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Although Cape Verde was neglected by Portugal, Portuguese treatment of Cape Verdeans was differed from their treatment of other colonized peoples; [18] the people of Cape Verde fared slightly better than Africans in other Portuguese colonies because of their lighter skin. A small minority received an education, and Cape Verde was the first ...
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 -, local Portuguese: [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 ...
Name Image Location Criteria Year Description; Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande: Ribeira Grande. Cultural (ii) (iii) (vi) 2009 The town of Ribeira Grande, renamed Cidade Velha in the late 18th century, was the first European colonial outpost in the tropics.
History of Cape Verde; Colonial history; Portuguese Cape Verde; Portuguese Empire; Immigration to the USA; Atlantic slave trade; Famine in Cape Verde; Independence ...
History of Cape Verde by topic (3 C) 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)
Theatre in Cape Verde was mainly religious (biblical scenes translated into popular theatre) until the end of the 19th century, when cultural societies appeared. [6] Modern theatre arose around independence (1975), and received a great impulse by the establishment in 1995 of the theatre association Mindelact , which also organises an annual ...
Fogo was the second island of Cape Verde that was settled by the Portuguese, between 1470 and 1490, making São Filipe the second oldest town of Cape Verde after Cidade Velha. [ 4 ] The Fogo volcano erupted frequently, both from the summit and from flank fissures, [ 5 ] notably in 1680, 1725, 1857, 1951, 1995, and 2014–15 . [ 6 ]
While Christianity is the dominant ideology of Cape Verdeans in Cape Verde and the diaspora, there has been an interest in the Jewish ancestry of Cape Verdeans amongst Cape Verdean Americans. The Cape Verdean Jewish Heritage movement is mainly led by the diaspora and its interest is predominantly in preserving history, not practicing doctrine.