Cabo Verde (Cape Verde)
Map
of Cape Verde
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Hear
National Anthem
"Cântico da Liberdade"
(Song of Freedom)
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Text
of National Anthem
Adopted 5 Jul 1996
(1975-96 same as Guinea-Bissau)
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Constitution
(25 Sep 1992)
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Capital:
Praia
(Villa de Praia 1769-1974 ;
Cidade de Ribeira 1495-1769)
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Currency:
Cabo Verdean
Escudo (CVE)
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National
Holiday: 5 Jul (1975)
Dia da Independência
(Independence Day)
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Population:
568,373 (2018)
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GDP: $3.77
billion (2017)
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Exports:
$189 million (2017)
Imports: $836.1
million (2017)
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Ethnic groups:
Cape Verdian mestico 69.6%, Fulani
12.2%, Balanta
10%, Mandyako 4.6%,
Portuguese white 2%, other 1.6% (2000)
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Total Active
Armed Forces: 1,200 (2010)
Merchant marine:
42 ships (2017)
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Religions:
Roman Catholic 77.3%, Protestant 4.6%
(includes
Church of the Nazarene 1.7%,
Adventist 1.5%, Assembly
of God 0.9%, Universal
Kingdom of God 0.4%, and
God and Love 0.1%), other Christian 3.4%
(includes Christian
Rationalism 1.9%, Jehovah's
Witness 1%, and New Apostolic 0.5%),
Muslim 1.8%, other 1.3%, none
10.8%, unspecified 0.7% (2010) |
International
Organizations/Treaties: ACP,
AfCFTA
(signatory), AfDB, AOSIS, APM,
AU, BTWC, CCM, CD, CPLP, CTBT, CWC,
ECOWAS, ENMOD, ESCR, FAO, G-77, IAEA (applicant), IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA,
IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO,
Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, IRENA,
ISA, ITSO, ITU,
ITUC, LU, MIGA, NAM, NPT, NTBT, OIF,
OPCW, UN, UNCLOS, UNCTAD,
UNESCO, UNFCC, UNFCC-KP, UNFCC-PA, UNIDO,
UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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Cape
Verde
Index
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Chronology
- 1456
Islands discovered and claimed for
Portugal
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(other
claims date the discovery as 1445,
-
1446, or
1460), named Arquipélago de Cabo
-
Verde
(Archipelago of Cape Verde).
-
1462
First Portuguese settlements
(Ribeira Grande, São
-
Antão, São Vincente, São Tiago, São
Nicolau,
-
Maio, Bôa Vista, Sal, Fogo, and
Brava).
-
1495
Separate crown colonies (donátarias)
known
-
as Dominion of Cape Verde (Domínio
de Cabo Verde).
- 15
Jul 1580 - 1 Dec 1640
Islands along with Portugal a
Spanish possession.
- 1585
English under Francis Drake
sack Ribeira Grande
-
(and again in 1592).
- 1587
Cape Verde Islands a united colony.
-
1712
French corsair Jacques
Cassard sacks Ribeira
Grande.
- Mar
1836
Province of Cape Verde (Província
de Cabo Verde).
- 18 Mar
1879
Bissau and Cacheu separated from
Cabo Verde as
Portuguese Guinea
(Guiné Portuguesa).
- 1926
Colony of Cape Verde (Colónia de
Cabo Verde).
- 11 Jun
1951
Portuguese overseas province (Provincia
de Cabo
-
Verde).
- 19 Dec
1974
Autonomous.
-
5 Jul
1975
Republic of Cape Verde (República
de Cabo Verde),
-
independence from
Portugal.
- 25
Oct
2013
Republic of Cabo Verde
(Portuguese name no longer
-
translated).
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Boa
Vista
(1497-1698) |
Brava,
Santa
Luzia, Sal
(1509-17..) |
Fogo
(1493-c.1694) |
Maio
(1573-1706) |
Ribeira
Grande
(1462-1575) |
Santiago
(1462-16..)
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Santo
Antão
(1504 -1759)
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São
Nicolau &
São Vicente
(1498-1696)
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Secretaries-general of African Party for Independence
of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)
1963 - 20 Jan
1973
Amílcar Lopes
Cabral
(b. 1924 - d. 1973)
22 Jul 1973 - 20 Jan 1981 Aristides Maria
Pereira
(b. 1923 - d. 2011)
General Secretary of African Party of Independence of
Cape Verde (PAICV)
20 Jan 1981 - Jul 1990 Aristides Maria
Pereira
(s.a.)
