Anywhere on the coasts of Asia, America and Africa you can find a fort, a church, a geographical name or a family name, that come from Portugal. These are the remains of the first European country that explored the world in search of spices and souls. Afonso de Albuquerque's dream, was an infusion of Portuguese blood in each of the colonies. As the Dutch Governor Antonio Van Diemen said in 1642 : "Most of the Portuguese in Asia look upon this region as their fatherland, and think no more about Portugal" In XVth century a small nation as Portugal began to explore the Atlantic ocean , since 1415 (conquest of Ceuta, Morocco) the Portuguese explored the African's coasts in search of a road to the East; and in 1487 Bartolomeu Dias doubled the cape of Good Hope. After ten years (1497-1499) Vasco de Gama arrived in India (18 May 1498), and opened a new trading route between Europe and Asia. This small nation was the ruler of the Indian ocean for about 150 years and the Portuguese language was for more than 250 years the trading language (lingua franca) of the Asiatic coasts. At the beginning of the XVII century another small nation, the United Provinces of Netherlands took the place of Portugal. The United Provinces with the West and the East India companies the GWC (WIC) (Geoctroyeerde West-Indische Compagnie) and the VOC (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) ruled the scene for nearly 150 years, until the coming of the English power. Amsterdam was the commercial and financial capital of the whole Europe and The Netherlands was the leading commercial nation.

 

Português em Moçambique por Dietrich Köster

Portugiesisch in Mosambik von Dietrich Köster

Papiá Cristang – die portugiesische Kreolsprache von Malakka von Dietrich Köster

Sprachpolitik Osttimors von Dietrich Köster

Churches of Luanda, Angola por Virgilio Pena da Costa

Macau 1997 von Dietrich Köster

Dutch Batavia (Jakarta)

The Dutch conquest and occupation of Salvador de Bahia (1624-1625)

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Hello ! I hope I've stimulated a little of curiosity and interest in this subject, for me so interesting ! Write me. All your suggestions'll be welcome. This is my hobby. If your hobby is this kind of history, I'll be happy to correspond with you. Thank you, Marco.

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My address: Marco Ramerini via A. Manzoni, 39 50021 Barberino V.E. (Firenze) Italy

Is there anyone that can help me ? I'm studing the Spanish presence in the Moluccas and I'm searching for the following: - Photos and info on the Spanish forts (benteng Tohula, Tsjobbe and Rum) in Tidore island (Maluku, Indonesia) and in Ternate island (benteng Kastella, Pedro and Paulo) (Maluku, Indonesia). I'm searching for a place in Tidore called Tomarina or Tomanira. - Photos of the Portuguese fort in Hormuz.

If you have photos of colonial remains (forts, churches, building etc.) around the world, please send me, I'll be happy to publish them in this web site. Thank you.

 

MY FIRST BOOK: "Le Fortezze Spagnole nell'Isola di Tidore 1521-1663, Isole Molucche, Indonesia" ("The Spanish fortresses in Tidore Island 1521-1663, Moluccas, Indonesia") Now, is on print my first book about the History of the Spanish Presence in the Moluccas (Maluku, Indonesia), this book is about the Spanish forts in Tidore Island. I hope you appreciate my work, it's the result of six years of research mainly on manuscript documents. (The text is in Italian).   The book is on sale in this web site: http://www.ilmiolibro.it/libro.asp?id=18032 Adesso è in stampa il mio primo libro, dedicato alla storia della Presenza Spagnola nelle Molucche (Maluku, Indonesia), questo libro riguarda la Storia dei Forti Spagnoli nell'Isola di Tidore. Spero che apprezzerete il mio lavoro, è il risultato di sei anni di studio principalmente su fonti manoscritte. Il libro può essere ordinato presso: http://www.ilmiolibro.it/libro.asp?id=18032

My Thanks to all the people that send and help me with information, articles, photos or books: Gerard Fernandis from Malaysia; Nuno Rubim from Portugal; Jan Poel from The Netherlands; Peter Rowland from U K; Emerson Santiago Silva from Brazil; Glenn Sundeen from Canada; Rein Rovers from the Netherlands; Ronnie Johnson from India; R. Batista Aragao and Marcelo Jorge Aragao from Brazil; Rafael Ruiz from Brazil; Michael O'Shea from Australia; Manuel Luciano da Silva from USA; Richard Allicock from Canada; Warren Willenberg from Canada; Stefan Drechsler from Germany; Victor Melder from Australia; Arnold van Wickeren from The Netherlands; Diederick Kortlang from The Netherlands; Joseph Opala from USA; Brian Whitmey from United Kingdom; Pieter Koenders from The Netherlands, Roberto Chacon de Albuquerque from Brazil, Visvanath Ratnaweera from Sri Lanka, Adbulrahman A. Musamah director of Bahrain National Museum, Sharma V. T. from Sri Lanka, Ivo Kelaart from Australia, George Smithson from Canada, Surinder Singh from Malaysia, Donald FM Rugebregt from The Netherlands, Jennifer Van der Greft from Israel, Srinivasa Reddy from India, Channa Wickremesekera from Australia, Rev. Fr. Don Peter from Sri Lanka, James Buultjens from Sri Lanka, Bert de Vries from The Netherlands, Vinod Moonesinghe from Sri Lanka, Joseph Simpson from Canada, Gonçalo Cabral from Macau, Niceu Leme Magalhaes from Brazil, Michael Weber from The Netherlands, Jan Kranendonk from The Netherlands, Randolph Jones from United Kingdom, F. Andrew Smith from Australia, Walter Hellebrand from The Netherlands, Chitrita Banerji from India, Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya from UK, Andreas Martin Selignow from Germany, Ernst Van Veen from The Netherlands, Joseph Sta Maria from Malaysia, Jim Myint Swe from Canada, Kees Groeneboer from The Netherlands, Michael Aldrich from Hong Kong, Masoud Akhbari from The Netherlands, Carlos Luis da Cruz from Brazil, Simon Pratt from Hong Kong, Dietrich Köster from Germany, Mark Schellekens from The Netherlands, Kiros Kokkas from Greece, Geoffrey Groesbeck from USA, Davide Parassoni from Italy, Mario Chiapetto from Italy, Magiel Venema from The Netherlands, Pedro Gonçalves from Portugal, Prem from India, Michele Ziolkowski from Australia and many others. My Thanks to: Addy and Nelly Lopes from USA, for the correction of the English text. Márcia Siqueira de Carvalho from Brazil, for translation in Portuguese of the "Portuguese language heritage in the East" and "The French in Brazil" pages. Anne and Joaquim Gonçalves from France for translation in French of the "The French in Brazil", "Madagascar" and "The Portuguese in Ceylon" pages. Sandro (my brother) for photos-scanner. Roberto (my father) for watercolors.

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