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São Filipe was founded in 1500; ... The colonial history of Cape Verde ended when Cape Verde become independent, ... Cape Verde Historical Timeline by Raymond Almeida.
Cape Verde (/ ˈ v ɜːr d (i)/ ⓘ, VURD(-ee)) or Cabo Verde (/ ˌ k ɑː b oʊ ˈ v ɜːr d eɪ / ⓘ KAH-boh VUR-day, / ˌ k æ b oʊ-/ KAB-oh -, [ˈkabu ˈveɾdɨ]), officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about 4,033 square kilometres ...
History of Cape Verde by period (4 C) C. Cape Verdean American history (1 C, 10 P) D. Defunct mass media in Cape Verde (2 P) ... Cape Verdean history timelines (4 P) U.
Map of Cape Verde. Coat of arms of Portuguese Cape Verde. The islands of Cape Verde were uninhabited when discovered and claimed by Portugal in 1456. A Portuguese colony was established in 1462. The islands were united as a single crown colony in 1587. In 1951, the islands became an overseas province of Portugal. Autonomy was granted in 1974 ...
Pages in category "Cape Verdean history timelines" ... List of years in Cape Verde This page was last edited on 8 February 2022, at 14:19 (UTC). ...
Cape Verde was a colony of the Portuguese Empire from the initial settlement of the Cape Verde Islands in 1462 until the independence of Cape Verde in 1975. History [ edit ]
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Cape Verde – sovereign country located on an archipelago in the Macaronesia ecoregion of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the western coast of Africa. [1] The previously uninhabited islands were discovered and colonized by the Portuguese in the 15th century (though there may have been earlier discoveries ), and attained independence in 1975.