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Vila Do Corvo
Vila do Corvo () is the smallest municipality in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, constituting the island of Corvo in its entirety. With a population of 430 in 2011, it is the least populated of the Portuguese municipalities, and the only Portuguese municipality, by law, without a civil parish (''freguesia'', the smallest administrative unit in Portugal). Its area is . Vila do Corvo has at times been incorrectly referred to as ''Vila Nova do Corvo''. The village, the unique agglomeration on the island of Corvo, is constructed of small homes located along narrow roadways and alleys rising along the hills of the southern one-third of the island. The coastal area of the village is dominated by the Corvo Aerodrome and ports linking the community to the outside world. History Despite the discovery of Carthaginian coins and the possible presence of a pre-Portuguese statue on Corvo, the current historical consensus is that the history of the Azores begins with non-offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corvo Airport
Corvo Airport (, ) is an airport in the village of Vila do Corvo on the island of Corvo, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. It is owned by the Regional Government of the Azores, but managed by SATA Air Açores. History Opened on 12 January 2005, ''SATA Gestão de Aeródromos'' (''SATA Aerodrome Management'') was established to operate the smaller airports on the islands of Pico, Graciosa, Corvo and São Jorge. The Regional Government of the Azores, after a public tender, provided SATA Aeródromos with the concession of public services for Corvo for a period of 10 years, in a contract signed on 1 July 2005. In 2009, with the addition of new De Havilland Dash 8-Q200 to the SATA Air Açores fleet, to replace the existing Dornier 228, there was a comparable increase in passenger traffic to the island (primarily from the move to 37-seat from 18-seat capacity aircraft).SATA Aeródrome (2009), p.25 Regardless, the airport accounted for a 1.3% increase in traffic in that y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diogo De Teive
Diogo de Teive () was a maritime captain and squire to the House of Henry the Navigator , Infante D. Henrique (1394-1460) during the Portuguese discoveries , Portuguese period of discovery. Following his exploration into the western Atlantic in the area of Newfoundland, in 1452 he discovered the western islands of the archipelago of the Azores: for his efforts he was appointed Donat%C3%A1rio, Donatary for the islands of Flores Island (Azores) , Flores and Corvo Island , Corvo. Donatário On 1 January 1451, he disembarked on the island of Terceira in the Azores from which he made his base. He realized two voyages of exploration to the west of the archipelago (which then only included the Central and Eastern Groups). In 1452, at the end of his second voyage, he discovered the islands of Flores Island (Azores), Flores and Corvo Island, Corvo, which he initially believed were a new archipelago, naming them the ''Ilhas Floreira'' (or literally, the ''Flowered Islands''), due to the ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of Nossa Senhora Dos Milagres (Corvo)
The Church of Nossa Senhora dos Milagres () is a Portuguese 16th-century church located in the municipality of Vila do Corvo, on the island of Corvo in the archipelago of the Azores. History It was likely constructed in 1570, to the invocation of ''Nossa Senhora do Rosário'' (''Our Lady of the Rosary''), a small church it was located near the sea. In 1632, the hermitage was destroyed by Barbary coast pirates. An image of ''Nossa Senhora do Rosário'', which was found in the ''Canada da Rocha'', and legend indicate that this figure saved the island's defenders from the bullets of the pirates. Corvo was elevated to the status of parish in 1674, under the invocation of ''Nossa Senhora do Rosário'', and the church was rebuilt: a vicar, clergy and treasurer assigned to the new parish. The first vicar was the Faialense Bartolomeu Tristão. It was the second parish priest, the Florentine Inácio Coelho, son of the chronicler friar Diogo das Chagas, who convinced D. Martinho Mascar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands lie between west of Cap-Vert, the westernmost point of continental Africa. The List of islands of Cape Verde, Cape Verde islands form part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Savage Isles. The Cape Verde archipelago was uninhabited until the 15th century, when Portuguese Empire, Portuguese explorers colonized the islands, establishing one of the first Age of Discovery, European settlements in the tropics. Due to its strategic position, Cape Verde became a significant location in the Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade during the 16th and 17th centuries. The islands experienced economic growth during this period, driven by their role by the rapid emergence of merchants, priva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santo Antão, Cape Verde
Santo Antão (Portuguese language, Portuguese for "Anthony the Great, Saint Anthony") is the northwesternmost island of Cape Verde. At , it is the largest of the Barlavento Islands group, and the second largest island of Cape Verde.Cabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015 Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Cape Verde), Instituto Nacional de Estatística The nearest island is São Vicente, Cape Verde, São Vicente to the southeast, separated by the sea channel Canal de São Vicente. Its population was 38,200 in mid 2019,Instituto Nacional de Estatística, Cabo Verde (web). making it the fourth most populous island of Cape Verde after Santiago, Cape Verde, Santiago, São Vicente and Sal. Its largest city is Porto Novo, Cape Verde, Porto Novo located on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terceira Island
