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  2. Sovena Group - Wikipedia

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    Sovena was founded in the 1956, in Portugal, as a joint-venture of Companhia União Fabril (CUF), Macedo e Coelho and Sociedade Nacional de Sabões. After the Carnation Revolution of 1974 and the subsequent Processo Revolucionário em Curso (PREC), it was nationalized. Jorge de Mello, an heir of the disbanded CUF conglomerate, rebuilt the ...

  3. Pero Fernandes Sardinha - Wikipedia

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    Sardinha was ordained a bishop by Dom Fernando de Menezes Coutinho e Vasconcellos, taking office on June 22, 1552. He resigned on June 2, 1556. On July 16, 1556, he and his crew were shipwrecked and captured by the Caeté people in the Captaincy of Pernambuco , a Portuguese administrative district that covered the region north of Bahia.

  4. Porto Martins - Wikipedia

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    Porto Martins was deannexed from the neighbouring parish of Cabo da Praia on 9 May 2001. [3]The parish owes a lot to the philanthropy of José Coelho Pamplona, 1st Viscount of Porto Martim, a native of the parish, who donated funds towards the construction of the parochial church, expanding the older Chapel of Santa Margarida, the primary school, in addition to the primitive system of ...

  5. Port of Paranaguá - Wikipedia

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    The new port opened in 1935. [3] In 1947, a state organism, Administração dos Portos de Paranaguá (APP) was founded for overseeing its operation. In 1971, the APP started to also manage the Port of Antonina, becoming APPA (Administração dos Portos de Paranaguá e Antonina). [4]

  6. António Sardinha - Wikipedia

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    Sardinha studied law at the University of Coimbra and graduated in 1911. [2] During his student years, he was a supporter of republicanism and briefly of anarcho-syndicalism , [ 2 ] but by 1911 he had become a strong advocate of monarchism and Catholicism , partly because of the influence of his highly conservative mother. [ 3 ]

  7. Palácio da Bolsa - Wikipedia

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    Palácio da Bolsa, view from the front. Palácio da Bolsa, view from near the Porto cathedral. The Stock Exchange Palace (Portuguese: Palácio da Bolsa) is a historical building in Porto, Portugal. The palace was built in the 19th century by the city's Commercial Association (Portuguese: Associação Comercial do Porto) in Neoclassical style. [1]

  8. Porto Santo Island - Wikipedia

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    Porto Santo Island (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpoɾtu ˈsɐ̃tu] ⓘ) is a Portuguese island and municipality 43 kilometres (27 mi) northeast of Madeira Island in the North Atlantic Ocean; it is the northernmost and easternmost island of the archipelago of Madeira, located in the Atlantic Ocean west of Europe and Africa.

  9. Porto dos Milagres - Wikipedia

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    Porto dos Milagres (English: Port of Miracles) is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo from 5 February to 29 September 2001, totaling 203 chapters. It is written by Aguinaldo Silva and Ricardo Linhares with the collaboration of Filipe Miguez, Maria Elisa Berredo, Nelson Nadotti and Gloria Barreto.