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Prince Henry of Portugal (known as Henry the Navigator, 1394-1460) was a patron of navigators, cartographers, and explorers in the early 1400s. Partly due to his influence with his father, John I, Portugal discovered and colonized the Madeira and Azores islands off the Atlantic coast of Africa.

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