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Portuguese Guinea

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noun

  1. the former name (until 1974) of Guinea-Bissau

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Another daughter, Claudia, died at 9 of malaria in Portuguese Guinea while her father was based there.

From Washington Post Jul. 28, 2021

For the first time she dipped far south of her usual Lisbon-Azores-Bermuda route, went via Portuguese Guinea and Trinidad.

From Time Magazine Archive

Intermediate talks between representatives of Lisbon and liberation leaders from Portuguese Guinea had ended on a cordial note in London.

From Time Magazine Archive

Already trouble was brewing in two other Portuguese African territories, Mozambique, on the Indian Ocean, and Portuguese Guinea, a tiny enclave on the continent's western hump.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among them are the Great and Little Scarcies, whose lower courses are in Sierra Leone, and the Rio Grande which enters the sea in Portuguese Guinea.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various

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