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Vieira
Vieira is a Portuguese and Galician term which in Portuguese and Galician stands for the Great Pilgrim Mussel from the scallop family (Pectinidae). The term derives its use as a place and family name. History The use of the term can be traced, according to current knowledge, to the beginning of the 13th century in northwestern Portugal. The historical writing form of the term ''Vieira'' was ''Vyeyra''. It is assumed that the term as a name originated independently in different places (e.g. Vieira do Minho and Vieira de Leiria). As a surname, the term is first found in northwestern Portugal in the province of Minho in the era of Kings D. Afonso II and D. Sancho II of Portugal around 1220 A.D. The historically common spelling Vyeyra is still found at least until the end of the Middle Ages in the mid-16th century. The modern Portuguese alphabet basically does not recognise the letter Y alongside the K and W, only the 23 letters of the Latin alphabet A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fábio Vieira (footballer, Born 2000)
Fábio Daniel Ferreira Vieira (; born 30 May 2000) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for club Arsenal. He started his career with Porto, where he made 76 competitive appearances and scored ten goals, winning two Primeira Liga and the 2021–22 Taça de Portugal. In July 2022, he signed with Arsenal. Vieira represented Portugal at youth level. He finished runner-up at the 2021 European Championship with the under-21 team, being voted the tournament's best player. Club career Porto Born in Santa Maria da Feira, Aveiro District, Vieira played nine matches as Porto's juniors won the 2018–19 UEFA Youth League, and scored to open their 3–1 win against Chelsea in the final in Nyon on 29 April. On 24 October 2018, in a group game, he was sent off for two yellow cards in a 2–1 loss at Lokomotiv Moscow. Vieira made his senior debut with Porto B on 24 February 2019, coming on as a 57th-minute substitute for João Mário in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cláudia Vieira
Cláudia Patrícia Figueira Vieira (born 20 June 1978) is a Portuguese actress, model and television presenter. As a model, she has appeared on the Portuguese magazine covers of '' FHM'' and '' GQ''. Vieira has also appeared regularly in the Portuguese advertisement for French car manufacturer Renault. Career 2004–2009: Breakthrough Vieira's first acting role was a minor role on comedy series ''Maré Alta'' where she appeared in the show for 16 episodes. Following her minor role in ''Maré Alta'', Vieira received her first major lead role where she played the character of Ana Luísa Rochinha in season two of '' Morangos com Açúcar''. Vieira made her feature film debut in the Portuguese thriller ''Contrato'', where she played a character called Júlia. 2009–present: ''Ídolos'' and return to Telenovelas Following the end of the second season of ''Ídolos'', Vieira was announced as the new presenter for the third season of the talent show alongside João Manzarr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorvan Vieira
Jorvan Vieira (born September 29, 1953) is a Brazilian-Portuguese football coach and former player who played for Botafogo, Vasco da Gama and Portuguesa in the Brazil Serie A, and a current manager of ENPPI. Career Playing career Vieira was born in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. He began his professional football career after studying Sports Medicine for four years, playing for top Brazilian clubs Vasco da Gama, Botafogo and Portuguesa in the 1970s. Coaching career Vieira was appointed assistant manager to the Moroccan national side for the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. Alongside compatriot José Faria he led Morocco into the second round of the tournament as group winners ahead of England, Portugal and Poland, He then managed the Kuwait under-20 side Soccerblog Profile before having an impressive spell and leading Al Qadisiya to the Kuwaiti league title, which was followed by further success when he was in charge of Egyptian club Al-Ismaili in 2001. Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Vieira
Alice Vieira (born 20 March 1943 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese children's book author. Biography Vieira graduated from the University of Lisbon with a thesis about Bernard Shaw's theatre. She worked as a journalist before devoting almost all her time to writing books for children and young adults. She has published already more than eight dozen titles and won several prestigious awards in Portugal in the field of literature for children and teenagers. Her books have been translated to Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Russian, Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and ..., Spanish. Juvenile literature * 1979 – Rosa, Minha Irmã Rosa * 1979 – Paulina ao Piano * 1980 – Lote 12 – 2º Frente * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jelon Vieira
Jelon Vieira is a Brazilian choreographer and teacher who, in 2000, achieved recognition by New York City's Brazilian Cultural Center as a pioneer in presenting to American audiences the Afro-Brazilian art and dance form, Capoeira. In 1975, Jelon Vieira and fellow choreographer/performer Loremil Machado became the first capoeira mestres to live and teach in the United States. Vieira states that their first jobs in New York were doing capoeira demonstrations in Bronx public schools and that he spent the summer of 1975 doing weekly demonstrations in Central Park. His early supporters included choreographer Alvin Ailey, off-Broadway theater pioneer Ellen Stewart, and Brooklyn schoolteacher and martial artist Robert Cooper. In the 1970s, Vieira and Machado taught and performed in multiple locations across New York City, with notable venues including the Clark Center for the Performing Arts and "for four or five years," a weekly performance set to jazz music at the Cachaça nightclub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Vieira
