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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Kingdom of Mutapa (Shona: Wene we Mutapa; Portuguese: Monomotapa ... and Traditional Evidence, History in Africa 3(1976): 1-17. The Mutapa ...

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 ...

Central Africa, sometimes referred to as Middle Africa, defines a ... Although located east of the East African Rift System *Rwanda and ...

Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent ... * South Africa * Swaziland Many scholars argue that the U.N. definition ...

The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: ... The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the ...

A former Portuguese colony, Angola, known formally as the Republic ... Angolan culture reflects centuries of Portuguese influence, namely the predominance ...

) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of South Africa. It is ... optimism engendered by opening a sea route to the East. ...

colonialism, primarily with the Dutch East India Company. Direct state ... of the Dutch empire, notably the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and Suriname ...

European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who ... The story of the European exploration of Africa comprises many incidents ...

a history of ethnocentrism, the Spanish, Portuguese, and French words—mestizaje ... South Africa's Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, passed in ...

The Azores are a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about ... named after the goshawk bird (Açor in Portuguese). This bird never existed ...

located in the Indian Ocean to the east of Africa. The dodo, now extinct ... Etymology, "dodo" comes from Portuguese doudo (more commonly doido ...

provided a large number of captives to the Portuguese. political and economic polities existed in Africa before colonization, and ...

The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...

The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or ... The VOC's territories became the Dutch East Indies and were expanded over ...

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 ...

the largest colonies of water birds in West Africa. The 12,000 km² ... of the richest fishing waters in western Africa and serve as nesting grounds ...

Spanish: San Francisco Javier; Portuguese: São Francisco Xavier; ... the Indies, arriving in Goa, the center Portuguese activity in the East, on ...

a sparsely populated country in Southern Africa on the Atlantic coast. It ... remained under British control. South Africa seized South West Africa ...

Inhabited from prehistoric times, Luanda came under Portuguese rule ... Atlantic in the west to the River Kwango in the east of Angola. ...

north. A premier trading center for West Africa that often attracted European ... and spiritual capital of Islamic West Africa in the fifteenth and sixteenth ...

The Congo River is the largest river in western Central Africa and ... the parts of Gondwanaland that are now Africa and South America. Except ...

is connected to the Gulf of Oman in the east by the Strait of Hormuz. Its ... and Tigris Rivers, where the left (east) bank is held by Iran. ...

Ocean 22 miles (35 km) off the coast of East Africa, of numerous small ... called "a jewel in the lap of Africa," the archipelago has ...

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa ... states flourished after contact with the Portuguese in the 15th century, and ...

Portuguese India ( Índia Portuguesa India's independence in 1947, Portuguese India included a number ...

Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães, IPA pronunciation: / ... Spring 1480 – April 27, 1521) was a Portuguese maritime explorer who, ...

of the slave trade triangle between Africa, the Caribbean, and New England ... The term originally comes from the Portuguese word "melaço," ...

Mozambique, is a country in southeastern Africa, bordering South Africa, ... neglect under the colonial domination of the Portuguese. ...

3, 1939. Nepal, Newfoundland, Tonga, South Africa, and Canada followed suit ... * South Africa: September 6, 1939 * Canada: September 10, 1939 ...

Bantu is a general term for over 400 different ethnic groups in Africa ... After the Bantu expansion, many of the great kingdoms of South Africa ...

camps during the revolt in German West Africa 1904-1905 and Adolf Hitler ... European powers in the “Scramble for Africa.” Among Germany's ...

Republic of Tanzania, is a nation on the east coast of Africa. The name ... and unique in the world; it contains Africa's highest and lowest ...

which is the largest natural harbor in Africa, and the third largest natural ... Bay College, the oldest university in West Africa, founded in 1827. The university ...

from being the largest exporter of food in Africa to the biggest importer of ... the only tertiary education institution in East Africa), where he obtained ...

one of the smallest nations in continental Africa. Formerly the Portuguese ... to the north, Guinea to the south and east, and the Atlantic Ocean to ...

guarded by two forts built on hills to its east and southwest. ... Unlike most capital cities in southern Africa, Antananarivo was already ...

emographics/census-main.htm South Africa grows to 44.8 million], on ... |regions = South Africa |region1 = KwaZulu-Natal |pop1 = 7.6 million ...

port, the largest of the Maghreb and North Africa, and is one of the largest ... leading to it being targeted by the Portuguese, who destroyed the town in 1468. ...

Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa with its capital and ... Kenya's location on the eastern coast of Africa and central highlands ...

on the Eastern Indian Ocean coast of Africa. Situated close to the equator ... whose families originated from the Middle East and Indian sub-continent areas ...

rediscovered, possibly accidentally, by Portuguese sailors and settled by ... lies about 360 miles from the coast of Africa, 535 miles from Lisbon, 230 ...

The Republic of South Africa, most commonly referred to as South Africa ... South Africa experienced a significantly different evolution from ...

The Portuguese Colonial War, also known as the Overseas War in Portugal ... a black football player from Portuguese East Africa named Eusébio, is ...

"Canton" was the convenient Portuguese or French romanization ... The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive to the city by sea ...

They are approximately 354 km (220 mi) east of the mainland. The Rocas ... Amerigo Vespucci, who traveled with a Portuguese expedition of Gonçalo ...

one-third of the continent of Africa for more than thirty years ... Robert Moffat, who inspired him to go to Africa. Dr. Moffat spoke of the ...

against independence movement across the Portuguese Empire. After decades of ... were aroused by the new anti-clerical Portuguese First Republic. Writing ...

by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean. North ... America ranks fourth in area (after Asia, Africa, and North America) and fifth ...

The Portuguese occupied Muscat for a 140-year period (1508–1648 ... The Ottomans drove out the Portuguese, but were pushed out themselves ...

and squash, introduced by Arab and Portuguese traders during the sixteenth ... across the world, especially those of South East Asia. It is now one of the ...

role in two voyages which explored the east coast of South America between ... Juan Dias de Solis, a Portuguese explorer in service to Spain may ...

Livingstone Road to the south, the Great East Road to Malawi, and the Great ... events have earned the city the moniker of Africa's "City of Peace." ...

in terms of population, in continental Africa, though Seychelles and São ... in the last decade has become sub-Saharan Africa's third largest oil ...

for its maritime successes during the Portuguese Age of Discovery. The city ... spans the Tagus to the west of the city. East of that bridge, the Tagus ...

1784 to 1878, mainly in North America and Africa, selling or losing its territory ... the Berlin Conference (1884) which divided Africa between the major powers ...

the Americas to the west, and Eurasia and Africa to the east. A component ... Sea, Norwegian Sea, and Barents Sea. To the east, the boundaries of the ocean ...

its culture, as has its native peoples, East Indians, Africans, and the ... Sea just north of Trinidad and Tobago and east of Central America. Geographically ...

is 250 kilometers (155 mi) long, west to east, and protracts from continental ... stretching from the Persian Gulf to North Africa's Maghreb in the Mediterranean ...

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous ... Africa, particularly central eastern Africa, is widely regarded within ...

The Zambezi (also spelled Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in ... Mozambique, which provides power to South Africa. There is also a smaller ...

Réunion is an island, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar ... The collective title is derived from the Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas ...

Island, Rough Rock Island, Flat Rock (East), The Buoys, Sandy Bay Island ... Boatswain Bird Island, Boatswain Bird Rock (east), White Rocks (south), and ...

father was a wealthy lawyer of Madeiran Portuguese descent who could afford ... his travels in Spain, Mexico, North Africa, plus the streets and cafés ...

a former French colony of western-central Africa. It borders Gabon, Cameroon ... Congo is located in the central-western part of sub-Saharan Africa ...

the oasis populations of the Northern Africa Maghreb region. ... within place names across Northern Africa in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia ...

at least for a certain period of time. In Africa, Asia and South America, ... in Quartier Administratif, Abong-Mbang, East Province, Cameroon]] ...

The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked nation in Southern Africa, ... to peoples living today in the Horn of Africa. At another site, dated 1500 ...

spread over a wide area of North-Western Africa and the Iberian peninsula ... of that Algiers, extending his rule as far east as Oran. ...

