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Barcelos may refer to: * Barcelos, Amazonas a municipality in the state of Amazonas * Barcelos, Portugal, a municipality in the district of Braga ** Barcelos (parish), a former-civil parish in the municipality of Barcelos People with the name * Pêro de Barcelos, Portuguese explorer of North America See also * Barceló * 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 ...

Barcelos, Amazonas
Barcelos, (also Barcellos), formerly Mariuá, is a municipality located in the State of Amazonas, northern Brazil. Its population was 27,638 (2020) and its area is , making it the second largest municipality in Brazil (behind Altamira, Pará), equivalent in size to New York state in the United States and slightly larger than North Korea. About The city is served by Barcelos Airport with scheduled services to Manaus. Since 1994, Barcelos has been the host of an annual festival celebrating ornamental fish, which is a significant source of income for the region. Project ''Piaba'' uses Barcelos as the starting point for their annual research expedition into the Rio Negro area. The municipality contains part of the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve. It also contains part of the Amazonas National Forest. It contains the Rio Unini Extractive Reserve, created in 2006. History Barcelos was originally named Mariuá, village of the Manaus Indians. When the captaincy of São Jo ...
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Barcelos, Portugal
Barcelos () is a city and a municipality in Braga District in the Minho Province, in the north of Portugal. The population in 2011 was 120,391, in an area of 378.90 km2. With 60 parishes, it is the municipality with the highest number of parishes in the country. It is one of the growing municipalities in the country, and is well known by its textile and adobe industries, as well as its horseback riding events and "figurado" style of pottery, which are comical figurines with accentuated features of farmers, folk musicians, and nativity scene characters. Barcelos is part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as a Crafts and Folk Art City. History Originally a Roman settlement, it expanded and became the seat of the First Duke of Bragança in the 15th century. The palace of the Dukes of Bragança was destroyed by an earthquake in 1755 and is now an open-air museum. The town is on the Portuguese Way, a Christian pilgrimage route connecting the Camino de Santiago. Constru ...
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Barceló
Barceló is a Catalan surname, which originally appeared in Montpellier (Lords of Montpellier), today Languedoc-Roussillon (Southern France) then established in other Crown of Aragon areas like the Balearic Islands (circa 1232) or Catalonia, and finally extended to the rest of Spain and its old territories beyond Europe in America (particularly the Caribbean) and Asia. Variants exist in other languages, e.g. ''Barcelo'' and ''Barsalou'' in French. People with the surname *Antonio Barceló (1717–1797), Spanish mariner and Admiral of the Spanish Armada *Clara Barceló, a fictional character in Carlos Ruiz Zafón's novel ''The Shadow of the Wind'' *Elia Barceló (born 1957), Spanish-Austrian writer *Hélène Barcelo (born 1954), mathematician from Québec * José Luis Barceló (born 1959), Colombian lawyer and academic *Lorenzo Barceló (born 1977), Dominican Major League Baseball pitcher * Miquel Barceló (writer) (born 1948), Spanish editor, writer and professor *Miquel Barceló ...
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