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Brava Island Cup
The Brava Island Cup ( Portuguese: ''Taça (Copa) da Ilha da Brava'', Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Tasa da Braba'' or ''Tasa dja Braba'', Brava Creole: ''Taça dja Braba'') is a regional cup competition and is played during the season in the island of Brava, Cape Verde, it consists of all the clubs from all the two regional divisions and are divided into about four to five rounds, for some seasons, a group stage was featured. The cup competition is organized by the Brava Regional Football Association (Associação Regional do Fogo, ARFB).The cup winner competes in the regional super cup final in the following season when a cup winner also wins the championship, a runner-up competes. The winner qualifies into Cape Verdean Cup, since 2013, it has been canceled due to financial and scheduling reasons. Its last cup winner was Sporting Clube da Brava Sporting Clube da Brava ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Sporting Klubi da Brava'') is a football club th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brava, Cape Verde
Brava (Portuguese Language, Portuguese for "wild" or "brave") is an island in Cape Verde, and is part of the Sotavento Islands, Sotavento group, in the central Atlantic Ocean. At , it is the smallest inhabited island of the Cape Verde archipelago, but at the same time the greenest. First settled in the early 16th century, its population grew after Mount Fogo on neighbouring Fogo, Cape Verde, Fogo erupted in 1680. For more than a century, its main industry was whaling, but the island economy is now primarily agricultural. History Brava was discovered in 1462 by the Portuguese people, Portuguese explorer Diogo Afonso.Valor simbólico do centro histórico da Praia Lourenço Conceição Gomes, Universidade Portucalense, 2008, p. 97 There is no evidence of human presence on the Cape Verde islands before the arrival of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands lie between west of Cap-Vert, the westernmost point of continental Africa. The List of islands of Cape Verde, Cape Verde islands form part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Savage Isles. The Cape Verde archipelago was uninhabited until the 15th century, when Portuguese Empire, Portuguese explorers colonized the islands, establishing one of the first Age of Discovery, European settlements in the tropics. Due to its strategic position, Cape Verde became a significant location in the Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade during the 16th and 17th centuries. The islands experienced economic growth during this period, driven by their role by the rapid emergence of merchants, priva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sporting Clube Da Brava
Sporting Clube da Brava ( Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: ''Sporting Klubi da Brava'') is a football club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Brava Island Division in Cape Verde. It is based in Nova Sintra the island of Brava with its offices located in nearby Lem. Its current coach is Ney Loko. Its nickname is ''Leões'' (Lions)'','' the nickname of Lisbon-based Sporting CP and many other clubs founded as branches of Sporting CP. Its current president is Francisco Oliveira and its coach is Ney Loko (Emanuel de Pina). Sporting Brava is the second most successful football (soccer) club on the island, having won 10 official regional titles. History The club was founded in the 1988 and is affiliate number 166. The name is identical to the Sporting Clube de Portugal along with its logo which uses its current form. At the start of the 21st century, the club's success ranged from moderate to last place. Sporting's success at the start of the 2010s w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
SC Morabeza
Sport Clube Morabeza is a football club in Cape Verde that plays in the Brava Island Division in Cape Verde. It is based in Nova Sintra the island of Brava and plays at Estádio Aquiles de Oliveira where all the clubs from Brava even those based outside the capital play. The club name's etymology is the name predominantly used in Cape Verde and it is used in other music albums and the hotel in the island of Sal. Its current coach is Alfredo Moreira, himself a former player. Together with Sporting, it is Brava's most successful teams. History The club was founded in 1980 and was Brava's first club, the club name's etymology is the nickname for Cape Verde ''Ilhas de morabeza''. Morabeza is the Portuguese word for hospitality and ''Ilhas de morabeza'' means the "Islands of hospitality"'. Their first appearance was in 1982 and won four straight in 1985. In 1982, no national championships took place due to the 1982 Amílcar Cabral Cup taking place in Praia's stadium now Estádio da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or ) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau. Portuguese-speaking people or nations are known as Lusophone (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Gallaecian language, Celtic phonology. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 17 million second language speakers, Portuguese has approximately 267 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the List of languages by number of native speaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Capeverdean Crioulo Languages
Cape Verdean Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken on the islands of Cape Verde. It is the native creole language of virtually all Cape Verdeans and is used as a second language by the Cape Verdean diaspora. The creole has particular importance for creolistics studies since it is the oldest living creole. It is the most widely spoken Portuguese-based creole language. The full, formal name is Cape Verdean Creole (), but in everyday usage the creole is simply called "Creole" () by its speakers. Origins The history of Cape Verdean Creole is hard to trace due to a lack of written documentation and to ostracism during the Portuguese administration of Cape Verde. There are presently three theories about the formation of Cape Verdean Creole. The monogenetic theory claims that the creole was formed by the Portuguese by simplifying the Portuguese language in order to make it accessible to enslaved African people. That is the point of view of authors like Prudent, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
ALUPEC
The ''Alfabeto Unificado para a Escrita do Caboverdiano'' (Unified Alphabet for Cape Verdean Writing), commonly known as ALUPEC, is the alphabet that was officially recognizedResolução n.º 48/2005' (Boletim Oficial da República de Cabo Verde – 2005) by the Cape Verdean government to write Cape Verdean Creole. Description The ALUPEC is a phonetic writing system based on the Latin script and states only which letters should be used to represent each sound. The system does not establish rules for spelling (orthography). For that reason, Cape Verdean creole writing is not standardized; the same word or the same sentence may appear written in different ways. Cape Verdeans write idiosyncratically — that is, each person writes in his or her own dialect, sociolect, and idiolect. The descriptive texts concerning the ALUPEC claim that it is "a system composed by 23 letters and four digraphs". What those texts do not specify is that the ALUPEC also includes the letter ''Y'' and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brava Regional Football Association
Brava or La Brava may refer to: Geography *Brava, Cape Verde, a volcanic island *Brava, Costa Rica, an island of Costa Rica (Isla Brava) *Costa Brava, a coastal area Mediterranean of northeast Spain *Barawa, a town in Somalia commonly known as ''Brava'' * La Brava Lake *La Brava San Javier Department, Santa Fe *Ciénaga La Brava Pedraza, Magdalena *La Brava Atlántida, Uruguay People *Linda Brava, Finnish violinist * La Brava (''My Hero Academia''), a character in the manga series ''My Hero Academia'' Brands and products *Brava (beer), a brand of premium lager from the Lakeport Brewing Company *Vauxhall Brava, also known as the Bedford Brava, a pickup truck *Various Fiat models: **Fiat Brava, a 5-door hatchback **Fiat Brava, a family car sold in the United States Other uses * ''La Brava'' (novel), Elmore Leonard *Brava (TV channel) Stingray Brava (formerly Brava) was a cultural television channel originated in the Netherlands, owned by the Stingray Group in Canada. The program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
