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João da Nova

1460 - 1509

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João da Nova (Galician: Xoán de Novoa, Joam de Nôvoa; Spanish: Juan de Nova; Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈɐ̃w dɐ ˈnɔvɐ]; c. 1460 in Maceda, Ourense, Galicia, Spain – July 16, 1509, in Kochi, India) was a Galician-born explorer in the service of Portugal. He is credited as the discoverer of Ascension and Saint Helena islands. The Juan de Nova Island, in the Mozambique Channel, is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of João da Nova has received more than 105,995 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). João da Nova is the 277th most popular explorer (down from 121st in 2019), the 1,005th most popular biography from Spain (down from 456th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Spanish Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, João da Nova ranks 277 out of 498. Before him are Vladimir Atlasov, Humphrey Gilbert, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Georg August Wallin, Karl Weyprecht, and Nikolai Spathari. After him are Richard Chancellor, João Fernandes Lavrador, Annie Londonderry, Adolf Lüderitz, Charles Wilkes, and Ada Blackjack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1460, João da Nova ranks 27. Before him are Duarte Pacheco Pereira, Rodrigo de Bastidas, Svante Nilsson, Johann Froben, Antoine Brumel, and Boccaccio Boccaccino. After him are Catherine of Foix, Countess of Candale, Eric Trolle, Thomas Linacre, John Skelton, and William Dunbar. Among people deceased in 1509, João da Nova ranks 7. Before him are Henry VII of England, Caterina Sforza, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Bernt Notke, Shen Zhou, and Adam Kraft. After him is John I, Count Palatine of Simmern.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, João da Nova ranks 1,005 out of 3,355. Before him are Francisco de Paula Martínez de la Rosa y Berdejo (1787), Antonio Moreno (1887), Enrique Fernández Arbós (1863), Blanca of Navarre, Queen of Castile (1137), Lucius Licinius Lucullus (-150), and Felicia of Roucy (1060). After him are Gaspar Cassadó (1897), Ibn Zaydún (1003), Muhammad VI of Granada (1332), Luis Rubiales (1977), Miguel Ángel Nadal (1966), and José Luis Mendilibar (1961).

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Among EXPLORERS In Spain

Among explorers born in Spain, João da Nova ranks 43. Before him are Rodrigo de Bastidas (1460), Pedro Cieza de León (1520), Rodrigo de Jerez (1350), Juan de Garay (1528), Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519), and Juan Pizarro (1511). After him are Sebastián Vizcaíno (1548), Francisco de Ulloa (1501), Pedro Tafur (1410), Félix de Azara (1742), Domingo Martínez de Irala (1509), and Pascual de Andagoya (1495).

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