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	LOURENCO MARQUES - LoveToKnow Article on LOURENCO MARQUES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lourenco Marques is the nearest seaport to the Rand gold mines.
		The average value of the total trade of Lourenco Marques for the five years 1897-1899 and 1902-1903 (1900 and 1901 being years during which trade was disorganized by the Anglo-Boer War) was over 3,500,000.
		Lourenco Marques is named after a Portuguese navigator, who with a companion (Antonio Calderia) was sent in 1544 by the governor of Mozambique on a voyage of exploration.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LO/LOURENCO_MARQUES.htm (1063 words)

	Maputo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Founded in the late 18th century, the city was named Lourenço Marques for Lourenço Marques, the Portuguese trader who first explored the area in 1544.
		In 1895, construction of a railroad to Pretoria, South Africa caused the city's population to grow.
		In 1898, Lourenço Marques became the capital of Mozambique.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maputo (515 words)

	Eusébio da Silva Ferreira - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, known by the playing name of Eusébio, (born January 25, 1942 in Lourenço Marques [now Maputo], Mozambique) nicknamed The Black Pearl and The Black Panther, is a Portuguese football icon.
		His trademarks were his speed (he was the under-19 Portuguese champion of 400, 200 and 100 m races), quick dribble and a fierce, tremendously accurate right-footed strike.
		In 1961, Eusébio joined Benfica as a 19 year old from his local club, Sporting Club of Lourenço Marques, for £7500, and immediately became a crucial element on the team.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eusebio (390 words)

	Pepe Diniz's Electoral Notes on Mozambique
		By the Decree of December 9, 1876, the Lourenço Marques Garrison-Post (established on March 19, 1782) was elevated to the status of a Village.
		On November 10, 1887, Lourenço Marques was elevated to the status of a town.
		Lourenço Marques was officially recognized as the capital of Mozambique as of December 1, 1907.
	pvrdiniz.home.att.net (4242 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal- BRITISH INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS IN MOZAMBIQUE IN AUGUST 1900
		When even British firms at Lourenco Marques found the temptation of doing business stronger than their patriotism, it is difficult to expect much from merchants of other nationalities or from Portuguese officials there.
		The development of port facilities at Lourenco Marques was interconnected with agreements between the ZAR and Portugal; some installations were built by the NZASM, the railway company responsible for the construction and operation of the Pretoria-Delagoa Bay Railway.
		Forbes is mentioned in the Lourenco Marques May 1900 Intelligence Diary: he led expeditions in enemy territory (one of them from Swaziland), the purpose of which was to destroy enemy lines of communication.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol096dd.html (5097 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of Mozambique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The commercial and political importance of Mozambique was eclipsed by Lourenço Marques.
		Gold rush ad A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold.
		In 1891 the Portuguese shifted the administration of much of the country to a large private company, under a charter granting sovereign rights for 50 years to the Companhia de Mocambique, which, though it had its headquarters at Beira, was controlled and financed mostly by the British.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-Mozambique (2777 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Portugues East Africa
		The greater part of the sea coast is low lying, with coral reefs, sand dunes and swamps, and the climate is hot and unhealthful, but the hinterland has mountainous districts and elevated table lands which are suitable for European colonization.
		The province is served by a number of fine harbours, including Lourenço Marques, the best in south-east Africa, which is connected with the Transvaal by a railway, Beira, the outlet for the produce of the Mashona gold fields and joined to them by rail, Inhambane, Chinde, Quilimane, Ibo, and Mozambique.
		A force of 2730 men of the first line form the colonial army and the policing of the rivers and harbours is done by flotillas of gunboats.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12311a.htm (619 words)

	Maputo / Mozambique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It has a population of about 1.2 million people (2000 Census) and the city is divided into 5 Urban Districts comprising 53 "Bairros" (quarters), excluding the Inhaca Island and Catembe, accross the estuary.
		Lourenço Marques was founded in March 19, 1782 as a Garrison-Post.
		On December 1, 1898, Lourenço Marques became the capital of the Portuguese Colony of Mozambique.
	www.pepediniz.com /pepedinizphotography_006.htm (162 words)

	South African Military History Society - Journal- The Delagoa Bay Railway and the origin of Steinaecker's Horse
		Leaving Lourenco Marques on HMS Magician, Forbes arrived in January 1900 and Evans organised meetings with, firstly, Lord Kitchener, and then Lord Roberts, so that he could present his scheme for blowing up the Komatipoort bridge.
		London and Lourenco Marques then waited for Roberts, who had just captured Johannesburg and was pausing at Orange Grove before resuming his advance to Pretoria and was probably awaiting news of the David Forbes expedition from Milner before replying.
		Van Dam gave his parole to go to Lourenco Marques, but refused to be responsible for Schribley, whom he could not trust, so Colborne escorted them and they left the Bay on the steamer, Konig, for Durban and captivity on 26 July.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol103jo.html (6279 words)