("leading role" of the party abolished 17 Feb 1990)
Corregedor/Magistrates of
the Islands of Cape Verde
1481 -
....
Pedro Lourenço
1501 –
1508
Francisco Soares
1508 –
1512
Gil Álvares
1512 –
1513
Afonso Lopes de Mariz
(b. c.1470 - d. 15..)
1513 -
1517
Pero de Guimarães
1517 -
1521
João Alemão
1521 -
1527
Leonis Correia
28 Aug 1527 – 15 Sep 1534 Gaspar da
Videira
15 Sep 1534 – 8 Jul 1536 Estevão
de Lagos
8 Jul 1536 – 14 Aug 1540 André
Feio
14 Aug 1540 – 20 Dec 1541 Simão
Afonso
20 Dec 1541 – 13 Dec 1544 Pero
Moniz
13 Dec 1544 -
1547
António
Ferreira
1 Oct 1547 -
1550
Pero de Araujo
20 Mar 1550 -
1551
Jorge Pimentel
(d. 1551)
155. -
1555
João Rodrigues Cardoso
1556 -
1559
Manuel de Andrade
27 Feb 1559 -
1560
Luís Martins de Evangelho
1560 -
1562
Gregório Martins Caminha
1562 -
1566
Bernardo de Alpoim
1566 –
1570
Manuel de Andrade
1571 -
1577
António Velho Tinoco
(b. c.1540 - d. ....)
1577 -
1579
Cristovão Soares de Melo
(d. 1584)
1579 -
1584
Diogo Dias Magro
1584 -
1587
Gaspar de Andrade
28 Jul 1587 -
1595
Amador Gomes Raposo
Governors of Cape Verde
7 Aug 1587 – 25 Mar 1591 Duarte Lobo da
Gama
25 Mar 1591 -
1595
Brás Soares de Melo
1595 – 15 May
1596
Amador Gomes Raposo
15 May 1596 -
1603
Francisco Lobo da Gama
12 Jan 1603 -
1606
Fernão de Mesquita de Brito
12 Jan 1606 -
1611
Francisco Correia da Silva
1611 -
1614
Francisco Martins de Sequeira
Jun 1614 -
1618
Nicolau de Castilho
1618 – 13 Apr
1622
Francisco de Moura
13 Apr 1622 - 12 Sep 1622 Francisco de Moura
Rolim
(b. 1580 - d. 1622)
1622 - 8 Mar
1624
Manuel Afonso de Guerra, bispo
(d. 1624)
+ Chamber Senate
8 Mar 1624 – 10 Apr 1624 Chamber
Senate
10 Apr 1624 -
1628
Francisco Vasconcelos da Cunha
(b. c.1590 - d. 16..)
1628 -
1632
João Pereira de Corte-Real
(b. 1580 - d.
1642)
1632 -
1636
Frei Cristóvão de Cabral
1636 -
1639
Jorge de Castilho
1639 -
1640
Jerônimo Cavalcanti de
Albuquerque
1640 - Oct
1645
João Serrão da
Cunha
(d. 1645)
1641 –
1642
Chamber Senate (acting for
Cunha)
1645 - 1 Nov
1646
Fray Lourenço
Garro
(b. c.1565 - d. 1646)
+ Jorge de Araújo de Mongemes
(or Mogueimas)
1646 – 10 May
1648 Chamber
Senate
10 May 1648 – 15 Nov 1648 Roque de Barros
Rêgo
(d. 1649)
15 Nov 1648 – 29 Jun 1649 Chamber Senate
- Diogo Sanches de Ovando
- Carlos Mendonça de Almada
- Valentim Fernandes Lucas
- Bartolomeu Rodrigues Machado
- Lucas de Abreu
- João Gomes Henriques
- Carlos Mendonça de Almada
- Valentim Fernandes Lucas
- João Gomes Henriques
- Manuel Fidalgo da Costa
29 Jun 1649 - 9 Oct 1650 Gonçalo de Gambôa
Ayala
(d. 1650)
16 Oct 1650 – 24 Dec 1651 Pedro Semedo Cardoso
(acting)
24 Dec 1651 -
1652
Jorge de Mesquita Castelo Branco
21 Apr 1653 -
1658
Pedro Ferraz Barreto
31 Jul 1658 - Apr 1662
Francisco de Figueiroa
19 May 1663 -
1667
António Galvão
21 May 1667 -
1670
Manuel da Costa
Pessoa
(b. c.1622 - d. 1686)
(1st time)
25 May 1671 -
1673
Manuel Pacheco de Melo
1673 -
1676
Manuel Moniz de Mendonça (acting)
30 Jun 1676 - 20 Aug 1676 João Cardoso
Pizarro
(d. 1676)
20 Aug 1676 – Apr 1678 Chamber
Senate
+ Fray António de S.
