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João Vaz Corte-Real

1420 - 1496

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João Vaz Corte-Real (c. 1420 – 1496) was a Portuguese sailor, claimed by some accounts to have been an explorer of a land called Terra Nova do Bacalhau (New Land of the Codfish), speculated to possibly have been a part of North America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of João Vaz Corte-Real has received more than 102,859 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). João Vaz Corte-Real is the 135th most popular explorer (down from 126th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 122nd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Portuguese Explorer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, João Vaz Corte-Real ranks 135 out of 498. Before him are Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada, Adam Olearius, Adrien de Gerlache, Francisco Serrão, Juan de Grijalva, and Vladimir Arsenyev. After him are Gil Eanes, Frederick Cook, Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, Andrés de Urdaneta, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, and Otto Sverdrup.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1420, João Vaz Corte-Real ranks 8. Before him are Jean Fouquet, Benozzo Gozzoli, George of Poděbrady, Andrea del Castagno, Abdal-Latif Mirza, and Sesshū Tōyō. After him are Agostino Barbarigo, Mahmud Pasha Angelović, Barthélemy d'Eyck, Margaret of Savoy, Duchess of Anjou, Nikolaus Gerhaert, and Peter Schöffer. Among people deceased in 1496, João Vaz Corte-Real ranks 5. Before him are Isabella of Portugal, Queen of Castile, Charles, Count of Angoulême, Ferdinand II of Naples, and Sigismund, Archduke of Austria. After him are Charles II, Duke of Savoy, Piero del Pollaiolo, Qaitbay, Ercole de' Roberti, Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg, Gilbert, Count of Montpensier, and Henricus Martellus Germanus.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, João Vaz Corte-Real ranks 124 out of 633. Before him are Afonso, Prince of Portugal (1475), Artur Jorge (1946), Peter, Duke of Coimbra (1392), Karl Nesselrode (1780), Francisco Serrão (1500), and Maria of Portugal, Duchess of Viseu (1521). After him are Gil Eanes (null), Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad (1040), Gil Vicente (1465), Infanta Maria Anna of Portugal (1843), Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908), and Ferdinand, Count of Flanders (1188).

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Among EXPLORERS In Portugal

Among explorers born in Portugal, João Vaz Corte-Real ranks 14. Before him are Diego Columbus (1479), Tristão da Cunha (1460), João Gonçalves Zarco (1390), Fernão Mendes Pinto (1509), Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (1565), and Francisco Serrão (1500). After him are Gil Eanes (null), Pêro da Covilhã (1450), Pedro Mascarenhas (1484), Filipa Moniz Perestrelo (1455), Gaspar Corte-Real (1450), and António de Abreu (1480).

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