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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Guinea: pointers to the origin of this word |
Author: | Jeffreys, M.D.W. |
Year: | 1972 |
Periodical: | Cahiers d'études africaines |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 48 |
Pages: | 666-669 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | West Africa |
Subject: | place names |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.3406/cea.1972.2743 |
Abstract: | Traces the historical origin of the word Guinea. Suggested is that the word Guinea derives from the name Gunowa, written Gunee by the Portuguese, which was the native name of the nearest Negro kingdom with which the Portuguese and the Castilians of Spain first made contact on the Atlantic coasts of Africa. The name was then applied to the African coasts from the Gambia river to the Benguella in Portuguese Angola. References. |