Search results for "Portuguese East Africa" - New World Encyclopedia
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- (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
- 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
- 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
- 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
