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

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  • * Portuguese * Romanian * Russian * Spanish * Tamil }} |group2 = Endonyms ... * Africa * Americas ** North ** South * Asia ** East ** South ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Kingdom of Mutapa (Shona: Wene we Mutapa; Portuguese: Monomotapa ... and Traditional Evidence, History in Africa 3(1976): 1-17. The Mutapa ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Central Africa, sometimes referred to as Middle Africa, defines a ... Although located east of the East African Rift System *Rwanda and ...
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  • Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent ... * South Africa * Swaziland Many scholars argue that the U.N. definition ...
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  • The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: ... The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the ...
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  • A former Portuguese colony, Angola, known formally as the Republic ... Angolan culture reflects centuries of Portuguese influence, namely the predominance ...
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  • ) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of South Africa. It is ... optimism engendered by opening a sea route to the East. ...
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  • colonialism, primarily with the Dutch East India Company. Direct state ... of the Dutch empire, notably the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and Suriname ...
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  • European exploration of Africa began with the Greeks and Romans, who ... The story of the European exploration of Africa comprises many incidents ...
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  • a history of ethnocentrism, the Spanish, Portuguese, and French words—mestizaje ... South Africa's Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, passed in ...
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  • The Azores are a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about ... named after the goshawk bird (Açor in Portuguese). This bird never existed ...
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  • located in the Indian Ocean to the east of Africa. The dodo, now extinct ... Etymology, "dodo" comes from Portuguese doudo (more commonly doido ...
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  • provided a large number of captives to the Portuguese. political and economic polities existed in Africa before colonization, and ...
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  • The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern ... As skilled Portuguese sailors explored the coasts and islands of East ...
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  • The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or ... The VOC's territories became the Dutch East Indies and were expanded over ...
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