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Yet, Lagos is also a historic centre of the Portuguese Age of Discovery, frequent home of Henry the Navigator, historical shipyard and, at one time, centre of the European slave trade. [6] In 2012, travel website TripAdvisor, classified Lagos as the number one travel destination, on a list of "15 destinations on the rise" worldwide. [7]
A consortium of merchants in Lagos applied to Henry for a licence. Six caravels set out to the Bay of Arguin in modern-day Mauritania, commanded by Lançarote de Freitas and it was this mission that returned to Lagos in 1444 with 235 slaves, the first to be sold in Europe. As sponsor of the expeditions, Henry the Navigator was entitled to one ...
According to several historians quoted by João Paulo Rocha in 1910, the first Phoenicians arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 935 BC, to search for gold and silver, having returned a few years later with a larger fleet, which reached as far as Cape St. Vincent [12] In the city of Lagos several Phoenician remains have been found, such as ceramics found in Barroca Street, dating from the ...
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English: Map of Europe with the flag of each country embedded. Included are the UN members/observers that are either geographically partially or entirely located in Europe (which all but Armenia and, arguably, Cyprus are) or a member of the Council of Europe (which all but Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Vatican are).
Euratlas is a Switzerland-based software company dedicated to elaborate digital history maps of Europe. [1] Founded in 2001, Euratlas has created a collection of history maps of Europe from year 1 AD to year 2000 AD that present the evolution of every country from the Roman Empire [2] to present times.
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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 17:49, 30 October 2009: 1,479 × 921 (369 KB): Alex:D {{Information |Description=Print shows a map of Europe in 1887 with each country caricatured according to its current political and international circumstances. |Source= {{LOC-image|id=cph.3a22919 }} |Date= 1887 |Author= Zürich : Verlag von Caesar Schmid