Dionísio (d. 1684)
Apr 1678 –
1682
Manuel da Costa
Pessoa
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
10 Oct 1682 -
1687
Inácio de França Barbosa
19 Jun 1687 - 24 Apr 1688 Veríssimo de Carvalho
da Costa
24 Apr 1688 - 28 Feb 1690 Bispo Victoriano
Portuense (acting)(b. 16.. - d. 1705)
28 Feb 1690 - 16 Sep 1690 Diogo Ramires
Esquível
(b. 16.. - d. 1690)
16 Sep 1690 – May 1692 Chamber
Senate
+ Manuel Delgarte da
Costa
May 1692 –
1694
Manuel António Pinheiro da
Câmara
1694 -
1696
Francisco de Pita Malheiro (acting)
21 Apr 1696 - 11 Nov 1697 António Gomes
Mena
(b. 16.. - d. 1697)
11 Nov 1697 – 13 Apr 1698 Chamber Senate
+ João Coimbra
Soeiro
13 Apr 1698 – 24 May 1702 António Salgado
12 Apr 1702 -
1702
Jorge Cotrim de Mello
(did not take office)
25 May 1702 –
1706
Gonçalo de Lemos
Mascarenhas (b.
16.. - d. 1707)
1706 - 26 Oct
1707 Chamber
Senate
26 Oct 1707 – 4 Dec 1707 Rodrigo de
Oliveira da Fonseca
1 Dec 1707 – 19 Nov 1711 Chamber
Senate
+ Xavier Lopes Villela
19 Nov 1711 – 29 Apr 1715 José Pinheiro
da Câmara (b.
16.. - d. 1715)
29 Apr 1715 - 20 Jun 1715 Manuel Pereira
Calheiros e Araújo (b. 16.. - d. 1715)
20 Jun 1715 – 6 Apr 1716 Chamber
Senate
6 Apr 1716 – 1720
Serafim Teixeira Sarmento de
Sá (b. 1672 - d. 17..)
28 Sep 1720 - 4 Jan 1725 António
Vieira
(d. 1725)
4 Jan 1725 – 24 Jan 1726 João
Pereira de Carvalho
(b. 1690 - d. 17..)
(president of Chamber Senate)
+ Sebastião de Bravo Botelho (d.
1728)
24 Jan 1726 -
1728
Francisco Manuel da Nóbrega
Vasconcelos
1728 – 23 Dec
1728 Chamber
Senate
23 Dec 1728 - 30 Mar 1733 Francisco de
Oliveira Grans
30 Mar 1733 – 23 Mar 1734 José da Costa
Ribeiro
+ Mateus Moniz da Silva
+ Francisco Corrêa Rebello
(acting)
23 Mar 1734 – Jan 1737
Bento Gomes Coelho
(b. 1687 - d. 17..)
28 Feb 1737 - 7 Aug 1738 José da
Fonseca Barbosa
(d. 1738)
1738 - 1742
Chamber Senate
+ José da Costa Ribeiro
27 Oct 1739 -
1739
Cristóvão Palha de
Almeida
(did not take office)
1742 – 1751
João Zuzarte de Santa
Maria (d.
1752)
5 Jun 1751 – 15 Jul 1751 António
José d'Eça e
Faria
(d. 1751)
15 Jul 1751 – Aug 1754 Chamber
Senate
+ Francisco Xavier de Araújo
Aug 1754 – Mar 1757
Luís António da Cunha d'Eça
27 Mar 1757 – 6 Oct 1761 Manuel
António de Sousa e Meneses
11 Oct 1761 – 3 Nov 1761 Marcelino
Pereira de
Ávila
(d. 1761)
3 Nov 1761 – 19 Feb 1764 António
de Barros Bezerra de (b. 1726 -
d. 1764)
Oliveira
+ José Romão da Silva
+ Chamber Senate
(acting)
19 Feb 1764 – Dec 1766
Bartolomeu de Sousa Brito Tigre
27 Dec 1766 - 4 May 1767 João
Jácome Henrique Baena
(d. 1767)
4 May 1767 – 13 Dec 1769 Chamber
Senate
- Manuel Gonçalves de Carvalho
- João Freire de
Andrade
13 Dec 1769 – 3 Mar 1776 Joaquim
de Salema Saldanha Lobo (d. 1776)
3 Mar 1776 – 21 May 1777
Governing Junta
- José dos Reis Borges
- Nicolau da Fonseca Araújo
- João Freire de Andrade
21 May 1777 – 1781
António do Vale de Sousa Meneses
19 Feb 1781 - 19 Mar 1781 Duarte de Melo
da Silva e Castro (d. 1782)
de Almeida
19 Mar 1781 – 16 Nov 1782 Governing
Junta
- Francisco de São Simão
(d. 1783)
- José Ferreira da Silva?
