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LIVRO das Cidades, e Fortalezas, que a Coroa de Portugal tem. Lisboa. 1960. - LIVRO das Cidades, e Fortalezas, que a Coroa de Portugal tem . Edição preparada pelo Dr. Francisco Paulo Mendes da Luz. Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Historicos Ultramarinos, 1960. [12], 167 pp.: il.; 235 mm. (Separata de STVDIA - Revista semestral - nº6 - Julho 1960) This is the second edition, prepared by Francisco Paulo Mendes da Luz and published as a separate issue of the STVDIA magazine, of this important document on the State of India; the first edition, also by Mendes da Luz, was published in 1952. The text, by an anonymous author but certainly a high-ranking official of the State of India, was addressed to Philip II of Spain shortly after his acclamation as King of Portugal, offering him a detailed, exclusively textual description of the cities, fortresses, and captaincies he inherited in the East; the internal information of the text points to a date close to 1582. It addresses the administrative organization of the territories (positions, recruitment, appointments, salaries), their economic value (products and trade routes), the population and buildings of the cities, and also the local institutions and terms absorbed by the Portuguese administration, such as the ”tanadar” and the ”tanadaria, ” or units of measurement such as the ”baar.” It belongs to the same documentary genre as the Book of Plans of All the Fortresses, Cities and Towns of the State of East India , by António Bocarro (1635), although, unlike the latter, it lacks graphic representations. Estimated. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate