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Bissau
Bissau , town (1991 est. pop. 197,610), capital of Guinea-Bissau, a port in the Geba estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean. It is the country's largest city, major port, and administrative and military center. Bissau has been a free port since 1869 and handles transit trade. Peanuts, hardwoods, copra, pal... Read more
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau , officially Republic of Guinea-Bissau, republic (2005 est. pop. 1,416,000), 13,948 sq mi (36,125 sq km), W Africa. It borders on the Atlantic Ocean in the west, on Senegal in the north, and on Guinea in the east and south. The country includes the nearby Bijagós (Bissagos) Arch... Read more
Amilcar Cabral
Amilcar Cabral , 1924-73, revolutionary leader of Guinea-Bissau. Returning from Angolan exile (1956), he founded Guinea-Bissau's nationalist movement (PAIGC). By 1959, Portuguese repression prompted Cabral to adopt guerrilla tactics. By 1973 when he was assassinated, the PAIGC controlled half of Por... Read more
Guinea
Guinea , an archaic term for the west coast of Africa. In its widest sense it has been applied to the region from Angola to Senegal. Parts of the region bore names originating in early colonial trade, notably Grain Coast , Ivory Coast (see Côte d'Ivoire ), Gold Coast (see Ghana , country), ... Read more
Cape Verde
Cape Verde , Port. Cabo Verde, officially Republic of Cape Verde, republic (2005 est. pop. 418,000), c.1,560 sq mi (4,040 sq km), W Africa, in the Atlantic Ocean about 300 mi (480 km) W of Dakar, Senegal. It is an archipelago made up of 10 islands and 5 islets. Praia, located on the island of S&at... Read more
Portuguese language
Portuguese language member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages ). It is the mother tongue of about 170 million people, chiefly in Portugal and the Portuguese islands in the Atlantic (11 million speakers); in Brazil (154 milli... Read more
Guinea
Guinea gĬn´ē , officially Republic of Guinea, republic (2005 est. pop. 9,468,000), 94,925 sq mi (245,856 sq km), W Africa. It is bounded on the north by Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Mali; on the east by the Côte d'Ivoire; on the south by Sierra Leone and Liberia; and on the wes... Read more
Senegal
Senegal , officially Republic of Senegal, republic (2005 est. pop. 11,127,000), 76,124 sq mi (197,161 sq km), W Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Mauritania in the north, by Mali in the east, and by Guinea and Guinea-Bissau in the south. The Republic of The Gambia is an en... Read more
African languages
African languages geographic rather than linguistic classification of languages spoken on the African continent. Historically the term refers to the languages of sub-Saharan Africa, which do not belong to a single family, but are divided among several distinct linguistic stocks. It is estimated tha... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Bissau"

Guinea-Bissau
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies GUINEA-BISSAU Republic of Guinea-Bissau Rep ú blica da Guin é -Bissau COUNTRY OVERVIEW LOCATION AND SIZE. Guinea-Bissau lies on the west coast of Africa, with Senegal to the north and Guinea to the east and south. With...
Bissau
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Bissau , town (1991 est. pop. 197,610), capital of Guinea-Bissau, a port in the Geba estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean...major port, and administrative and military center. Bissau has been a free port since 1869 and handles transit...
Amílcar Lopes Cabral
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of modern African nationalism in Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands and led Guinea-Bissau's independence movement, which was successful...12, 1924, in Bafat á (Guinea-Bissau), on the western coast of Africa. His parents...
Cape Verde
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...1876. Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau ) was administered as part of the Cape...Verdeans fought for independence in Guinea-Bissau. After the fall (Apr., 1974) of the...PAIGC, and independence for Guinea-Bissau (Sept., 1974) and Cape Verde (July...
Casamance
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...between the enclave of The Gambia and Guinea Bissau. Also called Casamance, the Senegalese...fighting erupted in neighboring Guinea-Bissau between Casamance rebels that had established bases there and Bissau troops. The name also appears as Kasamansa...
Cape Verdeans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...colonies (Sao Tome, Principe, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Mozambique, and Senegal...the region of Africa now called Guinea-Bissau. The slave-trade economy linked the...and French colonies. In 1870 Guinea-Bissau was separated from Cape Verde for the...
Guinea
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...dissent brutally suppressed. In 1970, Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau ) invaded Guinea. Conakry later acted as the headquarters for independence movements in Guinea-Bissau. A military coup followed Touré's death in 1984, and...
Mario de Andrade
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...organization was set up in Tunis with member groups from Guinea Bissau and Goa. This group was known as FRAIN ( Frente Revolucionaria...be followed later by similar wars of liberation in Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. Ironically, Angola was the last of these three...
Malinke
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...LOCATION: Territory covering The Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and C ô te d'Ivoire...areas in the nations of The Gambia, Senegal, Mali, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and C ô te d'Ivoire...
West Africa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...occupying various climate zones. The coastal region from Guinea-Bissau to Cameroon is characterized by abundant rainfall (with a rainy...and spices were indigenous to Africa. The Diola of Guinea-Bissau, for example, transformed most of the mangrove swamps lining...

