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“…He focused on commercial chokepoints such as the Straits of Malacca and Hormuz, and identified Goa, which he captured in 1510, as key to transoceanic routes. 43 Isabel dos Guimarães Sá refers to the Azores, settled from the 1430s, as "a premature colonial experiment", and her comment could equally well apply to Madeira, officially discovered in c.1420. 44 The word "premature", however, does not mean that the islands were not colonies, but that their early settlement causes them to fly under the historiographical radar.…”