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Limbé or Limbe (known as Victoria from 1858 to 1982) is a seaside city in the South-West Region of Cameroon. At the 2005 Census, the population was 84,223. At the 2005 Census, the population was 84,223.
Limbe Botanic Garden or Limbe Botanical Gardens (LBG) is the principal botanic garden of Cameroon. It was created in 1892, during the German colonial era, in Victoria (former name of Limbe), between the ocean and Mount Cameroon. Initially with an agronomic intent, it has become one of the main recreational and tourist attractions of the South ...
In 1960, Cameroon became an independent country, and the history of Cameroonian cinema started around 1962. Thérèse Sita Bella and Jean Pierre Dikonguè Pipa were the first Cameroonian movie producers. Other names in early Cameroonian cinema included Alphonse Béni who had studied Film technique at the Conservatoire libre du cinéma français ...
Alfred Saker (21 July 1814 in Wrotham, Kent – 12 March 1880 in Peckham) was a British Baptist missionary of the Baptist Missionary Society. In 1858 he led a Baptist Mission that relocated from the then Spanish island of Fernando Po and landed in Southern Cameroons. According to the record, he bought land from indigenous Bimbia chiefs ...
The daughter of a French colonial administrator befriends a servant in French Cameroon. El Cimarron: 2007: Based on the life of Marcos Xiorro who conspired and planned a slave revolt in Puerto Rico in 1821 against the Spanish Empire. Clive of India: 1935 Historical biographical film about the life of Robert Clive. Cobra Verde: 1987
Mutengene, a small town west of Tiko, is a cross roads leading to Buea and Limbe, Cameroon (Formerly called Victoria). The closest towns with coordinates: [6] Mutengene (10 km or 6 mi W) Buea (17.9 km or 11 + 1 ⁄ 8 mi W/NW) Limbe, Cameroon (21 km or 13 mi W/SW) Muyuka (24 km or 15 mi N/NE) Bonabéri (33.2 km or 20 + 5 ⁄ 8 mi E)
1908 The Great White Fleet visits Seattle and Puget Sound area. [22] 1909 June 1: Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition opens. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad begins operating. [3] 1910 Georgetown becomes part of city. [3] Municipal League of Seattle founded. [23] Population: 237,194. [2] 1911 – Port of Seattle established. [24] 1913
History. Alfred Saker founded a settlement of freed slaves on the bay in 1858, which was later renamed Victoria. [2] in 1884 Britain established the Ambas Bay Protectorate, of which Victoria was the capital. It was then ceded to Germany in 1887.