Search results for "Portuguese East Africa" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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 ...16 KB (2,318 words) - 17:29, 10 February 2023
- Spanish: San Francisco Javier; Portuguese: São Francisco Xavier; ... the Indies, arriving in Goa, the center Portuguese activity in the East, on ...15 KB (2,402 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- a sparsely populated country in Southern Africa on the Atlantic coast. It ... remained under British control. South Africa seized South West Africa ...17 KB (2,377 words) - 02:43, 11 March 2023
- Inhabited from prehistoric times, Luanda came under Portuguese rule ... Atlantic in the west to the River Kwango in the east of Angola. ...24 KB (3,367 words) - 10:35, 9 March 2023
- north. A premier trading center for West Africa that often attracted European ... and spiritual capital of Islamic West Africa in the fifteenth and sixteenth ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- The Congo River is the largest river in western Central Africa and ... the parts of Gondwanaland that are now Africa and South America. Except ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 19:05, 15 May 2020
- 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. ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...19 KB (2,660 words) - 05:43, 13 June 2023
- Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa ... states flourished after contact with the Portuguese in the 15th century, and ...16 KB (2,385 words) - 20:13, 14 December 2023
- Portuguese India ( Índia Portuguesa India's independence in 1947, Portuguese India included a number ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães, IPA pronunciation: / ... Spring 1480 – April 27, 1521) was a Portuguese maritime explorer who, ...20 KB (3,084 words) - 17:19, 26 March 2024
- of the slave trade triangle between Africa, the Caribbean, and New England ... The term originally comes from the Portuguese word "melaço," ...11 KB (1,738 words) - 13:05, 10 March 2023
- Mozambique, is a country in southeastern Africa, bordering South Africa, ... neglect under the colonial domination of the Portuguese. ...25 KB (3,580 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- 3, 1939. Nepal, Newfoundland, Tonga, South Africa, and Canada followed suit ... * South Africa: September 6, 1939 * Canada: September 10, 1939 ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 18:30, 21 July 2023
- 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 ...25 KB (3,899 words) - 07:30, 20 September 2023
- camps during the revolt in German West Africa 1904-1905 and Adolf Hitler ... European powers in the “Scramble for Africa.” Among Germany's ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- 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 ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,436 words) - 21:04, 27 November 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,394 words) - 06:41, 28 February 2023
- 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 ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 03:07, 12 July 2023
