisco de Almeida episode? :P Keep the good work as always!
Hey Luis! Yeah I’m gonna try and hit up all the major names in the age of discovery. I think telling it from a character pov makes it a much more relatable story
Amazing that after 500 years, you still don't know why Dias moved away from the African coast. The powerful Benguela ocean current pushes everything north along the coast of Africa, from Cape Town to Angola. "You must stay away from the coast of Africa if you wish to go around Africa"--was the secret Dias had discovered. There was no Benguela current to fight if you sail over 100 miles west into the Atlantic, then, and only then, head south,. THAT WAS THE SECRET, and the cause for Portuguese monopoly on the route around Africa.
Amazing series! Also, would you mind sharing the name of the arabian music at end? Really enjoyed it, the soundtrack is very well picked, creating a nice environment for the video.
The great Portuguese discoveries and Empire didn’t take place only for wealth but to spread salvation to all mankind, to spread the Word of G-d to all gentiles. The motivation was spiritual first and foremost.
There are 4 Diu battles which one? There are two considered Epic and one of them is considered the 6th most epic battle of ALL times if we include old world and 3rd if only considering current era
@@user-mg3xr9tz7mthat's what I wanted to add. 4 battles and a long war against the Ottoman empire. Fascinating how the Portuguese stood there ground with so little resources against the mighty Ottoman fleet and army with all there allied muslim nations, like Gujarat or the proxi war at the Horn of Africa.
Tremendous respect to the Portuguese who in a time where European technology could not even compute longitude, managed to explore great parts of the world.
@@LuisAldamiz Oh yes, that's right... in the middle of an uncharted ocean, where nobody lives... And how do you ask the "locals" for precise directions (vital for cross-ocean navigation) if they don't speak your language?!! What a little "genius" you are...
@@miguelcoelho3877 - Using Arabic maybe? It's in the video, don't be so arrogant, especially when my comment was somewhat of a joke. When they arrived to India they even found people speaking "our tongue", which was surely not Portuguese but either Latin or more probably Lingua Franca, which was a mixed Romance used by Mediterranean sailors (originally French and Provenzal based, later rather Italian and Iberian instead). So it was a half-joking comment but it has some seriousness to it as well: "reach Malindi and then head straight northeast" for example. Or maybe they got local pilots who were already very used to the Indian Ocean trade routes. Mind you that the Swahili or Zendji traded all the way to China before being conquered by Portugal. Much harder seems to me to take the shortcut of West Africa between Bissau and Capetown to be honest.
Man you are truly sharp on your references, what a mighty figure Bartolomeu is. Portuguese navegators are often underrated like Diogo de Azambuja and Diogo Cão.
@@FlashPointHx love your channel, thank you for highlighting Portugal and Hispania as a role. Often Leyenda Negra stops most of the world from knowing their history and contributions for the Mother Church and for Western Civilization.
@@user-mg3xr9tz7m I'm brazilian, I feel kind of portuguese aswel cause our culture is very alike and we were the "Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves" Brazil was never really a colony, we were subject to this terms only by the masonic influence of Marques do Pombal, then we got independent, but it was really a masonic movement, we should've sticked together, just like Portugal should've stayed united with Spain during Philip II reign and troughout history, cause both countries share mostly the same views both religion and on culture, but the liberal movements financed by France and England f*cked Hispania unity.
Congratulations for the content. Amazingly accurate. All Portuguese explorers of that time deserve much attention and admiration. But in my view, the personal story of Pêro da Covilhã undoubtedly deserves a great cinematographic production. Hollywood is full of fictional heroes, when they could rescue real and inspiring characters. (we know how things work so it will hardly happen). A big hug, keep up this fantastic and well-produced content. 👏👌😉
Thank you very much! Yeah agree - this Pero da Covilha was a veritable Marco Polo - the lands he traveled too in the time that he did it sets him apart
Portugal's history is full of Hollywood stories! The love one of Pedro e Inês is one! Vasco da Gama adventures is other! The earthquake another! The Tordesilhas treat ...The last dictator Salazar! endless Hollywood material right here in this little square by the sea!
@@FlashPointHx - O Pero da Covía, à espanhola ... e em português inglesado, ... Cou vi lan , era um verdadeiro espião ao serviço de Sua Majestade o Rei.
One of the people in Lisbon watching Bartolomeu Dias' triumphal return from reaching the Indian Ocean was Christopher Columbus. At that point he finally understood that he had no hope of convincing the Portuguese King to pay him to reach India by sailing west.
Thank you so much for shedding light on a very unknown but highly revelant topic in world history. Even in Portugal the details of these voyages are largely unknown to the general population
South African school kids are quite familiar with the voyages of discovery of the Cape of Good Hope. Saldanha Bay, Cape Agulhas & Natal were named by the Portuguese explorers.
In that time Portugal have 1 million people, Castile 5 millions, England 10 millions and France 15 millions, you can see that the Portuguese enterprise of discovery was enoumous, a small country with an glorious history and equally to the biggest.
Omg. Pêro da Covilhã.. What a guy. He travelled miles and miles without the confort we are used to these days. Mindblowin. As a portuguese, i didn't had a clue about this guy. 🙏👋
I'm a South African Portuguese, I living in the UK (confusing 😅). There's a statue of Bartolomeu Dias on one of the façades of the South African High Commission, South Africa House, in London. Most South Africans will walk past, blissfully unaware of the significance. I was unaware of the spy missions sent out... never covered that in my portuguese history and culture lessons. Great to learn something new. Great series of videos, thank you.
South African history books teach about Portuguese discovery and the major influence it had on the region. I am surprised the world knows little about this. Thank you for the content 👍🏼
As a brazilian, i am a huge fan and student of the portuguese age of discoveries and conquests. But i never see on youtube any good documentary only about Bartolomeu Dias. For me, the crossing of the Cabo da Boa Esperança (and the previous crossing of Bojador) is a very special momment of that history, because was a turning point of the process and a dramatic history. Very happy for find this channel and this video. Great work! Good luck! As Fernando Pessoa said, the endless sea is portuguese!
@@FlashPointHx Incrível, seu conhecimento sobre a cultura portuguesa. Também conhece Pessoa. Então você concorda Pessoa é mais um personagem do génio português.
i'm portuguese and we learn privilegious portuguese story, but i never seen many detailed annoucements like on this video. Thank you to spread our history, and to remind all that we were pionners on a period of the story, we open the doors of the world, on that period is fascinating. Portugal like a nation was just over 300 years when turn over to the sea to expand their horizons.
Your videos are getting better and better! You are an exception in the history channels on English RUclips because you do other than English, German and French history. I love the Portuguese exploration history and I appreciate your service for the world.
@@FlashPointHx Looking forward to it. However, I think @fiude has a great point which could become a true USP - cover the history of countries one rarely hears of. Portuguese history is an ecellent choice as it is very relevant for "the west" as it is today, but how about persia, india, thailand, just to give a few examples.
These men were something else weren't they? Can only imagine how brave you had to be to travel the dangerous unknown, not only at sea, but also on land, like the Bandeirantes in the vast Amazon rainforest. The "great sadness" Bartolomeu felt is something portuguese people describe as "saudade" - a melancholic feeling that the portuguese still identify to this day, it is one of the few things that separates its culture from its brothers and cousins (spanish, italian, french, etc). Fun fact, there's another portuguese called Bartolomeu who created the first Pirate Code, "Bartolomeu Português". Also, I wonder how much was lost in the great 1755 earthquake, together with its tsunami and fires...probably lots of records like maps and diaries...and how much was lost in the oceans throughout history as well, maybe some records would explain some mild theories, like the theory of the portuguese discovering Australia, maybe it could change how we perceive world history today...
Thank you for sharing all this - I'm learning a ton about Portuguese culture. There are a lot of Portuguese people here in the Bay Area of San Francisco. I'm understanding more and more why you are so proud of your heritage. I think a tremendous amount of information and knowledge was lost in that 1755 earthquake.
Yes! Those are direct descendants from those Azoreans and Madeireans that went to Hawaii to work on the sugar can fields! They were the first cowboys in California making milk for everybody! Ahahahaa! We Portuguese are all over the world! First class working man! And huge sailors!
The Portuguese poet and navigator Luís de Camões wrote a long epic poem called "Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads)" to immortalize in literature the Portuguese explorations and discoveries. As the title implies, the poem is directly inspired by the ancient Greco-Roman epics like the Illiad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. It is considered the greatest work of Portuguese literature, and a must-read for any classicist.
