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- 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 ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 08:06, 28 January 2024
- against independence movement across the Portuguese Empire. After decades of ... were aroused by the new anti-clerical Portuguese First Republic. Writing ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 20:38, 22 December 2022
- 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 ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- The Portuguese occupied Muscat for a 140-year period (1508–1648 ... The Ottomans drove out the Portuguese, but were pushed out themselves ...14 KB (2,071 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...28 KB (4,219 words) - 22:01, 4 February 2023
- 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." ...21 KB (2,892 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- in terms of population, in continental Africa, though Seychelles and São ... in the last decade has become sub-Saharan Africa's third largest oil ...26 KB (3,689 words) - 19:14, 13 February 2024
- 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 ...34 KB (4,753 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,669 words) - 00:38, 27 February 2023
- 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 ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
- 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 ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous ... Africa, particularly central eastern Africa, is widely regarded within ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- The Zambezi (also spelled Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in ... Mozambique, which provides power to South Africa. There is also a smaller ...22 KB (3,457 words) - 21:14, 31 January 2024
- Réunion is an island, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar ... The collective title is derived from the Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- Island, Rough Rock Island, Flat Rock (East), The Buoys, Sandy Bay Island ... Boatswain Bird Island, Boatswain Bird Rock (east), White Rocks (south), and ...33 KB (4,923 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- father was a wealthy lawyer of Madeiran Portuguese descent who could afford ... his travels in Spain, Mexico, North Africa, plus the streets and cafés ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 04:56, 3 August 2022
- a former French colony of western-central Africa. It borders Gabon, Cameroon ... Congo is located in the central-western part of sub-Saharan Africa ...23 KB (3,296 words) - 19:42, 16 April 2023
- the oasis populations of the Northern Africa Maghreb region. ... within place names across Northern Africa in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia ...17 KB (2,566 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- at least for a certain period of time. In Africa, Asia and South America, ... in Quartier Administratif, Abong-Mbang, East Province, Cameroon]] ...23 KB (3,445 words) - 10:17, 21 January 2023
- 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 ...23 KB (3,242 words) - 10:56, 9 March 2023
- spread over a wide area of North-Western Africa and the Iberian peninsula ... of that Algiers, extending his rule as far east as Oran. ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 08:18, 23 July 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 18:49, 22 November 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,686 words) - 19:41, 27 September 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 07:30, 14 June 2023
- all of them native to Asia, Europe, or northern Africa. ... *The East Caucasian tur, C. cylindricornis, is found in Azerbaijan ...18 KB (2,764 words) - 18:43, 30 August 2021
- 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 ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- The Paraná River (Río Paraná in Spanish, Rio Paraná in Portuguese ... failure of the expedition, and was banished to Africa. Encyclopedia ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 11:25, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (1,860 words) - 16:32, 29 January 2024
- Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad; Xhosa: iKapa) is one of South Africa ... station for Dutch ships sailing to Eastern Africa, India, and the Far East ...27 KB (3,877 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- regarded as an extension of France into Africa, which, in the tradition ... in 1562) were not successful, due to Portuguese and Spanish vigilance. ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- is located on the Cape Verde Peninsula, Africa's westernmost point ... facilities are located to the north and east, while the industrial estate ...23 KB (3,372 words) - 08:41, 24 January 2024
- 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 ...16 KB (2,540 words) - 03:10, 26 September 2023
- on the Atlantic coast of West Central Africa. Located on the equator, ... Gabon is located on the Atlantic coast of central Africa. The climate ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 07:34, 15 April 2024
- 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) ...21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- Rhodes profited greatly by exploiting Southern Africa's natural ... In the context of what has been called the Scramble for Africa, Rhodes ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 20:13, 4 January 2024
- Tulip species are native to southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia ... of Lopo Vaz de Sampayo, governor of the Portuguese possessions in India. Having ...14 KB (2,216 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 15:59, 11 August 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- 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. ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- sea," bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan ... increasing cultural exchanges between the East and the West. Peaceful cooperation ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- *** Typically found: Mediterranean countries (Europe and North Africa ... *** Typically found: in North Africa. [[Image:Achatina fulica Thailand ...16 KB (2,467 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- John in Central Asia, and eventually Portuguese explorers convinced themselves ... combined in the public imagination of Africa/Asia in the Middle Ages. ...29 KB (4,428 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- 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 ...23 KB (3,670 words) - 09:48, 11 March 2023
- instrumentation that enabled Portuguese explorers to venture down ... colonial occupation by the Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English, largely ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- 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 ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- 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 ...30 KB (4,360 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- from the Romance word casta (seen in Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian) ... colonial Latin America under Spanish and Portuguese rule, Japan, Korea, some ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 14:24, 29 November 2023
- 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 ...30 KB (4,282 words) - 12:07, 17 April 2024
