{"id":2495,"date":"2014-03-18T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T12:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bypedro.eu\/wordpress\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2014-03-18T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T12:02:37","slug":"lagos-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bypedro.eu\/wordpress\/?p=2495","title":{"rendered":"Lagos &#8211; Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of culture for you out there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Portuguese explorer Rui de Sequeira visited the area in 1472, naming the area around the city <em>Lago de Curamo<\/em>; indeed the present name is Portuguese for &#8220;lakes&#8221;. Another explanation is that Lagos was named for <a title=\"Lagos, Portugal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lagos,_Portugal\">Lagos, Portugal<\/a> &#8211; a maritime town which, at the time, was the main centre of Portuguese  expeditions down the African coast, and whose own name is derived from  the Latin word <em>Lacobriga<\/em>.&#8221; &#8211; in\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lagos<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LAGOS, AFRICA&#039;S BIG APPLE\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O-YiOvZuzAg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And a bit more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Portuguese first landed on Lagos Island in 1472&#8221; &#8211; in http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/EBchecked\/topic\/327849\/Lagos<\/p>\n<p>So, \u00a0there you have. Another reason why no other nation can be bigger than mine!<\/p>\n<p>[ad] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of culture for you out there&#8230; &#8220;Portuguese explorer Rui de Sequeira visited the area in 1472, naming the area around the city Lago de Curamo; indeed the present&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bypedro.eu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bypedro.eu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bypedro.eu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bypedro.eu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bypedro.eu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bypedro.eu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bypedro.eu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bypedro.eu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bypedro.eu\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}