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Duarte de Menezes

governor of Portuguese India

b. 1488 CE – d. 1540 CE World The Indian Ocean Lands

Dom Duarte de Menezes (before 1488 - after 1539), is a sixteenth-century Portuguese nobleman and colonial officer, governor of Tangier from 1508 to 1521 and 1536 to 1539 and governor of Portuguese India from 1522 to 1524.

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Moran, J. (2017). Duarte de Menezes. History Atlas. Retrieved 3 October 2026, from https://www.historyatlas.com/people/duarte-de-menezes/

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