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Bartolomeu Dias (Anglicized: Bartholomew Diaz) c. 1450 - May 29, 1500, a Nobleman of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.

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