The Bushmen (also known as Khwe, Basarwa, or San) peoples of South ... and caves of the Kalahari in southwest Africa. About half of modern Bushmen ...

The Republic of Benin is a sliver of a country in West Africa, the ... area between the rain forests of Central Africa and of those farther west ...

from a height of 150 meters. The topography east of the city is marked by ridges ... Portuguese settlers in 1482, found the present site of Accra occupied ...

all of them native to Asia, Europe, or northern Africa. ... *The East Caucasian tur, C. cylindricornis, is found in Azerbaijan ...

Socotra, about 350 km to the south off the Horn of Africa. ... To the east, the mountains range mostly between 1000 m and 2000 m ...

The Paraná River (Río Paraná in Spanish, Rio Paraná in Portuguese ... failure of the expedition, and was banished to Africa. Encyclopedia ...

33 are 25 from the West and eight from the East; three women; 18 bishops, ... The Assyrian Church of the East recognizes as Doctors of the Church ...

Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad; Xhosa: iKapa) is one of South Africa ... station for Dutch ships sailing to Eastern Africa, India, and the Far East ...

regarded as an extension of France into Africa, which, in the tradition ... in 1562) were not successful, due to Portuguese and Spanish vigilance. ...

is located on the Cape Verde Peninsula, Africa's westernmost point ... facilities are located to the north and east, while the industrial estate ...

date to the sixteenth century, when the Portuguese referred to the bay as ... day eastern North America and northwestern Africa were joined. As the rift ...

on the Atlantic coast of West Central Africa. Located on the equator, ... Gabon is located on the Atlantic coast of central Africa. The climate ...

have seen in the Acts of Thomas (written in east Syria in the early third century ... visited South Indian cities of Kayal in the East Coast and Kollam (Quilon) ...

Rhodes profited greatly by exploiting Southern Africa's natural ... In the context of what has been called the Scramble for Africa, Rhodes ...

Tulip species are native to southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia ... of Lopo Vaz de Sampayo, governor of the Portuguese possessions in India. Having ...

devised centuries earlier in the Middle East, where people including the ... parts of the Roman Empire, from Germany to Africa, and especially in the city ...

territory, located in the Caribbean to the east of Central America. The 36 ... The islands extend east-west for 60 miles and are located just west ...

is an island nation off the coast of Africa in the southwest Indian Ocean ... and the island of Rodrigues 570 km to the east-northeast. ...

sea," bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan ... increasing cultural exchanges between the East and the West. Peaceful cooperation ...

*** Typically found: Mediterranean countries (Europe and North Africa ... *** Typically found: in North Africa. [[Image:Achatina fulica Thailand ...

John in Central Asia, and eventually Portuguese explorers convinced themselves ... combined in the public imagination of Africa/Asia in the Middle Ages. ...

in the mountains of Ethiopia and central Africa and draining into the Mediterranean ... rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant source ...

instrumentation that enabled Portuguese explorers to venture down ... colonial occupation by the Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English, largely ...

south of the Sénégal River in western Africa. The name "Senegal" ... west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau ...

002 km²) and is bordered on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the west ... left what is now New York Harbor and headed east until he discovered what was ...

from the Romance word casta (seen in Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian) ... colonial Latin America under Spanish and Portuguese rule, Japan, Korea, some ...

is situated between French Guiana to the east and Guyana to the west. The ... and later contract laborers from the Dutch East Indies and India, as well ...

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 ...

described as the "breadbasket of Africa," has deteriorated to ... campaign in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa fresh in their minds. Many ...

country in the central part of southern Africa. Zambia covers an area of ... Northern Rhodesia was colonized in the 1890s by the British South ...

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. ...

and of the Portuguese word algarismo, both meaning "digit." ... Indian system of numeration in the Middle-East and then Europe. This book ...

As the Roman Empire spread throughout Europe and Northern Africa they ... The Berbers have lived in North Africa for as far back as records ...

include the British Raj, Egypt, the Dutch East Indies, and the Japanese colonial ... across the Mediterranean Sea, North Africa and into South-Eastern Europe ...

, 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 ...

of cultures brought by African slaves, Portuguese servants and British settlers. ... of Nations and its currency is the East Caribbean Dollar. ...

