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    feature Cabo das Palmas, i.e. "Cape of the Palms", which was later semi-Anglicized to Cape Palmas. The river was named Rio das Palmas, later to be called...
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  • Look up palmas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Palmas may refer to: Palmas, Tocantins, the capital of the state of Tocantins in Brazil Palmas Airport...
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    Maryland Colonization Society was Cape Palmas, in 1834, somewhat south of the rest of the American colony. The Cape is a small, rocky peninsula connected...
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  • Cape Palmas Airport (IATA: CPA, ICAO: GLCP) is an airport serving the town of Harper on Cape Palmas, Liberia. Transport in Liberia List of airports in...
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    or Grain Coast was a coastal area of western Africa, between Cape Mesurado and Cape Palmas. It encloses the present republic of Liberia. The name was given...
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    emigrants. The first area to be settled was Cape Palmas, in 1834, somewhat south of the rest of Liberia. The Cape is a small, rocky peninsula connected to...
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    Harper, situated on Cape Palmas, is the capital of Maryland County in Liberia. It is a coastal town situated between the Atlantic Ocean and the Hoffman...
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    northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia. Null Island, defined as the intersection...
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    the addition of Maryland and Grand Cape Mount, extending along the windward coast between Cape Mount and Cape Palmas. Under President Arthur Barclay's...
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  • The Diocese of Cape Palmas (Latin: Dioecesis Capitis Palmensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Liberia...
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    can also be augmented by more detailed accounts of the Grebo of nearby Cape Palmas who were linguistically and culturally related. The central elements...
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    Las Palmas (UK: /ˌlæs ˈpælməs, - ˈpɑːl-/, US: /ˌlɑːs ˈpɑːlməs, -mɑːs/; Spanish: [las ˈpalmas]), officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a Spanish city...
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    European explorers and Americo-Liberian colonists reached the area of Cape Palmas by sea, the first indigenous group they encountered in the area with...
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    POPULATION. p. 209. Captain John Adams. Rmarks On The Country Extending From Cape Palmas To The River Congo, Including Observations On The Manners And Customs...
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    (1969). Sailing directions for the southwest coast of Africa, from Cape Palmas to Cape of Good Hope. p. 179. Retrieved 23 October 2018 – via Google Books...
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    became part of Liberia in 1857. He held this post until his death in Cape Palmas on June 9, 1851. He continued to encourage the immigration of African...
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    possessions. On his return, he died at sea aboard the gunboat Möwe off Cape Palmas on 20 April 1885 and was initially interred at Grand Bassam. In 1888...
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    was the first commander of the squadron, and based himself in Portuguese Cape Verde. The squadron was generally ineffective, since the ships were too few...
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    languages across the country. In 1963, President Tubman set up the new Cape-Palmas Military Band (CPMB). Israeli bandmaster Aharon Shefi formed and conducted...
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    the "Teeth" or "Ivory" coast, which was considered to stretch from Cape Palmas to Cape Three Points and which is thus now divided between the modern states...
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    Bachman. In 1845, Drayton was sent by Bachman to serve as a missionary in Cape Palmas in the newly formed Republic of Maryland. He later pursued a career in...
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  • slave from Frederick County, Maryland, United States, who emigrated to Cape Palmas in the 19th century. Thomas Jackson was one of the most prominent early...
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  • UCN Buchanan Airport Buchanan GLLB Lamco Airport Harper (Cape Palmas) GLCP CPA Cape Palmas Airport Foya FOY Foya Airport Greenville GLGE SNI Greenville/Sinoe...
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    Colonization Society Under the Auspices of the State of Maryland, U. S. At Cape Palmas on the South-West Coast of Africa, 1833–1853, published in 1885, Retrieved...
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    gobiernodecanarias.org (in Spanish). "Aeropuerto de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (LPA)" [Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Airport (LPA)]. www.grancanaria-airport...
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    "principal chief". Again the meeting was successful, so Perry sailed for Cape Palmas the same night and anchored off the town of Caval on December 7 where...
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    Oceans and Seas: "(34) A line running south-eastwards from Cape Palmas in Liberia to Cape Lopez [in Gabon] (0°38' S, 8°42' E)." "Censo de población 2015–República...
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  • Border with Malaysia, Melilas 04°00′N  Nigeria Cape Formoso, Brass, Bayelsa State 04°17′N  Liberia Cape Palmas 04°21′N  Côte d'Ivoire Coastal border with...
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  • December 14, 1842) was a king of the Crack-O tribe in the region around Cape Palmas, in the present day border area of Liberia and the Ivory Coast, in the...
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  • 1989, p. 314 Africa Pilot: The southwest coast of Africa from Cape Palmas to the Cape of Good Hope, including the islands of St. Helena, Ascension, Tristan...
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