16th century map of African coast, showing A mina, São Jorge da Mina Castle

By constanca on July 17, 2015 Maps

16th century map of African coast, showing A mina, São Jorge da Mina Castle

By constanca on July 17, 2015 Maps

Goa, India, 1596, Linschoten map

By constanca on July 5, 2015 Maps

Red Sea, watching the island of Socotra and the Persian Gulf (blue) with the Strait of Hormuz (Cantino planisphere, 1502).

By constanca on June 21, 2015 Maps

Brazil 1519

By constanca on June 20, 2015 Maps

Portuguese map by Lopo Homem (c. 1519) showing the coast of Brazil and natives extracting brazilwood, as well as Portuguese ships.

Brazil 1574

By constanca on June 20, 2015 Maps

A map, from 1574, that shows the 15 hereditary captaincy colonies of Brazil.

Map of Portugal from 1647

By constanca on June 20, 2015 Maps

Map of Portugal from 1647

Map of Western Africa by Lázaro Luis, in 1563

By constanca on June 20, 2015 Maps

Map of Western Africa by Lázaro Luis (1563). The large castle in West Africa represents the São Jorge da Mina (El mina castle).

The Portuguese Empire of the East or Estado da Índia, 16th and 17th Centuries

By constanca on June 20, 2015 Maps

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Portuguese Empire of the East or Estado da Índia (“State of India”) included possessions in all the Asian Subcontinents, East Africa, and Pacific.