Nuno Tristão

Portuguese explorer and slave trader

1400 CE to 1447 CE

Nuno Tristão is a fifteenth-century Portuguese explorer and slave trader, active in the early 1440s, traditionally thought to be the first European to reach the region of Guinea (legendarily, as far as Guinea-Bissau, but more recent historians believe he did not go beyond the Gambia River).

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Group: Former Liang, Han Chinese kingdom of
People: Nuno Tristão
Topic: Atlantic Period during the Neolithic Subpluvial
Location: Lubawa Olsztyn Poland
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