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- the new-found land that was valuable in Portuguese commerce. This plant has ... Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline ...42 KB (5,904 words) - 22:53, 20 November 2023
- described as the "breadbasket of Africa," has deteriorated to ... campaign in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa fresh in their minds. Many ...37 KB (5,599 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- country in the central part of southern Africa. Zambia covers an area of ... Northern Rhodesia was colonized in the 1890s by the British South ...31 KB (4,520 words) - 05:42, 13 June 2023
- 82 km) wide. Jamaica is 391 miles (635 km) east of Nicaragua on the Central ... in the nations of the Commonwealth as well as in Africa. ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 01:31, 8 February 2023
- and of the Portuguese word algarismo, both meaning "digit." ... Indian system of numeration in the Middle-East and then Europe. This book ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- As the Roman Empire spread throughout Europe and Northern Africa they ... The Berbers have lived in North Africa for as far back as records ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- include the British Raj, Egypt, the Dutch East Indies, and the Japanese colonial ... across the Mediterranean Sea, North Africa and into South-Eastern Europe ...36 KB (5,415 words) - 07:40, 14 January 2023
- , is a country on the coast of West Africa. It borders Liberia and Guinea ... Côte d'Ivoire is a country of western Sub-Saharan Africa, with ...28 KB (4,077 words) - 07:33, 12 January 2024
- of cultures brought by African slaves, Portuguese servants and British settlers. ... of Nations and its currency is the East Caribbean Dollar. ...27 KB (3,940 words) - 06:23, 31 July 2023
- Maldives was dominated by the Portuguese beginning in the mid-1500s ... used throughout Asia and parts of the East African coast since ancient ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- quot; state bridging central and western Africa. It is triangular in shape ... is among the most urban in western Africa, large numbers of Cameroonians ...36 KB (5,278 words) - 18:55, 25 November 2023
- many profound cultural influences on West Africa allowing the spread of its ... While Europeans would soon begin to depict Africa as backward, wild and disorganized ...52 KB (8,425 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- In West Africa, the Yorubas use cloves infused in water as a treatment ... they found their way west to the Middle East and Europe well before the ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- persists, especially in India, China, and Africa, there is controversy over ... and heroism of Lord Bentik of the East India Company. He had been ...20 KB (3,330 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- landlocked country in the southern part of Africa, between the Zambezi and ... obtained a charter for the British South Africa Company, which conquered ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea, is a nation in West Africa ... The name Guinea is used for the region of most of Africa's west ...23 KB (3,314 words) - 23:40, 25 March 2024
- the smallest population of any nation in Africa, but its greatest natural ... today has the highest per capita income in Africa and 92 percent of the people ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 19:52, 21 April 2023
- as the only truly civilized people in Africa. Language and ideology paralleled ... Kruger sought asylum in Portuguese East Africa (modern Mozambique ...38 KB (5,998 words) - 05:19, 17 November 2023
- the rheas resemble the ostriches of Africa and the emus of Australia ... running emus of Australia and ostriches of Africa, as well as the much smaller ...37 KB (5,458 words) - 21:03, 2 December 2023
- To the east are Curaçao and Bonaire, two island territories which ... Dutch, English, African dialects, and Portuguese. However, like many islands ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- (SSS Islands), in the Leeward Islands lie east of Puerto Rico and southeast ... 50 miles off the Venezuelan coast, just east of Aruba. Along with Aruba ...29 KB (4,221 words) - 04:34, 11 March 2023
- fleet revisited the Persian Gulf and the east coast of Africa. In 1421, ... the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the east coast of Africa, but after ...33 KB (5,055 words) - 06:00, 13 June 2023
- it has one of the highest population densities in Africa. ... Comoros is located off the eastern coast of Africa on the northern ...32 KB (4,718 words) - 17:40, 9 March 2024
- a new language, a blend of Spanish and Portuguese called portuñol. Linguists ... bodies of water mark its limits on the east, south, and west, and even ...30 KB (4,199 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- The Reconquista (a Spanish and Portuguese word for "Reconquest ... in their conquest of the Americas but in Africa as well. The world needs ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country in southwestern ... The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- and the Sea. It extends 25 miles (40km) east to west along a limestone ... railway station. Urban development spreads east, both inland and along the ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 06:37, 20 July 2023
