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<p>[QUOTE="Siberian Man, post: 917320, member: 22500"]Though the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Portugal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Portugal" rel="nofollow">Kingdom of Portugal</a> had claimed the area four years earlier, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal" rel="nofollow">Portuguese</a> explorer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuno_Trist%C3%A3o" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuno_Trist%C3%A3o" rel="nofollow">Nuno Tristão</a> sailed around the coast of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa" rel="nofollow">West Africa</a>, reaching the Guinea area in about 1450, searching for the source of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold" rel="nofollow">gold</a>, other valuable commodities, that had slowly been trickling up into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe" rel="nofollow">Europe</a> via land routes for the preceding half century. Sometime later, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_slave_trade" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_slave_trade" rel="nofollow">slaves</a> were also added to the list. Portuguese Guinea had been part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahel_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahel_Empire" rel="nofollow">Sahel Empire</a>, and the local <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Landurna&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Landurna&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow">Landurna</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naula&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naula&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow">Naula</a> tribes traded in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt" rel="nofollow">salt</a> and grew <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice" rel="nofollow">rice</a>. Like in many other regions across Africa, powerful indigenous kingdoms along the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bight_of_Benin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bight_of_Benin" rel="nofollow">Bight of Benin</a> relied heavily on a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_slave_trade" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_slave_trade" rel="nofollow">long established slave trade</a>. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashanti" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashanti" rel="nofollow">Ashanti</a> exploited their military predominance to bring slaves to coastal forts established first by Portugal after 1480, and then soon afterwards by the Dutch, Danish, and English. The slaving network quickly expanded deep into the Sahel, where the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossi" rel="nofollow">Mossi</a> diverted an ancient slaving trade away from the Mediterranean towards the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_%28region%29" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_%28region%29" rel="nofollow">Gold Coast</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Guinea#cite_note-0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Guinea#cite_note-0" rel="nofollow"></a> With the help of local tribes in about 1600, the Portuguese, and numerous other European powers, including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France" rel="nofollow">France</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" rel="nofollow">Britain</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden" rel="nofollow">Sweden</a>, set up a thriving slave trade along the West African coast. However, the local black African rulers in Guinea, who prospered greatly from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_slave_trade" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_slave_trade" rel="nofollow">slave trade</a>, had no interest in allowing the white Europeans any further inland than the fortified coastal settlements where the trading took place. The Portuguese presence in Guinea was therefore largely limited to the port of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bissau" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bissau" rel="nofollow">Bissau</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacheu" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacheu" rel="nofollow">Cacheu</a>. For a brief period in the 1790s the British attempt to establish a rival foothold on an offshore island, at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolama" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolama" rel="nofollow">Bolama</a>. But by the 19th century the Portuguese were sufficiently secure in Bissau to regard the neighbouring coastline as their own special territory, also in part of present southern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal" rel="nofollow">Senegal</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>1 escudo 1946, bronze.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Siberian Man, post: 917320, member: 22500"]Though the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Portugal"]Kingdom of Portugal[/URL] had claimed the area four years earlier, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal"]Portuguese[/URL] explorer [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuno_Trist%C3%A3o"]Nuno Tristão[/URL] sailed around the coast of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa"]West Africa[/URL], reaching the Guinea area in about 1450, searching for the source of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold"]gold[/URL], other valuable commodities, that had slowly been trickling up into [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe"]Europe[/URL] via land routes for the preceding half century. Sometime later, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_slave_trade"]slaves[/URL] were also added to the list. Portuguese Guinea had been part of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahel_Empire"]Sahel Empire[/URL], and the local [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Landurna&action=edit&redlink=1"]Landurna[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Naula&action=edit&redlink=1"]Naula[/URL] tribes traded in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt"]salt[/URL] and grew [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice"]rice[/URL]. Like in many other regions across Africa, powerful indigenous kingdoms along the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bight_of_Benin"]Bight of Benin[/URL] relied heavily on a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_slave_trade"]long established slave trade[/URL]. The [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashanti"]Ashanti[/URL] exploited their military predominance to bring slaves to coastal forts established first by Portugal after 1480, and then soon afterwards by the Dutch, Danish, and English. The slaving network quickly expanded deep into the Sahel, where the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossi"]Mossi[/URL] diverted an ancient slaving trade away from the Mediterranean towards the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Coast_%28region%29"]Gold Coast[/URL].[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Guinea#cite_note-0"][/URL] With the help of local tribes in about 1600, the Portuguese, and numerous other European powers, including [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France"]France[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom"]Britain[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden"]Sweden[/URL], set up a thriving slave trade along the West African coast. However, the local black African rulers in Guinea, who prospered greatly from the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_slave_trade"]slave trade[/URL], had no interest in allowing the white Europeans any further inland than the fortified coastal settlements where the trading took place. The Portuguese presence in Guinea was therefore largely limited to the port of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bissau"]Bissau[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacheu"]Cacheu[/URL]. For a brief period in the 1790s the British attempt to establish a rival foothold on an offshore island, at [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolama"]Bolama[/URL]. But by the 19th century the Portuguese were sufficiently secure in Bissau to regard the neighbouring coastline as their own special territory, also in part of present southern [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal"]Senegal[/URL]. 1 escudo 1946, bronze.[/QUOTE]
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