Fernão Nunes

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{{Infobox person
| name = Fernão Nunes
| birth_date = 1500
| birth_place =
| death_date = 1550
| death_place =
| nationality = [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]]
| occupation = traveler, chronicler and horse trader
| years_active = 1535-1537
| known_for = Writings on the capital of the [[Vijayanagara Empire]]
| notable_works =
}}
'''Fernão Nunes''', also known as '''''Fernao Nuniz''''', was a [[Spanish and Portuguese Jews|Portuguese-Jewish]] traveler, chronicler and horse trader who spent three years in [[Vijayanagara]], capital of the [[Vijayanagara Empire]] in the time period 1535-1537. His writings have brought to light many interesting details about Vijayanagara at that time,<ref>Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, [[Domingo Paes|Domingos Paes]], "A forgotten empire: Vijayanagar; a contribution to the history of India" (Includes a translation of "Chronica dos reis de Bisnaga," from Domingos Paes and Fernao Nuniz from 1520 and 1535 respectively), Adamant Media Corporation, 1982, {{ISBN|0-543-92588-9}}</ref> including construction of massive fortification works, watch towers and security walls. From his notes it is known that the expansion of the regal capital limits happened during the rule of King [[Bukka Raya II]] and [[Deva Raya I]].

Once Nunes fled the [[inquisition]] to [[Constantinople]] in the [[Ottoman Empire]], where he openly practiced his [[Judaism]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Israel|first=Jonathan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShYX4qoEYPYC&q=fernao+nunes+jew&pg=PA333|title=Empires and Entrepots: Dutch, the Spanish Monarchy and the Jews, 1585-1713|date=1990-01-01|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-85285-022-7|language=en}}</ref>

Nunes' brother was one [[Jacob Curiel of Coimbra]], alias ''Duarte Nunes'', founder of the [[Curiel family]] that would come to greatly influence European trade and diplomacy.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=ISRAEL|first=JONATHAN I.|title=Duarte Nunes da Costa (Jacob Curiel), of Hamburg, Sephardi Nobleman and Communal Leader (1585-1664)|date=1987|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41481641|journal=Studia Rosenthaliana|volume=21|issue=1|pages=14–34|jstor=41481641|issn=0039-3347}}</ref> Jacob and Fernão frequently wrote letters to each other.<ref name=":0" />

==Notes==
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==References==
*K.A. Nilakanta Sastry, History of South India, From Prehistoric times to fall of Vijayanagar, 1955, OUP, New Delhi (Reprinted 2002) {{ISBN|0-19-560686-8}}
*Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, [[Domingo Paes|Domingos Paes]], "A forgotten empire: Vijayanagar; a contribution to the history of India" (Includes a translation of "Chronica dos reis de Bisnaga," from Domingos Paes and Fernao Nuniz from 1520 and 1535 respectively), Adamant Media Corporation, 1982, {{ISBN|0-543-92588-9}}
*Radhakamal Mukerjee, "A history of Indian civilization", Hind Kitabs, 1958 (refere Paes)
*H. V. Sreenivasa Murthy, R. Ramakrishnan, "A history of Karnataka, from the earliest times to the present day", S. Chand, 1977

==External links==
* {{Gutenberg author |id=Nunes,+Fernão | name=Fernão Nunes}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Fernão Nunes |sopt=t}}

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[[Category:People of Sephardic-Jewish descent]]
[[Category:History of Karnataka]]
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