Terceira () is a volcanic island in the Azores archipelago, about a third of the way across the North Atlantic Ocean at a similar latitude to Portugal's capital Lisbon, with the island group forming an insular part of Portugal. It is one of the larger islands of the archipelago, with a population of 53,311 inhabitants in an area of approximately . Terceira is the location of the Azores' oldest city, Angra do Heroísmo, the historical capital of the archipelago and UNESCO World Heritage Site; the seat of the judicial system (Supreme Court); and the main insular Portuguese Air Force base, Lajes Field, Base Aérea nº 4 at Lajes, with a United States Air Force detachment. Terceira island has two main sea ports, one at Angra do Heroísmo and the other at Praia da Vitória, and a commercial airport integrated with the flight operations at Lajes Field, Base Aérea nº 4. The Portuguese bullfight is popular on the island, coming in two variations: the traditional equestrian bullfight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diogo Das Chagas
Diogo das Chagas, O.F.M. (Diogo of the Holy Wounds); (c. 1584 in Santa Cruz das Flores – c. 1661 in Angra do Heroísmo) was a Portuguese Franciscan friar and historian. He is best known as the author of ''Espelho Cristalino em Jardim de Várias Flores'', an important resource on the colonization of the islands of the central and western groups of the Portuguese archipelago of his native region of the Azores after 1640. Biography Diogo was the son of Mateus Coelho da Costa, Captain-major of the island of Flores, and his wife, Catarina de Fraga Rodovalho. Little is known of his infancy and childhood; Diogo wrote that his first studies occurred in the city of Angra, where he most likely entered the Friars Minor and received his initial ecclesiastical training. Due to the absence of a resident bishop in the Diocese de Angra, he travelled to Lisbon in 1612 in order to be ordained a priest. He returned to the Azores in 1614, and began studying the Arts at the Jesuit college i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willem Van Der Haegen
D. Willem van der Haegen (1430; County of Flanders – 21 December 1507/9; São Jorge, Azores), or Willem De Kersemakere, known in Portuguese as Guilherme da Silveira, or Guilherme Casmaca, was a Flemish-born Azorean entrepreneur, explorer, and colonizer. He was a pioneer colonizer in Azorean history and his descendants formed part of the original Azorean nobility. Colonization of the Azores As part of his inheritance, King Edward of Portugal bequeathed the islands of the Azores to his brother, the Infante D. Henriques (Henry the Navigator), in 1433. This was subsequently left to Henry's nephew and adopted son, Infante D. Fernando, in addition to Henry's title as ''Grand Master of the Order of Christ''. A grant was made by the Infante to his aunt, D. Isabella of Portugal (Edward and Henry's sister), the Duchess of Burgundy, in the Low Countries. For many of the Flemish who were recuperating from the Hundred Years' War, this grant offered an opportunity of alleviating their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count Of Barcelos
Count of Barcelos (in Portuguese ''Conde de Barcelos'') is a title of nobility, the first to be granted in Portugal. It was created in 1298 by king Denis I and initially it was a non hereditary title, although most of the holders belonged to the Teles de Menezes family. It was only after the death of the 6th Count, when it was granted to Nuno Álvares Pereira, that the title became hereditary. The 8th Count of Barcelos was created Duke of Braganza in 1442, by his nephew king Afonso V, and his descendants rose to the Portuguese throne after the country regained its independence from Spain in 1640. Initially, the seat of the Counts of Barcelos was the Palace of the Dukes of Barcelos, a large medieval In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of World history (field), global history. It began with the fall of the West ... structure that overlooks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Of Braganza
The title Duke of Braganza () in the House of Braganza is one of the most important titles in the peerage of Portugal. Starting in 1640, when the House of Braganza acceded to the throne of Portugal, the male heir of the Portuguese Crown were known as Duke of Braganza, along with their style Prince of Beira or (from 1645 to 1816) Prince of Brazil. The tradition of the heir to the throne being titled Duke of Braganza was revived by various pretenders after the establishment of the Portuguese Republic on 5 October 1910 to signify their claims to the throne. History of Dukedom Feudal dukes The Duke of Braganza holds one of the most important dukedoms in Portugal, see Duchy of Braganza (''Bragança''). Created in 1442 by King Afonso V of Portugal for his uncle Afonso, Count of Barcelos (natural son of King John I of Portugal), it is one of the oldest fiefdoms in Portugal. The fifth Duke of Braganza (Teodósio I, b. 1510) is especially important to historians of interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afonso, 1st Duke Of Braganza
Dom Afonso I of Braganza (; 10 August 1377 – 15 December 1461) was the first duke of Braganza and the eighth count of Barcelos. He founded the House of Braganza, the most powerful and wealthy dynasty in Portugal. His descendants became high-ranking nobles, imperial officials, and finally kings of Portugal and emperors of Brazil. Early life Historians believe he was born in Veiros, Estremoz, Alentejo, as a natural son of Portuguese King John I and Inês Peres.She is sometimes said to be the daughter of a Jewish cobbler (Isabel Violante Pereira, De Mendo da Guarda a D. Manuel I, Lisboa, 2001, Livros Horizonte), but the Nobiliaries make her born at Borba, sister of Gil Peres and daughter of Pero Esteves, o Barbadão, of an old Portuguese noble family, akin to the ''Pinheiro'' family, and wife Maria Anes. He married the heiress Beatriz Pereira de Alvim, daughter of Nuno Álvares Pereira, a general and the wealthiest man in the kingdom. A traveled and cultivated man, Afonso w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