- New Guinea is a large island located north of Australia, and south ... A central east-west mountain range dominates the geography of New ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States ... 580 nautical miles (1,070 km, 670 miles) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- at a street fair in New York City's [[East Village, Manhattan|East Village ... United Kingdom, and called Braai in South Africa) is a method and apparatus ...43 KB (6,886 words) - 08:03, 20 September 2023
- on the continent, along with the Brazil (Portuguese) and Suriname (Dutch) and ... the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered to the east by Suriname, to the south ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 05:41, 27 July 2023
- predominates in the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, China, and ... quot; in Spanish and "bicho do pé" in Portuguese. ...16 KB (2,392 words) - 13:39, 2 February 2024
- The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John ... of Plassey in 1757 established the British East India Company as a military ...38 KB (6,054 words) - 02:25, 22 November 2023
- importation of thousands of slaves from Africa allowed the planters to operate ... had come from the same region of West Africa, thus concentrating their ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in North Africa. The full Arabic ... Sea. Morocco borders Algeria to the east, the Mediterranean Sea and ...40 KB (5,727 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- was schooner USS Cayne that sailed to Africa as part of the United States ... vessels in the Mediterranean Sea and Africa notably aboard USS Cyane ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- longest river in length, compared to Africa's Nile River, though ... From the east of the Andes Mountains, the vast Amazon Rainforest begins ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 15:24, 19 August 2023
- gently to a low central escarpment, located east of Saudi Arabia, and north ... Considered to be one of the 15 Middle East states that comprise the ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- back through the Magellan Strait, on the east coast of South America. ... themselves in some intrigues with the Portuguese there. ...19 KB (3,035 words) - 04:49, 9 April 2024
- commonly is served as a drink in the Middle East, as a syrup used in cocktail ... parts of southeast Asia, Malaysia, the East Indies, and tropical Africa ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- In the early sixteenth century, the Portuguese built a fort in the ... the Persians, struck Basra and the British East India Company made arrangements ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 21:19, 29 December 2023
- much of the North African, Middle, and Far East regions for 1500 years, sometimes ... Folk religions practiced by tribal groups are common in Asia, Africa ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- Harps have been known since antiquity in Asia, Africa and Europe, ... forepillar can be seen adjacent to the Near East, in the wall paintings of ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- eastern Europe and parts of the Middle East. By the year 2000, the ... *[http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Sculpture/menu_Sculpt.html African Sculpture] ...27 KB (4,032 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2023
- Hakluyt edited a translation from the Portuguese of Antonio Galvão's ... his name occurs as an adviser to the East India Company, in which ...37 KB (5,465 words) - 20:16, 8 December 2022
- society, the Roman Empire, in the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas ... These children often come from Asia, Africa, and South America. ...45 KB (6,987 words) - 14:55, 27 April 2023
- is a thin sliver of land in Western Africa. From its 32-mile (51 km ... power and held it for 38 years, making him Africa's longest sitting dictator ...26 KB (3,713 words) - 03:53, 1 May 2023
- to the south by the South, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. Its ... of Jewish, German, Italian, Irish, Portuguese, and French-Canadian descent. ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 23:24, 28 June 2022
