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Cape Verde Islands   /keɪp vˈərdi ˈaɪləndz/   Listen
Cape Verde Islands

noun
1.
A group of islands in the Atlantic off of the coast of Senegal.





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"Cape verde islands" Quotes from Famous Books



... over nine hundred leagues, the Catholic sovereigns were disposed to make concessions. By the treaty of Tordesillas, June 7, 1494, it was agreed that the Demarcation Line should be drawn three hundred and seventy leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands. [4] This treaty accepted the principle of the Papal arbitration but shifted the boundary to a position supposed to be half-way between the Cape Verde Islands and the newly discovered islands of ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 • Emma Helen Blair
... is real delight in Nature in the account of a journey to the Cape Verde Islands, undertaken on the suggestion of Henry the Navigator by Aloise da Mosto,[4] ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese


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