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Viscount of Amoreira da Torre (Portuguese : Visconde de Amoreira da Torre) was an aristocratic Portuguese title. The title was created in 1895, by D. Carlos I in favor of Cipriano Justino da Costa Palhinha.
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Viscount of Amoreira da Torre (Portuguese : Visconde de Amoreira da Torre) was an aristocratic Portuguese title. The title was created in 1895, by D. Carlos I in favor of Cipriano Justino da Costa Palhinha.
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Namibe Province is a province of Angola. Under Portuguese rule it was the Moçâmedes District. It has an area of 57,091 km² and had a 2014 census population of 495,326. The port and city of Moçâmedes is the capital of the province with a population of 250,000 in 2014. Iona National Park lies within the province.
Óbidos is a town and a municipality in the Oeste region, historical province of Estremadura, and the formerly Leiria district. The town proper has approximately 3100 inhabitants. The municipality population in 2011 was 11,772, in an area of 141.55 square kilometres.
Doria originally de Auria, meaning "the sons of Auria", and then de Oria or d'Oria, is an old and extremely wealthy Genoese family who played a major role in the history of the Republic of Genoa and in Italy, from the 12th century to the 16th century. Numerous members of the dynasty ruled the republic first as Capitano del popolo and later as Doge.
Elvas is a Portuguese municipality, former episcopal city and frontier fortress of easternmost central Portugal, located in the district of Portalegre in Alentejo. It is situated about 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of Lisbon, and about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of the Spanish fortress of Badajoz, by the Madrid-Badajoz-Lisbon railway. The municipality population as of 2011 was 23,078, in an area of 631.29 square kilometres (243.74 sq mi). The city itself had a population of 16,640 as of 2011.
Torres Novas is a Portuguese municipality in the district of Santarém, in the Médio Tejo of the Centro region. The population of the municipality was approximately 36,717, with the city of Torres Novas has about 15,000 inhabitants in an area that encompasses 270 square kilometres (100 sq mi).
Adelino Manuel Lopes Amaro da Costa, GCIH was a Portuguese Politician.
Rúben Filipe Marques Amorim is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of Primeira Liga club Sporting CP.
The Lourinhã Formation is a fossil rich geological formation in western Portugal, named for the municipality of Lourinhã. The formation is mostly Late Jurassic in age (Kimmeridgian/Tithonian), with the top of the formation extending into the earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian). It is notable for containing a fauna especially similar to that of the Morrison Formation in the United States and a lesser extent to the Tendaguru Formation in Tanzania. There are also similarities to the nearby Villar del Arzobispo Formation. The stratigraphy of the formation and the basin in general is complex and controversial, with the constituent member beds belonging to the formation varying between different authors.
Joana Isabel Cipriano is a Portuguese child who disappeared on 12 August 2004 from Figueira, a village near Portimão in Portugal's Algarve region. An investigation by the Polícia Judiciária (PJ), Portugal's criminal police, concluded that she had been murdered by her mother, Leonor Cipriano, and her uncle, João Cipriano, after witnessing them engaged in incestuous sex. Joana's body was never found; there is no tangible evidence she is dead.
The Fort of Nossa Senhora da Rocha is a medieval castle situated in the civil parish of Porches, in the municipality of Lagoa in Portuguese Algarve. Inside the fort is the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Rocha, of uncertain date.
São Sebastião da Amoreira is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.
The Miss Brazil 2010 pageant took place May 08, 2010, in the Memorial da América Latina in São Paulo. Each state and the Federal District competed for the title, won by Débora Lyra of Minas Gerais. She will represent the country at Miss Universe 2010. Miss Brazil International is Lílian Lopes Pereira who will represent Brazil at Miss International 2010. Miss Brazil Continente Americano is Marylia Bernardt who will enter in Miss Continente Americano 2010.
Baixa da Banheira e Vale da Amoreira is a civil parish in the municipality of Moita, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Baixa da Banheira and Vale da Amoreira. The population in 2011 was 30,949, in an area of 6.42 km2.
João Maria Lobo Alves Palhinha Gonçalves is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Sporting CP and the Portugal national team as a defensive midfielder.
Eousdryosaurus is a genus of basal iguanodontian dinosaur known from a partial skeleton discovered in Upper Jurassic rocks in western Portugal. The type, and only species, is Eousdryosaurus nanohallucis, named and described in 2014.
Entre Campos station is part of the Yellow Line of the Lisbon Metro.
Count of Avintes is a Portuguese title of nobility created by Letters Patent of King Afonso VI of Portugal on 17 February 1664 for D. Luis de Almeida, 5th Lord of Avintes. The title was conferred in perpetuity upon the 4th Count by King José I of Portugal in the same document by which he was elevated to the Marquessate of Lavradio, later confirmed by Letters Patent dated 29 August 1766.
Oceanotitan is a genus of titanosauriform sauropod known from the Upper Jurassic Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Formation of Portugal. It contains one species, Oceanotitan dantasi.