- city. Merchants from Persia, China, India, Africa, and Europe were all found ... Jarouche started publishing a thorough Portuguese translation of the work ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- colonies and protectorates in Asia and [Africa]] following World War II ... while in some countries in French West Africa (excluding the Maghreb countries ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- Plata region is greatly diversified. To the east in the upper Paraná basin ... 039;s male population, the Spaniards and Portuguese interbred with the indigenous ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- countries throughout South America and Africa. Havana is a city of ... referred to as Havana in Dutch, English, and Portuguese. ...29 KB (4,178 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- Massachusetts Bay Company and the British East India Company chartered by ... to foster trade between Scotland and the Far East. After union many ...59 KB (8,891 words) - 02:41, 22 November 2023
- Asian countries and later to Europe, South Africa and the Caribbean, where ... strong culinary influences from the Middle East. Meat (including beef) plays ...30 KB (4,736 words) - 06:48, 12 January 2024
- Spanish participation in the Scramble for Africa was negligible: Spanish Morocco ... client-kingdom of Granada in the south-east by exacting tributes of gold ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- Barbados, situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent ... of the bearded ones) in an official Portuguese document. It is a matter ...33 KB (4,815 words) - 08:02, 20 September 2023
- of the west-central portion of sub-Saharan Africa and is bounded by (clockwise ... frontier. The country is bordered in the east by two of these: Lake Albert ...43 KB (6,213 words) - 09:27, 28 January 2024
- colonies in North America, the British East India Company and Ireland ... On the other side of the world, the British East India Company acquired ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- Japanese and Persians, and later the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and French ... In 1511, Ayutthaya received a diplomatic mission from the Portuguese ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
- of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. The name Sierra Leone was ... Sierra Leone is located on the west coast of Africa, north of the ...38 KB (5,601 words) - 20:08, 21 April 2023
- the Indian Ocean, off the eastern coast of Africa with a population of more ... contact began in the 1500s, when Portuguese sea captain Diego Dias ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- of Somalia, is located on the Horn of Africa in East Africa. It is bordered ... to the largest diaspora of Somalis outside Africa. In 2011–2012, a political ...54 KB (7,776 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- In 1578, the direct line of the Portuguese royal family had ended ... Philip spoke Portuguese mostly until his mother died. His power helped ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 03:19, 24 November 2022
- are part of the following provinces, from east to west: Girona, Barcelona ... part of the following départements, from east to west: Pyrénées-Orientales ...23 KB (3,535 words) - 14:45, 2 July 2022
- most widely spoken language of sub-Saharan Africa. It is now the only African ... inhabiting about 1,500 miles of the East African coastline, has become ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- and his clients included the Dutch East India Company, Oldenbarnevelt ... the governor generalship of the Dutch East India Company in Asia, but ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- history, ruling vast territories in North Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle ... of power, it included Anatolia, the Middle East, parts of North Africa, and ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- willingly and that it had escorted him to Africa for his own protection. As ... populations. Many successful Haitians move east to Long Island, where Elmont ...32 KB (4,700 words) - 19:05, 27 April 2024
- Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River by land ... Georgia is bordered on the south by Florida; on the east by the Atlantic ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 15:40, 29 November 2022
- Park on the west, and Biscayne National Park on the east. ... a railroad tycoon, to expand his Florida East Coast Railroad to the region ...30 KB (4,379 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- * Kanun (Middle East, Persia) * Kobza (Ukraine) * Konghou (China) ... * Kora (West Africa) * Koto (Japan) * Krar (Ethiopia) * Kutiyapi (Philippines ...26 KB (3,682 words) - 21:00, 26 February 2023
- thought that he had arrived in the East Indies. The misnomer remains ... when European colonists arrived on the East Coast. There were periods ...47 KB (6,955 words) - 19:42, 4 March 2024
- use, particularly in reference to Africa, soon after the process of ... from the newly independent states of Africa and the Pan-Africanist movement ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- from Antarctica to Australia, South Africa, and South America. The exceptions ... foraged to the west of Gough and females to the east. Albatrosses are ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge, U.K ... " in Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, 2nd. ed ...42 KB (6,212 words) - 23:54, 4 March 2024
