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In 1829, in Praia da Vitória, the liberals won over the absolutists, making Terceira Island the main headquarters of the new Portuguese regime and also where the Council of Regency (Conselho de Regência) of Maria II of Portugal was established. Beginning in 1868, Portugal issued its stamps overprinted with "AÇORES" for use in the islands ...
Santa Cruz das Flores, Azores: Câmara Municipal de Santa Cruz das Flores. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-31. Silveira, Pedro da (November 1960), "Para a História do Povoamento das Ilhas das Flores e do Corvo", Boletim do Núcleo Cultural da Horta (in Portuguese), vol. II, Horta (Azores), Portugal {{ citation }} : CS1 maint ...
The Glorieuses or Glorioso Islands (French: Îles Glorieuses or officially also Archipel des Glorieuses) are a group of islands and rocks totaling 5 square kilometres (1.9 sq mi). They are controlled by France as part of the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands , a French overseas territory , but are ...
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.
Noémie de Folin Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (26 August 1809 – 9 October 1892) was a French naturalist , born in Lays, Doubs . He was a member of the commission to Algeria , primarily as a natural artist, drawing any natural findings.
Universidade dos Açores, Departamento de Geociências. p. 226. Wallenstein, N. (1999). Estudo da história eruptiva recente e do comportamento eruptivo do vulcão do Fogo (S. Miguel, Açores). Avaliação preliminar do hazard. Tese de doutoramento no ramo de Geologia, especialidade de Vulcanologia. Universidade dos Açores, Departamento de ...
Rabo de Peixe (Portuguese for "fish tail") is a civil parish in the municipality of Ribeira Grande in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 8,866, [ 1 ] in an area of 16.96 km 2 . [ 2 ]
The Azores Geopark (Portuguese: Geoparque Açores) is a network of 121 geographically-dispersed sites of geographic heritage and marine areas that covers the nine volcanic islands of the archipelago of the Azores.