Arguin (Arabic: أرغين, Portuguese: Arguim) is an island off the western coast of Mauritania in the Bay of Arguin. It is approximately 6 km × 2 km (3.7 mi...
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The Bay of Arguin (French: Baie d'Arguin; Portuguese: Baía de Arguim) is a bay on the Atlantic shore of Mauritania and the former mouth of the Tamanrasset...
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Brandenburg–Prussia (section Arguin)
established a navy and German colonies in the Brandenburger Gold Coast and Arguin. Frederick William, known as "The Great Elector", opened Brandenburg-Prussia...
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Louise Gagnon-Arguin is a Canadian archivist. Gagnon-Arguin was born in 1941 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec. Between 1958 and 1960, she audited librarianship...
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native fishing village he found in the Bay of Arguin (in modern Mauritania). The elevated banks of Arguin bay were replete with fish, attracting poor desert-dwelling...
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explored as far south as the Bay of Arguin, where the Portuguese established a trading post at the island of Arguin. Henry ordered the first feitoria or...
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colonies owned by states of Germany: Groß Friedrichsburg (in Ghana), 1683–1718 Arguin (in Mauritania), 1685–1721 Whydah (in present Bénin), c. 1700 (this Brandenburg...
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even though he had hardly sailed in 20 years, Méduse struck the Bank of Arguin off the coast of present-day Mauritania and became a total loss. Most of...
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The Portuguese Empire ruled Arguin (Portuguese: Arguim) from 1445, after Prince Henry the Navigator set up a feitoria, until 1633....
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Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Ruanda-Urundi (Rwanda and Burundi) Arguin (in Mauritania) Brandenburger Gold Coast (coastal settlements in Ghana)...
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Coast of what is today Ghana. Five years later, a treaty with the king of Arguin in Mauritania established a protectorate over that island, and Brandenburg...
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romanized: Ḥawḍ ʾArkīn, French: Parc national du Banc d'Arguin) of Bay of Arguin lies in Western Africa on the west coast of Mauritania between Nouakchott...
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p. 377-427. Crowdy 2011. Fuhrmann 2016, p. 302. Fuhrmann 2011, p. 244. Argüín 2015, p. 5. Reynolds 1923, p. 168-189. Sheldon 2004, p. 253. Tănase & Muscalu...
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[citation needed] In 1445, Prince Henry the Navigator set up a trading post on Arguin Island (off the coast of modern Mauritania), which acquired acacia gum and...
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1527 and was known to be of African descent. It is believed he was from Arguin Island, Mauritania. However, records at the time described him as a "Guinea...
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and Dependencies Surinam 2 Tobago Virgin Islands Trading posts in Africa Arguin Gold Coast Loango-Angola Senegambia Slave Coast 1 Governed by the Society...
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and Dependencies Surinam 2 Tobago Virgin Islands Trading posts in Africa Arguin Gold Coast Loango-Angola Senegambia Slave Coast 1 Governed by the Society...
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sighted the Bay of Arguin in 1443 and built an important "forte-feitoria" (a fort protecting a trading post) on the island of Arguin around the year 1448...
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colonies, including Brandenburger Gold Coast (Groß Friedrichsburg) and Arguin, which were involved in the slave trade. In order to support this business...
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and Dependencies Surinam 2 Tobago Virgin Islands Trading posts in Africa Arguin Gold Coast Loango-Angola Senegambia Slave Coast 1 Governed by the Society...
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and Cape Blanco in 1441. In 1443, they built a fortress on the island of Arguin, in modern-day Mauritania, trading European wheat and cloth for African...
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and Dependencies Surinam 2 Tobago Virgin Islands Trading posts in Africa Arguin Gold Coast Loango-Angola Senegambia Slave Coast 1 Governed by the Society...
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227. Speidel 2007, p. 217-218. Argüín 2015, p. 984. Meakin 2001, p. 85. Rance 2015, p. 7. Southern 2007, p. 211. Argüín, Adolfo Raúl Menéndez (2015-03-04)...
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and Dependencies Surinam 2 Tobago Virgin Islands Trading posts in Africa Arguin Gold Coast Loango-Angola Senegambia Slave Coast 1 Governed by the Society...
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and Dependencies Surinam 2 Tobago Virgin Islands Trading posts in Africa Arguin Gold Coast Loango-Angola Senegambia Slave Coast 1 Governed by the Society...
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and 8 km (5 mi) wide. It is the largest island off the shore of Banc d' Arguin, Mauritania (also being the largest in the nation) and is home to a community...
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and Dependencies Surinam 2 Tobago Virgin Islands Trading posts in Africa Arguin Gold Coast Loango-Angola Senegambia Slave Coast 1 Governed by the Society...
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and Dependencies Surinam 2 Tobago Virgin Islands Trading posts in Africa Arguin Gold Coast Loango-Angola Senegambia Slave Coast 1 Governed by the Society...
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overseas was established by Henry the Navigator in 1445 on the island of Arguin, off the coast of Mauritania. It was built to attract Muslim traders and...
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adopted until July 4. 1816 – The French frigate Méduse strikes the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case...
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