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Key facts
- Born
- Lagos , Kingdom of Portugal
- Other names
- Eannes, Gilianez
- Occupations
- Navigator and explorer
- Known for
- First person to sail beyond Cape Bojador
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gil
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Portugal
- Place of birth
- Lagos
- Occupation
- explorer
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Native language
- Portuguese
- Image
- Gil eanes.jpg
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- Commons category
- Gil Eanes
- date of death
- 1500-01-01
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
Gil Eanes (or Eannes, in the old Portuguese spelling; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒil iˈɐnɨʃ]) was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer. He should not be confused with the harbourmaster active in Lisbon in 1433 with the same name.
Early Life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gil Eanes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.