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The Gambia was discovered by the early Portuguese navigators, but they did not settle. During the 17th century companies of merchants obtained trading charters and established a settlement on the river, which, from 1807, was controlled from Sierra Leone. The Gambia became an independent member of the Commonwealth on 18 Feb. 1965 and a republic within the Commonwealth on 24 April 1970.
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The Gambia since Independence 1965–1980. Banjul, 1980
Gamble, D. P., The Gambia. [Bibliography] ABC-Clio, Oxford and Santa Barbara (CA), 1988
Hughes, A. and Perfect, D., Political History of The Gambia, 1816–1992. Farnborough, 1993
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Turner, B. (2000). The Gambia. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271296_141
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