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Correio Dos Açores
''Correio dos Açores'' (''Azores Post'') is a Portugal, Portuguese newspaper, published daily from Ponta Delgada, in the archipelago of the Azores. History The periodical had its beginnings in the founding of the newspaper ''República'', established 1910 by Republican sympathizers in the city of Ponta Delgada, following the establishment of the First Portuguese Republic. The republican Francisco Luís Tavares was the director of this newspaper, and after nine years, on 1 May 1920, along with the monarchist Dr. José Bruno Tavares Carreiro founded the ''Correio dos Açores'', maintiaing a similar editorial style: : ''"...patent to the public the guidance of the new authorities and their motivation towards the successive problems derived from the national and international evolution."'' It was a period of ideological confrontations within the First Republic, especially leading to the First World War, when Republicans and nationalists were divided about the direction the young dem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
