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Gama

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Ga·ma  (gm, gäm), Vasco da 1460?-1524.
Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator. The first European to sail to India (1497-1498), he opened the rich lands of the East to Portuguese trade and colonization.
Gama [ˈgɑːmə]
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(Biographies / Gama, Vasco da (?1469-1524) M, Portuguese, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: navigator) Vasco da (ˈvæskəʊ də). ?1469-1524, Portuguese navigator, who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope (1498)


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