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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    The Portuguese Empire ruled Arguin (Portuguese: Arguim) from 1445, after Prince Henry the Navigator set up a feitoria, until 1633....
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  • Republic of the Congo) Lado Enclave Ruanda-Urundi (Rwanda and Burundi) Arguin (in Mauritania) Brandenburger Gold Coast (coastal settlements in Ghana)...
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