	LOURENCO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lourenco was paralyzed in all his limbs after the incident.
		The following table summarizes the usage of "LOURENCO" based on a population census conducted in the United States.
		Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/LOURENCO (343 words)

	TIME Europe \| Dismantling the Portuguese Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A few minutes past midnight on a rainy Wednesday morning in the Mozambican capital of Lourenco Marques, the Portuguese flag was lowered by an unsmiling Portuguese sailor, folded by a Portuguese airman and entrusted to a Portuguese soldier.
		Already missing from the capital's broad, flag festooned boulevards are dozens of statues erected in Colonial days to honor such Portuguese explorers of old as Lourenco Marques and Vasco da Gama, who brought the first Portuguese presence to Mozambiquein1498.
		At the port cities of Nacala, Beira and Lourenco Marques, efficiency is down 80% and pilferage has doubled in the past year.
	www.time.com /time/europe/moztrail/mo070775.html (1139 words)

	After Independence
		Shortly afterwards in November 1976, I arrived at the capital Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques) in the mv Schielloyd.
		Anticipating the bitter conflict with the British colonies in the south as early as 1872, he looked at Lourenço Marques as a possible seaport for his republic's economic survival.
		I never visited Lourenço Marques then, but to all accounts it seems to have been a rather uproarious place when compared to the stern, Calvinist South Africa of the period, rather like the Las Vegas of Southern Africa.
	home.wanadoo.nl /twpolet/site/english/maputo.htm (1501 words)

	WHAT IS THE TIME? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	www.globalmetric.com /time/intro260.htm (1433 words)

	Arenales \| Mission to Mozambique
		Shortly after its independence from Portugal in June 1975, the new People's Republic of Mozambique forced the U.S. consul general in Lourenço Marques (later renamed Maputo) to "strike the colors" and end all semblance of official American activity in that southern African country.
		A truckload of guerrillas-turned-soldiers pointed their weapons at the consul general and told him to lower the American flags flying at both his official residence and the consulate general's downtown office by the docks.
		Upon arrival the holdover staff that had gathered at the airport fretted that no representative of the new government was on hand to meet me, as is customary for heads of diplomatic missions arriving at post.
	www.unc.edu /depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2002_01-03/arenales_mozamb/arenales_mozamb.html (1400 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: African Workers & Colonial Racism: Mozambican Strategies & Struggles in Lourenco Marques, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		JEANNE MARIE PENVENNE is an assistant professor of history at Tufts University, having previously taught at Boston University, Brandeis University, and the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane.
		She conducted extensive oral and archival research in Maputo (formerly Lourenco Marques) and in Portugal, and has published articles and working papers on Mozambican history.
		She is currently writing a social history of African women in the capital city during the critical closing decades of the colonial era in...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0435089544 (274 words)

	Maputo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Maputo, formerly named Lourenço Marques, is the capital of Mozambique.
		The city has wide avenues lined with red acacia and lilac jacaranda flowering trees and offers the tourist innumerable historical, cultural and scenic spots.
		Flamingos can also be seen on the large inland lakes near the sea.
	www.places.co.za /html/maputo.html (581 words)

	Maputo Bay on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Maputo Bay is a large deepwater harbor, with numerous quays to handle oceangoing vessels; railroads lead into the interior.
		The first Westerner to visit (1502) the bay was António do Campo, one of Vasco da Gama's captains; the area was explored in 1544 by Lourenço Marques, the Portuguese trader.
		In the mid-1800s, Portugal's claim to the area was challenged by Great Britain and by the Transvaal when it was realized that the bay provided a major access route to the Kimberley diamond mines.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MaputoB1.asp (373 words)

	Carnation revolution, by Mia Couto
		Five months later, far-right colonials in Lourenço Marques (as Maputo was called then) attempted a violent coup against the Portuguese-Mozambican peace agreement, which had been signed by Mario Soares and Samora Machel.
		This is why, immediately after 25 April, young city-dwellers seized radio stations and newspapers to prepare against any attempt to promote a policy of neo-colonial transition.
		I was a student in Lourenço Marques in the early 1970s.
	mondediplo.com /2004/04/15mozambique (1377 words)

	Karen Treanor--I Left My Heart...
		Anywhere in South Africa was out of the question: they were at the height of their 'every foreigner is a troublemaker' phase, and wouldn't give visas to any Peace Corps people.
		Everyone who'd been to LM, as Lourenço Marques was known, had come home to tell of the wonderful Chinese food to be had at the Hong Kong Restaurant.
		Lourenço Marques was renamed Maputo; the men with the brief cases reported to new bosses; the ordinary people were still hungry and in some cases starving; and the great grey-green greasy Limpopo continued its sinuous trip to the sea.
	www.storyhouse.org /karent6.html (4648 words)