Maldives was dominated by the Portuguese beginning in the mid-1500s ... used throughout Asia and parts of the East African coast since ancient ...

quot; state bridging central and western Africa. It is triangular in shape ... is among the most urban in western Africa, large numbers of Cameroonians ...

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 ...

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 ...

persists, especially in India, China, and Africa, there is controversy over ... and heroism of Lord Bentik of the East India Company. He had been ...

landlocked country in the southern part of Africa, between the Zambezi and ... obtained a charter for the British South Africa Company, which conquered ...

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 ...

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 ...

as the only truly civilized people in Africa. Language and ideology paralleled ... Kruger sought asylum in Portuguese East Africa (modern Mozambique ...

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 ...

To the east are Curaçao and Bonaire, two island territories which ... Dutch, English, African dialects, and Portuguese. However, like many islands ...

(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 ...

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 ...

it has one of the highest population densities in Africa. ... Comoros is located off the eastern coast of Africa on the northern ...

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 ...

The Reconquista (a Spanish and Portuguese word for "Reconquest ... in their conquest of the Americas but in Africa as well. The world needs ...

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country in southwestern ... The land within the borders of today's Portuguese Republic has ...

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 ...

New Guinea is a large island located north of Australia, and south ... A central east-west mountain range dominates the geography of New ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

predominates in the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, China, and ... quot; in Spanish and "bicho do pé" in Portuguese. ...

The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as "John ... of Plassey in 1757 established the British East India Company as a military ...

importation of thousands of slaves from Africa allowed the planters to operate ... had come from the same region of West Africa, thus concentrating their ...

The Kingdom of Morocco is a country in North Africa. The full Arabic ... Sea. Morocco borders Algeria to the east, the Mediterranean Sea and ...

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 ...

longest river in length, compared to Africa's Nile River, though ... From the east of the Andes Mountains, the vast Amazon Rainforest begins ...

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 ...

back through the Magellan Strait, on the east coast of South America. ... themselves in some intrigues with the Portuguese there. ...

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 ...

In the early sixteenth century, the Portuguese built a fort in the ... the Persians, struck Basra and the British East India Company made arrangements ...

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 ...

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 ...

eastern Europe and parts of the Middle East. By the year 2000, the ... *[http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Sculpture/menu_Sculpt.html African Sculpture] ...

Hakluyt edited a translation from the Portuguese of Antonio Galvão's ... his name occurs as an adviser to the East India Company, in which ...

society, the Roman Empire, in the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas ... These children often come from Asia, Africa, and South America. ...

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 ...

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. ...

city. Merchants from Persia, China, India, Africa, and Europe were all found ... Jarouche started publishing a thorough Portuguese translation of the work ...

colonies and protectorates in Asia and [Africa]] following World War II ... while in some countries in French West Africa (excluding the Maghreb countries ...

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 ...

countries throughout South America and Africa. Havana is a city of ... referred to as Havana in Dutch, English, and Portuguese. ...

Massachusetts Bay Company and the British East India Company chartered by ... to foster trade between Scotland and the Far East. After union many ...

Asian countries and later to Europe, South Africa and the Caribbean, where ... strong culinary influences from the Middle East. Meat (including beef) plays ...

Spanish participation in the Scramble for Africa was negligible: Spanish Morocco ... client-kingdom of Granada in the south-east by exacting tributes of gold ...

Barbados, situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent ... of the bearded ones) in an official Portuguese document. It is a matter ...

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 ...

colonies in North America, the British East India Company and Ireland ... On the other side of the world, the British East India Company acquired ...

Japanese and Persians, and later the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and French ... In 1511, Ayutthaya received a diplomatic mission from the Portuguese ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1578, the direct line of the Portuguese royal family had ended ... Philip spoke Portuguese mostly until his mother died. His power helped ...

are part of the following provinces, from east to west: Girona, Barcelona ... part of the following départements, from east to west: Pyrénées-Orientales ...

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 ...

and his clients included the Dutch East India Company, Oldenbarnevelt ... the governor generalship of the Dutch East India Company in Asia, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Park on the west, and Biscayne National Park on the east. ... a railroad tycoon, to expand his Florida East Coast Railroad to the region ...

thought that he had arrived in the East Indies. The misnomer remains ... when European colonists arrived on the East Coast. There were periods ...

