Definitions
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- noun islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal
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Examples
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Spaniards had the Canary Isles: and so had the Portugales the Isles of the Acores of Porto santo, of Madera, of Cape verd, the castle of Mina, the fruitfull and profitable Isle of S. Thomas, being all of them conueniently situated, and well fraught with commodities.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ortelius assure que ceux partent de l'Europe, pour aller en Amer., sont delivres de toute Sorte de Vermine, aussitot qu'ils ont passe les Acores, ce qu'on doit attribuer a la qualite de l'Air, qui y est tres salubre.
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Administrative divisions: 18 districts (distritos, singular - distrito) and 2 autonomous regions* (regioes autonomas, singular - regiao autonoma); Aveiro, Acores (Azores) *, Beja, Braga, Braganca,
The 1995 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Administrative divisions: 18 districts (distritos, singular - distrito) and 2 autonomous regions* (regioes autonomas, singular - regiao autonoma); Aveiro, Acores (Azores) *, Beja, Braga, Braganca,
The 2000 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Administrative divisions: 18 districts (distritos, singular - distrito) and 2 autonomous regions* (regioes autonomas, singular - regiao autonoma); Aveiro, Acores (Azores) *, Beja, Braga, Braganca,
The 1996 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Administrative divisions: 18 districts (distritos, singular -- distrito) and 2 autonomous regions* (regioes autonomas, singular -- regiao autonoma); Aveiro, Acores (Azores) *, Beja, Braga,
The 1999 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Administrative divisions: 18 districts (distritos, singular - distrito) and 2 autonomous regions* (regioes autonomas, singular - regiao autonoma); Aveiro, Acores (Azores) *, Beja, Braga, Braganca,
The 2001 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Verde Islands or the Acores, in the vicinity of which a good number of moderate-sized sperm whales are often to be found.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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The kings of Castilla claim that it was to be drawn according to the papal concession, one hundred leagues west of the islands of Acores and Cabo Verde; the kings of Portugal claim that it was to be drawn farther west, so that their side of the demarcation might include most of the coast of Brasil, and of that Tierra Firme [36] adjoining it.
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Castilla and Leon, and their successors, of all the Yndias in general, the islands and mainlands which had been discovered or should be discovered in the limitless future, drawing a line from pole to pole, one hundred leagues west of the Acores and Cabo Verde islands.
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