Portuguese West Africa
Britishnoun
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He was still ahead of the record when a whipping rain beset him over Benguela, Portuguese West Africa.
From Time Magazine Archive
Portuguese West Africa is generally called the Province of Angola.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.
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.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
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 Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
Armed with fire arms, these Namakwa Hottentots threatened Portuguese West Africa, but Germany intervened, ostensibly to protect missionaries.
From The Negro by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
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