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unusual facts about Spanish Guinea


Álvaro Cervera

Álvaro Cervera Díaz (born 20 September 1965 in Santa Isabel, Spanish Guinea) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a winger, and the current coach of CD Tenerife.


Napoleon Barleycorn

Napoleon Barleycorn, a Primitive Methodist missionary in Spanish Guinea, a Fernandino of Igbo descent, who sent his sons to be educated at Bourne College in Quinton, England.


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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).

Postage stamps and postal history of Equatorial Guinea

Residents of Río Muni originally used the postage stamps of Spanish Guinea until 1960 when the Spanish government decreed the use of separate issues for Río Muni and Fernando Po (Bioko).