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Dionísio Mendes De Sousa
Dionísio Mendes de Sousa (born 9 October 1940) is a Portuguese politician, writer, educator, and former president of the Legislative Assembly of the Azores. Biography Sousa was born in Vila de São Sebastião, Angra do Heroísmo, on the Azorean island of Terceira. Following his primary education, Mendes studied at the Episcopal Seminary in Angra do Heroísmo from October 1952 to June 1964. In his course work he obtained high marks—around 16 out of a scale of 20—in more than half of his disciplines. Academic career Between 1965 and 1968 he was conscripted into mandatory military service and stationed at various military installations, including the main army barracks in Lisbon. During his military service he frequented classes at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon, obtaining a licentiate diploma in philosophy. By the 1969-70 term, he was teaching history at the secondary school ''Liceu Padre António Vieira'' and Portuguese at the ''Externato Séneca'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humberto Melo
Humberto is a Portuguese and Spanish masculine given name of Germanic origin. It may refer to: * Humberto Aguilar Coronado * Humberto Ak'ab'al * Humberto Albiñana *Humberto Albornoz * Humberto Alonso Morelli *Humberto Alonso Razo *Humberto Andrade Quezada * Humberto André Redes Filho *Humberto Anguiano *Humberto Arencibia *Humberto Aspitia *Humberto Ballesteros * Humberto Barbosa *Humberto Bedford * Humberto Benítez Treviño *Humberto Biazotti * Humberto Blasco * Humberto Brenes *Humberto Briceño *Humberto Briseño Sierra * Humberto Bruni Lamanna * Humberto Calzada * Humberto Castellanos * Humberto Castro * Humberto Cervantes Vega * Humberto Clayber * Humberto Coelho * Humberto Contreras * Humberto Costa * Humberto Costantini * Humberto Cota * Humberto Cruz * Humberto Curi * Humberto De la Calle * Humberto Delgado *Humberto Domingo Mayans *Humberto Donoso *Humberto Dávila Esquivel * Humberto Díaz Casanueva *Humberto Elgueta * Humberto Elizondo * Humberto Fernandes * Humberto Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almada
Almada () is a city and a municipality in Portugal, located on the southern margin of the Tagus River, on the opposite side of the river from Lisbon. The two cities are connected by the 25 de Abril Bridge. The population in 2011 was 174,030, in an area of 70.21 km2. The urbanized center had a population of 101,500 in 2001. History Human presence in the area of Almada dates to the end of the Neolithic period about 5000 years ago; archeological excavations performed in the municipality suggest that non-sedentary nomadic tribes may have occupied this location sporadically. The gradual development of settlement here made its greatest advance with the coming of Islamic civilization, when Muslims constructed a fort at Almada to defend and monitor the entrance to the Tagus River. Lying across the river from Lisbon, the area of Almada was a crossroads for a succession of various peoples who traded along the Tagus, including Phoenicians, Romans and Moors. As one of the principal Arab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Party (Portugal) Politicians
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of these parties advocate either democratic socialism, social democracy or even Third Way as their ideological position. Many Socialist Parties have explicit connections to the labor movement and trade unions. See also Socialist International, list of democratic socialist parties and organizations and list of social democratic parties. A number of affiliates of the Trotskyist International Socialist Alternative also use the name "Socialist Party". This list only includes parties that use the exact name "Socialist Party" for themselves, sometimes alongside the name of the country in which they operate. The list does not include political parties that use the word "Socialist" in addition to one or more other political adjectives in their names. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Angra Do Heroísmo
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presidents Of The Legislative Assembly Of The Azores
The list of presidents of the Legislative Assembly of the Azores consists of the chairpersons for the autonomous local legislature of the Azores, since the Carnation Revolution that installed the democratic Third Portuguese Republic. This list includes the leaders of the transitional regimes and those presidents elected after the institutionalization of the autonomy statute that provided archipelago with its laws and democratic rights. On 21 July 1976, Álvaro Monjardino was elected by plenum of the Regional Assembly, the first President of the Azorean Assembly, nominated by the first President of the Azores (João Bosco Mota Amaral). Presidents The numbering reflects the uninterrupted terms in office served by each president. The current President of the Government of the Azores is Ana Luís, whose party won the Azorean regional election on 14 October 2012, and was nominated by President Vasco Cordeiro for the position.Agência Lusa (5 November 2012) The colors indicat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Diário Insular