Nice video, as always Just 2 correction: in 2:28, those are not the frontiers of the Algarve; And in 7:48 that's not Bartolomeu Dias, that's Vasco da Gama
Brazilian here. Boy, never have I clicked so fast in a video before. Rarely ever in RUclips history channels I'll see them talking about something related - directly or not - with the history I learned in school. As an ex-colony of Portugal, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama and, of course, Pedro Álvares Cabral are often studied and talked about in our classrooms. Thank you for that! P.S. when writing my monograph on the Gallician-Portuguese/Portuguese language divide, I used your series on the Reconquista to draw a timeline from the arabic invasion to the separation of Gallicia/Portugal as individually different territories. I literally drew a bullet-point map, then went after books and papers talking about and explaining in more depth the historical events you described. Thank you for that!
Wow - first, really happy that you liked this content. There doesn’t seem to be much on this time period on the internet. Second, Im really touched that you used me as a reference for the Reconquista. I appreciate the fact that you got so much out of my videos! Obrigado!
São os nossos antepassados comuns (tanto dos atuais portugueses, como dos atuais brasileiros) e é sempre bom encontrar quem ainda a aprecie. Um forte abraço transatlântico irmão! 🇵🇹❤️🇧🇷
Great video! Love your content about the Iberian peninsula. A tip for pronouncing Portuguese names: is pronounced "ny" (like Spanish or Italian ) and is pronounced "ly" (like Italian ). "Covilhã" is something like koh-vee-LYUNG.
@@FlashPointHx In Portuguese, an "A" with a tilde on top (ã, as in Covilhã) is pronounced similarly to the French "an". If you need a clue as to how to pronounce it in English watch any of the Downton Abbey episodes where the Crawley girls, particularly Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) address their mother as maman (or mamã, in Portuguese). If they can do it, I'm sure you can too.
@@FlashPointHx Forvo is your friend when trying to find the correct pronunciation. In Pêro da Covilhã's case Google Translate also has the correct Portuguese pronunciation.
OMG! Years ago I grouped my international friends in Brussels to lecture them about the amazing story of Pero da Covilhã! It gives me chills watching this video now! A BIG Obrigado to you Sir! Please never stop! Portuguese history is impressive, huge but often overlooked, either by hollywood, europeans and even by most portuguese. I strongy suggest next: -Duarte Pacheco Pereira, the Portuguese Leonidas. outnumbered 1:100, fended off an invasion of 80.000 for 4 entire months at the siege of Cochin 1504. Unlike Leonidas, Pereira and all his tiny garrison of 130 men survived. There is enough content in this battle for some Netflix tv series :) -Afonso de Albuquerque, the Lion of the Seas. Probably the greatest naval commander of the age. Made the Indian Ocean a portuguese mare clausum. His military brilliance enabled Portugal to become the first global empire in history. -Francisco de Almeida, the Portuguese Horatio Nelson. First viceroy of Portuguese India, went on to revenge his sons death by waging war against the first international coalition ever - Ottomans, Mamluks (Egypt), Calicut, Gujarat and even the Republic of Venice. Annihilated the enemy while outnumbered at the Battle of Diu 1509, (yeah, the portuguese had a thing about big time victories while constantly outnumbered). This battle is ranked top 5 as one of the most important naval battles in history, for it marks the beginning of European dominance over Asian seas that would last until the Second World War. Bonus Suggestion: -The lost Flor de La Mar, the greatest naval treasure ever found. For this I'll just drop some vaguely related links :) ruclips.net/video/ilw-qmqZ5zY/видео.html ruclips.net/video/v5CZQpqF_74/видео.html
Really happy that you liked this. I'm a traveller myself and so I can really relate to Covilha's sense of exploration. These are awesome suggestions. Do you teach history?
@@FlashPointHx Thats the thing, I am just a Civil Engineer with huge passion about history. Once I started with Portuguese history, there's no end :) I also had some amazing trips. Boston, pretty much all Europe, Morocco, Jordan, UAE, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Singapure, Malaysia... I was surprised to see there is a replica of the ship Flor de la Mar in Malacca. And got to interact with a community of portuguese-asian descendants that proudly speak 500 years old portuguese called Kristang. Just overwhelmingly amazing :)
@FlashPointHx indeed, it took so much courage, just to imagine that for people to get lost or shipwrecked was so likely to happen, it would be enough to scare most people away... Besides, those were very superstitious times, where they believed in krakens and other sea creatures, so in their minds they thought they could be attacked by monsters, yet they went anyway, balls of steel.
Gonna go in portuguese now. Excelente trabalho de investigação. Mesmo em Portugal não se dá o devido crédito a Bartolomeu Dias. Estuda-se muito pouco sobre os Descobrimentos. Vasco da Gama, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Diogo Cão, Afonso Albuquerque e pouco mais.
❤❤Thank you for these videos.Thank you for making these videos about portuguese history.Portugal has got a fantastic history, but unfortunately not very well known outside Portugal.
This was the equivalent of space exploration, but even in space they have contact with the mission HQ on Earth. Tremendously proud of what this man achieved back then.
Continue this series of Portuguese history please, I’m looking forward for the next chapter regarding Vasco da Gama’s discovery of the maritime route to India in 1498
@@pas6473 Just a kid?!! For your information, I'm in my mid-60s, living in an English-speaking country for well over 30 years! I've asked a genuine question because, from my understanding of the sixteenth-century Portuguese presence in the Indian Ocean and land incursions on the east coast of Africa, no particular alliances were made at the time with the Ethiops. Furthermore, during the maritime skirmishes with the Ottomans, the Ethiops weren't really of any help to the Portuguese. What's more, Ethiopia became an Italian colony, not a Portuguese one! So, what and when were exactly those "long relations" between Portugal and Ethiopia established? Or is that very notion another example of the abundance of Historical revisionism that seems to be the norm in Portugal these days, where historical facts are being replaced with fantasies from the Arabic-centric and African-centric crowds of semi-illiterate so-and-sos?!!
Please do Duarte Pacheco Pereira! Cosmologist, Diplomat, Admiral. Some say the first man to discover Brazil. First man to study scientifically the tides a and moons. Commanded 150 Portuguese and 9000 cochinese againts 83000 indian, otoman and venitian troops and 5 Portuguese ships againts 220 ottoman ships, while his enemies had 19000 casualties and lost almost 200 ships, he and his men didn't had any casualties. For me,the GOAT. And please.. also do Franscisco de Almeida (battle of Diu is awesome) and Afonso de Albuquerque!=D please!
@@FlashPointHxok, so it is difficult to find good content about him in English. On the book you cited "Conquerors, How Portugal created the first global empire" Roger Crowley, has an amazing account on his story. Wikipedia has a fair enough page about him. Other things in english tend to not have much on these things.
Duarte Pacheco Pereira wrote a book titled Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis describing in detail the places and people on the coast of Africa that the Portuguese visited and saw along their journey of discovery. The book is a reading's delight. Highly recommended
As a brazillian i very proud of our colonizers, the great and corageous Portugueses. Orgulho dos Portugueses corajosos que mudaram o curso da história enfrentando o mar desconhecido.
The voyages of Pêro da Covilhã are worthy of a movie just by themselves. I understand his name is close to impossible to pronounce in English, since the sounds do not exist in that language, but you will get closer to it if you pronounce the name as "Covilyian". Cheers from Portugal!
I had a friend of mine who is Portuguese pronounce all the names for me - hoping this help. But I think you’re right - I’ve listened to the recording a dozen times and there are sounds I can not hear and reproduce
Kindly include Fernão Lopes (soldier) in your next episode. He lived on the island of Saint Helena for 30 years in complete solitude. Napoleon was also exiled to this island 300 years later. St Helena was discovered in 1502 by portuguese. Fernao lived there from 1515-1545 approx. Two books are written on him in English. 1.) The Other Exile: The Story of Fernão Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost 2.) Fernão Lopes : A South Atlantic 'Robinson Crusoe
He was a Jew converted to Christian during inquisition. Went on an expedition to Goa where he became Muslim and rebelled against Portuguese. But Muslim ruler Rasul khan was defeated and he gave all renegades back to portuguese. Fernao was mutilated as punishment, later pardoned by a royal decree. While going back to portugal, he jumped ship at Saint helena and lived rest of his life there. Though he got a chance to go to Portugal where he met his family and king, but then returned to island.