Dictionary entries related to "Bissau"

Guinea-Bissau
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Guinea-Bissau A small tropical country on the coast...The deeply indented coast of Guinea-Bissau, stretching for some 240 km (150 miles...only in the south. Economy Guinea-Bissau has a mainly agricultural economy, whose...
Cape Verde
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...independence movement for Cape Verde and GUINEA-BISSAU gained strength during the 1950s and 1960s...Independence of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau (PAICVGB). Cape Verde gained full independence...1975, but remained linked with Guinea-Bissau as the PAICVGB was the only legal political...
Cabral, Amilcar
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Amilcar (b. 12 Sept. 1924, d. 20 Jan. 1973). Guinea-Bissau revolutionary Born in Bafata (Guinea-Bissau) of a father from Cape Verde and a mother from Guinea-Bissau. He studied agronomy at Lisbon University and entered the colonial...
franc
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management ...CFAF), Djibouti (DF), Equatorial Guinea (CFAF), French Polynesia (FPF), Gabon (CFAF), Guinea (GF), Guinea-Bissau (CFAF), Madagascar (FMG), Mali (CFAF), New Caledonia (FPF), Niger (CFAF), Rwanda (RF), Senegal (CFAF...
slave trade, African
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...establish PLANTATIONS . Following their 15th-century discoveries, the Portuguese began taking slaves from Senegambia and Guinea-Bissau: they went to Portugal, the Atlantic islands, and later to the Americas; by the 16th century they came also from Angola...
Senegal
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Atlantic coast. Physical Senegal surrounds the Gambia and is itself bounded inland by Mauritania, Mali, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau. Its most westerly point (and that of continental Africa) is Cape Verde, formed by a volcano. Inland there is savannah...
country code
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Internet ...Guinea GP Guadeloupe GQ Equatorial Guinea GR Greece GS South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands GT Guatemala GU Guam GW Guinea-Bissau GY Guyana HK Hong Kong HM Heard and McDonald Islands HN Honduras HR Croatia (Hrvatska) HT Haiti HU Hungary ID Indonesia IE...
Portugal
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...ANGOLA and MOZAMBIQUE . These gained independence in 1975, although both experienced civil war, while the state of GUINEA-BISSAU was created in 1974. After two years of political instability at home, a more stable democracy began to emerge following the...
Economic Community of West African States
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...1975, largely on the initiative of Nigeria and Togo. Other members were Benin, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde (since 1977), Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Upper Volta. It aimed at the...
Spínola, António de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Portuguese colonial wars in Africa, from 1968 as commanding general and high commissioner of Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau). There he created a relatively successful ‘Africanization’ programme whereby half of the (Portuguese...

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Guinea-Bissau added to agenda of peacebuilding commission; brazil elected chair of country-specific configuration.
M2 Presswire; 12/20/2007; 700+ words ; ...December 2007-United Nations: Guinea-Bissau added to agenda of peacebuilding commission...to consider the situation in Guinea-Bissau, making the African nation the third...request from the Government of Guinea-Bissau to be placed on the Commission's agenda...
GUINEA-BISSAU: 'MILITARY TERRORISM' CALLED DANGER TO STABILITY
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 11/5/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...military frequently applies on Guinea-Bissau's democratic leaders threatens to mortgage...the democratic government of Guinea-Bissau. The only point on the agenda of the...troops continue to roam the streets of Bissau, the capital, and are exercising pressure...
Post-colonial Guinea-Bissau plunges into darkness
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/20/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...plateaus and mangrove swamps, Guinea-Bissau was showing signs of emerging from decades...standoff in the capital and plunged Guinea-Bissau back into darkness. It also has unleashed...of complicated enmities and alliances. Bissau, the capital city of about 300,000...
Roundup: New Guinea-Bissau president sworn in
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 9/8/2009; 597 words ; Roundup: New Guinea-Bissau president sworn in BISSAU, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Guinea-Bissau's newly-elected President Malam Bacai Sanha was sworn in on Tuesday afternoon, receiving congratulations from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki...
Press statement on Guinea-Bissau by Security Council President.
M2 Presswire; 4/7/2004; 700+ words ; ...2004-UN: Press statement on Guinea-Bissau by Security Council President(C)1994...s statement to the press on Guinea-Bissau by Security Council President Gunter Pleuger...Nations Peace-Building Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS) during informal consultations...
Statement by Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Guinea-Bissau of Economic and Social Council of United Nations.
M2 Presswire; 10/12/2004; 700+ words ; ...Statement by Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Guinea-Bissau of Economic and Social Council of United...The Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Guinea-Bissau of the Economic and Social Council calls...Community to continue to support Guinea-Bissau. The members of the Advisory Group on...
Fighting wracks Bissau, neighboring Senegal launches attack
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/16/1998; ; 671 words ; ...heavy artillery Tuesday into Guinea-Bissau, raising fears for the safety of tens...have aligned themselves with Guinea-Bissau's coup leader, Brig. Ansumane Mane...with the June 7 army uprising in Guinea-Bissau's capital, Bissau, about 60 miles...
Senegalese artillery strikes aimed at dislodging rebels in Guinea-Bissau
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/17/1998; ; 665 words ; ...in the aftermath of a failed coup in Guinea-Bissau has spread to the West African country's northern...Mane, came while heavy fighting in Guinea-Bissau continued to rock the capital of Bissau. Tens of thousands of refugees were fleeing...
Statement by ECOSOC Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Guinea-Bissau.
M2 Presswire; 9/19/2003; 700+ words ; ...ECOSOC Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Guinea-Bissau(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD...ECOSOC) Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Guinea-Bissau hereby calls on donors to consider extending emergency assistance for Guinea-Bissau to be able to return to democratic rule...
Security Council condemns use of force following killings in Guinea-Bissau, says urgent measures needed to remedy crisis; Presidential statement urges political parties, national authorities to complete Transitional Charter implementation before April 2005 elections.
M2 Presswire; 11/3/2004; 700+ words ; ...of force following killings in Guinea-Bissau, says urgent measures needed to remedy...Council today called on the Guinean-Bissau parties to refrain from attempting to seize power in Guinea-Bissau by force, and stressed the need for urgent...