- João Freire de Andrade
16 Nov 1782 – 10 Aug 1783 Francisco de
São Simão
(d. 1783)
(acting)
10 Aug 1783 – 30 Mar 1785 Government
Junta (incomplete)
- Francisco de São Simão
- Manuel Tavares da Silva
(to 21 Apr 1784)
- Francisco de Abreu
(b. 1726 - d. 1783)
- José Ferreira da Silva
(from 21 Apr 1784)
30 Mar 1785 – 21 Jan 1789 António
Machado de Faria e Maia
21 Jan 1789 – 24 Jun 1795 Francisco José
Teixeira Carneiro
24 Jun 1795 - 10 Sep 1795 José da Silva
Maldonado d'Eça (d.
1795)
10 Sep 1795 - Jun 1796
Francisco da Silva Pereira
Jun 1796 – 3 Nov
1796 Governing
Junta
- José dos Reis Borges
- João Freire de Andrade
- Cristóvão de São Boaventura (d.
1798)
3 Nov 1796 - 29 Nov
1802 Marcelino António Bastos
(d. 1802)
29 Nov 1802 -
1804 Council
of Government
- Manuel Cruz Monteiro
- José Coelho de Mendonça
- Joaquim Nazário da Fonseca Borges
- José Joaquim Botelho de
Almeida
1804 -
1818
António Coutinho de
Lencastre (b. 1768 - d.
18..)
6 Feb 1818 – 5 May
1821 António Pussich
(b. 1760 - d.
1838)
5 May 1821 – Jan 1823
Joaquim José Pereira
(chairman of the Junta)
16 Jan 1823 – 13 Dec 1826 João da Matta
Chapuzet (b.
1777 - d. 1842)
13 Dec 1826 – 25 Aug 1830 Caetano
Procopio Godinho
de (b. 1774
- d. 18..)
Vasconcelos e Sá
25 Aug 1830 -
1831
Duarte da Costa e Sousa de Macedo (b. 1793 - d.
18..)
1831 – 8 Sep
1833
José Coutinho de Lancastre
8 Sep 1833 – 13 Feb 1834 Governing
Junta
- António de Brito do Lago
- Gregório Freire de Andrada
1834 - Mar
1835
Manuel António Martins
(b. 1772 - d. 1845)
1835 – 12 Sep
1835
Antonio Carlos Coutinho (acting)
12 Sep 1835 – 24 Jul 1836
Joaquim Pereira Marinho (1st time) (b. 1782
- d. 1854)
24 Jul 1836 – 13 Jan 1837 Domingos
Correia
Arouca
(b. 1790 - d. 1861)
13 Jan 1837 - Mar 1840
Joaquim Pereira Marinho (2nd time) (s.a.)
Mar 1840 – 8 Jul
1842 João Fontes Pereira de
Melo (b.
1780 - d. 1856)
(1st time)
8 Jul 1842 -
1845
Francisco de Paula Bastos,
(b. 1793 - d. 1881)
visconde de Bastos
26 Jun 1845 -
1847
José Miguel de Noronha
(d. 1854)
1847 – 26 Jun
1848 Governing
Junta
26 Jun 1848 – 23 Aug 1851 João Fontes
Pereira de
Melo (s.a.)