@@FlashPointHx Thanks a lot! The man is a legend! There were other Renegades too in Goa that became Muslim and thus were given extreme mutilation after handover. Wonder if they were Conversos and Moriscos.
@@Luzitanium I don't think there was ever a Portuguese definite settlement in Newfoundland or Labrabrador, at least one that was to thrive beyond the future travels for the abundant cod fisheries in the region. If I'm mistaken could you provide links to articles that support your comment regarding the existence of such settlements?
@@miguelcoelho3877 are you joking right? there are tons of links of articles mentioning this. RUclips doesnt allow posting links, so you can google or go to the official websites about history. The isle of Newfoundland, known at the time as “Terra Nova” or “Terra dos Bacalhaus” (Land of the codfish) was visited by João Vaz Corte-Real between 1472 and 1474, as documented by Gaspar Frutuoso in his book “Saudades da Terra” (1590). Although João Vaz Corte-Real is cited in that work, one of his sons, Gaspar Corte-Real, was the one known by his journey to the island. In 1501, Gaspar returned to “Terra Nova”, accompanied by three vessels. Gaspar’s ship disappeared. This led to rumours about his drowning. According to historical data, around 1502, Gaspar’s brother, Miguel Corte Real went looking for him without success, disappearing as well. As a result of these journeys, the names “Terra dos Corte Reais” (Land of the Corte-Real) and “Terra Del Rey de Portugall” (Land of the King of Portugal) started to show on European maps, such as the Cantino Planisphere and Pedro Reinel map. Documents from that time indicate that an expedition arrived between the years 1499 and 1500 and mentioned João Fernandes as “Labrador”, which is a corruption of the word “lavrador”, that means a landowner or farmer in Portuguese.
I'm portuguese, loved the video. I didn't know about Covilhã jorney. Could you please tell me your sources (besides that podcast), or any kind of literature about his life? I'm really curious to know more about him. Thanks!
I’m reading Roger Crowley’s ‘The Conquerors’. I think he is an amazing writer. His book on the 1453 siege of Constantinople was fantastic - and he has another book on the Battle of Lepanto which is equally good. Can’t recommend him enough
In Brazil as well, schools mention Bartolomeu Dias (and only a bit) but I was never told about this Covilhã journey, which seems nearly as interesting.
Bartolomeu the best navigator of all , died in Brazil coast, is ship sunk , i was in the Cabral fleet. Covilhã a true 007 at the time , a good story for a tv series.
Awesome video love the history told by you as always love that Portugal is getting the attention it's due, and just a quick shout out to the Portuguese Aragorn, or Strider if he prefers 😊
VIVA PORTUGAL! VIVA! Muito obrigado por ajudares a reconhecer a nossa História e apresentá-la ao Mundo em Inglês. Somos muito negligenciados por todos na História Mundial! Por favor, conta a nossa História ao Mundo! Muitos parabéns! VIVA PORTUGAL! VIVA PORTUGAL!
I am Brazilian and Portuguese . These stories are well known in our countries, but the way you tell them is amazing. I have been in South Africa some years ago, and could not give in to temptation of seeing Mossel Bay and the point Bartholomeu Diaz first set foot after passing by Tormentas Cape. Even the little stream he described in his stories is there, easy to find, near the beautiful museum the South African Portuguese community donate to Mossel Bay city. In homage to Bartholomeu Diaz, of course.
I was born in 1953 in Mossel Bay, South Africa and grew up on the beach where Bartomeu Dias landed right in front of our house. There was a tree where he left a message in a boot that was tied in the tree for the ships that came later at the spot where there was fresh water to be found coming out of a spring, that is still there today. The tree, still there, was later called the post tree and was right opposite my dad's workshop just across the road. That workshop is now a museum. There is also a replica of Bartolmeu Dias's ship in another building which is part of the museum complex. I now live in Australia. Hapy memories is all I have of my birthplace. I still remember every rock along that coast and on the beaches. It is in my blood as is the harbour that was built next to that beach, now called Manroe's bay. Google Mossel Bay and you will see what I am talking about.
Thank you for sharing this - I've looked up Mossel Bay before, but did it again this morning. I found your Munros Bay - there is a museum nearby. I tried looking for your tree as well - but did not find that. Was it on the beach itself?
very comprehensive and concise video, its refreshing to see the so often forgotten overland expedition being mentioned, as it was fundamental to reinforce King John II maritime plans, thank you!
Outstanding video! Yet, just a minor pronunciation detail... The letter H in Portuguese is absolutely silent. On the other hand. when H is placed after the letters L, N, and C, it modifies its vocal companions - thus, in the case of LH as in Covilha, one would pronounce "Ko-vi-LLa" where LLA sounds more like "L-i-A" (where the letter "i" is very quickly toned....)
@@FlashPointHx You pronounced H as if it were English. H modifies the L = LH=LL. It also modifies the C, in CH = SH, and the N, where NH is like the Spanish N topped by a Tilda - ñ. Trust me, Portuguese is my native tongue/
The geographic speculation during 15th centuries allowed many views and Ptolemy wasn't seen as a dogma, especially that his map didn't cover anything south of about 10S and east of what he seen as 180E definitively (closer to modern 120E, Ptolemy overstretched longitudes by a factor of 1.5 ). There were many maps from the 15th century. Some suggested Africa could be rounded relatively easily while others not. There were two options regarding a westwards route also. Those that accepted Marco Polo at face value placed his Cathay beyond the Ptolemaic map at 180-240E and then added Japan further east to around 270E thus suggesting a western route of 90 degrees longitude only. A map based on Da-Conti's voyage however suggested that Cathay and Serica are the same and so Asia ending at 160-180E thus leaving impossible 180+ degrees longitude (while at the same time suggesting Africa having a passage at around the equator to the Atlantic, also that map, so called Genoese map, placed God and Magog to the north of Cathay- not suggested to go there. There was also the issue of "dragon's tail" phantom peninsula that could block passage from India to China like in Martellus map as it would require a detour to 30S.
Love the content, please keep doing a series about the portuguese discoveries and conquests! There´s other great discoverers to talk about, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Vasco da Gama, Fernão Magalhães
The thumbnail chopped off the photo so it just said "Age of Disco". I would pay money to see Barthalamew in full Portuguese medeival kit pull a John Travolta. 😂😂😂
I'm South African and we learned about Bartolomeu Dias in school, but don't remember hearing about the two who went through the Middle East - so that was interesting. There was a Mpondo girl at college with me who claimed to have Portuguese ancestry from shipwrecked sailors, and some of my cousins' father was of Portuguese descent from Mozambique. As far as I understand there are about 250,000 South Africans of Portuguese descent.
One correction, Bartolomeu wasn't a nobleman, in fact he never even so much as received a knighthood, which many have argued since then that he more than deserved it, he was a mere squire, and that's the exact reason why he wasn't awarded with the final mission to India, and the honor went instead to Vasco da Gama.
Thanks! Your videos are great in all aspects! Let me just add some infos to that part of our History. In 1471 Portuguese got to Elmina, Ghana and allied with local tribes with whom Portuguese traded gold and ivory for Portuguese Weapons. That allowed for Elmina Castle to be build in 1482. The first of these Fortresses to be built in West-South Africa by Portuguese. With a lot of its parts being pre-manufactured in Portugal and transported there. What can be seen as one of the first pre-manufactured construction examples in Portuguese Architecture. It was even visited by Cristovão Colombo in that year short after his marriage with the Noble Portuguese Filipa Moniz Perestrelo. Colombo lived great part of his life in Portugal where he studied Nautical Science and became an Admiral which granted him that marriage. As his brother also studied Cartography in Lisbon. Also In 1483 Portuguese landed in Congo Region and made an Alliance with the Kingdom of Kongo. That's how years/Centuries after, Luanda that was part of the Kingdom of Kongo became Portuguese and gave birth to Angola that was a Portuguese colony till the end of Portuguese Colonialism in Africa in 1974-1975. I'll be waiting for the aventures of Vasco da Gama the first to reach India in 1496-98 and other Portuguese Navigators that followed him and landed in Diu, Goa, Mallaca-Malasya, China (1517) and Japan (1543). If you give us that pleasure obviously 😅 Again MegaThanks for covering our History! Best Regards from Portugal ❤️🇵🇹
Great docu. The only issue I have is about the pronunciation of Covilha, which AFAIK should be like Spanish "covilla" (little cave, IPA /kobiʎa/) and not "cobija" (IPA: /kobixa/). An English approximation could be using the sound of "y" or "j".
