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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.
Guia do Património Cultural (in Portuguese), Faial (Horta), Azores: Edição Atlantic View – Actividades Turísticas, Lda., 2003, ISBN 972-96057-1-8; Ribeiro, Fernando Faria (2007), Em Dias Passados: Figuras, Instituições e Acontecimentos da História Faialense (in Portuguese), Horta (Azores), Portugal: Nucleu Cultural da Horta
Gaspar Frutuoso wrote Saudades da Terra, the first history of the Azores and Macaronesia, in the 1580s.. A small number of alleged hypogea (underground structures carved into rocks) have been identified on the islands of Corvo, Santa Maria, and Terceira by Portuguese archaeologist Nuno Ribeiro, who speculated that they might date back 2,000 years, implying a human presence on the island before ...
Reports compiled by RTP Açores reporters sent to the United States, Canada and Brazil led to the creation of the documentary Os Açorianos no Novo Mundo, about Azorean immigration to these countries. Also in June 1989, a special edition of Fim-de-Semana featured inserts from all nine islands. That same year, the new Terceira office opened ...
The 2024 Azorean regional election was held on 4 February 2024, [2] to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the Azores.The election replaced all 57 members of the Azores Assembly, and the new members would then elect the President of the Autonomous Region.
Banifólio – Sociedade Gestora de Patrimónios, S.A. (1992) Banif – Banco Internacional do Funchal (Cayman), Ltd. (1993) Açoreana Seguros (1996) Banco Comercial dos Açores (1996) BanifServ Agrupamento Complementar de Empresas de Serviços, Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação (1997) Banif – Banco de Investimento, S.A. (2000)
Caracterização da actividade vulcânica da ilha de S. Miguel (Açores): vulcanismo basáltico recente e zonas de desgaseificação. Avaliação de riscos. Tese de Doutoramento no ramo de Geologia, especialidade de Vulcanologia. Universidade dos Açores, Departamento de Geociências. p. 248. Ferreira, T.; Tanguy, Jean-Claude (2001).
Flores Island (Portuguese: Ilha das Flores; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfloɾɨʃ]) is an island of the Western Group (Grupo Ocidental) of the Azores.. It has an area of 143 km 2, a population of 3428 inhabitants, and, together with Corvo Island of the western archipelago, lies within the North American Plate.