Search results for "Portuguese East Africa" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Eastern Africa is a region of sub–Saharan Africa containing the ... *East Africa, made up of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda; * Horn of Africa ...13 KB (1,820 words) - 17:39, 12 February 2024
- a Nobleman of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around ... Colony, and shipping and trade with the East was developing into a major ...10 KB (1,706 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful ... of Portugal to find Christian lands in the East (the king, like many Europeans ...13 KB (2,082 words) - 14:38, 3 May 2023
- Furthermore he became fascinated with Africa in general, with the legend ... He is credited by some as having joined East and West. A royal prince who ...10 KB (1,543 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2017
- The Kingdom of Mutapa (Shona: Wene we Mutapa; Portuguese: Monomotapa ... and Traditional Evidence, History in Africa 3(1976): 1-17. The Mutapa ...16 KB (2,420 words) - 23:43, 21 October 2023
- Alhandra - Goa, December 16, 1515) was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, a ... time known as The Great, The Caesar of the East and as The Portuguese Mars ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- Central Africa, sometimes referred to as Middle Africa, defines a ... Although located east of the East African Rift System *Rwanda and ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:51, 3 December 2023
- Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent ... * South Africa * Swaziland Many scholars argue that the U.N. definition ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: ... The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the ...16 KB (2,550 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- A former Portuguese colony, Angola, known formally as the Republic ... Angolan culture reflects centuries of Portuguese influence, namely the predominance ...17 KB (2,316 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
- ) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of South Africa. It is ... optimism engendered by opening a sea route to the East. ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- colonialism, primarily with the Dutch East India Company. Direct state ... of the Dutch empire, notably the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and Suriname ...20 KB (2,997 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2020
- European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who ... The story of the European exploration of Africa comprises many incidents ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- a history of ethnocentrism, the Spanish, Portuguese, and French words—mestizaje ... South Africa's Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, passed in ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- The Azores are a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about ... named after the goshawk bird (Açor in Portuguese). This bird never existed ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:18, 26 August 2023
- located in the Indian Ocean to the east of Africa. The dodo, now extinct ... Etymology, "dodo" comes from Portuguese doudo (more commonly doido ...10 KB (1,436 words) - 11:03, 2 August 2023
- provided a large number of captives to the Portuguese. political and economic polities existed in Africa before colonization, and ...16 KB (2,448 words) - 03:03, 5 November 2022
- The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or ... The VOC's territories became the Dutch East Indies and were expanded over ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- states in the coastal part of West Africa until it was annexed by the ... Edos to have extended from Onitsha in the east, through the forested southwestern ...12 KB (1,841 words) - 09:14, 27 September 2023
