Countries: Cabo Verde
Cabo Verde (or Cape Verde) is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean near Senegal, The Gambia, and Mauritania. These islands lie west of Cap-Vert, the westernmost point of continental Africa.
The Cape Verde islands form part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Savage Isles.?
A passage from a book, Corografia Cabo-Verdiana, ou Descripc?o Geografico-Historica (Chelmecki, 1841), mentions a Wolof prince and his entourage arriving earlier in Cabo Verde than the Portuguese discoverers.
Wolof oral traditions relate that the Wolof were the earliest inhabitants of the region, which was named after a local chief Jolof Mbengue.?
The?Wolof Empire ruled parts of?West Africa?situated in modern-day Senegal, Mali, Gambia and Mauritania?from around the 12th century?to 1549.
The empire consisted mostly of Wolof, Serer and Fula from north of the Senegal River.
The 1549?Battle of Danki resulted in the rapid disintegration of the empire with the defeat of? a former tributary and region of Jolof, during the reign of Bourba Djolof, the last king of the Wolof Empire.
The islands were referred to by ancient writers, including Ptolomy, as Hesperedes or Gorgades. Ancient maps depict the island group off the coast of Africa well before the traditional discovery date of 1460.
For three centuries, Cabo Verde was a setting for the transatlantic slave trade.
Cabo Verde's official language is Portuguese. The recognized national language is Cape Verdean Creole.
The sons of Noah who came out of the ark, following the great flood (c. 2100 BC), were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)?
The first three sons of Ham are traditionally seen as the ancestors of African peoples. The descendants of Cush settled in the upper Nile region (Southern Egypt and northern Sudan), Misraim settled in Egypt, and the tribe of Put settled in either Libya or Somalia.
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