''Diário Insular'' (''Island Daily'') is a Portuguese newspaper, published daily from Angra do Heroísmo Angra do Heroísmo (), or simply Angra, is a city and municipality on Terceira Island, Portugal, and one of the three capital cities of the Azores. Founded in 1478, Angra was historically the most important city in the Azores, as seat of the Roma ..., island of Terceira in the archipelago of the Azores. History Founded in 1946, by Cândido Pamplona Forjaz, who was director from 1962 to 1974, ''Diário Insular'' was decidedly-associated with the Estado Novo regime of António Oliveira de Salazar. Yet, during this period, the publication was censured by the Salazar government for commentaries or reports that contradicted the regime. ''Diário Insular'' is owned by Sociedade Terceirense de Publicidade, under daily management of director José Lourenço. References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Diario Insular 1946 establishments in Portugal Mass media in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Sampaio
Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio (; 18 September 1939 – 10 September 2021) was a Portuguese lawyer and politician who was the 18th president of Portugal from 1996 to 2006. A member of the Socialist Party, a party which he led between 1989 and 1992, he was the mayor of Lisbon from 1990 to 1995 and High-Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations between 2007 and 2013. He was an opponent to the dictatorship of Estado Novo, who participated in the student crisis in the 1960s and was a lawyer for political prisoners. When he was President, he had an important role in the 1999 East Timorese crisis and under his presidency, Portugal relinquished its last territory in Asia, Macau, which was handed over to China. Early life and political career Sampaio was born in Lisbon on 18 September 1939 in an upper/middle-class family. The Sampaio family lived abroad in the United States and the United Kingdom for some years, due to the professional activity of his father Arnaldo de Sampa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Prince Henry
The Order of Prince Henry ( pt, Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique) is a Portuguese order of knighthood created on 2 June 1960, to commemorate the quincentenary of the death of the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator, one of the main initiators of the Age of Discovery. Minor reforms of the constitution of the Order occurred in 1962 and 1980. It is a five-tier order, whose titles are awarded for relevant services to Portugal and for services in the expansion of the Portuguese culture, its history and its values (with a particular focus on its maritime history). The number of members in each grade is restricted by its constitution, and titles are conferred by special decree by the Grand Master of the Order, i.e., the President of Portugal. Grades The order includes several classes; in decreasing order of seniority, these are: * Grand Collar (''Grande-Colar'' – GColIH) * Grand Cross (''Grã-Cruz'' – GCIH) * Grand Officer (''Grande-Oficial'' – GOIH) * Commander (''Comenda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponta Delgada
Ponta Delgada (; ) is the largest municipality (''concelho'') and economic capital of the Autonomous Region of the Azores in Portugal. It is located on São Miguel Island, the largest and most populous in the archipelago. As of 2021, it has 67,287 inhabitants, in an area of . There are 17,629 residents in the three central Freguesia (Portugal), civil parishes that comprise the historical city: São Pedro (Ponta Delgada), São Pedro, São Sebastião (Ponta Delgada), São Sebastião, and São José (Ponta Delgada), São José. Ponta Delgada became the region's administrative capital under the Political status of the Autonomous Region of the Azores, revised constitution of 1976; the judiciary and Catholic episcopal see, See remained in the historical capital of Angra do Heroísmo while the Legislative Assembly of the Azores was established in Horta (Azores), Horta. History The origin of the placename Ponta Delgada (Portuguese for ''delicate or thin point'') was elaborated by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antero De Quental
Antero Tarquínio do Quental (; old spelling ''Anthero'') (18 April 184211 September 1891) was a Portuguese poet, philosopher, and writer. Do Quental is regarded as one of the greatest poets of his generation and is recognized as one of the most influential Portuguese language artists of all time. His name is often mentioned alongside Luís Vaz de Camões, Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, and Fernando Pessoa. Biography Early life and childhood Antero do Quental was born in Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel in the Azores. His family was among the oldest families of the provincial captaincy system. His father was Fernando do Quental (10 May 1814 - 7 March 1873), a veteran of the Portuguese Liberal Wars, who took part in the Landing of Mindelo.Despite being an aristocrat, Fernando do Quental supported the liberal movement, going so far as to chip away the family coast of arms from the family's manor house. Fernando himself was the son of André da Ponte do Quental da Câmar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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