Almeida, Lourenço de

Almeida, Lourenço de

▪ Portuguese explorer
died 1508, Chaul, India

      Portuguese sea captain and leader of a 1505 expedition to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), probably the first Portuguese voyage to that island.

      The son of Francisco de Almeida, the first viceroy of Portuguese India (1505–09), Lourenço de Almeida had been sent by his father to explore the Maldives, to establish alliances, and to form trade relations. Almeida brought Portuguese influence to the region, founding a settlement at Colombo in 1505.

      The deflection of Arab and Egyptian trade brought conflict. Almeida defeated an Arab fleet off the west coast of India in 1506 and a fleet from Malacca in 1508 near Chaul. There, however, he was trapped by an Egyptian armada. He fought with bravery, and his exploits were later celebrated by the 16th-century Portuguese poet Camões in his patriotic epic poem Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads, referring to the ancient Roman territory, Lusitania, that embraced what became Portugal). Almeida died of wounds received in the battle. Two years later the Portuguese scattered a combined Turkish and Muslim fleet near the port of Diu, finally establishing Portuguese power in much of the territory east of Suez.

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