* Kanun (Middle East, Persia) * Kobza (Ukraine) * Konghou (China) ... * Kora (West Africa) * Koto (Japan) * Krar (Ethiopia) * Kutiyapi (Philippines ...

use, particularly in reference to Africa, soon after the process of ... from the newly independent states of Africa and the Pan-Africanist movement ...

from Antarctica to Australia, South Africa, and South America. The exceptions ... foraged to the west of Gough and females to the east. Albatrosses are ...

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 ...

(five weeks was the quickest) traveling east to west across the Atlantic ... former slaves of the British Empire back in Africa. The Abolition of ...

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 ...

continues to be measured in degrees east or west of Greenwich, thus ... Europeans explored new lands, such as Africa and the Americas, and they ...

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 ...

Italy, Portugal, Asia, Latin America, Africa, other parts of the United ... Rhode Island, and Connecticut, Portuguese music is preserved by Portuguese ...

are steered primarily westward by the east-to-west winds on the equatorward ... usually turn north (before being blown east), and tropical cyclones in ...

territory of the United States located east of the Dominican Republic ... During the 1800s, hundreds of Corsican, French, and Portuguese, along ...

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 ...

Europe and European territories in North Africa during World War II by Nazi ... territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically ...

"Cougar" is borrowed from the Portuguese çuçuarana, via ... closely related to the modern cheetah of Africa and western Asia (Johnson ...

"Central State"), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's ... themselves. It has been traced through Portuguese, Malay, and Persian back ...

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 ...

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 ...

in central Sri Lanka, Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore, and Mauritius ... northeast Sri Lanka until 1619, when the Portuguese conquered Sri Lanka. Then ...

In 1975, his lecture "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's ... critical of European literature about Africa. He read Irish novelist Joyce ...

air power, particularly for the British, Portuguese, Belgians, and Australians ... troops, aided by Australian, Brazilian, Portuguese, and New Zealand troops ...

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 ...

Europe, with two small exclaves in North Africa (both bordering Morocco) ... south, the Mediterranean Sea to the south-east. The Pyrenees Mountains form ...

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 ...

links with former potential enemies to the east, which culminated with the ... Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania, and East Germany, as a formal response ...

Edson Arantes do Nascimento ( (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈɛtsõ aˈɾɐ̃tʃiz ... insult since the word had no meaning in Portuguese. He discovered in the 2000s ...

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 ...

Spanish (8 percent), Arabic (5 percent), Portuguese (4 percent), Indonesian/Malaysian ... America and the Caribbean, 11 percent in Africa, 4 percent in the Middle ...

it hit, when the tsunami approached from the east. Tsunami occur most ... Tens of thousands of Portuguese who survived the Great Lisbon Earthquake ...

in the contemporary era, to Spanish and Portuguese irregulars operating with ... communists during the revolutionary wars of East and Southeast Asia.Michael ...

as far south as present-day Mumbai, as far east as Delhi, as far west as the ... the teachings of Buddha to Central Asia, East Asia, Tibet, Sri Lanka and ...

only 110 miles at its widest point east to west. This encompasses ... Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage at ...

as well as its influence in the Middle East region. Cyrus the Great ... the north, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and Iraq and Turkey to the ...

vocabulary of the language. In languages of east Asia such as Thai, Burmese ... position in the Americas and much of Africa. The Sino-Tibetan languages ...

in Cuba. He considered Western-dominated Africa ripe for revolution, and ... President Sékou Touré, praising him as Africa's greatest leader, and ...

and Marne rivers from the city's south-east and east, and along the Seine ... of the (EMEA) region (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) with more EMEA ...

Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, South Africa, and a substantial diaspora ... at Elephanta Island were damaged by the Portuguese for this reason. ...

the island of Great Britain, the north-east part of the island of Ireland ... Scotland's geography is varied, with lowlands in the south and ...

trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa. ... world, particularly Russia and the Middle East. In February and March, Vice ...

of megalomania as early as 1892, by the Portuguese man of letters Eça de ... to exert German influence in South Africa following the dispatch of ...