Portugal Postcard - 500th Anniversary of the Death of Amerigo Vespucci

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Bilhete Postal

Portugal

500 Anos da Morte de Amerigo Vespucci

500th Anniversary of the Death of Amerigo Vespucci

Date of Issue : 14 December 2012

Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass. Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed "America", probably deriving its name from the feminized Latin version of Vespucci's first name.

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