(2nd time)
23 Aug 1851 – 3 Dec 1854 Fortunato
José
Barreiros
(b. 1797 - d. 1885)
3 Dec 1854 – 28 Mar 1858 António
Maria Barreiros Arrobas (b. 1824 -
d. 1888)
28 Mar 1858 – Jun 1860
Sebastião Lopes de Calheiros e
(b. 1816 - d. 1899)
Meneses
Jun 1860 – 23 Mar 1861
Januário Correia de Almeida,
(b. 1829 - d. 1901)
visconde de São
Januário
23 Mar 1861 – 25 Apr 1864 Carlos Joaquim
Franco
25 Apr 1864 – 11 Feb 1869 José Guedes de
Carvalho da Costa (b. 1814 - d. 1879)
Meneses
11 Feb 1869 – 29 Mar 1869
Macário de Sousa Pinto Cardoso
(d. 1875)
(acting)
29 Mar 1869 – 26 Feb 1876 Caetano
Alexandre de Almeida e (b.
1824 - d. 1916)
Albuquerque
16 May 1870 – 9 Jun 1870 José
Maria da Ponte e Horta (b.
1824 - d. 1892)
(acting for Albuquerque)
8 Apr 1876 – 22 Dec 1876 Guilherme
Quintino Lopes de Macedo (b. 1832 - d. 1895)
22 Dec 1876 – 13 Jun 1879 Vasco Guedes
de Carvalho e Meneses (b. 1824 - d. 1905)
13 Jun 1879 – 27 Jul 1881 António do
Nascimento Pereira de (b. 1833 -
d. 1899)
Sampaio
27 Jul 1881 – 23 Jul 1886 João Paes de
Vasconcellos
(b. 1839 - d. 1895)
23 Jul 1886 –
1889 João
Cesário de Lacerda (1st time) (b. 1841 - d. 1903)
1889 – 12 Jun
1889
Augusto Frutuoso Figueiredo de
(b. 1851 - d. 1921)
Barros (acting)
12 Jun 1889 – 4 Feb 1890 Augusto
Cesário Cardoso de
(b. 1836 - d. 1905)
Carvalho
4 Feb 1890 – 5 Sep 1893 José
Guedes Brandão de
Melo (b.
1854 - d. 1919)
5 Sep 1893 – 30 Jan 1894 Fernando
de Magalhães e Meneses (b. 1840
- d. 1899)
(acting)
30 Jan 1894 – 29 Jan 1898 Alexandre
Alberto da Rocha de (b.
1846 - d. 1900)
Serpa Pinto
29 Jan 1898 – Jun 1900
João Cesário de Lacerda (2nd time) (s.a.)
28 Jun 1900 – 1 Oct 1902 Arnaldo
Nogueira de Novais Guedes (b. 1847 - d.
1917)
Rebelo
1 Oct 1902 – 12 Aug 1903 Francisco
de Paula Cid
12 Aug 1903 – 29 Dec 1904 António
Alfredo Barjona de Freitas (b. 1860 - d. 1923)
29 Dec 1904 – 28 Aug 1907 Amâncio Alpoim
Cerqueira Borges (b. c.1860 - d.
1912)
Cabral
28 Aug 1907 -
1909
Bernardo António da Costa de Sousa (b. 1863 - d. 1947)
de Macedo
1909 – 18 Sep
1910
Martinho Pinto de
Queirós
(b. 1847 - d. 1919)
18 Sep 1910 - 14 Nov 1910 António de Abreu de
Macedo
(b. 1876 - d. 1963)
Ramalho Ortigão
14 Nov 1911 -
1911
Artur Marinha de Campos (acting) (b. 1871
- d. 1930)
14 Jun 1911 – 19 Sep 1915 Joaquim Pedro Vieira
Judice Biker (b. 1867 - d. 1926)
19 Sep 1915 – 27 Mar 1918 Abel Fontoura da
Costa
(b. 1869 - d. 1940)
27 Mar 1918 -
1919
Teófilo
Duarte
(b. 1898 - d. 1958)
29 Jul 1919 – 16 Jan 1922
Manuel Firmino de Almeida Maia
(b. 1881 - d. 1932)
Magalhães
16 Jan 1922 – 12 Oct 1923 Filipe Carlos Días de
Carvalho (b. 1868 - d. 1934)
12 Oct 1923 – 29 Dec 1926 Júlio Henríques de
Abreu
2 Sep 1926 - 29 Dec 1926 João de
Almeida
(b. 1873 - d. 1953)
(did not take office)
29 Dec 1926 - 13 Jan 1931 António Álvares Guedes
Vaz
(b. 1871 - d. 1952)
13 Jan 1931 -
1941
Amadeu Gomes de Figueiredo
(b. 1888 - d. 1946)
1941 -
1943
José Diogo Ferreira Martins
1943 -
1949
João de Figueiredo
1949 -
1953
Carlos Alberto García Alves
(b. 1898 - d. 1959)
Roçadas
1953
Carlos Henrique Jones da Silveira
(acting)
5 Nov 1953 -
1957 Manuel
Marques de Abrantes Amaral (b. 1914 - d. ....)
