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AMBRIZ

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 798 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMBRIZ  , a

West
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African seaport belonging to
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Portugal, at the mouth of the Loje
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River, in 7° 5o' S., 13° E., some 70 M . N. of Loanda . It forms a
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part of the province of
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Angola (q.v.) . The
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town is within the
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free-trade
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area of the conventional basin of the
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Congo river . Its chief exports are rubber, gum, coffee and copper . Pop. about 2500 . Ambriz was, previously to 1884, the northernmost point of Africa south of the equator acknowledged as Portuguese territory .

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