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Arguin (Arabic: أرغين : Arghīn; Portuguese: Arguim) is an
island off the
western coast of
Mauritania in the Bay of
Arguin. It is
approximately 6 km × 2 km...
- The Bay of
Arguin (French: Baie d'Arguin; Portuguese: Baía de Arguim) is a bay on the
Atlantic s**** of
Mauritania and the
former mouth of the Tamanr****et...
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German colonies were
established along the
Brandenburger Gold
Coast and
Arguin.
Frederick William,
known as "The
Great Elector",
opened up his
realm of...
- [citation needed] In 1445,
Prince Henry the
Navigator set up a
trading post on
Arguin Island (off the
coast of
modern Mauritania),
which acquired acacia gum and...
- even
though he had
hardly sailed in 20 years, Méduse
struck the Bank of
Arguin off the
coast of present-day
Mauritania and
became a
total loss. Most of...
- 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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sighted the Bay of
Arguin in 1443 and
built an
important "forte-feitoria" (a fort
protecting a
trading post) on the
island of
Arguin around the year 1448...
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Louise Gagnon-
Arguin is a
Canadian archivist. Gagnon-
Arguin was born in 1941 in Port-Joli, Quebec.
Between 1958 and 1960, she
audited librarianship courses...
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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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explored as far
south as the Bay of
Arguin,
where the
Portuguese established a
trading post on the
island of
Arguin.
Henry ordered the
first feitoria or...