Pedro António Vieira (; 6 February 160818 July 1697) was an Afro-Portuguese people, Afro-Portuguese Jesuit Priesthood in the Catholic Church, priest, diplomat, orator, preacher, philosopher, writer, and member of the Royal Council to the King of Portugal. Biography Vieira was born in Lisbon to Cristóvão Vieira Ravasco, the son of a mulatto woman, Maria de Azevedo. In 1614 he accompanied his parents to the Colonial Brazil, colony of Brazil, where his father had been posted as a registrar. He received his education at the Terreiro de Jesus, Jesuit college at Bahia. He entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1625, under Father Fernão Cardim, and two years later pronounced his first vows. At the age of eighteen he was teaching rhetoric, and a little later dogmatic theology, at the college of Olinda, besides writing the "annual letters" of the province. In 1635 he entered the priesthood. He soon began to distinguish himself as an orator, and the three patriotic sermons he delivere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Bernardo Vieira
João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira (; 27 April 1939 – 2 March 2009) was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was the President of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999, except for a three-day period in May 1984, and from 2005 to 2009. After seizing power from President Luís Cabral in a military coup in 1980, Vieira ruled as part of the Military Council of the Revolution until 1984, when civilian rule was returned. Opposition parties were allowed in 1991, and Vieira won a multiparty presidential election in 1994. He was ousted at the end of the 1998–1999 civil war and went into exile. He made a political comeback in 2005, winning that year's presidential election. Vieira was killed by soldiers on 2 March 2009, apparently in retaliation for a bomb blast that killed Guinea-Bissau's military chief General Batista Tagme Na Waie hours before. The military officially denied these allegations after unidentified Army officials claimed responsibility of Vieira for Na-Waie's death. Vie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vieira Lusitano
Francisco de Matos Vieira, better known as Vieira Lusitano (4 October 1699 – 13 August 1783) was a Portuguese court painter, illustrator and engraver. Biography His father was a maker of socks and stockings. @ A Arte em Portugal. He was originally meant to pursue an ecclesiastical career, but when he displayed an aptitude for art, his parents changed their plans. Word of his talents reached Carnide, where some gentlemen who operated a literary academy asked to meet him. During his presentation to them, he met a girl named Inês Helena de Lima e Melo, who would become his lifelong passion.Dicionário His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fábio Vieira (footballer, Born 1991)
Fábio da Rocha Vieira (born 12 June 1991) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Florgrade FC as a midfielder. Club career Born in Porto, Vieira started his senior career in the lower leagues, with S.C. Esmoriz and S.C. Espinho Sporting Clube de Espinho, also known as Sporting de Espinho, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Espinho in the Aveiro district. Besides football, the club has volleyball and handball departments that usually compete in the major Po .... In 2013 he joined Vitória de Guimarães, being assigned to their reserves and helping them to promote to the Segunda Liga in his first season. Vieira played his first match as a professional on 9 November 2014, coming on as a late substitute in a 3–2 away win against C.D. Tondela. He scored his only goal in the second division the following 1 February, closing the 5–0 home victory over U.D. Oliveirense. Vieira's last season in the second tier was 2016–17, when he failed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro Siza Vieira
Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira (born 25 June 1933) is a Portuguese architect, and architectural educator. He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza () and in Portugal as Siza Vieira (). Early life and education Siza was born in Matosinhos, a small coastal town near Porto. He graduated in architecture in 1955, at the former School of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, the current FAUP – ''Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto''. There he met his wife, Maria Antónia Siza (1940–1973), with whom he had a daughter and son. Career Siza completed his first built work (four houses in Matosinhos) even before ending his studies in 1954, the same year that he first opened his private practice in Porto. Along with Fernando Távora, he soon became one of the references of the Porto School of Architecture where both were teachers. Both architects worked together between 1955 and 1958. Another architect he has collaborated with is Eduardo Souto de Moura, e.g. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vieirinha
Adelino André Vieira de Freitas (born 24 January 1986), known as Vieirinha (), is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger or a full-back for Greek club PAOK, for which he is captain. Ambidextrous, he started playing for Porto, but spent most of his professional career with PAOK and Wolfsburg. With the first club, for whom he appeared in over 200 competitive matches, he won the 2018–19 Super League Greece and three Greek Cups. Vieirinha made his debut with the Portugal national team in 2013, and was part of the squads at the 2014 World Cup and Euro 2016, winning the latter tournament. Club career Porto Formed in the youth ranks of local Vitória SC, Guimarães-born Vieirinha caught the interest of FC Porto and eventually finished his football grooming there. After a six-month loan at second division's F.C. Marco he joined the first team in the 2006–07 season, being given a four-year professional contract. Vieirinha played his first official gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vieira Do Minho
Vieira do Minho (, ) is a municipality in the district of Braga, in the north of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 12,997, in an area of 216.44 km². The present mayor is António Cardoso, elected by a coalition between PSD and the CDS–PP. Parishes Administratively, the municipality is divided into 16 civil parishes (''freguesias''): * Anissó e Soutelo * Anjos e Vilar do Chão * Caniçada e Soengas * Cantelães * Eira Vedra * Guilhofrei * Louredo * Mosteiro * Parada do Bouro * Pinheiro * Rossas * Ruivães e Campos * Salamonde * Tabuaças * Ventosa e Cova * Vieira do Minho General information Vieira do Minho is essentially a rural municipality. Along with the town of Vieira do Minho, the seat of the municipality, the other major location in the municipality is the town of with 2,071 inhabitants. Notable people * Senhorinha of Basto (942–982) a Portuguese Benedictine abbess * Manuel Monteiro (born Anissó 1962) a jurist, academic professor and former politicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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