tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3101913167226700484.post1031475836514208365..comments2023-11-03T12:03:01.691-07:00Comments on Surprised by Time: Nick the GreekNauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3101913167226700484.post-49245313403532999632012-04-25T08:10:40.903-07:002012-04-25T08:10:40.903-07:00The first person to circumnavigate the world was E...The first person to circumnavigate the world was Enrique do Malaca:<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_the_Black<br /><br />who for obvious reasons didn't get on your crew list.Jack Campinhttp://www.campin.me.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3101913167226700484.post-45137438711227381422009-11-19T12:46:30.580-08:002009-11-19T12:46:30.580-08:00Thanks so much for writing. That's the kind o...Thanks so much for writing. That's the kind of information I have been wanting this blog to evoke, Pavlos. I have been told there are lots of stratioti documents in the archives in Barcelona.Nauplionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3101913167226700484.post-28003245442615714782009-11-19T12:37:41.010-08:002009-11-19T12:37:41.010-08:00The name Blackbeard is asking for is Doroteo Teod...The name Blackbeard is asking for is Doroteo Teodoro.<br />Nicholas was not the only Greek survivor of the Magellan expedition. Francisco Albo, the man who navigated the survivors back to Spain was also a Greek, from Rhodes (from Axio, I think the village is today called Ixia). He left a valuable navigational log. Miguel de Rodas and Miguel Sanchez, of Rodas, were probably also from Rhodes. So Michael of Rhodes was not the only Rhodian to have left us valuable documents from that time. Consider also that Teodoro Baxon and his relative Nicola Palopano were the Rhodian proti on whose designs the Venetians based their best galleys and you have the picture of a maritime mini-powerhouse in the eastern Aegean.<br />Greeks of the era were well represented in the voyages of discovery. Let me mention Juan the Fuca, another man who wrote about his journey. And, since this is Diana Gilliland Wright's blog, Pedro De Candia, one of Pizarro's officers in Peru, was probably an ex-stradiot.<br /><br />Best regards<br />PavlosAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3101913167226700484.post-66008333355731910562009-11-19T01:34:21.469-08:002009-11-19T01:34:21.469-08:00There was also another Greek on a famous explorati...There was also another Greek on a famous exploration journey, that of Alvaro Nunez Cabeza de Vaca in what is today the south-western US States and northern Mexico (1528-35). I can't remember his name off the top of my head. He unfortunately never made it-the natives in Florida (or what is probably Louisiana) killed him.Blackbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00932530609232864018noreply@blogger.com