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The recorded history of Cape Verde begins with the Portuguese discovery of the island in 1458. Possible early references to Cape Verde date back at least 2,000 years.
Eugénio de Paula Tavares was a Cape Verdean poet. He is known through his famous poems (mornas),mostly written in the Creole of Brava.
Boa Vista,sometimes incorrectly spelled Boavista,is a desert-like island that belongs to the Cape Verde Islands. At 631.1 km2 (243.7 sq mi),it is the third largest island of the Cape Verde archipelago.
Antonio de Noli was a 15th-century Genoese nobleman and navigator,and the first governor of the earliest European overseas colony in Subsaharan Africa. He discovered some of the Cape Verde islands on behalf of Henry the Navigator and was made the first Governor of Cape Verde by King Afonso V. In most history or geographic books,including ancient chronicles,or encyclopedias,he is referred as Antonio de Noli. In Italy,he is known also as Antonio da Noli or sometimes as Antoniotto Usodimare.
Football is the most popular sport in Cape Verde. The league is divided into eleven divisions,of which seven of them are singles and two islands,Santiago and Santo Antão has two zones since 2000. The football association is a federation which is known as the Cape Verdean Football Federation,it became affiliated with CAF in 1986 and later with FIFA in 2001.
Jorge Vera-Cruz Barbosa was a Cape Verdean poet and writer. He collaborated in various reviews and Portuguese and Cape Verdean journals. The publication of his poetry anthology Arquipélago (Archipelago) in 1935 marked the beginning of Cape Verdean poetry. He was,along with Baltazar Lopes da Silva and Manuel Lopes,one of the three founders of the literary journal Claridade ("Clarity") in 1936,which marked the beginning of modern Cape Verdean literature.
Praia is a concelho (municipality) of Cape Verde. It is situated in the southern part of the island of Santiago. Its seat is the city Praia,the capital of Cape Verde. Its area is 120.6 km2 (46.6 sq mi),and its population was 131,719 at the 2010 census. The municipality consists of one freguesia,Nossa Senhora da Graça. The city hall is located in the Platôpart of the city.
Tourism in Cape Verde,a group of islands off the coast of Senegal,West Africa,started in the 1970s on the island of Sal and increased slowly in the 1980s and 1990s.
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde,officially the Republic of Cabo Verde,is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean,consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about 4,033 square kilometres (1,557 sq mi). These islands lie between 600 and 850 kilometres west of Cap-Vert,the westernmost point of continental Africa. The Cape Verde islands form part of the Macaronesia ecoregion,along with the Azores,the Canary Islands,Madeira and the Savage Isles.
Daniel Damásio Ascensão Filipe was a Cape Verdean poet and journalist.
Cabo Verde Express is a Cape Verdean regional airline headquartered in Espargos and based at Amílcar Cabral International Airport operating domestic scheduled and charter services.
Cape Verde was a colony of the Portuguese Empire from the initial settlement of the Cape Verde Islands in 1462 until the independence of Cape Verde in 1975.
The 2010 Cape Verdean Football Championship season was the 31st of the competition of the first-tier football in Cape Verde. Its started on 8 May,slightly later than the last season and finished on 10 July,later than last year. The tournament was organized by the Cape Verdean Football Federation. It was the second consecutive time that the final featured two clubs from the same island and city,the next time it happened would be five years later. It brought the Capital Rivalry between Sporting and Boavista to the national championships. Another club of Praia named Boavista FC winning the national title breaking Sporting Praia's consecutive title wins. A month later,Boavista Praia would become the only club to win both the championship and the cup title in the same season.
Cape Verde has risen to prominence in a number of sporting areas in recent decades.
Manuel António Martins was a Portuguese businessman and colonial governor of Cape Verde and Portuguese Guinea from 1834 to 1835. Martins was said to be the richest man in the country and nicknamed the Napoleon of the Cape Verde Islands. He arrived in Cape Verde in 1792. He started the exploitation of the salt ponds of Pedra de Lume on the island of Sal in 1796.
Diogo Afonso was a Portuguese explorer.
The island of São Vicente in Cape Verde in the westcentral portion of the Barlavento Islands is home to several teams and clubs. The major professional clubs are CS Mindelense,FC Derby,Académica do Mindelo,Batuque FC and Amarante. The island also has a league named the São Vicente Island League,it is the oldest in Cape Verde,first it only had football,later it had basketball,volleyball,athletics and now futsal.
The archipelago of Cape Verde has been struck by a series of drought-related famines between the 1580s and the 1950s. During these periods of drought and famine,tens of thousands of inhabitants died from starvation and diseases.
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Francisco de Vasconcelos da Cunha was a Portuguese colonial administrator. He was born around 1590,and was governor of Portuguese Cape Verde from 1624 to 1628. He succeeded Manuel Afonso de Guerra,who was also the Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde. He was succeeded by João Pereira Corte-Real. In 1634,he became the captain-general of Portuguese Angola,succeeding Manuel Pereira Coutinho. He was succeeded on 18 October 1639 by Pedro César de Meneses.
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