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Santiago

Santiago

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Cape Verde

Santiago is the principal island of Cape Verde, whose naming Camões misattributed. D. Patrício Xavier de Moura visited it often, and D. João Henriques Moniz landed there and faced persecution.

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2Chronology

  1. The Portuguese discovered Santiago island in Cape Verde on the feast of St James the Less.

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