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Robert Machin or Machim (fl. 14th century) was an English adventurer of uncertain historicity, who supposedly discovered the island of Madeira. [1] Various traditions give conflicting versions of Machin's story. In the best-known version the protagonist is a knight, referred to as the Machim. [1]
There is a romantic tale about two lovers, Robert Machim and Anna d'Arfet in time of the King Edward III of England, fleeing from England to France in 1346, were driven off their course by a violent storm, and cast on the coast of Madeira at the place subsequently named Machico, in memory of one of them.
During the reign of King Edward III of England, lovers Robert Machim and Anna d'Arfet were said to have fled from England to France in 1346. Driven off course by a violent storm, their ship ran aground along the coast of an island that may have been Madeira.
Machico (Portuguese pronunciation: ⓘ) is a municipality, parish and city in the southeast part of the island of Madeira, in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The easternmost municipality on the island, it is also the third-most populous area with a population of 21,828 in 2011. [2] The town, proper, had a population of 10,894 in 2001. [3]
Caniçal (Portuguese pronunciation:) is a civil parish in the municipality of Machico in the Portuguese island of Madeira. The population in 2011 was 3,924, [ 1 ] in an area of 11.85 km 2 . [ 2 ] Equidistant from Funchal and Santana (20 km), the community is connected to these centres by the Regional 109 roadway.
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Funchal Baptist Church was established in Madeira in 1976. It is located at Rua Silvestre Quintino de Freitas, and provides English services in the morning and Portuguese in the evening. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was established on Madeira in 1983.
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