Search results for "Portuguese East Africa" - New World Encyclopedia
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- of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. The name Sierra Leone was ... Sierra Leone is located on the west coast of Africa, north of the ...38 KB (5,601 words) - 20:08, 21 April 2023
- the Indian Ocean, off the eastern coast of Africa with a population of more ... contact began in the 1500s, when Portuguese sea captain Diego Dias ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- of Somalia, is located on the Horn of Africa in East Africa. It is bordered ... to the largest diaspora of Somalis outside Africa. In 2011–2012, a political ...54 KB (7,776 words) - 15:11, 27 April 2023
- In 1578, the direct line of the Portuguese royal family had ended ... Philip spoke Portuguese mostly until his mother died. His power helped ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 03:19, 24 November 2022
- are part of the following provinces, from east to west: Girona, Barcelona ... part of the following départements, from east to west: Pyrénées-Orientales ...23 KB (3,535 words) - 14:45, 2 July 2022
- most widely spoken language of sub-Saharan Africa. It is now the only African ... inhabiting about 1,500 miles of the East African coastline, has become ...43 KB (6,328 words) - 15:52, 12 January 2024
- and his clients included the Dutch East India Company, Oldenbarnevelt ... the governor generalship of the Dutch East India Company in Asia, but ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- history, ruling vast territories in North Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle ... of power, it included Anatolia, the Middle East, parts of North Africa, and ...38 KB (5,718 words) - 05:55, 18 November 2022
- Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River by land ... Georgia is bordered on the south by Florida; on the east by the Atlantic ...33 KB (4,647 words) - 15:18, 21 May 2024
- Park on the west, and Biscayne National Park on the east. ... a railroad tycoon, to expand his Florida East Coast Railroad to the region ...30 KB (4,379 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- * Kanun (Middle East, Persia) * Kobza (Ukraine) * Konghou (China) ... * Kora (West Africa) * Koto (Japan) * Krar (Ethiopia) * Kutiyapi (Philippines ...26 KB (3,682 words) - 21:00, 26 February 2023
- thought that he had arrived in the East Indies. The misnomer remains ... when European colonists arrived on the East Coast. There were periods ...47 KB (6,955 words) - 19:42, 4 March 2024
- use, particularly in reference to Africa, soon after the process of ... from the newly independent states of Africa and the Pan-Africanist movement ...50 KB (7,266 words) - 04:29, 11 March 2023
- from Antarctica to Australia, South Africa, and South America. The exceptions ... foraged to the west of Gough and females to the east. Albatrosses are ...44 KB (6,634 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge, U.K ... " in Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, 2nd. ed ...42 KB (6,212 words) - 23:54, 4 March 2024
- (five weeks was the quickest) traveling east to west across the Atlantic ... former slaves of the British Empire back in Africa. The Abolition of ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 06:28, 14 June 2023
- the Caribbean Sea. It borders Guyana to the east, Brazil to the south, and ... far west to the Orinoco River delta in the east. To the south, the dissected ...35 KB (5,081 words) - 15:01, 3 May 2023
- willingly and that it had escorted him to Africa for his own protection. As ... populations. Many successful Haitians move east to Long Island, where Elmont ...36 KB (5,245 words) - 20:42, 22 June 2024
- continues to be measured in degrees east or west of Greenwich, thus ... Europeans explored new lands, such as Africa and the Americas, and they ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- origin; akin to Old Russian Slovene, an East Slavic tribe.[http://www.britannica ... Most of today's slaves are present in Africa, Asia, and to a lesser extent ...50 KB (7,650 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