- (five weeks was the quickest) traveling east to west across the Atlantic ... former slaves of the British Empire back in Africa. The Abolition of ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- the Caribbean Sea. It borders Guyana to the east, Brazil to the south, and ... far west to the Orinoco River delta in the east. To the south, the dissected ...35 KB (5,081 words) - 15:01, 3 May 2023
- continues to be measured in degrees east or west of Greenwich, thus ... Europeans explored new lands, such as Africa and the Americas, and they ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- origin; akin to Old Russian Slovene, an East Slavic tribe.[http://www.britannica ... Most of today's slaves are present in Africa, Asia, and to a lesser extent ...50 KB (7,650 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- Italy, Portugal, Asia, Latin America, Africa, other parts of the United ... Rhode Island, and Connecticut, Portuguese music is preserved by Portuguese ...32 KB (4,620 words) - 09:13, 11 March 2023
- are steered primarily westward by the east-to-west winds on the equatorward ... usually turn north (before being blown east), and tropical cyclones in ...68 KB (9,719 words) - 18:20, 2 May 2023
- territory of the United States located east of the Dominican Republic ... During the 1800s, hundreds of Corsican, French, and Portuguese, along ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- of South America. It is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil, to ... and colonies under Spanish and Portuguese rule, the name was adopted ...40 KB (5,666 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- Europe and European territories in North Africa during World War II by Nazi ... territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically ...63 KB (9,654 words) - 20:59, 31 December 2023
- "Cougar" is borrowed from the Portuguese çuçuarana, via ... closely related to the modern cheetah of Africa and western Asia (Johnson ...41 KB (6,179 words) - 00:14, 15 January 2023
- "Central State"), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's ... themselves. It has been traced through Portuguese, Malay, and Persian back ...89 KB (11,967 words) - 17:55, 26 March 2023
- da Silva, "Anita," a woman of Portuguese and Indian descent, who ... His grandson carried the sword to South Africa with him almost half a century ...22 KB (3,486 words) - 16:50, 15 December 2022
- diverse Nariva Swamp on Trinidad's east coast). The Red Howler Monkey ... in the Nariva Swamp on Trinidad's east coast with the mighty Green ...48 KB (7,150 words) - 17:39, 2 May 2023
- in central Sri Lanka, Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore, and Mauritius ... northeast Sri Lanka until 1619, when the Portuguese conquered Sri Lanka. Then ...56 KB (8,191 words) - 16:28, 13 January 2024
- In 1975, his lecture "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's ... critical of European literature about Africa. He read Irish novelist Joyce ...79 KB (12,034 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- air power, particularly for the British, Portuguese, Belgians, and Australians ... troops, aided by Australian, Brazilian, Portuguese, and New Zealand troops ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible ... to a different genus. It originated in Africa and is now a widespread pasture ...46 KB (6,635 words) - 22:34, 28 January 2024
- Kuwait borders the Persian Gulf to the east, with 121 miles (195 kilometers ... In the early sixteenth century, Portuguese built a fort in the area ...41 KB (6,203 words) - 15:18, 22 March 2024
- Europe, with two small exclaves in North Africa (both bordering Morocco) ... south, the Mediterranean Sea to the south-east. The Pyrenees Mountains form ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- links with former potential enemies to the east, which culminated with the ... Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and East Germany, as a formal response ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- Edson Arantes do Nascimento ( (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈɛtsõ aˈɾɐ̃tʃiz ... insult since the word had no meaning in Portuguese. He discovered in the 2000s ...132 KB (18,506 words) - 20:27, 15 February 2024
- India had been administered by the British East India Company, which was officially ... ties with British possessions in the Middle East; the Indian rupee served as ...52 KB (7,786 words) - 02:44, 22 November 2023
- Spanish (8 percent), Arabic (5 percent), Portuguese (4 percent), Indonesian/Malaysian ... America and the Caribbean, 11 percent in Africa, 4 percent in the Middle ...48 KB (7,277 words) - 23:46, 30 November 2022
- it hit, when the tsunami approached from the east. Tsunami occur most ... Tens of thousands of Portuguese who survived the Great Lisbon Earthquake ...44 KB (6,684 words) - 18:38, 2 May 2023
- in the contemporary era, to Spanish and Portuguese irregulars operating with ... communists during the revolutionary wars of East and Southeast Asia.Michael ...49 KB (7,286 words) - 23:47, 6 March 2023