1957 -
1958
António Augusto Peixoto Correia (b.
1913 - d. 1988)
(acting)
2 Dec 1958 -
1962
Silvino Silvério
Marques
(b. 1918 - d. 2013)
27 Dec 1962 -
1969
Leão Maria Tavares Rosado
do (b. 1920 - d.
2006)
Sacramento Monteiro
13 Mar 1969 –
1974
António Adriano Faria Lopes dos (b.
1919 - d. 2009)
Santos
Mar 1974 - 25 Apr 1974 Basílio
Pina de Oliveira Seguro (b. 19.. -
d. 2008)
1974 – 6 Aug
1974
José Alberto Loureiro dos Santos (b. 1936
- d. 2018)
(acting)
6 Aug 1974 – 21 Sep 1974 Henrique Afonso
da Silva Horta (b. 1920 - d.
2012)
21 Sep 1974 – 30 Dec 1974 Vicente Manuel de
Moura Coutinho (b. 1918 - d. 2018)
de Almeida
d'Eça
High Commissioner
30 Dec 1974 - 5 Jul 1975 Vicente
Manuel de Moura Coutinho (s.a.)
de Almeida d'Eça
Presidents
5 Jul 1975 - 22 Mar 1991 Aristides
Maria
Pereira
(s.a.)
PAIGC;1981 PAICV
22 Mar 1991 - 22 Mar 2001 António Manuel
Mascarenhas Gomes (b. 1944 - d.
2016) MpD
Monteiro
22 Mar 2001 - 9 Sep 2011 Pedro Verona
Rodrigues Pires
(b.
1934)
PAICV
9 Sep 2011 - 9 Nov 2021 Jorge Carlos
de Almeida Fonseca (b.
1950)
MpD
9 Nov 2021
-
José Maria Pereira
Neves
(b.
1960)
PAICV
Transitional government
31 Dec 1974 - 5 Jul 1975 Vicente Manuel de
Moura Coutinho
(s.a.)
Mil
de Almeida d'Eça
- José Manuel Vaz
Barroco
Mil
- Vasco Fernando de Melo
Wilton
Mil
Pereira
- Carlos Nunes Fernandes dos Reis (b.
1946)
PAIGC
- Amaro Alexandre da
Luz
(b.
1934)
PAIGC
- Manuel da Paixão dos
Santos (b.
1948)
PAIGC
Faustino
Prime ministers
8 Jul 1975 - 4 Apr 1991 Pedro Verona
Rodrigues Pires
(s.a.)
PAIGC;1981 PAICV
4 Apr 1991 - 5 Oct 2000 Carlos
Alberto Wahnon de Carvalho (b.
1949)
MpD
Veiga
29 Jul 2000 - 1 Feb 2001 António Gualberto
do Rosário (b.
1950)
MpD
(acting for Veiga to 5 Oct 2000)
1 Feb 2001 - 22 Apr 2016 José Maria
Pereira
Neves
(s.a.)
PAICV
22 Apr 2016
-
Ulisses Correia e
Silva
(b.
1962)
MpD
Party
abbreviations: MpD
= Movimento para a Democracia (Movement for
Democracy, centrist, liberal, est.14 Mar 1990); PAICV
= Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde
(African Party of Independence of Cabo Verde, democratic
socialist, state party 20 Jan 1981-17 Feb 1990, Marxist-Leninist
communist 1981-1990, est.20 Jan 1981);
Mil = Military;
- Former parties: PAIGC
= Partido Africano da Independência da Guin e Cabo Verde
(African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape
Verde, Marxist-Leninist communist, 1956-1980
pro-Guinea Bissau - Cape Verde unity, state
party from 1975, from 20 Jan 1981 Cape Verde
branch separated as PAICV)
Island Donataries
Boa Vista
29 Oct 1497
Boa Vista a donataria.
1698
Incorporated
into the Crown possessions.
1712
Brief French occupation.
Donataries of Boa Vista (also of
Santiago since 1497)(incomplete)
29 Oct 1497 - 3 Jan
1505 Rodrigo Afonso
1490 - 3 Jan
1505
Rodrigo Afonso de Atoguia
(b. c.1430 - d. 15..)
