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SAO TIAGO: the largest island of the Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) group, situated to the south of the archipeligo, and contains the capital, Praia.

Praia (Cidade da Praia) has a small separate Jewish cemetery. Source: article in The Jewish Week, January 5, 1995, p.21

Here, a few stone tombs lie flat in the ground with inscriptions in Hebrew or Hebrew and Portuguese from the late 1800s. About six gravestones. One name is Levy. [August 2009]

[UPDATE] Rediscovering and Restoring Cape Verde’s Jewish Heritage. [November 2018]

Cidade Velha: Has Jewish cemetery. [August 2009]