The Treaty of Alcáçovas gave the whole area to the Portuguese except for the Canaries.
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Jean de Béthencourt conquered two of them in 1405 but the larger islands were not fully subdued until about 1495.
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In 1595 Jan Huyghen van Linschoten published previously-secret Portuguese sailing directions for the Indian Ocean.
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