Finding Alcatrazes and early Luso-African settlement on Santiago Island, Cape Verde

Christopher Evans; Marie Louise Stig Sørensen; Michael J. Allen; Jo Appleby; Tânia Manuel Casimiro; Charles French; Sarah Inskip; Jose Lima; Richard Newman; Konstantin Richter; Rob Scaife

doi:10.15184/aqy.2017.104

Finding Alcatrazes and early Luso-African settlement on Santiago Island, Cape Verde

Christopher Evans, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Michael J. Allen, Jo Appleby, Tânia Manuel Casimiro, Charles French, Sarah Inskip, Jose Lima, Richard Newman, Konstantin Richter, Rob Scaife

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Abstract

After the Portuguese discovered the Cape Verde Islands in AD 1456 they divided its main island, Santiago, into two governing captaincies. The founding settlement in the south-west, Cidade Velha, soon became the Islands' capital and a thriving trade centre; in contrast, that in the east, Alcatrazes, only lasted as an official seat from 1484-1516 and is held to have 'failed' (see Richter 2015).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	91
Issue number	358
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.104
Publication status	Published - 8 Aug 2017

Keywords

Santiago Island
Cape Verde
early Luso-African settlement
Alcatrazes
Cidade Velha

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