Lopo Vaz de Sampaio
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Portuguese colonial governor (c. 1480–1534)
Lopo Vaz de Sampaio | |
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Portrait in Livro de Lisuarte de Abreu, c. 1560 | |
| Governor of India | |
| In office 1526–1529 | |
| Monarch | John III |
| Preceded by | Henrique de Meneses |
| Succeeded by | Nuno da Cunha |
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| Born | c. 1480 |
| Died | 1534 |
Lopo Vaz de Sampaio was the 6th Governor of Portuguese India from 1526 to 1529. He was also the captain of Vasco da Gama, a famous Portuguese explorer. During 1528–29, Lopo Vaz de Sampaio seized the fort of Mahim from the Gujarat Sultanate, when the King was at war with Nizam-ul-mulk, the emperor of Chaul, a town south of Bombay.
- Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580, p. 286
- The History of Portugal, p. 85
- Greater Bombay District Gazetteer 1986 (Portuguese Period)
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