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    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 21 March 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes...
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  • Sieur le Rouge map c. 1740 John Gibson (cartographer), map c. 1758 Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703–1772), chief cartographer to the French navy William Bligh...
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  • British-Czechoslovak chess player Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703–1772), French hydrographer and geographer Melissa Bellin, also known as Spice; dancer, valet...
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    islands first appear on a 1742 proof of a map published in 1744 by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, who used Charlevoix's journal as a source. That map and those based...
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  • d'Argenville Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis Arnulphe d'Aumont Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Jacques-François Blondel Claude Bourgelat Jean-François-Henri Collot...
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    Nacional de Estatística Cabo Verde (in Portuguese). 24 November 2016. Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1747). "Carte des Isles du Cap Verd = Kaart van de Eilanden van...
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    time the parish boundaries were laid out. The French cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703–1772) draw several editions of a chart of the island of Grenada...
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    the website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. For example: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, Tableau des pavillons que la pluspart des nations arborent à la...
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    riviere aux Outardes came in use following its appearance on maps by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin in 1744 and 1764. English maps from the end of the 18th century...
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    Livingstone followed 140 years later. A map from c. 1750 drawn by Jacques Nicolas Bellin for Abbé Antoine François Prevost d'Exiles marks the falls as "cataractes"...
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    captain in 1720. It was mentioned as "Palmera" in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. "2010 Census results". Instituto Nacional de Estatística Cabo Verde...
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    Tamarix senegalensis. The settlement was mentioned in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin as "Terrafal". In 1917, the municipality of Tarrafal was separated...
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  • Leste. The place was mentioned as Currissal in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde "2010 Census results"...
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    Map of French Guiana by cartographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1763)...
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    post appears on 18th century French maps by Royal hydrographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin as "Fort Caministogoyan". The post was abandoned in 1758 or 1760...
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    Meroni, Comoros appears on a 1748 map by French hydrographer Jacques Nicolas Bellin...
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    used to designate Indigenous Pueblo settlements. A 1760s map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin shows a village named Teijas on the Trinity River, close to the...
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    Map of the south Pacific by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, including "Lands sawn by Davis" at about 27°S (1753)...
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    Map of Anjouan (1748) by French hydrographer Jacques Nicolas Bellin....
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  • 6635C. doi:10.1073/pnas.1522714113. PMC 4914162. PMID 27247383. Brucato, Nicolas; Fernandes, Veronica; Mazières, Stéphane; Kusuma, Pradiptajati; Cox, Murray...
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    nature reserve. It was mentioned as Rabadyunk in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. To its west lies the uninhabited islet Ilhéu Rabo de Junco. List...
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    count of 540. While the named islands are located on maps by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin: Karte Bellin, 1744: 'I a Bova' and Louis Franquet: Cartes Franquet, 1751:...
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  • Nicola Buhagiar, Maltese painter (b. 1698) 1762 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French priest, astronomer, and academic (b. 1713) 1772 – Jacques-Nicolas...
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    detachment of French troops in 1729. — Jacques-Nicolas Bellin A map of the Ohio River valley, drawn by Bellin from observations by de Lery, is in Pierre...
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    of the Cape Verde islands 1747 French-Dutch map of Cape Verde by Jacques Nicolas Bellin The 1781 battle of Porto Praya by Marquis de Rossel Mindelo (originally...
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    Turks and Caicos on a 1764 map by Jacques Nicolas Bellin...
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  • The bay was mentioned in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin as "St. Francisco". Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1747). "Carte des Isles du Cap Verd = Kaart...
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  • The headland was mentioned as Pt. Ghelongo in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. The lighthouse at Ponta Jalunga was constructed in 1891. It is...
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    Kangirsuk (redirect from Bellin, Quebec)
    was replaced a year later with Bellin, named after Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772). It was subsequently known as Bellin (Payne) until 1980. That year...
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  • of Tarrafal. In the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, the point was mentioned as "Pt. Bikkude". Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1747). "Carte des Isles du Cap...
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