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Establishment of the Portuguese Navy
In 1317 King Dinis appointed the Genoese merchant Manuel Pessanha as Almirante-Mor of Portugal, charging him to defend the coast against North African corsairs and to build a national fleet from imported expertise. Pessanha brought Genoese pilots, naval architects, and accountancy methods with him, founding the base from which the Portuguese voyages of the next century launched. The royal naval foundation puts a maritime administration of Mediterranean standard in Portugal almost two centuries before any Atlantic neighbor builds an equivalent.
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