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    Bolama is the main town of Bolama Island and the capital of the Bolama Region. Though once the capital of Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau), it has...
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    shares its name with its largest settlement, the town Bolama, which is the capital of the island and the Bolama Region. It is almost surrounded by mangrove...
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  • Bolama may refer to several locations in Guinea-Bissau: Bolama Region Bolama Island Bolama (town), capital of the region and main town of the island This...
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    Galinhas (category Bolama Region)
    Galinhas is located about 25 km southwest of Bolama town. The Canal de Bolama separates it from Bolama Island, the easternmost island of the group that...
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  • Bissau-Guineans - José Câmnate na Bissign - Black Ladino - Bolama Island - Bolama Region - Bolama (town) - Bolanhas - Balana - Bulana - Bolola - Brames - Buba...
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    small coastal strip centred on the coastal town of São João. It has an area of 2,624 km2. Its capital is Bolama, on the island of the same name. It is a...
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    Leste (East): Bafatá, Gabu Norte (North): Biombo, Cacheu, Oio Sul (South): Bolama, Quinara, Tombali List of regions of Guinea-Bissau by Human Development...
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    of Bissau depended mainly on the (now abandoned) Bolama airport, which was close to the town of Bolama, the colonial capital of Guinea until 1941. Travellers...
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    Domingos Bissorã Farim Mansaba Mansôa Nhacra Bissau (autonomous sector) Bolama Bubaque Caravela Uno Buba Empada Fulacunda Tite Bedanda Cacine Catió Quebo...
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  • Building, Asmara, 1938 Rex Theatre, Accra, 1937 Roxy Theatre, Accra Cine Bolama, Bolama, Sul Province Cine UDIB, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, 1940s Monumento aos...
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    Mansôa 8,313 Oio 8 Buba 7,898 Quinara 9 Cacheu 5,891 Cacheu 10 Quinhámel 5,825 Biombo 11 Quebo 5,454 Quinara 12 Catió 5,081 Tombali 13 Bolama 5,026 Bolama...
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    Bubaque (category Bolama Region)
    Guinea-Bissau, and is also the name of its main town. The island has a population of 6,427, while the town of Bubaque has a population of 4,299 (2009 census)...
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    Faro, Portugal (category Towns of the Algarve)
    Conceição e Estoi Montenegro Santa Bárbara de Nexe Faro is twinned with: Bolama, Guinea-Bissau Haikou, China Hayward, United States Huelva, Spain Maxixe...
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    solidified, however, towns such as Bolama, Bissau and Canchungo became administrative centers at the expense of Cacheu. Roads in the town are paved with oil...
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    it into Portuguese Guinea.: 9  In 1941 the capital was transferred from Bolama to Bissau. 1959 saw the bloody repression of a dockworkers' strike, a key...
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    led to a brief attempt in the 1790s to establish a base on the island of Bolama, which showed no evidence of continuous Portuguese presence. The British...
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    brief period in the 1790s, the British tried to establish a foothold on Bolama Island. Guinea-Bissau was among the first regions whose people engaged in...
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    Bissau, to open centers in other towns of the country: Canchungo, Ongoré, Mansôa, Bafatá, Gabú, Buba, Catió, Bolama, Bubaque, and Quinhamel. The percentage...
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    relation to the royal family, was given the title of Duke of Ávila and Bolama in the 19th century. Spanish infantes and infantas are usually given a royal...
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  • Francisca Pereira (category People from Bolama Region)
    various offices in the Guinea-Bissau state. She was the Mayor of her home town of Bolama and chairman of the Guinea-Bissau Women's Union (União Democrática the...
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  • moved to Yamoussoukro Cape Coast Gold Coast Ghana 1664 1877 moved to Accra Bolama Portuguese Guinea Guinea-Bissau 1879 1941 moved to Bissau Boe Guinea-Bissau...
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    1833, the vila of Horta, through the initiative of the Duke d'Ávila and Bolama, was elevated to the status of city and the district capital as a reward...
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  • appointed, in 1913, to become port captain at Bolama in Portuguese Guinea. Her mother died of yellow fever in Bolama. Castro married António Ferro in 1922. As...
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    Jauro Bodwai Bodwai/ Bodwai Pri. Sch. I; Bodwai/ Bodwai Pri. Sch. II; Bolama/ Bolama Pri. Sch. III; Dalwa/ Dalwa Pri. Sch.; Jalingo Biki/ Jalingo Pri. Sch...
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    African States in Abuja and in 2005, the towns of Canchungo, Ongoré, Mansôa, Bafatá, Gabú, Buba, Catió, Bolama, Bubaque, and Quinhamel in Guinea-Bissau...
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    British attempted to establish a rival foothold on an offshore island, at Bolama, but by the 19th century the Portuguese were sufficiently secure in Bissau...
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    at Villa Cisneros in Spanish Sahara and Bolama in Portuguese Guinea before attempting to take off from Bolama on 16 February to cross the Atlantic Ocean...
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    October 3. Another tropical depression formed about 120 mi (190 km) west of Bolama, Guinea-Bissau, on October 5. The depression moved generally westward, before...
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    Mozambique Suzdal, Russia Fafe Porto Seguro, Brazil Sens, France Faro Bolama, Guinea-Bissau Haikou, China Hayward, United States Huelva, Spain Maxixe...
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    zones in Sub-Saharan Africa. The most notable missions performed were in Bolama (Guinea-Bissau, 1990), Luanda (Angola, 1992), and Bissau (Guinea-Bissau...
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