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	Equatorial Guinea - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Elements of the latter may have generated the Bubi, who emigrated to Bioko from Cameroon and Rio Muni in several waves and succeeded former neolithic populations.
		The Annobon population, native to Angola, was introduced by the Portuguese via Sao Tome.
		The Portuguese explorer, Fernando Po (Fernão do Poo), seeking a route to India, is credited with having discovered the island of Bioko in 1471.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Equatorial_Guinea (1102 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Vicariate Apostolic
		FERNANDO PO, in West Africa.--In 1855 a mission was established in the island of Annobon, Corisco, and Fernando Po under R. Miguel Martinez, of Toledo.
		In 1857 the mission became a prefecture Apostolic and was entrusted to the Jesuits; in 1860 their jurisdiction was extended to the mainland.
		On 25 April, a large territory on the continent was added to the mission, which on 5 May, 1904, was made a vicariate Apostolic.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/16082a.htm (3710 words)

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