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Lourenço Marques

1600 - 1600

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Lourenço Marques was a 16th-century Portuguese trader and coloniser. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lourenço Marques has received more than 45,700 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Lourenço Marques is the 294th most popular explorer (down from 287th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 46k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Lourenço Marques ranks 294 out of 498Before him are Henricus Martellus Germanus, Douglas Mawson, Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia, Eusebio Kino, Edward Wilson, and Robert Hermann Schomburgk. After him are Semyon Chelyuskin, Louis Jolliet, Charles Francis Hall, László Almásy, Peter Freuchen, and Alexander Gordon Laing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1600, Lourenço Marques ranks 19Before him are Giovanna Garzoni, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, Cristóbal de Morales, Malyuta Skuratov, Matthias Stom, and Jacques Blanchard. After him are Ivan Bolotnikov, Pyotr Beketov, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, Ivan Moskvitin, Pieter de Grebber, and Lorenzo Ruiz. Among people deceased in 1600, Lourenço Marques ranks 20Before him are Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Balthasar Russow, Margrave Andrew of Burgau, Joris Hoefnagel, Claude Le Jeune, and Robert de Nola. After him are Edward Fortunatus, Richard Hooker, Tadeáš Hájek, and Basawan.

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