I was just leafing through a historical atlas of Africa when I noticed something weird on a map of West Africa c1800. On the peninsula that currently houses Dakar, Senegal (the capital) was a tiny nation labelled the "Cape Verde Republic." It wasn't there in 1700 and was gone by c1850.
I can't seem to find any information whatsoever on this. A big part of the problem is that since 1975, there has been a nation with the same name situated on the Cape Verde Islands a few hundred miles to the north-west. All the searches I've run so far have hit that instead of what I was looking for.
It did occur to me that the islands could have been an independent republic with holdings on the mainland, but all the histories I read of them indicated nothing of the kind.
Can anyone help me?
I can't seem to find any information whatsoever on this. A big part of the problem is that since 1975, there has been a nation with the same name situated on the Cape Verde Islands a few hundred miles to the north-west. All the searches I've run so far have hit that instead of what I was looking for.
It did occur to me that the islands could have been an independent republic with holdings on the mainland, but all the histories I read of them indicated nothing of the kind.
Can anyone help me?