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  • Nadu, and easily accessible to shipping, Portuguese colonies monopolized the ... set foot the jungles in 1602 when a Portuguese priest, Ferreiri, successfully ...
    15 KB (2,206 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
  • Africa where Spanish is an official language (excluding the Spanish exclaves ... full membership of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP). ...
    26 KB (3,689 words) - 19:14, 13 February 2024
  • the carpincho in Spanish and capivara in Portuguese, H. hydrochaeris is the ... capybara in English and capivara in Portuguese, derives from Kapiÿva ...
    10 KB (1,545 words) - 00:03, 15 November 2021
  • studying philosophy and the psychology of language. Following his entrance ... an advisor on education reform in former Portuguese colonies in Africa, particularly ...
    18 KB (2,693 words) - 01:43, 23 November 2022
  • , from Portuguese cristão, was the Japanese term for Roman Catholic ... who were interested in trade with the Portuguese, received them favorably ...
    38 KB (5,413 words) - 06:55, 7 June 2024
  • are based on Catalonian law, its language is Catalan, as is a large ... in their own country; Spaniards, Portuguese, Frenchmen, and Britons ...
    26 KB (3,798 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
  • |languages = Zulu(many also speak English or Afrikaans or Portuguese ... Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique. Their language, isiZulu, is a Bantu language; ...
    23 KB (3,468 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
  • leading to it being targeted by the Portuguese, who destroyed the town in 1468. The Portuguese used the ruins of Anfa to build a military fortress ...
    20 KB (2,766 words) - 14:16, 29 November 2023
  • states flourished after contact with the Portuguese in the 15th century, and ... states flourished after contact with the Portuguese in the fifteenth century ...
    16 KB (2,385 words) - 18:51, 21 May 2024
  • and other languages including Hindi and Portuguese. Language has been ... Herald (Goa's oldest, once a Portuguese language paper known as O Heraldo ...
    39 KB (5,868 words) - 03:54, 24 May 2024
  • Italian, and weekly in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French (plus ... The Vatican has no set official language, it can be changed at any ...
    21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
  • founded the city. It developed into a Portuguese trading post exporting ... Lagos, a Portuguese word for "lakes," was a Yoruba settlement ...
    22 KB (3,240 words) - 23:06, 21 October 2022
  • The Paraná River (Río Paraná in Spanish, Rio Paraná in Portuguese ... of the Waters" (from the Guaraní language) was Sebastian Cabot in 1526. ...
    15 KB (2,350 words) - 11:25, 11 March 2023
  • The Arawak culture is still evident in language and traditions. The Arawak ... Dutch (official), Papiamento (national language), Spanish, English. ...
    22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
  • the Seven Years War as well as in the Portuguese navy against Spain. The ... the son of Jacob Phillip, a German-born language teacher, and his English ...
    18 KB (2,828 words) - 17:36, 16 August 2023
  • | native name link = Portuguese language ... Amerigo Vespucci, who traveled with a Portuguese expedition of Gonçalo ...
    21 KB (2,904 words) - 17:27, 26 March 2024
  • Retaining that title (Paulicéia Desvairada, in Portuguese), Andrade ... just of poetry but of the aesthetics of language, in order to explain the ...
    29 KB (4,379 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
  • battle by Balthazar, a prince of the Portuguese. Don Andrea tells the story ... Meanwhile, at the scene of the battle, the Portuguese have been defeated ...
    12 KB (1,976 words) - 21:20, 30 April 2023
  • * Portuguese Empire * Portuguese * Decolonization * Philippines * Manila ==Notes== ...
    13 KB (1,737 words) - 20:19, 3 May 2023
  • (or the Malay Archipelago) (Indonesian language: Nusantara). ... region from before the arrival of the Portuguese as evidenced in Magellan ...
    38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023

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