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Caleijão
Caleijão is a settlement in the central part of the island of São Nicolau, Cape Verde. It is situated 2 km southwest of Ribeira Brava. Writer Baltasar Lopes da Silva was born in the village. Part of his novel '' Chiquinho'' is set in Caleijão. See also *List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde This is a list of villages and smaller settlements in Cape Verde: Boa Vista, Cape Verde (municipality), Boa Vista * Bofarreira * Cabeça dos Tarrafes * Curral Velho, Cape Verde, Curral Velho - abandoned settlement * Espingueira - Abandoned Settl ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Caleijao Villages and settlements in São Nicolau, Cape Verde Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltasar Lopes Da Silva
Baltasar Lopes da Silva (23 April 1907 – 8 May 1989) was a writer, poet and linguist from Cape Verde, who wrote in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. With Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa, he was the founder of '' Claridade''. In 1947 he published '' Chiquinho'', considered the greatest Cape Verdean novel and '' O dialecto crioulo de Cabo Verde'' which describes different dialects of creoles of Cape Verde. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Osvaldo Alcântara. ''Ressaca'', his work of poems can be found on the CD '' Poesia de Cabo Verde e Sete Poemas de Sebastião da Gama'' by Afonso Dias. Biography Baltasar Lopes da Silva was born in the village of Calejão on the island of São Nicolau in Cape Verde on April 23, 1907. He attended the seminary in Ribeira Brava in his native island. He later headed to Portugal and studied at the University of Lisbon. When he was at Lisbon, Baltasar Lopes studied with the most important writers and authors of the Portuguese cultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiquinho (novel)
''Chiquinho'' is a Capeverdean novel written by Baltasar Lopes da Silva in 1936 and published in 1947. The story is named after the nickname of the island of São Nicolau in which the characters originated. It is probably the most well known literary work from Cape Verde, and marked the beginning of the typical literature in Cape Verde along with local themes in Creole culture. Along with '' Claridade'', Baltasar Lopes participated with Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa with founded members of the review and the name was the movement in the main activists of the same. The development of the novel began in the 1930, cultural material were developed up to 1936 and featured other Cape Verdean writers including (Nhô Chi’Ana, Nhô João Joana, Nhô Loca, Sr. Euclides Varanda, Chico Zepa, Manuel de Brito “Parafuso”, José Lima, etc. The remainder were done from 1938 and was finished in 1941 in Lisbon, six years later, it was published in Portugal.Carvalho, Alberto, p. 245-252 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Villages And Settlements In Cape Verde
This is a list of villages and smaller settlements in Cape Verde: Boa Vista, Cape Verde (municipality), Boa Vista * Bofarreira * Cabeça dos Tarrafes * Curral Velho, Cape Verde, Curral Velho - abandoned settlement * Espingueira - Abandoned Settlement from the Village * Estância de Baixo * Fundo das Figueiras * João Galego * Povoação Velha * Prazeres, Cape Verde, Prazeres - abandoned settlement Brava, Cape Verde, Brava * Cachaço * Campo Baixo * Cova Joana * Cova Rodela * Fajã de Água * João da Noly * Lem, Cape Verde, Lem * Mato, Cape Verde, Mato * Mato Grande * Nossa Senhora do Monte, Cape Verde, Nossa Senhora do Monte * Santa Bárbara, Cape Verde, Santa Bárbara * Tantum * Tomé Barraz * Vinagre, Cape Verde, Vinagre Fogo, Cape Verde, Fogo * Achada Furna * Achada Grande, Mosteiros, Achada Grande * Atalaia, Cape Verde, Atalaia * Cabeça Fundão * Campanas Baixo * Chã das Caldeiras * Corvo, Cape Verde, Corvo * Curral Grande * Estância Roque * Fajãzinha, Cape Verde, Faj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Nicolau, Cape Verde
São Nicolau (Portuguese language, Portuguese for ''Saint Nicholas'') is one of the Barlavento Islands, Barlavento (Windward) islands of Cape Verde. It is located between the islands of Santa Luzia, Cape Verde, Santa Luzia and Sal, Cape Verde, Sal. Its population is 12,424 (2015),Cabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Cape Verde), Instituto Nacional de Estatística with an area of . The main towns are Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde, Ribeira Brava and Tarrafal de São Nicolau. History The island was discovered in 1461 or 1462 by Diogo Afonso, together with the islands of São Vicente, Cape Verde, São Vicente and Santo Antão, Cape Verde, Santo Antão.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde
Ribeira Brava is a cityCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 on the island of São Nicolau, . It is the seat of the Ribeira Brava Municipality. Its population was 1,936 at the 2010 census. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villages And Settlements In São Nicolau, Cape Verde
A village is a human settlement or Residential community, community, larger than a hamlet (place), hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a Church (building), church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