	History of the Vasco Da Gama Race (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The twenty year old yachtsman arrived in Lourenco Marques wearing handed down blue jeans with a smudged and tattered passport on the day before the start of the race.
		Although the coastline between Lourenco Marques and Durban differs from that between Durban and East London the strategy of the race has remained essentially the same.
		In the early days of sailing from Lourenco Marques to Durban Brian Tocknell recalls using the pattern of the current, which comes very close in at Cape Vidal, goes out and comes in again at Tugela, and finally goes out and comes in again at Port Shepstone, in order to determine location.
	www.vascodagama.co.za /history.htm (7551 words)

	Lourenço Marques - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lourenço Marques was a 16th century Portuguese trader.
		He explored the area that is now Mozambique in 1544.
		This page was last modified 15:25, 9 Apr 2005.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Lourenco_Marques (83 words)

	FreisslerSoft Books Marques
		Marques typographiques employâees aux XVe et XVIe siáecles dans les limites gâeographiques de la Belgique actuelle
		Marques postales linâeaires de France áa numâero et cachets assimilâes, 1792-1832
		Wellesley Affair: Richard Marques Wellesley and the Conduct of Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy, 1809-1812
	www.freisslersoft.com /ma/Book_Marques.html (380 words)

	The Voorste Mense: Chapter 3 of 'The Great Trek'
		And Tregardt knew nothing at all of Lourenço Marques or the other coastal settlements save that they lay somewhere to the east or north-east of the Zoutpansberg, and that they were all used as ports of call by Portuguese slave traders.
		But Lourenço Marques was no port of freedom: it was a pestilential anchorage for slave ships, standing in a swamp stinking of putrescence and swarming with mosquitoes.
		And in the same sort of way his father's trek from the Orange river to Lourenço Marques was for many years looked on as nothing so much as a tragic failure; he was regarded as the leader of an unfortunate expedition which lost itself in the blue.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/ransford/chap3.htm (7141 words)

	M/S Hai Hing - Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939-1945
		On Nov. 1 she was ordered to Lourenço Marques, and consequently altered course.
		miles east of Inhaca Light not far from Lourenço Marques she was struck near No. 3 hold on the starboard side by a torpedo from U-178 (Ibbeken).
		The 3rd engineer, who was on duty in the engine room fell over when the explosion occurred, but managed to get to his feet, then stopped the port engine.
	www.warsailors.com /singleships/haihing.html (671 words)

	Craveirinha Obituary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Craveirinha later worked on the daily papers "Noticias" and "A Tribuna", and contributed articles to several other publications in Lourenco Marques, as Maputo was then known.
		In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he won literary prizes in Lourenco Marques, Beira and Lisbon.
		He was active in the Lourenco Marques African Association in the 1950s, and became its chairperson.
	www.africanreviewofbooks.com /Newsitems/craveirinhaobit.html (794 words)

	LOURENCO MARQUES - Online Information article about LOURENCO MARQUES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		LOURENCO MARQUES - Online Information article about LOURENCO MARQUES
		In 1906—1910 another railway (47 M. long) was built from Lourengo Marques due See also:
		trade of Lourenco Marques are issued by the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LOB_LUP/LOURENCO_MARQUES.html (605 words)

	Union-Castle Line - Safmarine
		Return voyages: Beira, Lourenço Marques, Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Las Palmas or Tenerife, Southampton.
		UK port (London?), Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, Lourenço Marques, Beira, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Tanga, Mombasa, Aden, Port Sudan, Suez, Port Said, Genoa, Marseilles, Gibraltar, Tangier, London.
		Return voyages: Beira, Lourenço Marques, Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town, Walvis Bay, Las Palmas, UK port.
	www.timetableimages.com /maritime/images/ucl.htm (1474 words)

	UseAbroad
		It is seemingly an ordinary Mozambique card (HandG1; OM1) cancelled Lourenço Marques February 18, 1899, to which has been added a Portugal D. Carlos Mouchon stamp, red-carmine, without denomination, paying the registration premium.
		There were periodic stamp shortages in Lourenço Marques around the turn of the century, and philatelists were quick to exploit these.
		If P-I could afford full color, you would see the left cancel is the dark navy-blue used in Lourenço Marques, the right, at least the part on the stamp, in basic fl.
	home.att.net /~s.s.washburne/UseAbroad.htm (753 words)

	Maps And Prints
		A map of South Africa all the way east to Lourenco Marques, with a inset 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 of Cape Town including False Bay and Robben Island.
		The Defences of Lourenco Marques, and A Funeral Near Delagoa Bay, from The Graphic (December 15, 1894).
		Three photos—Entrance to Delagoa Bay; Lourenco Marques: General View from near the British Consulate; Lourenco Marques: View from the hill above the town—on a single sheet.
	www.indianoceanbooks.com /maps/southafrica.htm (1625 words)

	Heinemann Books
		This study is an achievement of the creative imagination as well as one of meticulous scholarship.
		This path-breaking history of the African working class in Lourenço Marques proceeds from the assumption that Mozambican labor history was less about skills, wages, or productivity than it was about racism, human dignity, and contested masculinity.
		African attempts to improve their lives through hard work were frustrated time and again by white employers determined to keep them in their place.
	books.heinemann.com /products/08954.aspx (298 words)

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