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13 unusual facts about Bata, Equatorial Guinea


2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt

Déby’s plane was departing from Bata, Equatorial Guinea, where he was attending a CEMAC summit with other central African leaders, and was destined for N'Djamena, Chad.

Alberto Edjogo-Owono

Edjogo made his Equatorial Guinea national team debut on 6 July 2003, in an 2004 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Morocco in Bata, a 0–1 home loss.

Ben Manga

Bienvenido "Ben" Manga Ubenga (born 11 February 1974 in Bata) is an Equatoguinean football scout and former player.

Celestino Bonifacio Bacalé

At the Third National Congress of the CPDS, held in Bata on 28–30 January 2005, Bacalé was re-elected to his post on CPDS National Executive Committee as Secretary for International Relations and Cooperation.

Francisco Ascaso

He took part in anarchist insurrections that marked the first years of the Republic, and in 1932 was detained and deported in Bata, on the coast of Río Muni, and then to the Canary Islands.

González Gil-Pazó GP-1

The single seat GP-2 was flown by Lorenzo Richi in March 1936 from Madrid to Bata in what was then Spanish Guinea at an average speed of 187 km/h (116 mph).

Juan Cuyami

His debut came on 11 October 2003 in a 1–0 win against Togo for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifiers (eventual 1–2 aggregate loss), in Bata.

Lengue language

The Lengue language, also called Molengue, Balengue, Molendji, is a Bantu language of southern Equatorial Guinea, spoken by the Lengue people between Bata and the Gabon border near the coast.

Lengue people

Today Bengas inhabit the coast region of the country's mainland, between Bata and the Gabonese border.

Lino Sima Ekua Avomo

Sima Ekua Avomo attended the Diplomatic School of Madrid, Spain and the Carlos Lwanga National Institute of Secondary Education in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.

Telecommunications in Equatorial Guinea

:* International: International communications from Bata and Malabo to African and European countries; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)

Trinidad Jiménez

Between 1990 and 1992, Jiménez lived in Equatorial Guinea, working as a Professor-Tutor in Political Law at the National Distance Education University (UNED) and at the Spanish College in Bata.

Víctor Manguire

Víctor Manuel Manguire Ntongono (born 23 July 1989 in Bata), better known as Michi, is an Equatoguinean football midfielder, who plays for Pavía in the Group 4 of the Andalusian First Division (Spain).


2005 Equatorial Express Airlines An-24 crash

The 2005 Baney plane crash happened on the 16 July 2005 after an Equatorial Express Airlines Antonov An-24 crashed into a side of a mountain near Baney, Equatorial Guinea.

Bata, Pazardzhik Province

Anelia Ralenkova - rhythmic gymnast with 4 gold medals from World and European Championships

Batanagar

The Bata brand was established on August 24, 1894 in Zlín, then in Austria-Hungary (now in Czech Republic).

Bruna Soares

Not to be confused with Bruna Amarante da Silva, who although born in Brazil plays for Equatorial Guinea.

Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook

The book played a critical role in the fictional series Illuminatus! by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea regarding a coup in Fernando Poo (now Equatorial Guinea), which was the outward trigger for a global crisis in the book.

Cupidesthes thyrsis

It is found in Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Gabon, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ubangi, Uele, Tshopo, Equateur, Kinshasa, Sankuru and Lualaba).

Eduardo Ferreira

Ferreira was naturalized in 2013 and made his international debut for Equatorial Guinea on 16 November 2013 against Spain as an 81st minute substitute for Viera Ellong.

Eloy Edu

Eloy Edu Nkene (born 16 March 1985 in Ebebiyín), known as Eloy, is an Equatoguinean football defender, who plays for Villaverde in the Spanish Preferente of Madrid.

Equatorial Guinea–Russia relations

In the 1970s a surveillance base set up by the Spanish during the colonial period on top of the volcanic mountain Pico Basilé was taken over by Russian intelligence services.

Francis Mbome

Francis Duclair Mbome Mbome (born 30 November 1988 in Yaoundé, Cameroon) is a Cameroonian-born Equatoguinean football midfielder, who plays for Minnesota Twinstars in the American NPSL (Midwest Division).

