Palmeira on Sal supplies fuel for the main airport on the island, Amílcar Cabral International Airport, and is important for the hotel construction taking place on the island.

* Amílcar Cabral International Airport, Sal Island

It also has flights four times weekly from Lisbon to Francisco Mendes the recently opened airport at Praia on Santiago island and four times weekly from Lisbon to Amílcar Cabral International Airport on Sal island.

In 1956, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) was organized clandestinely by Amílcar Cabral and Rafael Barbosa.

Amílcar Cabral was assassinated in Conakry in 1973, and party leadership fell to Aristides Pereira, who later became the first president of the Republic of Cape Verde.

Luís Cabral, Amílcar Cabral's half-brother, became President of Guinea-Bissau.

Luís Cabral, Amílcar Cabral's half-brother, became President of Guinea-Bissau.

The fight for independence began in 1956, when Amílcar Cabral founded the Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (), the PAIGC.

As his brother Amílcar Cabral had been assassinated in 1973, Luís Cabral became the first president of independent Guinea-Bissau after independence was granted on September 10, 1974.

* Amílcar Cabral

Although the nationalist movement appeared less fervent in Cape Verde than in Portugal's other African holdings, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC, acronym for the Portuguese Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde ) was founded in 1956 by Amílcar Cabral and other pan-Africanists, and many Cape Verdeans fought for independence in Guinea-Bissau.

Fretilin was criticised by many in Australia and Indonesia as being Marxist, its name sounding reminiscent of FRELIMO in Mozambique but it was more influenced by African nationalists like Amílcar Cabral in Portuguese Guinea ( now Guinea-Bissau ) and Cape Verde.

Written by Amílcar Cabral and composed by Xiao He, it was adopted upon independence in 1974.

* Amílcar Cabral — African nationalist whose name is derived from " Hamilcar "

Luís Cabral was a half-brother of Amílcar Cabral, with whom he co-founded the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) in 1956.

Luís Cabral's rise to leadership began in 1973, after the assassination in Conakry, Guinea, of his half-brother Amílcar Cabral, the noted Pan-African intellectual and founder of the PAIGC.

* Amílcar Cabral International Airport ( Sal Island )

Amílcar Cabral, with the flag of Guinea-Bissau in the background, on a East Germany | GDR stamp

Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral (; – ) was a Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, writer, and a nationalist thinker and politician.

Amílcar Cabral soon realized that the war effort could be sustained only if his troops could be fed and taught to live off the land alongside the larger populace.

The Portuguese colonialists ' initial plan, which eventually went awry, was to enjoin the help of this former rival to arrest Amílcar Cabral and place him under the custody of Portuguese authorities.

Amílcar Cabral International Airport, Cape Verde's principal international airport at Sal, is named in his honor.

Amílcar Cabral founded the party with his brother Luís in then-Portuguese Guinea in 1956, advocating the independence of Cape Verde and Portuguese Guinea from Portugal.

Amílcar Cabral, with the flag of Guinea-Bissau in the background, on a East Germany | DDR stamp

Together with a disgruntled former associate, agents assassinated Amílcar Cabral on January 20, 1973 in Conakry, Guinea.

Attractions include the Portuguese-built Fortaleza de São José da Amura barracks from the 18th century, containing Amílcar Cabral's mausoleum, the Pidjiguiti Memorial to the dockers killed in the Bissau Dockers ' Strike on August 3, 1959, the Guinea-Bissau National Arts Institute, Bissau New Stadium and local beaches.

In addition, the only privately owned university in Guinea-Bissau is named after him — Amílcar Cabral University — and is in Bissau.

As his brother Amílcar had been assassinated in 1973, Luís Cabral became the first president of independent Guinea-Bissau after independence was granted on September 10, 1974.

As his brother Amílcar had been assassinated in 1973, Luís Cabral became the first president of independent Guinea-Bissau after independence was granted on 10 September 1974.

Bafatá is a town in central Guinea-Bissau, known as the birthplace of Amílcar Cabral.

African Youth Amílcar Cabral ( in Portuguese: Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral ) is the youth wing of PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau.

In 1966, Amílcar Cabral attended the Conferencia Tricontinental Enero in Havana and made a great impression on Fidel Castro.

Similarly, the repression the authoritarian single-party regime he led imposed on the population and severe food shortages also left marks and, despite having always denied, Luís Cabral was accused of being responsible for the death of a large number of black Guinea-Bissauan soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas during the Portuguese Colonial War.

Circa 1627, during the first war with Tibet, Portuguese Jesuits Estêvão Cacella and João Cabral were the first recorded Europeans to visit Bhutan on their way to Tibet.

In the spring of 1500, Pedro Álvares Cabral set sail from Cape Verde with 13 ships and crews and a list of nobles that included Nicolau Coelho, Bartolomeu Dias and his brother Diogo, Duarte Pacheco Pereira ( author of the Esmeraldo ) along with various other nobles, nine chaplains and some 1, 200 men.

The tables of the Almanach Perpetuum, by astronomer Abraham Zacuto, published in Leiria in 1496, were used along with its improved astrolabe, by Vasco da Gama and Pedro Álvares Cabral.

The follow-up expedition, the Second India Armada launched in 1500, was placed under the command Pedro Álvares Cabral, with the mission of making a treaty with the Zamorin of Calicut and setting up a Portuguese factory in the city.

However, Cabral entered into a conflict with the local Arab merchant guilds, with the result that the Portuguese factory was overrun in a riot and up to 70 Portuguese killed.

The districts with its respective capitals were: Lourenço Marques-Lourenço Marques ; Gaza-João Belo ; Inhambane-Inhambane ; Beira-Beira ; Vila Pery-Vila Pery ; Tete-Tete ; Zambézia-Quelimane ; Moçambique-Nampula ; Cabo Delgado-Porto Amélia ; Niassa-Vila Cabral.

* 1500-Franciscans enter Brazil with Cabral

According to research by Fundação Dom Cabral, Rio Grande do Norte is the second state with the best infrastructure in the Northeast Region and ninth in the country.

From Calicut the expedition sailed to the Kingdom of Cochin, another Indian city-state, where Cabral befriended its ruler and loaded his ships with coveted spices before returning to Europe.

Cabral was later passed over, possibly as a result of a quarrel with Manuel I, when a new fleet was assembled to establish a more robust presence in India.

That, along with the " standing of the Cabral family, their unquestioned loyalty to the Crown, the personal appearance of Cabral, and the ability which he had shown at court and in the council were important factors ".

Although the voyage was extremely hazardous, Cabral had the prospect of becoming a very rich man if he returned safely to Portugal with the cargo.

The place was a natural harbor, and Afonso Lopes ( pilot of the lead ship ) brought two natives aboard to confer with Cabral.

As in the first contact, the meeting was friendly and Cabral presented the locals with gifts.

The expedition then went north, and on 26 May reached Kilwa Kisiwani, where Cabral made an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a treaty with its king.

Cabral met with its king, with whom he established friendly relations and exchanged gifts.

Cabral successfully negotiated with the Zamorin ( the title of the ruler of Calicut ) and obtained permission to establish a factory and a warehouse.

The regime of city management started when Fructuoso Velásquez was named by the Cabildo of Buenos Aires as Mayor of the Brethrem in 1805 ; after the regime was modified, the first city counsellor was Silvestre Cabral in 1822. after the first corporative city hall was established, with limited authority the first counsellor and president of the city hall was Juan Antonio Cascallares in 1856.