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'''Domingo Paes''' (sometimes spelt '''Pais'''; 16th century) was a [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] traveller who visited the [[Vijayanagara Empire]], located in the [[Deccan Plateau|Deccan]] in southern India, around 1520. He went there as part of a group of traders from the then colony of [[Goa]].<ref name="AsherTalbot2006" /> His visit took place during the rule of King [[Krishna Deva Raya]]<ref name="sen2">{{Cite book |last=Sen |first=Sailendra |title=A Textbook of Medieval Indian History |publisher=Primus Books |year=2013 |isbn=978-9-38060-734-4 |pages=109}}</ref> and Paes recorded his impressions of Vijayanagara state in his ''Chronica dos reis de Bisnaga'' ("Chronicle of the Vijayanagar kings"). His detailed account is one of the few known descriptions of that empire and of its capital, Vijayanagara ([[Hampi]]), by a traveller from abroad.<ref name="AsherTalbot2006">{{cite book|author1=Catherine B. Asher|author2=Cynthia Talbot|title=India Before Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvaGuaJIJgoC&pg=PA57|date=16 March 2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-80904-7|page=57}}</ref><br />
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Reports Paes, "The kingdom has many places on the coast of India, which are seaports with whom we are at peace, and some of them have factories, in particular in ''Amcola'' ([[Ankola]]), ''Mirgeo'' (Mirjan, 14.48434, 74.42618<br />
), [[Honnavar|Honor]], [[Bhatkal|Batecalla]], [[Mangalore|Mamgalor]], [[Bracalor]] and [[Bacanor]]." Paes reports advanced irrigation technology that allowed the kingdom to produce high yields of crops at very reasonable prices, and a wide variety of cultures. He describes a busy market of precious stones. The city was prospering and its size, in the eyes of the narrator, was comparable to Rome, with abundant vegetation, [[Aqueduct (bridge)|aqueduct]]s and artificial lakes.<ref name="Hampi">[http://hampionline.com/history/domingo.php Hampi on line], visited on 15 June 2009.</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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* {{cite book|author=Robert Sewell|title=A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_kc3LKI_slEC&pg=PA235|year=1900|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=978-81-206-0125-3|pages=235–290}}. Repub. Adamant Media Corporation, 1982, {{ISBN|0543925889}}. Includes a translation of the ''Chronica'' by Domingo Paes and [[Fernão Nunes]] about 1520 and 1535 respectively.<br />
* Radhakamal Mukerjee, "A history of Indian civilization", Hind Kitabs, 1958 (refers to Paes)<br />
* H. V. Sreenivasa Murthy, R. Ramakrishnan, ''A history of Karnataka, from the earliest times to the present day'', S. Chand, 1977<br />
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* {{Gutenberg author | id=Paes,+Domingo | name=Domingo Paes}}<br />
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Domingo Paes}}<br />
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