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People from Flores Island (Azores) (4 P) P. People from Pico Island (7 P) People from Santa Maria Island (8 P) S. ... This page was last edited on 19 May 2017, ...
This category is for people who have lived in the Azores, an island region of Portugal. ... This page was last edited on 4 April 2013, at 03:53 (UTC).
Pedro Vaz Marinheiro was a Portuguese nobleman, navigator, resident and colonizer of the Azores Islands. [1]Pedro Vaz was born in Iberian Peninsula.He was one of the first settlers of the São Miguel Island, [2] where he was known as "Marinheiro" due to the large number of ships he had in his residence located in Ponta Delgada. [3]
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.
Gaspar Frutuoso wrote Saudades da Terra, the first history of the Azores and Macaronesia, in the 1580s.. A small number of alleged hypogea (underground structures carved into rocks) have been identified on the islands of Corvo, Santa Maria, and Terceira by Portuguese archaeologist Nuno Ribeiro, who speculated that they might date back 2,000 years, implying a human presence on the island before ...
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The Azores are group of nine inhabited islands (an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean) in Macaronesia, an autonomous region of Portugal, and region of North Africa. Subcategories This category has the following 17 subcategories, out of 17 total.