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    French West Africa (French: Afrique-Occidentale française, AOF) was a federation of eight French colonial territories in West Africa: Mauritania, Senegal...
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    Institut d’Emission de l’Afrique Occidentale Française et du Togo (lit. 'Note-Issuing Institute of French West Africa and Togo'). In 1959, the institution's...
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    Cashew is the common name of a tropical evergreen tree Anacardium occidentale, in the family Anacardiaceae. It is native to South America and is the source...
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    aluminium-bronze 5, 10, and 25 francs. All carried the name "Afrique Occidentale Française". In 1957, 10 and 25 franc coins were issued with the name...
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    In World War II, French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, AOF) was not a major scene of major fighting. Only one large-scale action took place...
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    l'Afrique Occidentale (BAO, "Bank of West Africa") was a French bank established in 1901 to issue currency for the colonies of French West Africa. BAO was...
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    "Contribuzione alla conoscenza dei termitidi e termitofilidell' Africa occidentale. II. – Termitofili. Parte seconda". Boll.Lab. Portici. 14: 265–319...
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    The Banking Company of West Africa (CBAO) (French: Compagnie bancaire de l'Afrique occidentale) is a Dakar, Senegal based private bank. The CBAO traces...
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    "The Pseudo-boutonniers of Richat". Gouvernement Général de l'Afrique Occidentale Française Bulletin de la Direction des Mines. 15 (2): 391–401. "The First...
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    (French: Gouverneur général de l'Afrique occidentale française) responsible for the territory of French West Africa, an area equivalent to modern-day Mauritania...
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    (1973). "Gli 'hacheraux' nei giacimenti paleolitici della Sicilia sud occidentale". Proceedings of the XV Scientific Meeting of the Italian Institute of...
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    expanded the note-issuance privilege of the Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale to its central African colonies of Congo, Ubangi-Shari, Gabon, Chad, and later Cameroon...
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  • Filiola occidentale is a moth in the family Lasiocampidae. It was described by Strand in 1912. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo...
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  • ISBN 978-0-19-514890-9. Tal Tamari (1998), Les castes de l'Afrique occidentale: Artisans et musiciens endogames, Nanterre: Société d’ethnologie, ISBN 978-2901161509...
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    struck before the introduction of the CFA franc. The Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale began issuing notes in 1903. 100 franc notes were introduced that year...
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    (1912). "Ditteri raccolti da Leonardo Fea durante il suo viaggio nell' Africa occidentale. Parte 1a: Syrphidae". Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova. 45: 400–453...
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    "Un viaggio in Africa Occidentale" (A journey through West Africa) together with Massimo Serandrei, to display wooden works of African art. Numerous pieces...
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  • Thumbnail for Trichodiadema occidentale
    Trichodiadema occidentale is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it grows in rocky shale...
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    nuove Fusiturris (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Clavatulidae) dall' Africa Occidentale. Malacologia Mostra Mondiale 86: 8–10 Wikimedia Commons has media...
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  • corporation partnered with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and Banque Internationale pour l' Afrique Occidentale - Côte d'Ivoire (BIAO-CI) in...
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    northern South America, and (as the variety C. pentandra var guineensis) West Africa. A somewhat smaller variety has been introduced to South and Southeast Asia...
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    Sébastien; Chirio, Laurent (2012). Lézards, crocodiles et tortues d'Afrique occidentale et du Sahara (in French). IRD Editions. p. 420. ISBN 978-2-7099-1726-1...
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  • Compagnie du Sénégal et de la Côte occidentale d'Afrique ("Company of the Senegal and of the West Coast of Africa") was a 19th-century colonial French...
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    Bambara people (category West African people)
    Bloomington, 1971. Labat, Jean-Baptiste (1728). Nouvelle Relation de l'Afrique Occidentale 3 Vol. Paris. Bathily, Abdoulaye (1989). Les Ports de l'Or Le Rouyaume...
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    peu connus recueillis dans les possessions portugaises de l'Afrique occidentale, qui se trouvent au Muséum de Lisbonne ". Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas...
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    Mauritania (category Countries in Africa)
    as Bilad Chinqit, "the land of the Chinguetti". The term "Mauritanie occidentale" was officially used in a ministerial circular in 1899, based on a proposal...
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    federal colonies of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF) and French Equatorial Africa (Afrique équatoriale française, AEF)...
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    Autonomous Port of Dakar (category Ports and harbours in Africa)
    1973, p. 50-71 Côte occidentale d'Afrique. Port et Mouillage de Dakar. Levés en 1875 ... par Mr F. Leclerc (Coast of West Africa), Paris, 1876 (carte...
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    western dwarf chameleon (Bradypodion occidentale) occurs in beach vegetation, along the west coast of South Africa and Namibia. The Namaqua is relatively...
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    Kola nut (category Crops originating from Africa)
    Lovejoy, Paul E. “Kola in the History of West Africa (La Kola Dans L'histoire De L'Afrique Occidentale).” Cahiers D'Études Africaines, vol. 20, no. 77/78...
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