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Elucidário Madeirense

Place foreign city/place Mauritania Africa

Angra dos Cavalos

Mauritania · Africa

African cove named after horses landed in 1435, cited as a naming parallel.

Map: Africa (1)

1Mentioned in

Machico (origin of the name) — African cove named after horses landed in 1435, cited as a naming parallel.

2Chronology

1435
Portuguese discoverers landed two horses on the African coast, naming Angra dos Cavalos.