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Portendick
Portendick was a trading anchorage on the Atlantic coast of Mauritania, north of the Senegal River. From the 17th to the 19th century Dutch, English and French merchants traded there for gum arabic, the chief export of the Moorish emirates of the coast. Its trade, competing with the French posts on the Senegal, made it a point of rivalry between European powers.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Portendick. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/portendick
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