List of people on stamps of Azores
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This is a list of people on stamps of the Azores
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Azores
The Archipelago of the Azores is composed of nine volcanic islands situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and is located about west from Lisbon and about east from the east coast of North America. The islands, and their economic exclusion zone, form the Autonomous Region of the...
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- Matias de AlbuquerqueMatias de AlbuquerqueMatias de Albuquerque , the first and only Count of Alegrete, was a Portuguese colonial administrator and soldier...
(1928) - Teresa de Albuquerque (1925)
- Alfonso I of Portugal (1926)
- Brites de Almeida (1927)
- Saint Anthony of PaduaAnthony of PaduaAnthony of Padua or Anthony of Lisbon, O.F.M., was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. Though he died in Padua, Italy, he was born to a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal, which is where he was raised...
(1895) - Luiz Vaz de CamoensLuís de CamõesLuís Vaz de Camões is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas...
(1898) - Sebastian Jose de Carvalho e Mello, Marquis de Pombal (1925)
- Camillo Castello Branco (1925)
- Charles I of Portugal (1906)
- Joao de Cruz (1925)
- Mariana de Cruz (1925)
- Saint Gabriel the Archangel (1898)
- Vasco da GamaVasco da GamaVasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India...
(1898) - Joana de Gouveia (1928)
- Henry the Navigator (1894)
- Joao das RegrasJoão das RegrasJoão das Regras, in English, literally John of the Rules, was a Portuguese jurist of the second half of the 14th-century. João das Regras was born in Lisbon in an unknown date and died there on 3 May 1404...
(1927) - John I of PortugalJohn I of PortugalJohn I KG , called the Good or of Happy Memory, more rarely and outside Portugal the Bastard, was the tenth King of Portugal and the Algarve and the first to use the title Lord of Ceuta...
(1926) - John IV of PortugalJohn IV of Portugal|-|John IV was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1640 to his death. He was the grandson of Catherine, Duchess of Braganza, who had in 1580 claimed the Portuguese crown and sparked the struggle for the throne of Portugal. John was nicknamed John the Restorer...
(1926) - Louis I of Portugal (1868)
- Manuel II of PortugalManuel II of PortugalManuel II , named Manuel Maria Filipe Carlos Amélio Luís Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Francisco de Assis Eugénio de Bragança Orleães Sabóia e Saxe-Coburgo-Gotha — , was the last King of Portugal from 1908 to 1910, ascending the throne after the assassination of his father and elder brother Manuel...
(1910) - Gonçalo Mendes da MaiaGonçalo Mendes da MaiaGonçalo Mendes da Maia , also known as O Lidador , so named for his fearlessness in the struggle against the Saracens, was a Portuguese knight of the time of Afonso Henriques, about whom tradition relates important achievements in the events preceding the independence of Portugal...
(1927) - Gualdim Paes (1928)
- Joao Pinto Ribeiro (1927)
- Filipa de Vilhena (1926)