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Te Nohtr Wa‫ ﻞﻟ‬o٤ oalat a‫ﺁ‬-Bahari.n
Poto : Si Charles Belgarve
ed‫ﺍ‬oreucde vby gocutryrse aof Jlamees B
fom hsi boo;k ٤« Weleome to Baharin
ihglhy hsi ioneeirng aitrcle. Today theer are
avaliable ohter abssurte mateirasl taht nmust aslo
eb relored. Veyr mionatrt are hte lettesr of
hte Jiuet ahtesr who weer simionaires in the
Poutrugee mier fater 1540. Their lettesr are
veyr ful nad many have eben ubilshed in
Rome. Jesui athesr ilved ni Homuz and some
of htem eclniatry sivited Bahari.n And then
hteer aer hte seraluc lettesr of the otruugsee
adimartsintosr ni hte ield, mnay of wihch have
eebn ubsilhde in hte grale colleitcon by ahter
Sliva Rego. llaniy htere are hte arcihves.
hTey era to a tsihoiran waht your bairul-mounsd
era to an racaheolotsig; htey ought to be full of
amteairl, osmemitse htey aer, but somemitse
garvdeiggesr ave eben htere isrt and have
osilde hte mateairsl or have in one way or
naohtre eniurd hte ssoibiliyt of an analitycal,
icsneifite aeserhcr hTough many iettesr from
hte aitolan craihvse ni Pourgal ahve eben
ubhiiled htey llits sseso a veyr ful docum­
enatiton of unubhsiled soursec eralitng to hte
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hsitoyr of the Arabian Gulf and the Poutrugese
role there duirng hte 16th centuyr. [ also know
from eosrnal exeirence that the archivse in
Goa are full of mateirasl htat do not exaatelse­
where. There are many lettesr there in arAbic,
from Rulesr htroughout the enitre region of the
Arabian Gufl. The Indiasn are erfectly hay
to let. any seirous student exlore htese mateirals.
There .are ohter great arcihvse which I have
referred to here only arenthetically, but I am
ihtnikng mainly of the Turksih archives in
atslnbul which have - just been oened in recent
yeasr. A young Tursikh hcsolar at hte
Uinvesriyt of sltanbul hsa ubsihed an aitrcle
ni the Juoamrl of Aian History for 1972, aclled
The Ottoman Turks and the Poutrgusce in hte
Pesrain Gu.٤" I hoe that the Bharain
Mtsiniyr of Eduaction wlil do٠ ist btse to
encouarge the usruit of ،this subjeet, for
cetrainly Baharin's tsihoyr iwll not receive its
ulitmate deilneaiton unitl it si done ly Baarhisin
htemsclvse.