Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, Assimilado, Company of Guinea, Guelowar, Guinea-Bissau Civil War, Guinea-Bissau riot, 2007, History of the Soninke people, Kaabu, List of Captains-Major of Bissau, List of Captains-Major of Cacheu, List of governors of Portuguese Guinea, Maad a Sinig Maysa Wali Jaxateh Manneh, Nuno Tristao, Operation Green Sea, Pidjiguiti Massacre, Portuguese Colonial War, Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People, Tiramakhan Traore, Titina Silla, United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau, United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau. Excerpt: The Portuguese Colonial War (Portuguese: ), also known in Portugal as the Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies as the War of liberation (Guerra de Libertacao), was fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974. The Portuguese regime was overthrown by a military coup in 1974, and the change in government brought the conflict to an end. The war was a decisive ideological struggle in Portuguese-speaking Africa and surrounding nations, and mainland Portugal. Unlike other European nations during the 1950s and 1960s, the Portuguese Estado Novo regime did not withdraw from its African colonies, or the overseas provinces (provincias ultramarinas) as those territories were officially called since 1951. During the 1960s, various armed independence movements became active in these Portugal-administered territories, namely in Angola, Mozambique, and Portuguese Guinea. During the ensuing conflict, atrocities were committed by all forces involved. The decolonization and independence of several African states after the World War II, the Invasion of Goa by Indian Armed Forces and the Santa Maria hijacking, ..