Almadi ( French Pointe des Almadies ) is a cape on the Cape Verde Peninsula in Senegal [1] [2] . The most western point of Africa [1] [2] [3] .
| Almadi | |
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| fr. Pointe des almadies | |
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| Location | |
| Water area | Atlantic Ocean |
| A country |
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The coast of the cape is abrasion - bay [2] .
History
It was visited by the Phoenicians in the 7th – 6th centuries BC [1] , of the Europeans it was first achieved by the Portuguese navigator Dinis Dias in 1444 [4] [5] (according to other sources in 1445 [2] ).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Dictionary of modern place names. - Yekaterinburg: U-Factoria. Edited by Acad. V.M. Kotlyakova. 2006.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Geography. Modern illustrated encyclopedia. - M .: Rosman. Edited by prof. A.P. Gorkin. 2006.
- ↑ Almadi // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
- ↑ SERRÃO, Joel (dir.). Dicionário de História de Portugal , sv. Dinis Dias (port.)
- ↑ Infant Don Enrique (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment October 25, 2012. Archived on August 20, 2013.