Azores


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Europe, Atlantic Island Azores

Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, 900 miles off the Iberian peninsula (38N/28W). Uninhabited when Portuguese sailors and possibly Gonzalo Cabral happened upon them in 1431; active settlement by Portuguese under Cabral's direction began in 1445.

Sources

Robert A. McCaughey

Compiler

Peter Richards

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