3 Jan 1505 - 1542
Pero Correia
1542 –
15..
Francisco Correia
15.. - ....
António Correia
c.1663
Manuel Correia da Silva
16.. –
1698
João de Melo da Silva
Captain-major of Boa Vista
16..
Manuel Leitão
Rosa
Brava, Santa Luzia, Sal Islands
10 Jul 1509
Brava, Santa Luzia, Sal Islands a donataria.
c.1730
Incorporated
into the Crown possessions.
Donataries of Brava,
Santa Luzia, Sal Islands, Branco and Raso Islets
(incomplete)
10 Jul 1509 – 1528
Francisco da Fonseca
1528 – 22 Oct 1545
Diogo da Fonseca
22 Oct 1545 – 12 Jan 1553 João Pereira
12 Jan 1553 -
1574
Martinho Pereira
1574 - ....
Luiz Pereira
Fogo
1493
Fogo a donataria.
Donataries of Fogo
1493 – 1528
Fernão Gomes
+ Martim Mendes
1528 – 1566
João de Meneses de Vasconcelos,
(b. c.1470 - d. 15..)
conde de
Penela
1566 – 1591
Afonso de Menezes
1591 – 1607
João de Vasconcelos de Meneses
1607 – 1635
Afonso de Vasconcelos de Meneses
1635 – 17 Sep 1648 João Luis
de Vasconcellos
17 Sep 1648 – 1685 Diogo de
Lima Brito e Nogueira, (b. 1615 -
d. 1685)
visconde de Villa Nova de Cerveira
1685 – 1694
João Fernandes de Lima Vasconcelos
de Brito e
Nogueira, visconde
de Vila
Nova de Cerveira (b. 1655 - d.
1694)
1694 - ....
Tomás de Lima Vasconcelos e Meneses
de Brito
Nogueira, visconde de
Vila Nova
de Cerveira (b.
1674? - d. 1755)
Captains-major
c.1540
Rui Lopes de Almeida
c.1544
Pero Fernandes
c.Jun 1563
Simão Lopes de Almeida
c.1564
Afonso Pestana Picoto
c.1657
António da
Fonseca Ornellas
c.1661
João Munhós
c.1666
António Furtado de
Mendonça
c.1668 - 1672
Christovam de Gouveia Miranda
c.1688
Manuel de Madureira
Maio
1573
Maio Island divided
into two captaincies:
(1)
1673/1706
Incorporated into the
Crown possessions.
Captains (incomplete)
1490 - ....
Rodrigo Afonso de Atouguia
(Rodrigo Afonso)
.... – 1504
João Baptista
1504 – 15..
Egas Coelho I + João Coelho
15.. – 15..
Estevão Coelho
(b.
c.1490 - d. ....)
15.. – c.1593
Egas Coelho II
(b. c.1520 - d. ....)
c.1593 – 16..
Martim Afonso Coelho
(b.
c.1550 - d. ....)
16.. – 16..
Egas Coelho III
(b. c.1585 - d. ....)
c.1624
João
Coelho da Cunha
16..
Egas Coelho da Cunha
(b.
c.1635 - d. ....)
(2)
1684/1706
Incorporated into
the Crown possessions.
Captains
(incomplete)
1573 - ....
Diogo da Silva
+ Antonia
de Vilhena
(b. c.1530 - d. ....)
22 May 1670 – 1673 António
Gomes da Silva
1673 - ....
Diogo Gomes de Figueiredo
(d. 1684)
+ Maria de
Menezes (f)
Ribeira Grande
3 Dec 1460
Ribeira Grande a donataria.
(re-confirmed 19 Sep 1462).
1575
Incorporated into the Crown possessions.
Donataries of Ribeira Grande (later
Southern Santiago)
3 Dec 1460 - 1497
António
da Nola (Noli)
(b. 1415 - d. 1497)
(António
Usodimare)
8 Apr 1497 – 27 Oct 1526 Jorge
Correia
+ Branca de
Aguiar (f)
27 Oct 1526 – 22 Dec 1533 Afonso de Albuquerque
22 Dec 1533 – 16 Aug 1536 Belchior Correia de Souza
(d. 1536)
16 Aug 1536 –
1550 João
Correia de Souza
(d. 1564)
1550 –
1551
Jorge
Pimentel
1551 -
1560
António Correia de Souza
c.1560 – 3 Jan
1564 Jorge Correia de
Souza
3 Jan 1564 – 1575
Constantino de Bragança
(b. 1528 - d. 1575)
Captains-major of Ribeira Grande
c.1508
Sebastião Alvares de Landim
c.1515 – 1517
Fernão Mendes
c.1517
João Alemão
c.1530
Martim Afonso
153.
