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<p>[QUOTE="Siberian Man, post: 917315, member: 22500"]<a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/History_of_Cape_Verde" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/History_of_Cape_Verde" rel="nofollow">History of Cape Verde</a> In 1462, <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Portugal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Portugal" rel="nofollow">Portuguese</a> settlers arrived at <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Santiago,_Cape_Verde" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Santiago,_Cape_Verde" rel="nofollow">Santiago</a> and founded Ribeira Grande (now <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cidade_Velha" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cidade_Velha" rel="nofollow">Cidade Velha</a>), the first permanent European settlement city in the <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Tropics" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Tropics" rel="nofollow">tropics</a>.<a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3" rel="nofollow"></a> They named the islands <i>Cabo Verde</i> (from which the English <i>Cape Verde</i> derives), after the nearby <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cap_Vert" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cap_Vert" rel="nofollow">Cap Vert</a> on the <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Senegal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Senegal" rel="nofollow">Senegalese</a> coast.<a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow"></a> In the 16th century, the archipelago prospered from the <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Transatlantic_slave_trade" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Transatlantic_slave_trade" rel="nofollow">transatlantic slave trade</a>.<a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3" rel="nofollow"></a> <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Pirate" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Pirate" rel="nofollow">Pirates</a> occasionally attacked the Portuguese settlements. <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Sir_Francis_Drake" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Sir_Francis_Drake" rel="nofollow">Sir Francis Drake</a> sacked Ribeira Grande in 1585.<a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3" rel="nofollow"></a>After a French attack in 1712, the city declined in importance relative to <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Praia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Praia" rel="nofollow">Praia</a>, which became the capital in 1770.<a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3" rel="nofollow"></a></p><p> With the decline in the slave trade, Cape Verde's early prosperity slowly vanished. However, the islands' position astride mid-Atlantic shipping lanes made Cape Verde an ideal location for re-supplying ships. Because of its excellent harbor, <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Mindelo" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Mindelo" rel="nofollow">Mindelo</a> (on the island of <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/S%C3%A3o_Vicente,_Cape_Verde" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/S%C3%A3o_Vicente,_Cape_Verde" rel="nofollow">São Vicente</a>) became an important commercial center during the 19th century.<a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3" rel="nofollow"></a></p><p> Portugal changed Cape Verde's status from a colony to an overseas province in 1951 in an attempt to blunt growing <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Nationalism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Nationalism" rel="nofollow">nationalism</a>. Nevertheless, in 1956, <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Amilcar_Cabral" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Amilcar_Cabral" rel="nofollow">Amilcar Cabral</a>, a Cape Verde, and a group of Cape Verdeans and Guinean organized (in <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Portuguese_Guinea" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Portuguese_Guinea" rel="nofollow">Portuguese Guinea</a>) the clandestine <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/African_Party_for_the_Independence_of_Guinea_and_Cape_Verde" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/African_Party_for_the_Independence_of_Guinea_and_Cape_Verde" rel="nofollow">African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde</a> (PAIGC), which demanded improvement in economic, social, and political conditions in Cape Verde and Guinea and formed the basis of the two nations' independence movement. Moving its headquarters to <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Conakry" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Conakry" rel="nofollow">Conakry</a>, Guinea in 1960, the PAIGC began an armed rebellion against Portugal in 1961. Acts of sabotage eventually grew into a <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Guinea-Bissau_War_of_Independence" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Guinea-Bissau_War_of_Independence" rel="nofollow">war in Portuguese Guinea</a> that pitted 10,000 <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Soviet_bloc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Soviet_bloc" rel="nofollow">Soviet bloc</a>-supported PAIGC soldiers against 35,000 Portuguese and African troops.