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Map of Cape Verde. Coat of arms of Portuguese Cape Verde. The islands of Cape Verde were uninhabited when discovered and claimed by Portugal in 1456. A Portuguese colony was established in 1462. The islands were united as a single crown colony in 1587. In 1951, the islands became an overseas province of Portugal. Autonomy was granted in 1974 ...
Portuguese Silvino Silvério Marques (23 March 1918 – 1 October 2013) was a Portuguese colonial administrator and a general of the Portuguese Army. [ 1 ] He was governor of Cape Verde from 1958 to 1962, [ 2 ] and governor of Angola for two terms: from 1962 to 1966, and in 1974. [ 3 ]
The islands of Cape Verde were discovered in 1444 by Prince Henry the Navigator (Son of King John I) and Antonio Noli, in the service of Henry's relative King Afonso V.The southeastern islands, including the largest island Santiago, were discovered in 1460 by António de Noli and Diogo Gomes.
Manuel António Martins (1772 in Braga-1845) was a Portuguese businessman and colonial governor of Cape Verde and Portuguese Guinea from 1834 to 1835. [1] Martins was said to be the richest man in the country and nicknamed the Napoleon of the Cape Verde Islands. [2] He arrived in Cape Verde in 1792.
After the Pijiguiti Massacre, however, the people of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau fought one of the longest African liberation wars. Like other colonies, autonomy was granted in 1972 and Portuguese Cape Verde held its only parliamentary elections in 1973 in which only Portuguese citizens could vote. Only 25,521 people registered to vote out of ...
An army officer, he was governor of Cape Verde from 9 March 1918 to 1919. [2] Having participated in movements against the democratic governments, he was dismissed from the Portuguese Army in 1920, only to be reinstated after the 28 May 1926 coup d'état. [1] He was governor of Portuguese Timor from 30 September 1926 to 22 December 1928. [3]
Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses (5 April 1822 [1] – 1 January 1905) was a Portuguese colonial administrator and a military officer. He was a younger brother of José Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses who was governor of Mozambique and Cape Verde. [1] He was governor general of Mozambique from 24 April 1854 until 26 September 1857. [2]
Portuguese Domingos Correia Arouca (older spelling: Domingos Corrêa Arouca ) (1 May 1790 – 24 January 1861) was a Portuguese general, administrator and colonial governor of Cape Verde from 1835 to 1837, [ 1 ] he was also a Portuguese politician and freemason.