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The Torre do Tombo National Archive (Portuguese: Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo), commonly known simply as the Torre do Tombo ([ˈtoʁɨ ðu ˈtõbu]; literally "Tower of the Tome") is the national archive of Portugal, located in Lisbon. Established in 1378, it is one of the oldest archival institutions in the world.
For background information, see the explanations on Non-U.S. copyrights. As of 1 January 1996, the following were in the public domain in Portugal: works whose author died before 1946; anonymous works, works deemed to be anonymous, or works by a collective person whose authors were not individually identified, first published or disclosed before 1946; photographic works, works deemed to be ...
Arquivo Distrital da Guarda; Arquivo Distrital de Leiria; Arquivo Distrital de Lisboa (abolished in 2012; materials transferred to the Torre do Tombo National Archive) [1] [2] Arquivo Distrital de Portalegre; Arquivo Distrital do Porto (est. 1931) [3] Arquivo Distrital de Santarém; Arquivo Distrital de Setúbal ; Arquivo Distrital de Viana do ...
The Livro do Armeiro-Mor contains 161 folios of parchment, with dimensions of 403 x 315 mm, and is written in Portuguese. At the end of the monarchy, it belonged to the private library of King King Carlos. Today it is preserved in the national archive of the Torre do Tombo Archive (Royal House reference, Chancellery of Nobility, book 19).
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Born in Funchal to a wealthy family of the Madeiran bourgeoisie, her parents were João Ferreira Cabral and his wife Virgínia Maria Mendes. [1] She married her first husband, her cousin Carlos Olavo Correia de Azevedo Júnior, in Lisbon on 21 July 1911. They divorced in 1921. [2]
Pero de Ataíde or Pedro d'Ataíde [a] (d'Atayde, da Thayde), nicknamed O Inferno (Hell), "for the damage he did to the Moors in Africa", [2] (c. 1450 – February/March, 1504, Mozambique Island) was a Portuguese sea captain in the Indian Ocean active in the early 1500s.
Bento de Moura Portugal' was born in Moimenta da Serra (Gouveia, Portugal) [5] [6], and in 1741, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London for his scientific contributions, particularly in improving Savery's "fire engine." [1] [3] [7] He was born on March 21, 1702, in Moimenta da Serra, and the house where