Covilhão, a town in the Portuguese province of Beira, on an eastern spur of the Estrella Mountains, with some manufactures of brown cloth, and a pop. of 10,986.—Pedro de Covilham (or Covilhão), sent by the king of Portugal in 1486 to visit Prester John's country, reached Calicut overland in 1487, and Abyssinia in 1490.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 532
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