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The Municipality of Vila Verde (Minho, Portugal) has acquired a set of five paintings, in the 80's, believed to be the portraits of past Mayors, or some other prominent personalities from the county, but their origin and identity have always been ...

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The death of a childless, unmarried wealthy Portuguese official, in Brazil, in the late 18th century, initiated a judicial process of inheritance that mobilized a considerable amount of relatives for 13 years (1795-1808). These inheritance files, ...

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The architectural heritage bequeathed to us has been systematically destroyed by the incompetence and corruption of owners, promoters and appointed managers, either through ignorance or to satisfy more immediate and materialistic goals. They have ...

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O quarto volume da publicacao integral dos registos notariais de Aboim da Nobrega compreende um conjunto de dez livros do Tabeliao Luis Manuel da Rocha Peixoto, do N. * 31 ao N. * 40, segundo a numeracao do Arquivo Distrital de Braga, num total de...

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The Municipality of Vila Verde (Minho, Portugal), created administratively by decree (October 24, 1855) during the Regeneration period as a result of the reforms advocated by the Vintismo Movement in the 1820's, and initiated by Mouzinho da Silvei...

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The elected, or sometimes appointed, municipal representatives (Mayors and Councilors) in the county of Vila Verde (Minho, Portugal) for the past 150 years (1855-2005) are presented here in a chronological list compiled from minutes and other docu...

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This second, revised and enlarged edition, of a rather long "Brief Carolingian Bibliography", named to make it sound more humble and therefore less prone to peer criticism, is a list of books on Charlemagne and the Carolingians published...

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One of the most important proceedings to emanate from the Council of Trent (1545-63), as part of the Catholic Counter-Reformation, was the decree to keep a thorough register of all baptisms, marriages and burials being performed in every parish. T...

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