Written by Marco Ramerini. English text revision by Dietrich Köster.
PORTUGUESE EMPIRE: MIDDLE EAST
ARABIA, PERSIAN GULF:
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– Pereira da Costa, José, “Socotora’ e o domínio português no Oriente”, 51 pp. separata da Revista da Universitade de Coimbra, 1973, Coimbra, Portugal. The history of the Portuguese occupation of Socotra with the reproduction of several documents.
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