The correct pronunciation of Covilhã is nowhere near that of the Spanish word for little cave, "Covilla", as you are suggesting. To begin with, the nasal "ã" does not exist in Spanish! And the "V" in that part of Portugal is not pronounced as a "B"! Perhaps you might also think that my surname, Coelho, means the same, and is pronounced the same as the Spanish word for neck, "Coello"! Different languages, don't you know?
@@miguelcoelho3877 - In what part of Portugal? I understand that betacism is a pan-Iberian (and also Greek) feature since the time of the Romans. "Beati hispani quibus vivere est bibere" (blessed the Hispanians for whom to live is to drink), there may be some exceptions here and there but AFAIK it also happens in Portugal. Granted the ã thing. In any case I meant the pronunciation of "lh" most importantly. I did not mean that covilha means little cave but that covilla (or cuevita, covacha, cuevica, etc.) does. However diminituvive -ilho/-a, from Latin, seems a feature of NW Iberian Romances... but Castilian also has -ito/-a (which IMO derives from Western Basque -txo or -tto) and Navarrese-Aragonese has -ico/-a (which seems to derive from Aquitanian or Northern Basque -sko). I can't find the etymology of the town of Covilhã, which produces de surname, but, unless you prove otherwise to me it means quite clearly "little cave" and is the same world as Spanish "covilla" (archaic) or "cuevilla" (modern).
How do you know a portuguese is here without hearing him saying "caralho"? They point out every mistake you make with either their language or information😂
Great video Nitin. Of course, I had already listened to the podcast 😉 Also, thanks for the recommendation for "The Explorers". I have added it to my podcast library and listened to his podcast on Dias.
We were not Pirates like other countries in europe that try to distort history to claim themselves the world heroes, we were the true world explorers, thanks for this video and show a little bit of our rich history 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
Folks - one correction - at 7:41 that picture in the top left corner is not B Dias but rather Vasco Da Gama - he'll be in the next video =)
When will the next video going to be out? the wait is killing me, great job on those animations!
@@marciorodrigues3584 probably about a week - I’m at minute 19 of 23 in terms of video production. Just need to finish my regular work :)
I'm eagering waiting for the Vasco da Gama video!
@@falcaonet should be out in a few days
The best part of this video is the hilarious Dutch name pronunciations😅 ps Mosselbaai directly translated is Mussel Baai like the seafood mussels.
Actually I am from Ghana and our history has not been said in so much details like this. Great video
Fan Fact: when they arrived at Ghana they discovered gold mines at the coast so they named there "El Mina" meaning "the mines" in Portuguese
*A mina. "El" is Spanish :P
It was the most informative historical coverage (video) that covered Portuguese 🇵🇹 exploration of three probabilities to ward's Indian 🇮🇳 peninsula explored... Thank you, (Flashpoint history)channel for sharing this wonderful video
The expeditions of Afonso de Paiva and Pêro da Covilhã would make an amazing TV Series. Heck, each of these legendary man have stories worthy of movies.
Portugal was truly the most impressive and biggest Empire and super power ever. Not the British, French or currently Americans. Nobody ! 🇵🇹 🇧🇷 ❤️
All Portuguese history would
@@pedrovasconcelos3204 Absolutely.🥰
Completamente de acordo! Pena que ninguém queira agarrar-se a isso e fazer cinema a sério!
The names should not be in portuguese not in inglish
Im so happy you are deciding this serie to be focus on characters ( I really think your narrative style fits better like this).
Will we have an Francisco de Almeida episode? :P
Keep the good work as always!
Hey Luis! Yeah I’m gonna try and hit up all the major names in the age of discovery. I think telling it from a character pov makes it a much more relatable story
Another gem. This series is going to be great!
Super interesante...muy buen documental. Enhorabuena
Please continue with these documentaries about the Portuguese Empire! There's basically none and there's so much history'
Vasco Da Gama and Cabral are up next
AMAZING!!! Thank you so much!
Speaking of great Navigators here's one of the greatest!
Good job! As usual your work spot on! A missing details over Prester John
THANK YOU PETA!!
As a brazilian, I need one video of Pedro Álvares Cabral. Do this please my friend!
Vasco da Gama is up next and after that - just for you - Cabral!
@@FlashPointHxthank you bro! I see next videos happyfull. Your job is cool, keep going!( sorry for my poor english 😂)
Nice to see this video about. I am from Mossel Bay
Nice! I’ve been checking out your area on Google earth - looks really nice
Amazing that after 500 years, you still don't know why Dias moved away from the African coast. The powerful Benguela ocean current pushes everything north along the coast of Africa, from Cape Town to Angola. "You must stay away from the coast of Africa if you wish to go around Africa"--was the secret Dias had discovered. There was no Benguela current to fight if you sail over 100 miles west into the Atlantic, then, and only then, head south,. THAT WAS THE SECRET, and the cause for Portuguese monopoly on the route around Africa.
That has the same energy as "You have to turn right to go left."
Kwaaihoek directly translates to Dangerous Hook from Dutch (Afrikaans)
Amazing series! Also, would you mind sharing the name of the arabian music at end? Really enjoyed it, the soundtrack is very well picked, creating a nice environment for the video.
Its called "full moon night" - its made by a YT channeled called World Music Official - look them up they have a lot of good stuff
The great Portuguese discoveries and Empire didn’t take place only for wealth but to spread salvation to all mankind, to spread the Word of G-d to all gentiles. The motivation was spiritual first and foremost.
Path to hell is paved with good intentions :) money wealth and potential for exploitation jussssst happened to be there
Don't forget about the Battle Of Diu in future videos :D
Fascinating battle!
Don't make it, please! Our world should not be seeing it, please!
The battle of Macau is also a movie worth story
There are 4 Diu battles which one? There are two considered Epic and one of them is considered the 6th most epic battle of ALL times if we include old world and 3rd if only considering current era
@@user-mg3xr9tz7mthat's what I wanted to add. 4 battles and a long war against the Ottoman empire. Fascinating how the Portuguese stood there ground with so little resources against the mighty Ottoman fleet and army with all there allied muslim nations, like Gujarat or the proxi war at the Horn of Africa.
Tremendous respect to the Portuguese who in a time where European technology could not even compute longitude, managed to explore great parts of the world.
Exactly!
Who needs precise longitude when you have rule of thumb... and asking the locals.
@@LuisAldamiz Oh yes, that's right... in the middle of an uncharted ocean, where nobody lives... And how do you ask the "locals" for precise directions (vital for cross-ocean navigation) if they don't speak your language?!! What a little "genius" you are...
@@miguelcoelho3877 - Using Arabic maybe? It's in the video, don't be so arrogant, especially when my comment was somewhat of a joke.
When they arrived to India they even found people speaking "our tongue", which was surely not Portuguese but either Latin or more probably Lingua Franca, which was a mixed Romance used by Mediterranean sailors (originally French and Provenzal based, later rather Italian and Iberian instead).
So it was a half-joking comment but it has some seriousness to it as well: "reach Malindi and then head straight northeast" for example. Or maybe they got local pilots who were already very used to the Indian Ocean trade routes. Mind you that the Swahili or Zendji traded all the way to China before being conquered by Portugal. Much harder seems to me to take the shortcut of West Africa between Bissau and Capetown to be honest.
@@miguelcoelho3877he’s being ironic i believe and if not just another dumb troll. Would not believe someone mildly intelligent saying it for real
Man you are truly sharp on your references, what a mighty figure Bartolomeu is. Portuguese navegators are often underrated like Diogo de Azambuja and Diogo Cão.
This video will cover not just B Dias, but also Covilha and Paiva.
@@FlashPointHx love your channel, thank you for highlighting Portugal and Hispania as a role. Often Leyenda Negra stops most of the world from knowing their history and contributions for the Mother Church and for Western Civilization.
