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... 7 KB (501 words) - 14:43, 2 May 2024 |
Brandenburg-Prussia (section Arguin) established a navy and German colonies in the Brandenburger Gold Coast and Arguin. Frederick William, known as "The Great Elector", opened Brandenburg-Prussia... 65 KB (7,176 words) - 11:20, 3 May 2024 |
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... 9 KB (1,004 words) - 14:34, 24 April 2023 |
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... 4 KB (394 words) - 15:18, 8 April 2024 |
native fishing village he found in the Bay of Arguin (in modern Mauritania). The elevated banks of Arguin bay were replete with fish, attracting poor desert-dwelling... 25 KB (3,540 words) - 23:21, 26 December 2023 |
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... 5 KB (458 words) - 17:37, 9 April 2024 |
The Portuguese Empire ruled Arguin (Portuguese: Arguim) from 1445, after Prince Henry the Navigator set up a feitoria, until 1633.... 99 KB (9,186 words) - 01:07, 1 May 2024 |