Territory
The territory of the Niassa Company covered the north of Mozambique, above the river Lurio.
In 1904 the Niassa Company founded the town Porto Amélia, which is presently known as Pemba, and Porto Amélia became the headquarters of the company.
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Famous quotes containing the word territory:
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“We found ourselves always torn between the mothers in our heads and the women we needed to become simply to stay alive.With one foot in the past and another in the future, we hobbled through first love, motherhood, marriage, divorce, careers, menopause, widowhood—never knowing what or who we were supposed to be, staking out new emotional territory at every turn—like pioneers.”
—Erica Jong (20th century)
“Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)