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factory is from
Latin factorium 'place of doers, makers' (Portuguese:
feitoria; Dutch: factorij; French: factorerie, comptoir). The
factories established...
- The
Portuguese Empire ruled Arguin (Portuguese: Arguim) from 1445,
after Prince Henry the
Navigator set up a
feitoria,
until 1633....
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Africa (now Ghana) by
European traders. It was
originally a
Portuguese "
feitoria" or
trading post,
established in 1555,
which was
named Cabo Corso. In 1653...
- The
British Factory House (Portuguese:
Feitoria Inglesa), also
known as the
British ****ociation House, is an 18th-century Neo-Palladian
building located...
- from
Portuguese India (between 1500 and 1516). He was a
scrivener in a
feitoria in Kochi, and an
interpreter of the
local language, Malayalam. Barbosa...
- by
Gaspar and
Miguel Corte-Real. 1503 – The
construction of the
first feitoria in
Brazil by Fernão de
Loronha and of a fort in the
allied Kingdom of Cochin...
- of the Mine Castle), also
known as
Castelo da Mina or
simply Mina (or
Feitoria da Mina), in present-day Elmina, Ghana,
formerly the Gold Coast. It was...
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friendly relations once the
Zamorin had paid for the
items plundered from the
feitoria as well as the
gunpowder and cannonballs. The
violent treatment meted out...
- year.
Senegal and Cape
Verde Peninsula were
reached in 1445. The
first feitoria trade post
overseas was
established in 1445 on the
island of Arguin, off...
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Portuguese 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...
