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1584 map of the Azores Islands Portugal fell into a dynastic crisis following the death of Cardinal-King Henry of Portugal in 1580. Of the various claimants to the crown, the most powerful was king Phillip II of Spain , who justified his rights to the Portuguese throne by the fact that his mother was a Portuguese royal princess, his maternal ...
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Module:Location map/data/Portugal Azores Flores is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Flores Island (Azores). The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The Azores hotspot is marked 1 on map. The Azores hotspot is a volcanic hotspot in the Northern Atlantic Ocean. The Azores is relatively young and is associated with a bathymetric swell, a gravity anomaly and ocean island basalt geochemistry. [1] The Azores hotspot lies just east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge [2]
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
Name used in the default map caption; image = Portugal Azores location map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 39.9 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 36.7 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = -31.6 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = -24.7 Longitude at ...
A view of the varied landscapes, including urban centre, rural pasturelands and mountainous interior. The municipality is located on the southern coast of São Miguel, and nestled between the three larger municipalities of Ponta Delgada (to the west), Ribeira Grande (in the north) and Vila Franca do Campo (on the eastern frontier); its municipal seat is approximately nine kilometers from the ...
São Miguel Island (pronounced [ˈsɐ̃w miˈɣɛl]; Portuguese for 'Saint Michael'), nicknamed "The Green Island" (Ilha Verde), is the largest and most populous island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.