@@renanschimuneck9369 anytime - see you at the premiere tomorrow
@@renanschimuneck9369 I really like our Spanish cousins and one of my best friends is Spanish but they take no credit on this. Its ALL Portuguese
@@user-mg3xr9tz7m I'm brazilian, I feel kind of portuguese aswel cause our culture is very alike and we were the "Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves" Brazil was never really a colony, we were subject to this terms only by the masonic influence of Marques do Pombal, then we got independent, but it was really a masonic movement, we should've sticked together, just like Portugal should've stayed united with Spain during Philip II reign and troughout history, cause both countries share mostly the same views both religion and on culture, but the liberal movements financed by France and England f*cked Hispania unity.
Congratulations for the content. Amazingly accurate.
All Portuguese explorers of that time deserve much attention and admiration. But in my view, the personal story of Pêro da Covilhã undoubtedly deserves a great cinematographic production.
Hollywood is full of fictional heroes, when they could rescue real and inspiring characters. (we know how things work so it will hardly happen).
A big hug, keep up this fantastic and well-produced content.
👏👌😉
Thank you very much! Yeah agree - this Pero da Covilha was a veritable Marco Polo - the lands he traveled too in the time that he did it sets him apart
Portugal's history is full of Hollywood stories! The love one of Pedro e Inês is one! Vasco da Gama adventures is other! The earthquake another! The Tordesilhas treat ...The last dictator Salazar! endless Hollywood material right here in this little square by the sea!
@@MGBranco Seems like a lot of people here would love to see Portuguese history in movie format . I agree, there are a ton of cool stories.
@@FlashPointHx - O Pero da Covía, à espanhola ... e em português inglesado, ... Cou vi lan , era um verdadeiro espião ao serviço de Sua Majestade o Rei.
Portugal was truly the most impressive and biggest Empire and super power ever. Not the British, French or currently Americans. Nobody ! 🇵🇹 🇧🇷 ❤️
One of the people in Lisbon watching Bartolomeu Dias' triumphal return from reaching the Indian Ocean was Christopher Columbus. At that point he finally understood that he had no hope of convincing the Portuguese King to pay him to reach India by sailing west.
Please continue the series and do all of the Portuguese age of discovery. It’s amazing
Vasco da Gama is up next!
@@FlashPointHx Pedro Alvares Cabral is a good one aswell!
@FlashPointHx
When the Hollywood make a movie about the discovery???
They make movies about Spartans and about British king's
@@josecaetano2388 send them a tweet and demand it
@@FlashPointHxsubscribed
Thank you so much for shedding light on a very unknown but highly revelant topic in world history. Even in Portugal the details of these voyages are largely unknown to the general population
A lot of the history of these voyages were lost to time as well
They are still held as close secret so nobody else will ever discover the route to India, mwahahahaha!
@@LuisAldamiz hahahaha
South African school kids are quite familiar with the voyages of discovery of the Cape of Good Hope. Saldanha Bay, Cape Agulhas & Natal were named by the Portuguese explorers.
Sadly, outside of the areas that came into direct contact with these explorers there is not much taught about them@@annexton3795
In that time Portugal have 1 million people, Castile 5 millions, England 10 millions and France 15 millions, you can see that the Portuguese enterprise of discovery was enoumous, a small country with an glorious history and equally to the biggest.
Not wishing to downplay Portugal’s successes but England’s population was likely under 3 millions at the time.
@@MP-uw1qc in XV century? Perhaps centuries before.
Omg. Pêro da Covilhã.. What a guy. He travelled miles and miles without the confort we are used to these days. Mindblowin. As a portuguese, i didn't had a clue about this guy. 🙏👋
he had an impressive journey
I'm a South African Portuguese, I living in the UK (confusing 😅).
There's a statue of Bartolomeu Dias on one of the façades of the South African High Commission, South Africa House, in London. Most South Africans will walk past, blissfully unaware of the significance.
I was unaware of the spy missions sent out... never covered that in my portuguese history and culture lessons. Great to learn something new. Great series of videos, thank you.
South African history books teach about Portuguese discovery and the major influence it had on the region. I am surprised the world knows little about this. Thank you for the content 👍🏼
As a brazilian, i am a huge fan and student of the portuguese age of discoveries and conquests.
But i never see on youtube any good documentary only about Bartolomeu Dias. For me, the crossing of the Cabo da Boa Esperança (and the previous crossing of Bojador) is a very special momment of that history, because was a turning point of the process and a dramatic history.
Very happy for find this channel and this video.
Great work! Good luck!
As Fernando Pessoa said, the endless sea is portuguese!
Happy you like my video! That’s an awesome quote by Pessoa
@@FlashPointHx
Incrível, seu conhecimento sobre a cultura portuguesa. Também conhece Pessoa. Então você concorda Pessoa é mais um personagem do génio português.
i'm portuguese and we learn privilegious portuguese story, but i never seen many detailed annoucements like on this video. Thank you to spread our history, and to remind all that we were pionners on a period of the story, we open the doors of the world, on that period is fascinating. Portugal like a nation was just over 300 years when turn over to the sea to expand their horizons.
Glad you liked it!
@@FlashPointHx And we are glad you made this video. I hope you don't take long to show the Vasco da Gama one.
Your videos are getting better and better!
You are an exception in the history channels on English RUclips because you do other than English, German and French history. I love the Portuguese exploration history and I appreciate your service for the world.
Really happy that you liked this - to be fair, I will cover some of the English French and Spanish as well.
@@FlashPointHx Looking forward to it. However, I think @fiude has a great point which could become a true USP - cover the history of countries one rarely hears of. Portuguese history is an ecellent choice as it is very relevant for "the west" as it is today, but how about persia, india, thailand, just to give a few examples.
@@udosteger do you have any good books on these topics ?
These men were something else weren't they? Can only imagine how brave you had to be to travel the dangerous unknown, not only at sea, but also on land, like the Bandeirantes in the vast Amazon rainforest. The "great sadness" Bartolomeu felt is something portuguese people describe as "saudade" - a melancholic feeling that the portuguese still identify to this day, it is one of the few things that separates its culture from its brothers and cousins (spanish, italian, french, etc).
Fun fact, there's another portuguese called Bartolomeu who created the first Pirate Code, "Bartolomeu Português".
Also, I wonder how much was lost in the great 1755 earthquake, together with its tsunami and fires...probably lots of records like maps and diaries...and how much was lost in the oceans throughout history as well, maybe some records would explain some mild theories, like the theory of the portuguese discovering Australia, maybe it could change how we perceive world history today...
Thank you for sharing all this - I'm learning a ton about Portuguese culture. There are a lot of Portuguese people here in the Bay Area of San Francisco. I'm understanding more and more why you are so proud of your heritage. I think a tremendous amount of information and knowledge was lost in that 1755 earthquake.
Yes! Those are direct descendants from those Azoreans and Madeireans that went to Hawaii to work on the sugar can fields! They were the first cowboys in California making milk for everybody! Ahahahaa! We Portuguese are all over the world! First class working man! And huge sailors!
Portugal was truly the most impressive and biggest Empire and super power ever. Not the British, French or currently Americans. Nobody ! 🇵🇹 🇧🇷 ❤️
The Portuguese poet and navigator Luís de Camões wrote a long epic poem called "Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads)" to immortalize in literature the Portuguese explorations and discoveries. As the title implies, the poem is directly inspired by the ancient Greco-Roman epics like the Illiad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. It is considered the greatest work of Portuguese literature, and a must-read for any classicist.
I’ve read it - in fact I’m going to use his quotes
@@FlashPointHx That's great! Looking forward to watching it!
Portugal was truly the most impressive, biggest Empire and super power ever. Not the British, French or currently Americans. Nobody ! 🇵🇹 🇧🇷 ❤️
Bullsh**t
@@AluminiumT6 bullsh*t
Portugal muito a frente do seu tempo
Nice video, as always
Just 2 correction: in 2:28, those are not the frontiers of the Algarve;
And in 7:48 that's not Bartolomeu Dias, that's Vasco da Gama
Portuguese history❤❤❤ my country's story is rarely told!
Brazilian here. Boy, never have I clicked so fast in a video before. Rarely ever in RUclips history channels I'll see them talking about something related - directly or not - with the history I learned in school. As an ex-colony of Portugal, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama and, of course, Pedro Álvares Cabral are often studied and talked about in our classrooms. Thank you for that!
P.S. when writing my monograph on the Gallician-Portuguese/Portuguese language divide, I used your series on the Reconquista to draw a timeline from the arabic invasion to the separation of Gallicia/Portugal as individually different territories. I literally drew a bullet-point map, then went after books and papers talking about and explaining in more depth the historical events you described. Thank you for that!
