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The Azores are located at the seismically active Azores triple junction plate boundary where the North American plate, Eurasian plate and Nubian plate meet. [6] The climate of the Azores is very mild for such a northerly location, being influenced by its distance from the continents and by the passing Gulf Stream. Because of the marine ...
Map of the Azores Islands (1584) by Abraham Ortelius. The following article describes the history of the Azores, an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean, about 1,400 km (870 mi) west of Lisbon, about 1,500 km (930 mi) northwest of Morocco, and about 1,930 km (1,200 mi) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
"Land of Algiers", a Latinization of French colonial name l'Algérie adopted in 1839. [10] The city's name derives from French Alger, itself from Catalan Aldjère, [11] from the Ottoman Turkish Cezayir and Arabic al-Jazāʼir (الجزائر, "the Islands").
The Flemish surname van der Haegen comes from the word Haag, which means hedge, and is translated into Portuguese as Silveira [citation needed]. The families with the surname Silveira, generally, descend from the Fleming Willem, although there is a branch of Silveiras on the island of Graciosa that are direct descendants of continental ...
Goulart is a Portuguese-language surname of Flemish roots, derived from Lodewijk Govaert, migrant to the Azores, where he came to be known as Luis Govarte. [1] His descendants later migrated to the Americas, where the surname became well known: Goulart. The surname is frequent in Portugal, and in Brazil.
The Azores temperate mixed forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion of southwestern Europe. It encompasses the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. These volcanic islands are an autonomous region of Portugal , and lie 1500 km west of the Portuguese mainland.
Read on to find 75 examples of U.S. cities that bear indigenous names. Atoka, Oklahoma. The city was founded by people of the Choctaw Nation and named after a local Choctaw chief and warrior ...
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