Albuquerque Definition

Albuquerque Sentence Examples

• In 1508 the Portuguese under Albuquerque seized most of the east coast of Oman.

• In 1900 Albuquerque was the largest city in the territory.

• Canby, and occupied Albuquerque and Santa Fe.

• In a more noble fashion the Crusade survived in the minds of the navigators; "Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Albuquerque, and many others dreamed, and not insincerely, that they were labouring for the deliverance of the Holy Land, and they bore the Cross on their breasts."

• In 1506 Hormuz was taken by Albuquerque, and Muscat and the coast of Oman (q.v.) were occupied by the Portuguese till 1650.