Wow - first, really happy that you liked this content. There doesn’t seem to be much on this time period on the internet. Second, Im really touched that you used me as a reference for the Reconquista. I appreciate the fact that you got so much out of my videos! Obrigado!
São os nossos antepassados comuns (tanto dos atuais portugueses, como dos atuais brasileiros) e é sempre bom encontrar quem ainda a aprecie. Um forte abraço transatlântico irmão! 🇵🇹❤️🇧🇷
@@Tusiriakest Happy that you liked the video! Obrigado!
Excellent presentation. Appreciation from South Africa.
Thank you so much!
Great video! Love your content about the Iberian peninsula. A tip for pronouncing Portuguese names: is pronounced "ny" (like Spanish or Italian ) and is pronounced "ly" (like Italian ). "Covilhã" is something like koh-vee-LYUNG.
Hey thanks for this - I tried looking online multiple times for the correct pronunciation and this was what I got. Appreciate the help
@@FlashPointHx In Portuguese, an "A" with a tilde on top (ã, as in Covilhã) is pronounced similarly to the French "an". If you need a clue as to how to pronounce it in English watch any of the Downton Abbey episodes where the Crawley girls, particularly Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) address their mother as maman (or mamã, in Portuguese). If they can do it, I'm sure you can too.
@@FlashPointHx Forvo is your friend when trying to find the correct pronunciation. In Pêro da Covilhã's case Google Translate also has the correct Portuguese pronunciation.
I am afraid I disagree with your pronunciation of ( covilha)
I am Portuguese.
@@claudiojunior9618 so did a hundred of your countrymen - comments like this make me want to ditch Portuguese history and go right to Spain
This time period of Portuguese story would give an amazing tv show
OMG! Years ago I grouped my international friends in Brussels to lecture them about the amazing story of Pero da Covilhã!
It gives me chills watching this video now! A BIG Obrigado to you Sir!
Please never stop! Portuguese history is impressive, huge but often overlooked, either by hollywood, europeans and even by most portuguese.
I strongy suggest next:
-Duarte Pacheco Pereira, the Portuguese Leonidas. outnumbered 1:100, fended off an invasion of 80.000 for 4 entire months at the siege of Cochin 1504. Unlike Leonidas, Pereira and all his tiny garrison of 130 men survived. There is enough content in this battle for some Netflix tv series :)
-Afonso de Albuquerque, the Lion of the Seas. Probably the greatest naval commander of the age. Made the Indian Ocean a portuguese mare clausum. His military brilliance enabled Portugal to become the first global empire in history.
-Francisco de Almeida, the Portuguese Horatio Nelson. First viceroy of Portuguese India, went on to revenge his sons death by waging war against the first international coalition ever - Ottomans, Mamluks (Egypt), Calicut, Gujarat and even the Republic of Venice.
Annihilated the enemy while outnumbered at the Battle of Diu 1509, (yeah, the portuguese had a thing about big time victories while constantly outnumbered).
This battle is ranked top 5 as one of the most important naval battles in history, for it marks the beginning of European dominance over Asian seas that would last until the Second World War.
Bonus Suggestion:
-The lost Flor de La Mar, the greatest naval treasure ever found. For this I'll just drop some vaguely related links :)
ruclips.net/video/ilw-qmqZ5zY/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/v5CZQpqF_74/видео.html
Really happy that you liked this. I'm a traveller myself and so I can really relate to Covilha's sense of exploration. These are awesome suggestions. Do you teach history?
@@FlashPointHx Thats the thing, I am just a Civil Engineer with huge passion about history. Once I started with Portuguese history, there's no end :)
I also had some amazing trips. Boston, pretty much all Europe, Morocco, Jordan, UAE, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Singapure, Malaysia...
I was surprised to see there is a replica of the ship Flor de la Mar in Malacca. And got to interact with a community of portuguese-asian descendants that proudly speak 500 years old portuguese called Kristang. Just overwhelmingly amazing :)
I didn't know there was a Portuguese explorer with my last name. Neat
Covilha's and Dias's travels are very impressive! Thanks for the great video FPH.
I can totally relate to Covilha. Life is all about traveling
@@FlashPointHx Having traveled a bit myself I would have to agree!
@@ArchonShon Zeppelin’s Kashmir runs trough my head when I think of Covilha
Viva Portugal... Thank you for telling these stories.
Well Dias also participate on Gama (first half) and Cabral expeditions, he died on the later near good hope Cape...
Ironically he died in the cape he discovered
He was part of Da Gama’s voyage and Cabral as well
Thanks for the video by the way 😉
@@FlashPointHx Which was also called the Cape of *Good Hope*... but he *died* there. The irony of that...
Portugal was truly the most impressive and biggest Empire and super power ever. Not the British, French or currently Americans. Nobody ! 🇵🇹 🇧🇷 ❤️
Thanks once again for brining our history to life. Very feel English speaking historians explore Portuguese history.
You are so welcome - I think these explorer stories are just awesome. Can you imagine the guts these guys had to venture into the unknown like this ?
@FlashPointHx indeed, it took so much courage, just to imagine that for people to get lost or shipwrecked was so likely to happen, it would be enough to scare most people away... Besides, those were very superstitious times, where they believed in krakens and other sea creatures, so in their minds they thought they could be attacked by monsters, yet they went anyway, balls of steel.
Gonna go in portuguese now. Excelente trabalho de investigação. Mesmo em Portugal não se dá o devido crédito a Bartolomeu Dias. Estuda-se muito pouco sobre os Descobrimentos. Vasco da Gama, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Diogo Cão, Afonso Albuquerque e pouco mais.
❤❤Thank you for these videos.Thank you for making these videos about portuguese history.Portugal has got a fantastic history, but unfortunately not very well known outside Portugal.
Glad you like them!
This was the equivalent of space exploration, but even in space they have contact with the mission HQ on Earth.
Tremendously proud of what this man achieved back then.
Well said
Portugal was truly the most impressive, biggest Empire and super power ever. Not the British, French or currently Americans. Nobody ! 🇵🇹 🇧🇷 ❤️
at 7:39 tha'ts not Bartolomeu Dias, that's *Vasco Da Gama*
I think you are right - but that image came up a lot with B Dias when I was looking him up
Man I regret so much that I've found your channel just yesterday cuz I love your videos already
Happy that you like my videos Loltor - join us for the premiere today
Continue this series of Portuguese history please, I’m looking forward for the next chapter regarding Vasco da Gama’s discovery of the maritime route to India in 1498
Will do - about half way writing it now
@@FlashPointHxyou’re a legend these series is amazing, thank you
Interesting subject! Portuguese and Ethiopians have long relations, now I know where and how it started..
Thanks!
Say what?! Ethiopia?
@@miguelcoelho3877 Yeah, Ethiopia. Why?
@@giod6266 Dont´t mind him! it is just a kid! Love from Portugal!!
@@pas6473 No, I dont mind him, not at all:)
Thanks man, love from Georgia!
@@pas6473 Just a kid?!! For your information, I'm in my mid-60s, living in an English-speaking country for well over 30 years! I've asked a genuine question because, from my understanding of the sixteenth-century Portuguese presence in the Indian Ocean and land incursions on the east coast of Africa, no particular alliances were made at the time with the Ethiops. Furthermore, during the maritime skirmishes with the Ottomans, the Ethiops weren't really of any help to the Portuguese. What's more, Ethiopia became an Italian colony, not a Portuguese one! So, what and when were exactly those "long relations" between Portugal and Ethiopia established?
Or is that very notion another example of the abundance of Historical revisionism that seems to be the norm in Portugal these days, where historical facts are being replaced with fantasies from the Arabic-centric and African-centric crowds of semi-illiterate so-and-sos?!!
Thank you for your videos on the portuguese explorations! As a brazilian I really appreciate these videos.
You are so welcome !
Please do Duarte Pacheco Pereira! Cosmologist, Diplomat, Admiral. Some say the first man to discover Brazil. First man to study scientifically the tides a and moons. Commanded 150 Portuguese and 9000 cochinese againts 83000 indian, otoman and venitian troops and 5 Portuguese ships againts 220 ottoman ships, while his enemies had 19000 casualties and lost almost 200 ships, he and his men didn't had any casualties. For me,the GOAT. And please.. also do Franscisco de Almeida (battle of Diu is awesome) and Afonso de Albuquerque!=D please!
