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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Cristóvão da Gama

1516 - 1542

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Cristóvão da Gama (c. 1516 – 29 August 1542), anglicised as Christopher da Gama, was a Portuguese military commander who led a Portuguese army of 400 musketeers to assist Ethiopia that faced Islamic Jihad from the Adal Sultanate led by Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi. He, along with the allied Ethiopian army, was victorious against Adal forces in four battles, but he was seriously wounded in his last battle and was captured, tortured, and executed by Imam Ahmad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cristóvão da Gama has received more than 203,744 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Cristóvão da Gama is the 897th most popular military personnel, the 178th most popular biography from Portugal and the most popular Portuguese Military Personnel.

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  • 200k

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Cristóvão da Gama ranks 897 out of 1,468Before him are Wolfgang Lotz, Oskar von Hutier, Al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra, Edward Vernon, Heinrich Ehrler, and Joseph Stilwell. After him are Burkhard Christoph von Münnich, Isamu Chō, Clearchus of Sparta, Semyon Kurkotkin, Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, and Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1516, Cristóvão da Gama ranks 7Before him are Mary I of England, Conrad Gessner, Bayinnaung, Margaret Leijonhufvud, Hieronymus Wolf, and William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. After him are Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Realdo Colombo, Tabinshwehti, Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, Söyembikä of Kazan, and John Foxe. Among people deceased in 1542, Cristóvão da Gama ranks 12Before him are Lapu-Lapu, Dosso Dossi, Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford, Thomas Wyatt, Sayyida al Hurra, and Peter Henlein. After him are Malik Muhammad Jayasi, Diego de Almagro II, Ludwig Senfl, Nikolaus Federmann, Gasparo Contarini, and Girolamo Aleandro.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Cristóvão da Gama ranks 178 out of 555Before him are Matilda of Savoy, Queen of Portugal (1125), Camilo Castelo Branco (1825), Infanta Maria of Guimarães (1538), Almeida Garrett (1799), Eduardo Souto de Moura (1952), and Nuno Tristão (1500). After him are José Mendes Cabeçadas (1883), Paulo Futre (1966), Gaius Appuleius Diocles (104), Luís Fróis (1532), Theresa of Portugal, Countess of Flanders (1157), and José Saraiva Martins (1932).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Portugal

Among military personnels born in Portugal, Cristóvão da Gama ranks 1After him are Pedro Teixeira (1585) and Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (1465).