A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India c16.s1.13

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c16.s1.13

Afonso d'Albuquerque was now in the Persian seas fighting with all the "Moors" he could meet. At the end of 1509 he became "Governor of India," *i.e.* of Portuguese India, in succession to Almeida; Diogo Lopes de Sequeira receiving the governorship under the king of Portugal of the seas east of Cape Comorin.

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