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1 day ago · Map of Barbados. Barbados is situated in the Atlantic Ocean, east of the other West Indies Islands. Barbados is the easternmost island in the Lesser Antilles. It is 34 kilometres (21 miles) long and up to 23 km (14 mi) wide, covering an area of 439 km 2 (169 sq mi).
1 day ago · After 1500: West and East Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Main articles: Portuguese India and Portuguese India Armadas In west Africa Cidade de Congo de São Salvador was founded some time after the arrival of the Portuguese , in the pre-existing capital of the local dynasty ruling at that time (1483), in a city of the Luezi River valley.
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1 day ago · The archipelago of the Azores is located in the middle of the northern hemisphere of the Atlantic Ocean and extends along a west-northwest to east-southeast orientation (between 36.5°–40° North latitudes and 24.5°–31.5° West longitudes) in an area approximately 600 km (373 mi) wide.
- 2,351 km² (908 sq mi)
- 1432
- 30 April 1976
- Portugal
1 day ago · Elam (/ ˈ iː l ə m /; Linear Elamite: hatamti; Cuneiform Elamite: 𒁹𒄬𒆷𒁶𒋾 ḫalatamti; Sumerian: 𒉏𒈠 elam; Akkadian: 𒉏𒈠𒆠 elamtu; Hebrew: עֵילָם ʿēlām; Old Persian: 𐎢𐎺𐎩 hūja) was an ancient civilization centered in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what ...
- Elamites, Susiana
- Pre-Iranic
- 3200–539 BC
- Proto-Elamite
1 day ago · This is the case in parts of Hawaii, northwestern Dominican Republic, East Africa, southeast India and northeast Sri Lanka, and the Brazilian Northeastern Coast. In places that have this climate type, the dry season occurs during the time of lower sun and shorter days generally because of rain shadow effects during the 'high-sun' part of the year.
1 day ago · The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the Earth's five oceanic divisions.It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
3 hours ago · Brazil received more than 2.8 million slaves from Africa between the years 1500 and 1800. [68] By the end of the 17th century, sugarcane exports began to decline [69] and the discovery of gold by bandeirantes in the 1690s would become the new backbone of the colony's economy, fostering a gold rush [70] which attracted thousands of new settlers ...
