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Portuguese West Africa

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noun

  1. a former name (until 1975) of Angola

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No very sharp ethnical line can be drawn between Portuguese West Africa and the contiguous portion of the Belgian Congo south and west of the main stream.

From Project Gutenberg

Portuguese West Africa is generally called the Province of Angola.

From Project Gutenberg

He bought a yacht, a private car, a Fifth Avenue mansion, an estate at Great Neck, L. I. The world-wide reach of Sinclair Consolidated was flung out by the burly Destiny Man to Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; to Angola, in Portuguese West Africa; to Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was still ahead of the record when a whipping rain beset him over Benguela, Portuguese West Africa.

From Time Magazine Archive

From Lobito Bay in Portuguese West Africa a railway was being built in 1909 which would connect with the main line near the Congo frontier.

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