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    2012 Revista Insula (13 June 1990) Sources da Silveira, Manuel Garcia (13 June 1990), "Revista Insula", Pároco da Igreja Matriz de São Jorge de Velas (in...
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    Soligo's map from 1475, Pico is described both as Dom Diniz (or São Diniz) island and as Insula Columbi. Although the Azores were inhabited since 1439, settlement...
    44 KB (4,409 words) - 04:33, 31 October 2023
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    (1375) also identifies three islands with the names of Corvo, Flores, and São Jorge, and it was thought that maybe the Genovese had discovered the Azores...
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    two islands, what seem like Santa Maria and São Miguel), further north is the individually named Insula Brasi ("island of embers/fire" (volcanic?) or...
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    inhabitants. The nearby islands of Pico (east across the channel) and São Jorge (northeast across the channel), form an area commonly known as the Triângulo...
    47 KB (5,345 words) - 15:05, 29 March 2024
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    Fathers Manuel da Nóbrega and José de Anchieta, who founded São Vicente in 1532, and São Paulo, in 1554. French colonists tried to settle in present-day...
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    Atlantic Island (Insula Atlantica) on a map of the New World by cartographer Sebastian Münster in 1540 and again on the map titled Atlantis Insula by Nicolas...
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