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The Azores

June 11th 2011
INTRO You are not Portuguese? You don’t have family here? Then why did you come to visit the Azores? My wife and I heard some variation of this line of questioning more than once during our recently completed ten day trip to the Azores archipelago. A large number of people have emigrated from the Azores to the United States, primarily Massac ... read more
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Portuguese Flag Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more
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