Gomes Baleeiro
(b. c.1510 - d. ....)
1544 – 1551
António Correia de
Souza
c.1559
Manuel de Andrade
c.1570
Gaspar Rodrigues Velho
c.1580 - 1586
Gaspar Andrade
1586 – 1592
André Raposo
Santiago
29 Jan 1462
Santiago a donataria.
158./159.
Captaincy extinct after
death of last donatary.
1600's
United with Ribeira Grande.
Donataries of Santiago (later Northern Santiago)
29 Jan 1462 -
1473 Diogo
Afonso
(d. 1473)
1473
João Afonso
(d. 1473)
1473 -
1505
Rodrigo Afonso
c.1505 –
c.1542
Pero Correa
c.1542 –
c.1570
Francisco Correa
c.1570 – 158./159.
Manuel Correa
(d. 158./159.)
Captains of Northern Santiago
c.1484
João de Santarém
c.1504
Afonso Ribeiro
c.1508
Rodrigo Varela
15..
Gaspar de Almeida
c.1526 – 1527
André Rodrigues dos Mosquitos
1527 – 1536
Gomes Baleeiro
c.1531
Fernão d'Alcaçova
c.1551
João Rodrigues Cardoso
21 Jan 1570 -
....
Manuel Correia
Santo Antão
1504
Santo Antão a donataria.
1724 –
1727
Leased to an English merchants.
1759
Incorporated into the Crown possessions.
Donataries of Santo Antão
1 Mar 1504 –
1527 João
da Fonseca
1527 – 13 Jan
1548 Pero
da Fonseca
13 Jan 1548 -
1587
Gonçalo de Sousa da Fonseca
(d. 1587)
1587 –
1593
Vacant
1593 –
1608
Francisco de Mascarenhas,
(b. 1530 - d. 1608)
conde de Santa Cruz
1608 – 16..
Martinho de Mascarenhas
(b. c.1570 - d. 16..)
16.. –
1668
João Mascarenhas, conde de
(b. c.1600 - d. 1668)
Santa Cruz
1668 –
1676
Martinho de Mascarenhas,
conde (b. c.1630 - d.
1676)
de
Santa Cruz
1676 –
1696
João da Silva, marquês de Gouveia
(b. 1625 - d. 1696)
1696 –
1723
Martinho Mascarenhas, marquês de
(b. 1681 - d. 1723)
Gouveia
1723 –
1724
João Mascarenhas, marquês de Gouveia (b. 1699
- d. 1741?)
(1st time)
1724 –
1727
English merchants
1727 –
1732
Sebastião de Mendonça e Zuniga
(acting
for Portugal)
1732 – 1741?
João Mascarenhas, marquês de
Gouveia (s.a.)
(2nd time)
1741 –
1759
José Mascarenhas da Silva de
(b. 1708 - d. 1759)
Lencastre, marquês de Gouveia
e duque de
Aveiro
Captains-major of Santo
Antão
1727 –
1732
Sebastião de Mendonça e Zuniga
1732 – 1733
Claudio Roquete da Silva
1733 – 1734
Francisco Lobo da Gama
1734 – 1736
José Vieira da Silva
1740 – 1742
Francisco de Lima e Melo
São Nicolau and São Vicente
1498
São Nicolau
and São Vicente Islands a donataria.
1696
Incorporated
into the Crown possessions.
Donataries of São Nicolau and São
Vicente Islands
1498 - 1504
Diogo da Silva Menezes,
(b. c.1430 - d.
1504)
conde de Portalegre
1504 – 15..
João da Silva, conde de Portalegre
(b. c.1480 - d. 15..)
15.. – 1580
Alvaro da Silva, conde de Portalegre
(b. c.1505 - d. 1580)
1580 – c.1590
Filipa da Silva, condessa de
(b. c.1550 - d. c.1590)
Portalegre (f)
c.1590 – 1625
Juan de Silva
c.1625 – c.1650
Manrique de Silva, marquês de
(b. c.1585 - d. c.1650)
Gouveia
c.1650 – 1696
João da Silva, marquês de Gouveia
(b. 1625 - d. 1696)
Captain-major of
São Nicolau and São Vicente Islands
c.1580
Fernão Penteado
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