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... Africa , the smallest nation on the African con- tinent . Bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean , it is otherwise entirely surrounded by Senegal . The text article , which complements the arti- cle on the Gambia River , covers The ...
... Africa , the smallest nation on the African con- tinent . Bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean , it is otherwise entirely surrounded by Senegal . The text article , which complements the arti- cle on the Gambia River , covers The ...
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... Africa's conquest by tribes 13 : 154b origins and primary speech communities 8 : 18d papal preservation of order in ... Africa , a former Ger- man colony ( 1884-1919 ) in southwest Africa . In 1883 Adolf Lüderitz , a merchant from Bremen ...
... Africa's conquest by tribes 13 : 154b origins and primary speech communities 8 : 18d papal preservation of order in ... Africa , a former Ger- man colony ( 1884-1919 ) in southwest Africa . In 1883 Adolf Lüderitz , a merchant from Bremen ...
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... African Trading Company in 1876 and first visited West Africa the following year . He soon conceived the idea of combin- ing the competitive British trading firms on the Niger River to form a single chartered company , which then would ...
... African Trading Company in 1876 and first visited West Africa the following year . He soon conceived the idea of combin- ing the competitive British trading firms on the Niger River to form a single chartered company , which then would ...
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