Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word BOLAMA

Definitions of BOLAMA

1. One of the islands of the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau
2. Capital of the homonymous region, also the most populated place in the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau

Examples of Using BOLAMA in a Sentence

• February 16 – After stops at Villa Cisneros in Spanish Sahara and Bolama in Portuguese Guinea, Pinedo, Del Prete, and Zacchetti attempt to take off from Bolama to cross the Atlantic Ocean to Brazil.
• As Portuguese Guinea expanded and solidified, however, towns such as Bolama, Bissau and Canchungo became administrative centers at the expense of Cacheu.
• New centres are presently being established in Paris and in the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa and of the Economic Community of West African States in Abuja and in 2005, the towns of Canchungo, Ongoré, Mansôa, Bafatá, Gabú, Buba, Catió, Bolama, Bubaque, and Quinhamel in Guinea-Bissau to spread the fluency of Portuguese as the official language in the country.
• Orangozinho (Portuguese meaning Little Orango) is an island in the Bissagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau, it is part of the Bolama Region and the Bubaque sector.
• In 2005, in order to increase Portuguese fluency, there was an agreement between Guinean officials and Instituto Camões, which already had a center in Bissau, to open centers in other towns of the country: Canchungo, Ongoré, Mansôa, Bafatá, Gabú, Buba, Catió, Bolama, Bubaque, and Quinhamel.

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