Send me a good link about him
@@FlashPointHxok, so it is difficult to find good content about him in English. On the book you cited "Conquerors, How Portugal created the first global empire" Roger Crowley, has an amazing account on his story. Wikipedia has a fair enough page about him. Other things in english tend to not have much on these things.
@@FlashPointHxbut I'll translate anything to you if necessary!
@@Tusiriakest nice I’m reading that book now
Duarte Pacheco Pereira wrote a book titled Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis describing in detail the places and people on the coast of Africa that the Portuguese visited and saw along their journey of discovery. The book is a reading's delight. Highly recommended
As a brazillian i very proud of our colonizers, the great and corageous Portugueses. Orgulho dos Portugueses corajosos que mudaram o curso da história enfrentando o mar desconhecido.
The voyages of Pêro da Covilhã are worthy of a movie just by themselves. I understand his name is close to impossible to pronounce in English, since the sounds do not exist in that language, but you will get closer to it if you pronounce the name as "Covilyian". Cheers from Portugal!
I had a friend of mine who is Portuguese pronounce all the names for me - hoping this help. But I think you’re right - I’ve listened to the recording a dozen times and there are sounds I can not hear and reproduce
Portugal was truly the most impressive, biggest Empire and super power ever. Not the British, French or currently Americans. Nobody ! 🇵🇹 🇧🇷 ❤️
Kindly include Fernão Lopes (soldier) in your next episode. He lived on the island of Saint Helena for 30 years in complete solitude. Napoleon was also exiled to this island 300 years later. St Helena was discovered in 1502 by portuguese. Fernao lived there from 1515-1545 approx.
Two books are written on him in English.
1.) The Other Exile: The Story of Fernão Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost
2.) Fernão Lopes : A South Atlantic 'Robinson Crusoe
He was a Jew converted to Christian during inquisition. Went on an expedition to Goa where he became Muslim and rebelled against Portuguese. But Muslim ruler Rasul khan was defeated and he gave all renegades back to portuguese. Fernao was mutilated as punishment, later pardoned by a royal decree. While going back to portugal, he jumped ship at Saint helena and lived rest of his life there. Though he got a chance to go to Portugal where he met his family and king, but then returned to island.
He gets a mention - I think Vasco da Gama will be a two part video
@@FlashPointHx Thanks a lot! The man is a legend! There were other Renegades too in Goa that became Muslim and thus were given extreme mutilation after handover. Wonder if they were Conversos and Moriscos.
He didn't jump ship
@@muhammadadeel8639Considering he was said to have been a minor noble, the chances of him being Jew are... none!
Fantastic🥰 brave🌏⛵️ people.🌞 Such small country and they were extremely important for the all world🌊
So glad you are going down the road of Portuguese expansion before going into Columbus
Yeah Columbus is gonna be last in this series
@@FlashPointHx dont forget about Portuguese settlement in Canada (Newfoundland/Labrador) before Colombus arrival.
@@Luzitanium I don't think there was ever a Portuguese definite settlement in Newfoundland or Labrabrador, at least one that was to thrive beyond the future travels for the abundant cod fisheries in the region. If I'm mistaken could you provide links to articles that support your comment regarding the existence of such settlements?
@@miguelcoelho3877 are you joking right? there are tons of links of articles mentioning this. RUclips doesnt allow posting links, so you can google or go to the official websites about history. The isle of Newfoundland, known at the time as “Terra Nova” or “Terra dos Bacalhaus” (Land of the codfish) was visited by João Vaz Corte-Real between 1472 and 1474, as documented by Gaspar Frutuoso in his book “Saudades da Terra” (1590). Although João Vaz Corte-Real is cited in that work, one of his sons, Gaspar Corte-Real, was the one known by his journey to the island. In 1501, Gaspar returned to “Terra Nova”, accompanied by three vessels. Gaspar’s ship disappeared. This led to rumours about his drowning. According to historical data, around 1502, Gaspar’s brother, Miguel Corte Real went looking for him without success, disappearing as well. As a result of these journeys, the names “Terra dos Corte Reais” (Land of the Corte-Real) and “Terra Del Rey de Portugall” (Land of the King of Portugal) started to show on European maps, such as the Cantino Planisphere and Pedro Reinel map. Documents from that time indicate that an expedition arrived between the years 1499 and 1500 and mentioned João Fernandes as “Labrador”, which is a corruption of the word “lavrador”, that means a landowner or farmer in Portuguese.
I'm portuguese, loved the video. I didn't know about Covilhã jorney. Could you please tell me your sources (besides that podcast), or any kind of literature about his life? I'm really curious to know more about him. Thanks!
I’m reading Roger Crowley’s ‘The Conquerors’. I think he is an amazing writer. His book on the 1453 siege of Constantinople was fantastic - and he has another book on the Battle of Lepanto which is equally good. Can’t recommend him enough
@@FlashPointHx thank you, I’m going to read it!
In Brazil as well, schools mention Bartolomeu Dias (and only a bit) but I was never told about this Covilhã journey, which seems nearly as interesting.
I’m Portuguese and I’ve learnt some new things with this video! Super entertaining
Bartolomeu the best navigator of all , died in Brazil coast, is ship sunk , i was in the Cabral fleet. Covilhã a true 007 at the time , a good story for a tv series.
Agree - really liked the story of Covilha
Awesome video love the history told by you as always love that Portugal is getting the attention it's due, and just a quick shout out to the Portuguese Aragorn, or Strider if he prefers 😊
hahaha - glad you caught that reference, covilha was truly a ranger
Portugal was truly the most impressive, biggest Empire and super power ever. Not the British, French or currently Americans. Nobody ! 🇵🇹 🇧🇷 ❤️
VIVA PORTUGAL! VIVA! Muito obrigado por ajudares a reconhecer a nossa História e apresentá-la ao Mundo em Inglês. Somos muito negligenciados por todos na História Mundial! Por favor, conta a nossa História ao Mundo! Muitos parabéns! VIVA PORTUGAL! VIVA PORTUGAL!
I'll definitely continue! Vasco Da Gama and Cabral are up next
Viva Portugal hoje e sempre.
Portugal was truly the most impressive, biggest Empire and super power ever. Not the British, French or currently Americans. Nobody ! 🇵🇹 🇧🇷 ❤️
Can't wait to see it guys! It will be awesome!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Hope you like it Daniel!
@@FlashPointHx ik i will
Impeccable job as always! Your videos are magnificent!
Thank you Daniel - happy that you liked this!
@@FlashPointHx i always do!
I am Brazilian and Portuguese . These stories are well known in our countries, but the way you tell them is amazing. I have been in South Africa some years ago, and could not give in to temptation of seeing Mossel Bay and the point Bartholomeu Diaz first set foot after passing by Tormentas Cape. Even the little stream he described in his stories is there, easy to find, near the beautiful museum the South African Portuguese community donate to Mossel Bay city. In homage to Bartholomeu Diaz, of course.
Really happy that you liked this video - I would love to see Mossel Bay! Impressive that you stood in the footsteps of B Dias.
. Why are you for a little country and from a continent like Europe which is affluent a) over the world
Amazing work as always! to bad missed the premiere XD
No worries K!
Yes! Can't wait :) 18 hours to go!!! Vamossssss
It will be here before you know it =)
I was born in 1953 in Mossel Bay, South Africa and grew up on the beach where Bartomeu Dias landed right in front of our house. There was a tree where he left a message in a boot that was tied in the tree for the ships that came later at the spot where there was fresh water to be found coming out of a spring, that is still there today. The tree, still there, was later called the post tree and was right opposite my dad's workshop just across the road. That workshop is now a museum. There is also a replica of Bartolmeu Dias's ship in another building which is part of the museum complex. I now live in Australia. Hapy memories is all I have of my birthplace. I still remember every rock along that coast and on the beaches. It is in my blood as is the harbour that was built next to that beach, now called Manroe's bay. Google Mossel Bay and you will see what I am talking about.
Thank you for sharing this - I've looked up Mossel Bay before, but did it again this morning. I found your Munros Bay - there is a museum nearby. I tried looking for your tree as well - but did not find that. Was it on the beach itself?
