Guinea trade

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• Papua New Guinea Trade Union Congress — Infobox Union| name= PNGTUC country= Papua New Guinea affiliation= ITUC members= 70,000 full name= Papua New Guinea Trade Union Congress native name= founded= 1970 current= head= dissolved date= dissolved state= merged into= office= people= John… …   Wikipedia

• Guinea Company (London) — The Company of Adventurers of London Trading to the Ports of Africa, more commonly known as The Guinea Company was the first private company to colonize Africa for profit. They were a trading company primarily exporting Redwood (used for dyes)… …   Wikipedia

• Guinea —    Guinea, or Guinea Coast, is a geographical term of Berber origins used by Europeans from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries to designate varying sections of the western coast of Africa, a region that formed one apex of the Atlantic… …   Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800–1914

• Guinea (region) — Guinea is a traditional name for the region of Africa that lies along the Gulf of Guinea. It stretches north through the forested, tropical, regions and ends at the Sahel. Historically, this region was one of the first parts of sub Saharan Africa …   Wikipedia

• guinea — former British coin, 1660s, from Guinea, region along the west coast of Africa, presumably from an African word (perhaps Tuareg aginaw black people ); the 20 shilling coins so called because they were first minted for British trade with Guinea… …   Etymology dictionary

• guinea pig — 1660s, native to South America and perhaps so called either because it was first brought back to Britain aboard Guinea men, ships that plied the triangle trade between England, Guinea, and South America [Barnhart, Klein]; or from confusion of… …   Etymology dictionary

• Guinēa — Guinēa, ein großer Theil der Westseite Afrikas, zu beiden Seiten des Äquator. Gewöhnlich versteht man aber unter G. den Küstenstrich zwischen dem Äquator u. 10° nördl. Br., welcher zum Unterschiede von dem südlich vom Äquator liegenden… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

• Guinea Company — était une compagnie commerciale anglaise fondée pour le commerce sur les côtes d Afrique, en 1618, puis dirigée en 1625 par Nicholas Crisp, qui devint en 1628 son principal bénéficiaire. Elle est l ancêtre des deux autres compagnies européennes… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Guinea — Guinean, adj., n. /gin ee/, n. 1. a coastal region in W Africa, extending from the Gambia River to the Gabon estuary. 2. Formerly, French Guinea. an independent republic in W Africa, on the Atlantic coast. 7,405,375; ab. 96,900 sq. mi. (251,000… …   Universalium

• Guinea-Bissau — /gin ee bi sow /, n. a republic on the W coast of Africa, between Guinea and Senegal: formerly a Portuguese overseas province; gained independence in 1974. 1,178,584; 13,948 sq. mi. (36,125 sq. km). Cap.: Bissau. Formerly, Portuguese Guinea. * *… …   Universalium