Francisco Malabo Beosá

In 1973, Francisco Macías Nguema in his policy of Africanizing the names of geographic landmarks in Equatorial Guinea, changed the name of Santa Isabel, the capital of Equatorial Guinea to Malabo in honor of his father King Malabo.

History of rail transport in Equatorial Guinea

The history of rail transport in Equatorial Guinea began in 1913, when a standard gauge railway was constructed from the capital of Equatorial Guinea, Santa Isabel, to the nearby villages of Banapa and Basupo.

HNK Borovo

For that season, Bata brought to their ranks a new coach, the Hungarian Károly Nemes, and players such as Milan Antolković from Građanski Zagreb, Đorđe Lojančić and Nikola Perlić from SK Jugoslavija, Slavko Šurdonja from BSK Belgrade, among others.

John Holt plc

The company traces its origins to 1862 when John Holt, 20 years old at the time, with £27 in his pocket, sailed from Liverpool to take up an appointment as a shop assistant in a grocery store in Fernando Po (now Equatorial Guinea).

John Tusa

He then became general manager of the Bata factory and its associated village in East Tilbury, living in the nearby village of Horndon-on-the-Hill where his son grew up.

Joni Anwar

Anwar started his career by doing television commercials for Ovaltine, Bata, Krissadanakorn and others before he signed a record deal with RS Promotion.

José Bokung

José Bokung Alogo (born 31 December 1987 in Ebebiyín), also known as Colin, is an Equatoguinean amateur football defender.

Jozef Lenárt

He graduated from a chemistry high school and worked for the Baťa company.

Judson Augusto do Bonfim Santos

In October 2012, he represented Equatorial Guinea in a 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualification game versus Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Juvenal Edjogo-Owono

Juvenal qualified for Equatorial Guinea because of his father, born in Niefang – his mother hailed from Andalusia.

Lualhati Bautista

Lualhati garnered several Palanca Awards (1980, 1983 and 1984) for her novels ‘GAPÔ, Dekada '70 and Bata, Bata… Pa’no Ka Ginawa? exposing injustices and chronicling women activism during the Marcos era.

Manohari Singh

In 1942, he joined the brass band at Bata Shoe Company, Bata Nagar in Kolkata, under its Hungarian conductor Joseph Newman.

Manuel Sima

He was called by the Spanish Vicente Engonga -then coach of the Equatorial Guinea senior team- for the squad that played against South Africa on 11 October 2008, however he did not appear in the match.

Modibo Adama

Adama then led his forces in a series of strikes on Bata settlements such as Pema, Tepa, and Turuwa.

Neumann's Starling

This starling breeds on rocky cliffs, outcrops and gorges mainly in the Sahel from Mauretania and Equatorial Guinea to western Sudan.

Paul Biya

"Tyrants, the World's 20 Worst Living Dictators", by David Wallechinsky, ranked Biya with three others commonly in sub-Saharan Africa: Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, and King Mswati of Swaziland.

Petropedetes

Petropedetes newtoni (Bocage, 1895) – Barej et al. (2010) considers P. darwinii occurring in Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea) a synonym of P. johnstoni.

Pravenec

The new part of Pravenec was founded in the 1940´s shortly after the Baťa woodworking factory was established.

Sa druge strane jastuka

"Bata thought that a French accordion would sound great there. Our friend Mita, a folker, knew to play some French stuff on the accordion. Žika was singing on a partly fictional French ... Then I wrote new lyrics, and Bata and Žika agreed it should be followed by march. And it sounds great, a great act on the concerts. We played on some festival in Toulouse in 1985, and they thought it was interesting."

Sir Gregor MacGregor, 6th Baronet

The book, Cry Havoc, contains Mann's account of his unsuccessful mission to overthrow Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the President of Equatorial Guinea.

Svit

It was established in 1934 by business industrialist Jan Antonín Baťa of Zlín, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) through his organization Baťa a.s., Zlin in accordance with his policy of setting up villages around the country for his workers.

Tale of Two Brothers

The bull is then sacrificed, and two drops of Bata's blood fall, from which grow two Persea trees.

United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs

This corresponds to the geographic area under the purview of the Bureau of African Affairs in the Department of State, and includes the countries of Madagascar, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Mauritius, and Comoros.

Visa requirements for Slovenian citizens

Many African countries, including Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zambia require all incoming passengers to have a current International Certificate of Vaccination.