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Niassa Company
Companhia do Niassa
IndustryInternational trade
Founded1891
Defunct1929 (1929)
FateDissolved
Headquarters
Cabo Delgado Province and Niassa Province, Portuguese Mozambique, Portuguese Empire
Area served
Portuguese Empire

The Niassa Company or Nyassa Chartered Company (Portuguese: Companhia do Niassa) was a royal company in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, then known as Portuguese East Africa, that had the concession of the lands that include the present provinces of Cabo Delgado and Niassa between 1891 and 1929.[1][2]

  1. ^ Silva Pais, Antonia da. "Lighthouse Development in Mozambique, 1908-1931". Web Page of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Translated by Forand, Michel. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2007-03-14.
  2. ^ Neil-Tomlinson, Barry (1977). "The Nyassa Chartered Company: 1891–1929". The Journal of African History. 18 (1): 109–128. doi:10.1017/S0021853700015255. JSTOR 180419.

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