Editing Annobón (section)

=== Portuguese and Spanish rule ===
Portuguese sailors reached Annobón in 1473. The island was uninhabited at the time. Settlement began in 1474, when enslaved Africans were brought from [[Angola]] through [[São Tomé]]. Their descendants formed the basis of Annobonese society and developed [[Fa d'Ambô]], a Portuguese-based creole language.

Portugal transferred Annobón and Fernando Po, later known as [[Bioko]], to [[Spain]] under the Treaty of El Pardo in 1778. Spanish authority remained intermittent because residents resisted colonial officials and the island lay far from the principal administrative centres. Annobón was later incorporated into Spanish Guinea. When Equatorial Guinea became independent in 1968, the island became one of its provinces.