<a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3" rel="nofollow"></a></p><p> By 1972, the PAIGC controlled much of Portuguese Guinea despite the presence of the Portuguese troops, but the organization did not attempt to disrupt Portuguese control in Cape Verde. Portuguese Guinea declared independence in 1973 and was granted <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/De_facto#De_jure" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/De_facto#De_jure" rel="nofollow">de jure</a> independence in 1974. Following the <a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Carnation_Revolution" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Carnation_Revolution" rel="nofollow">April 1974 revolution in Portugal</a>, the PAIGC became an active political movement in Cape Verde. In December 1974, the PAIGC and Portugal signed an agreement providing for a transitional government composed of Portuguese and Cape Verdeans. On June 30, 1975, Cape Verdeans elected a National Assembly, which received the instruments of independence from Portugal on July 5, 1975.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>20 centavos 1930, bronze, mintage - 1500000.</p><p>1 escudo 1968, bronze, mintage - 500000.</p><p><a href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3" rel="nofollow"></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Siberian Man, post: 917315, member: 22500"][URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/History_of_Cape_Verde"]History of Cape Verde[/URL] In 1462, [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Portugal"]Portuguese[/URL] settlers arrived at [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Santiago,_Cape_Verde"]Santiago[/URL] and founded Ribeira Grande (now [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cidade_Velha"]Cidade Velha[/URL]), the first permanent European settlement city in the [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Tropics"]tropics[/URL].[URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3"][/URL] They named the islands [I]Cabo Verde[/I] (from which the English [I]Cape Verde[/I] derives), after the nearby [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cap_Vert"]Cap Vert[/URL] on the [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Senegal"]Senegalese[/URL] coast.[URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-4"][/URL] In the 16th century, the archipelago prospered from the [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Transatlantic_slave_trade"]transatlantic slave trade[/URL].[URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3"][/URL] [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Pirate"]Pirates[/URL] occasionally attacked the Portuguese settlements. [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Sir_Francis_Drake"]Sir Francis Drake[/URL] sacked Ribeira Grande in 1585.[URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3"][/URL]After a French attack in 1712, the city declined in importance relative to [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Praia"]Praia[/URL], which became the capital in 1770.[URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3"][/URL] With the decline in the slave trade, Cape Verde's early prosperity slowly vanished. However, the islands' position astride mid-Atlantic shipping lanes made Cape Verde an ideal location for re-supplying ships. Because of its excellent harbor, [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Mindelo"]Mindelo[/URL] (on the island of [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/S%C3%A3o_Vicente,_Cape_Verde"]São Vicente[/URL]) became an important commercial center during the 19th century.[URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3"][/URL] Portugal changed Cape Verde's status from a colony to an overseas province in 1951 in an attempt to blunt growing [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Nationalism"]nationalism[/URL]. Nevertheless, in 1956, [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Amilcar_Cabral"]Amilcar Cabral[/URL], a Cape Verde, and a group of Cape Verdeans and Guinean organized (in [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Portuguese_Guinea"]Portuguese Guinea[/URL]) the clandestine [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/African_Party_for_the_Independence_of_Guinea_and_Cape_Verde"]African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde[/URL] (PAIGC), which demanded improvement in economic, social, and political conditions in Cape Verde and Guinea and formed the basis of the two nations' independence movement. Moving its headquarters to [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Conakry"]Conakry[/URL], Guinea in 1960, the PAIGC began an armed rebellion against Portugal in 1961. Acts of sabotage eventually grew into a [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Guinea-Bissau_War_of_Independence"]war in Portuguese Guinea[/URL] that pitted 10,000 [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Soviet_bloc"]Soviet bloc[/URL]-supported PAIGC soldiers against 35,000 Portuguese and African troops.[URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3"][/URL] By 1972, the PAIGC controlled much of Portuguese Guinea despite the presence of the Portuguese troops, but the organization did not attempt to disrupt Portuguese control in Cape Verde. Portuguese Guinea declared independence in 1973 and was granted [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/De_facto#De_jure"]de jure[/URL] independence in 1974. Following the [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Carnation_Revolution"]April 1974 revolution in Portugal[/URL], the PAIGC became an active political movement in Cape Verde. In December 1974, the PAIGC and Portugal signed an agreement providing for a transitional government composed of Portuguese and Cape Verdeans. On June 30, 1975, Cape Verdeans elected a National Assembly, which received the instruments of independence from Portugal on July 5, 1975. 20 centavos 1930, bronze, mintage - 1500000. 1 escudo 1968, bronze, mintage - 500000. [URL="http://www.carstock.com.ua/Dictionary/Cape_Verde#cite_note-bn-3"][/URL][/QUOTE]
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