@@FlashPointHx Google: Pos Office Tree, Mossel Bay
Thanks for your interest.
very comprehensive and concise video, its refreshing to see the so often forgotten overland expedition being mentioned, as it was fundamental to reinforce King John II maritime plans, thank you!
It was part of the reason he rejected Columbus as well
Outstanding video! Yet, just a minor pronunciation detail... The letter H in Portuguese is absolutely silent. On the other hand. when H is placed after the letters L, N, and C, it modifies its vocal companions - thus, in the case of LH as in Covilha, one would pronounce "Ko-vi-LLa" where LLA sounds more like "L-i-A" (where the letter "i" is very quickly toned....)
Are H's silent in all Portuguese words? I had a Portuguese friend of mine record these names. Covilha seemed to have a 'N' sound at the end as well.
@@FlashPointHx You pronounced H as if it were English.
H modifies the L = LH=LL. It also modifies the C, in CH = SH, and the N, where NH is like the Spanish N topped by a Tilda - ñ.
Trust me, Portuguese is my native tongue/
Great job, I learned more here than in my history classes (and I'm from Portugal)
Hahahah
The geographic speculation during 15th centuries allowed many views and Ptolemy wasn't seen as a dogma, especially that his map didn't cover anything south of about 10S and east of what he seen as 180E definitively (closer to modern 120E, Ptolemy overstretched longitudes by a factor of 1.5 ). There were many maps from the 15th century. Some suggested Africa could be rounded relatively easily while others not. There were two options regarding a westwards route also. Those that accepted Marco Polo at face value placed his Cathay beyond the Ptolemaic map at 180-240E and then added Japan further east to around 270E thus suggesting a western route of 90 degrees longitude only. A map based on Da-Conti's voyage however suggested that Cathay and Serica are the same and so Asia ending at 160-180E thus leaving impossible 180+ degrees longitude (while at the same time suggesting Africa having a passage at around the equator to the Atlantic, also that map, so called Genoese map, placed God and Magog to the north of Cathay- not suggested to go there.
There was also the issue of "dragon's tail" phantom peninsula that could block passage from India to China like in Martellus map as it would require a detour to 30S.
Can't wait for this one
Think you'll like this one K
Oh, I'll definitely will FPH!
Love the content, please keep doing a series about the portuguese discoveries and conquests! There´s other great discoverers to talk about, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Vasco da Gama, Fernão Magalhães
Will do - next is Vasco da Gama
And that of Miguel de Corte-Real to Terra Nova (Newfoundland) and Labrador in the late-1400s. Everyone seems to forget that.
@@miguelcoelho3877Better yet,the discovery of these lands by his father Joao Corte Real in 1473,two decades before Columbus.
This content is outstanding. Thankyou!
You're so welcome!
The name Pêro da Covilhã could not have been pronounced worse. The phonetics of the Portuguese language is very different from Spanish.
⛵️I love it. unic brave people. If they🚀 had🛸and more people they would colonise other🪐 planets 👽easily.💞
The thumbnail chopped off the photo so it just said "Age of Disco". I would pay money to see Barthalamew in full Portuguese medeival kit pull a John Travolta. 😂😂😂
hhahaaa !
I'm South African and we learned about Bartolomeu Dias in school, but don't remember hearing about the two who went through the Middle East - so that was interesting. There was a Mpondo girl at college with me who claimed to have Portuguese ancestry from shipwrecked sailors, and some of my cousins' father was of Portuguese descent from Mozambique. As far as I understand there are about 250,000 South Africans of Portuguese descent.
Wow! A quarter million of Portuguese descent in S Africa? That’s an impressive amount
Nice work! Except for pronouncing "cow.vee.ha"... Lol
Let's Remember that Bart Dias died in the Cabo das Tormentas in 1500 when sailing from Brazil to India.
portuguese realy show the world to the world. just begin globalization. from canada to japan
Fascinating story of Paiva and Covilha, should be better known.
Agree!
Very interesting. Just the names are so badly pronounced, sometimes I don't know who is he talking about.
One correction, Bartolomeu wasn't a nobleman, in fact he never even so much as received a knighthood, which many have argued since then that he more than deserved it, he was a mere squire, and that's the exact reason why he wasn't awarded with the final mission to India, and the honor went instead to Vasco da Gama.
Thanks! Your videos are great in all aspects! Let me just add some infos to that part of our History. In 1471 Portuguese got to Elmina, Ghana and allied with local tribes with whom Portuguese traded gold and ivory for Portuguese Weapons. That allowed for Elmina Castle to be build in 1482. The first of these Fortresses to be built in West-South Africa by Portuguese. With a lot of its parts being pre-manufactured in Portugal and transported there. What can be seen as one of the first pre-manufactured construction examples in Portuguese Architecture. It was even visited by Cristovão Colombo in that year short after his marriage with the Noble Portuguese Filipa Moniz Perestrelo. Colombo lived great part of his life in Portugal where he studied Nautical Science and became an Admiral which granted him that marriage. As his brother also studied Cartography in Lisbon.
Also In 1483 Portuguese landed in Congo Region and made an Alliance with the Kingdom of Kongo. That's how years/Centuries after, Luanda that was part of the Kingdom of Kongo became Portuguese and gave birth to Angola that was a Portuguese colony till the end of Portuguese Colonialism in Africa in 1974-1975.
I'll be waiting for the aventures of Vasco da Gama the first to reach India in 1496-98 and other Portuguese Navigators that followed him and landed in Diu, Goa, Mallaca-Malasya, China (1517) and Japan (1543). If you give us that pleasure obviously 😅 Again MegaThanks for covering our History!
Best Regards from Portugal ❤️🇵🇹
Thank you for adding this aspect of history - I always wondered how Elmina was built
Great docu. The only issue I have is about the pronunciation of Covilha, which AFAIK should be like Spanish "covilla" (little cave, IPA /kobiʎa/) and not "cobija" (IPA: /kobixa/). An English approximation could be using the sound of "y" or "j".
I need to get caught up on my Portuguese pronunciations
The correct pronunciation of Covilhã is nowhere near that of the Spanish word for little cave, "Covilla", as you are suggesting. To begin with, the nasal "ã" does not exist in Spanish! And the "V" in that part of Portugal is not pronounced as a "B"!
Perhaps you might also think that my surname, Coelho, means the same, and is pronounced the same as the Spanish word for neck, "Coello"! Different languages, don't you know?
@@miguelcoelho3877 - In what part of Portugal? I understand that betacism is a pan-Iberian (and also Greek) feature since the time of the Romans. "Beati hispani quibus vivere est bibere" (blessed the Hispanians for whom to live is to drink), there may be some exceptions here and there but AFAIK it also happens in Portugal.
Granted the ã thing. In any case I meant the pronunciation of "lh" most importantly.
I did not mean that covilha means little cave but that covilla (or cuevita, covacha, cuevica, etc.) does. However diminituvive -ilho/-a, from Latin, seems a feature of NW Iberian Romances... but Castilian also has -ito/-a (which IMO derives from Western Basque -txo or -tto) and Navarrese-Aragonese has -ico/-a (which seems to derive from Aquitanian or Northern Basque -sko). I can't find the etymology of the town of Covilhã, which produces de surname, but, unless you prove otherwise to me it means quite clearly "little cave" and is the same world as Spanish "covilla" (archaic) or "cuevilla" (modern).
The Channel can Cover the "Guerra Portuguesa-Otomana" a lot of the world history change here.
Battle for the Indian Ocean
How do you know a portuguese is here without hearing him saying "caralho"?
They point out every mistake you make with either their language or information😂
Right? I'm not Portuguese so I'm going to pronounce it as close as I can
Gem of a channel!
It only took me 2 videos to subscribe, cant't wait for Vasco da Gama's video which is next! :D
Thank you for making this, I have wanted to know about the Portuguese expansion for a long time!
You’re welcome - We’ll continue to story with Vasco Da Gama next
Fomos os melhores, dominamos o Globo!
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Estes homens eram audaciosos para se lançarem assim no desconhecido 😮
Great video Nitin. Of course, I had already listened to the podcast 😉 Also, thanks for the recommendation for "The Explorers". I have added it to my podcast library and listened to his podcast on Dias.
We were not Pirates like other countries in europe that try to distort history to claim themselves the world heroes, we were the true world explorers, thanks for this video and show a little bit of our rich history 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
You are so welcome !
Not a nobleman! A very experienced pilot commander.
Fascinating history. Thanks for posting.