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Paulo Dias de Novais (ca 1510 – 1589), a nobleman of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese colonizer of Africa in the 16th century and the first Captain-Governor of Angola. He was the grandson of the explorer Bartolomeu Dias.
Novais arrived in what is now Angola on February 20, 1575. Attracted by the prospect of the famous silver mines of Cambambe, he established a settlement at São Paulo, near the island of Luanda.
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