lettered by Abraham Ortelius, 1570
European peoples and powers

Portuguese

Named in 4 sources and maps.

  1. 1569exact year
    Treatise in which the things of China are related at length, with its particularities, and likewise of the…
    WGaspar da Cruz, DominicanfirsthandW243
  2. c. 1569–1578approximate
    Peregrination of Fernão Mendes Pinto, giving account of many very strange things seen and heard in the…
    WFernão Mendes Pintoclaimed or disputedW242
  3. 1585exact year
    History of the Most Notable Things, Rites and Customs of the Great Kingdom of China
    WJuan González de MendozacompilationW241
  4. 1638–1640a range
    The Empire of China and the Evangelical Culture in it by the Jesuits
    WÁlvaro Semedo, Portuguese JesuitfirsthandW244