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History of Guinea-Bissau in maps
Guinea-Bissau as it appears in 5 interactive history atlases, from 1890 to 2015: Guinea-Bissau. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Guinea-Bissau before it was Guinea-Bissau? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History atlases — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so on the map itself.
Guinea-Bissau · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Colony or dependency |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Guinea-Bissau · WWI
| Entente-aligned & imperial territories — the opening position | |
| Entente-aligned & imperial territories |
Guinea-Bissau · Cold War
| NATO & core Western allies — the opening position | |
| Non-aligned & neutral |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Guinea-Bissau · Decolonization of Africa
Portuguese Guinea produced the liberation struggle historians most admire: Amílcar Cabral’s PAIGC built schools, clinics and people’s courts inside its liberated zones, and by 1973 held most of the countryside — declaring independence that September from inside the country, recognized by much of the UN before Lisbon conceded. Cabral was assassinated in Conakry in January 1973, months short of victory; the unwinnable war he designed did as much as any to push the Portuguese army into the Carnation Revolution. Recognized in September 1974 — the first Portuguese colony freed, and a key to freeing the rest.
| Portuguese, Belgian, Spanish & Italian-ruled — the opening position | |
| Independent Africa |
DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Guinea-Bissau · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Authoritarian, one-party or colonial rule — the opening position | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Right won in law |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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