Albuquerque
Albuquerque names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Albuquerque AFFONSO D' (al'bö-kārk'e)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
AFFONSO D' (al'bö-kārk'e), "the Great," Viceroy of the Indies, was born in 1453, near Lisbon. In that age, the Portuguese people were distinguished for heroism and a spirit ALCÆUS of adventure. They had discovered and subjugated a great part of the western coast of Africa, and were beginning to extend their dominion over the seas and the people of India. Albuquerque was appointed Viceroy of Portugal's new possessions in the east and landed at Malabar with troops in 1503. Conquered Goa, and later Ceylon, the Sunda Isles, Malaccas, and the island of Ormuz. He made the Portuguese name profoundly respected among the princes and people of the East; and many of them, especially the Kings of Siam and Pegu, sought his alliance and protection. He maintained strict military discipline, was active, farseeing, wise, humane, and equitable, respected and feared by his neighbors while beloved by his subjects. Yet he did not escape the envy of courtiers and the suspicions of his kin king, who appointed Soarez, a personal enemy of Albuquerque, to supersede him as Viceroy. This news reached him just as he was leaving Ormuz, and gave a severe shock to his shattered health. A few days after, he died at sea near Goa, Dec. 16, 1515. or al-sē'us), a ALCÆUS (al-kī'us Greek lyric poet; native of Mitylene; flourished in the 6th century B. c. Of his poems we have only fragments; some were hymns to the gods, others battle songs, still others were in praise of liberty; very many were love songs of pronounced erotic character. ALCALA DE HENARES (al-ka-lä' de ā-när-ās), a town in Spain, Cervantes' birthplace, on the Henares, 21 miles E. of Madrid by rail. It once boasted of a university, founded by the famous Cardinal Ximenes in 1510. Here was printed in 1517 the great Complutensian Bible. The chief buildings are the Colegio de San Ildefonso, the archbishop's palace, the cathedral, and the Church of Santa Maria, in which Cervantes was baptized, Oct. 9, 1547. The house in which he was born is marked by an inscription. The Complutum am of the Romans, the town owes its modern name to the Moors. Pop. about 12,000.
Albuquerque a town and country-seat of Bernalillo co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a town and country-seat of Bernalillo co., N. M.; on the Rio Grande and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé and the Santa Fé Pacific railroads; 75 miles S. W. of Santa Fé. It has an elevation of 5,000 feet above sea-level; is an ancient and interesting settlement, divided into the Old and New towns; and is the seat of the University of New Mexico and of a Government school for Indians. The town has extensive railroad shops, a foundry and machine works, a National bank, and large mining, trading, and job (1910) 11,020 bing interests. Pop. ; (1920) 15,157.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote this in 1921 it could report Albuquerque's population as 15,157, a railroad town of shops and a foundry; the 2020 census counted about 565,000 in the city and roughly 920,000 in the metropolitan area, making it by far New Mexico's largest place. The economy Collier's described was rebuilt after the Second World War around Kirtland Air Force Base and Sandia National Laboratories, founded in 1949 as a nuclear weapons laboratory, and the University of New Mexico grew from a small territorial college into a research university with over 20,000 students. The "Government school for Indians" was the Albuquerque Indian School, a federal boarding institution that closed in 1981; such schools are now the subject of formal federal investigation into abuses. The companion entry on Afonso de Albuquerque still stands, though Goa, which he took in 1510, remained Portuguese until India annexed it in 1961.
Written for this edition, 2026.