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Duarte Barbosa

c. 1480–1521 · 16th century

Duarte Barbosa was a Portuguese writer and official who served in India as a scribe and interpreter from around 1500. His Book of Duarte Barbosa, completed about 1516, is one of the earliest European accounts of the Indian Ocean world, describing the towns of the East African coast, Arabia, India and South-East Asia. He was killed in the Philippines in 1521 during Ferdinand Magellan's voyage.

Duarte Barbosa — Image: Henry Edward John Stanley, Baron Stanley, 1827-1903 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Duarte Barbosa. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/duarte-barbosa
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