Delfim Modesto Brandão (c. 1835 – ?), also spelled with Galician orthography as Delfín Modesto Brandón, was the penultimate "Juiz" (

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being an embodiment of the State itself or representative of its international persona." The name given to the office of head of sta ...

) of the

Couto Misto Couto Misto ( ; ; ) was an independent microstate on the border between Spain and Portugal. It comprised the villages of Santiago de Rubiás, Rubiás (now in the Spanish municipality of Calvos de Randín), and Meaus (now in the Spanish munici ...

. He took office in January 1863, according to his memoirs. He was followed by one last "Juiz" whose mandate ceased with the partition and formal

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of the territory by

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and

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on June 23, 1868. He was born in

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, a parish of the Portuguese municipality of

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. He moved to the bordering

. At age 28, he served as "Civil and Governative Judge" (formal title of the heads of state of the Couto Misto), after he was elected to end abuses and breaches of the

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's sovereignty by Portuguese and Spanish authorities. He resigned from office when the partition and annexation of the territory was imminent. In 1904 he completed a memoir with his account of the last decades of the Couto Misto up to its extinction. These memoirs were published in Spanish in 1907 as ''Interesante Historieta del Coto Mixto''. He served as an officer ("Oficial quinto") in the Spanish

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Aguadilla Aguadilla (, ), founded in 1775 by Luis de Córdova, is a city and municipality located in the northwestern tip of Puerto Rico, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, north of Aguada, and Moca and west of Isabela. Aguadilla is s ...

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between 1881 and 1885.

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