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Flag of the Azores. The political status of the Azores is defined by the Political-Administrative Statute of the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Portuguese: Estatuto Político-Administrativo da Região Autónoma dos Açores, EPARAA), which acts as the standard legal constitutional framework for the autonomy of the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
Azores Day; Official name: Dia da Região Autónoma dos Açores: Also called: Dia dos Açores: Observed by: Azores, Portugal: Type: Regional: Significance: A celebration of the Azores autonomy, following the Carnation Revolution, the holiday transformed into a historical, cultural and social affirmation of the region
Yet, the title bestowed on Gonçalo Velho is not very clear, as it has been both referred to as the comendador da ilha de Santa Maria e nosso capitão nos Açores (Commander of the island of Santa Maria and Our captain of the Azores), or alternately as the comendador das ilhas dos Açores (Commander of the Azores).
José do Canto (20 December 1820, in Ponta Delgada – 10 July 1898, in Ponta Delgada) was a Portuguese landowner and intellectual who distinguished himself as a bibliographer and promoter new agricultural technologies and species into the Azores.
Sources "Pág. Diário dos Açores na Enciclopédia".TioSam.com. Archived from the original on 4 February 2013; Tavares, Conceição; Carneiro, Ana; Diogo, Maria Paula; Simões, Ana (28–30 May 2009), "A imagem pública das Ciências e da Tecnologia na Imprensa Portuguesa (1900-1901)", A História da Imprensa e a Imprensa na História (PDF) (in Portuguese), University of the Azors {{}}: CS1 ...
Book II of Saudades da Terra dedicated to Madeira (1968 edition). Saudades da Terra is a manuscript, was published by father Gaspar Frutuoso, which forms a reference work on Macaronesia in the late 16th century.
Colonization of the island is commonly associated with the settlement of Povoação Velha, the first colony on the island of São Miguel. [3] In 1427, Diogo da Silva first arrived in the area of Povoação, accompanied by several men: "Arriving here on the island, the nine discoverers took land in the place where today we call Povoação Velha for which they made later...and, disembarked ...
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.