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In 1950 the Central Register of Wills (Portuguese: o Registo Central de Testamentos) was created. In 1959 The General Directorate of Registries and Notaries (Portuguese: Direção Geral dos Registos e do Notariado) now had responsibility for classifying registry offices and organizing the territory. In 1986 New Commercial Registry Code ...
Costa Verde (English: Green Coast) is a tourist and coastal region of northwest Portugal, delimited by the river mouths of Minho in the north and Douro in the south. [1]The name of the region comes from the dominant colour of the dense vegetation of the land, the green (Verde in Portuguese), supported by abundant precipitation.
The origins of the Corte-Real family lie in the 14th century, when Vasco Anes da Costa, a Portuguese knight from Tavira, was one of the supporters of the pretensions of John Master of Aviz to the Portuguese throne and after him, his homonym son, who participated on the conquest of Ceuta, being one the first warriors to cross the wall of the moor city.
Vila Real (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvilɐ ʁiˈal] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the Vila Real District, in the North region, Portugal. It is also the seat of the Douro intermunicipal community and of the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro historical province.
Portugal's name derives from the Roman name Portus Cale. Portucale evolved into Portugale during the 7th and 8th centuries, and by the 9th century, Portugale was used extensively to refer to the region between the rivers Douro and Minho , the Minho flowing along what would become the northern border between Portugal and Galicia.
The First Global Village, How Portugal Changed the World. Lisbon, Portugal: Casa das Letras. ISBN 978-972-46-1313-0. Sarmento, Nuno (2000). Ecoturismo em Castro Verde: O Projecto da LPN (Liga para a Protecção da Natureza [Ecoturism in Castro Verde: The LPN (League for Protection of Nature) Project)]. Lisbon, Portugal: Liga para a Protecção ...
One site, the Laurisilva, is located in the island of Madeira and is Portugal's only natural site; the other sites are cultural. Two sites are located in the Azores archipelago. The Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde is shared with Spain, making it Portugal's only transnational site. [3]
Crédito Predial Português (literally Portuguese Land Credit) was a Portuguese financial organisation that was acquired by Banco Santander and became part of the group. [1] The institution was created at a time when, due to a change in the laws on the creation of public limited companies, 46 banks were created between 1863 and 1876. [ 2 ]