According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

According to Manoel de Almeida ( a Portuguese missionary in the early 17th century ), there were 21 islands, seven to eight of which had monasteries on them " formerly large, but now much diminished.

According to his imprinting text, he had drawn his maps using about twenty foreign charts and mappae mundi ( Arab, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Indian and Greek ) including one of Christopher Columbus.

According to Burton ( 2007 ) Martin authorized a crusade against Africa in 1418 and this coupled with a later bull ( 1441 ) sanctioned the Portuguese trade in African slaves.

According to some Mane who spoke to a Portuguese ( Dornelas ) in the late 16th century, their travels had begun as a result of their Chief's, a woman named Macario, having been expelled from the imperial city in Mandimansa, their homeland.

* Book of Prayer: According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews David de Sola Pool, New York: Union of Sephardic Congregations, 1979

According to a Portuguese legend Władysław survived the Battle of Varna ( although the Turks claimed to have his head, his body in royal armor was never found ) and then journeyed in secrecy to the Holy Land.

According to Swahili traders whose accounts were recorded by the Portuguese historian João de Barros, Great Zimbabwe was an ancient capital city built of stones of marvellous size without the use of mortar.

According to John Iliffe, " Portuguese records of Angola from the 16th century show that a great famine occurred on average every seventy years ; accompanied by epidemic disease, it might kill one-third or one-half of the population, destroying the demographic growth of a generation and forcing colonists back into the river valleys.

According to Losada, the name came from Portuguese explorers, the sailors of Vasco da Gama in India, who first brought them to Europe.

According to the Portuguese explorer, Tome Pires, in the early 16th century the port of Bantam ( Banten ) was an important port within the Kingdom of Sunda along with the ports of Pontang, Cheguide ( Cigede ), Tangaram ( Tangerang ), Calapa ( Sunda Kelapa ) and Chimanuk ( estuarine of Cimanuk river ).

* According to a letter passed by the King of Arms of Portugal in the name of King Pedro II of Portugal and registered in the books of the municipal chamber of São Paulo on the 17 of April 1683, the Alvarengas were recognized as members of the nobility of blood ( Portuguese: fidalgos de linhagem ), a condition that in Portugal passed to all descendants that could prove descent, regardless of gender.

According to the Modern Language Association, there are ( in descending order ) 2, 372 English speakers, 55 Spanish speakers, 18 Vietnamese speakers, 5 German speakers, 4 Italian speakers, 3 Portuguese speakers, and 3 Russian speakers.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, " marmalade " appeared in English language in 1480, borrowed from French marmelade which, in turn, came from the Portuguese marmelada.

According to José Pedro Machado ’ s Dicionário Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa, the oldest known document where this Portuguese word is to be found is Gil Vicente ’ s play Comédia de Rubena, written in 1521:

According to legend, a young Indian woman named Mirra was kidnapped by Portuguese pirates and taken to Cochin ( modern-day Kochi ), in the south of India.

According to the Museum Director of the house of Braganza, it was not only drinking tea but " High Tea " at 5: 00 pm ( some people believe it to be at 4: 00 pm ) which is still a Portuguese tradition.

According to a widely publicised study ( December 2008 ) published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, 19. 8 percent of modern Spaniards ( and Portuguese ) have DNA reflecting Sephardic Jewish ancestry ( compared to 10. 6 percent having DNA reflecting Moorish ancestors ).

According to a recent study ( December 2008 ) published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, 19. 8 percent of modern Spaniards ( and Portuguese ) have DNA reflecting Sephardic Jewish ancestry ( compared to 10. 6 percent having DNA reflecting Moorish ancestors ..

According to one Portuguese Grandmother, the tradition is that St. John was a scalliwag in his youth and the people hit him on the head with the garlic saying " return to the right path ".

According to Portuguese law, an estate was to be divided among children who had not already received a dowry.

According to the latter theory, the name came from Portuguese missionaries or traders in Nagasaki who noted its resemblance to the European shawm.

According to Encarta Dictionary, the word cachalot came to English " via French from Spanish or Portuguese cachalote, perhaps from Portuguese cachola, ' big head '".

According to the journalists José Pinto de Sá and Nélson Saúte in the Portuguese daily Público, Joana Simeão, the Reverend Uria Simango, Lázaro Nkavandame, Raul Casal Ribeiro, Arcanjo Kambeu, Júlio Nihia, Paulo Gumane and Father Mateus Gwengere were interned in the campo de reeducação ( re-education camp ) of M ’ telela, in the Northeastern province of Niassa, when, on 25 June 1977 ( the second anniversary of Mozambique's independence ), they were told that they would be taken to the capital, Maputo, where President Machel himself would discuss their liberation.

According to the U. S. Department of Justice, all " special administrative measures " in place against Lindh expired on March 20, 2009, as part of a gradual easing of restrictions on him.

According to the Law on Stationing Troops in the Macau Special Administrative Region ( or Macau Garrison Law, passed by the NPC Standing Committee on June 28, 1999 ), the mission of the PLA in Macau is to defend the special administrative region by " preventing and resisting aggression ; safe-guarding the security of Macau ; undertaking defence services ; managing military facilities ; and handling related foreign military affairs.

According to scholarly consensus, the earliest example of an administrative meritocracy, based on civil service examinations, dates back to Ancient China.

According to the United States scholar Nicholas Eberstadt and demographer Judith Banister, vital statistics and personal information on residents are kept by agencies on the ri, or ni (,: village, the local administrative unit ) level in rural areas and the dong (,: district or block ) level in urban areas.

According to author Brian Carroll, Lyons had been underestimated when he assumed office in 1932 and as leader he demonstrated: " a combination of honesty, native shrewdness, tact, administrative ability, common sense, good luck and good humour that kept him in the job longer than any previous Prime Minister except Hughes ".

According to the administrative structure, the Evenks live, from west to east, in Tyumen and Tomsk Oblasts, Krasnoyarsk Krai with Evenk Autonomous Okrug, Irkutsk, Chita, and Amur Oblasts, the Buryat and the Sakha Republics, Khabarovsk Krai, and Sakhalin Oblast.

According to the Presidium of the Leningrad Oblast Executive Committee resolution of February 26, 1935, the administrative center of Polyarny District was moved from Polyarnoye to Sayda-Guba.

According to Hughes, the paruchia, or network of monasteries attached to an abbey, replaced the diocese as the chief administrative unit of the church, and the position of abbot largely replaced that of bishop in authority and prominence.

According to the administrative reform of Poland in 1999, Słupsk Voivodeship was dissolved and divided between two larger regions: Pomeranian Voivodeship and West Pomeranian Voivodeship.

According to the 2001 census, Piraeus had a population of 175, 697 people within its administrative limits, making it the third largest municipality in Greece and the second largest within the urban area of the Greek capital, following the municipality of Athens.

According to the 2000 United States Census, the industries in the town ( by percentage of employed civilian population 16 years and over ) were manufacturing at 20. 4 %, educational, health and social services with 19. 9 %, retail trade at 12. 8 %, arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services with 9. 0 %, construction at 8. 0 %, other services ( except public administration ) with 6. 8 %, transportation, warehousing, and utilities at 4. 6 %, public administration with 3. 9 %, professional, scientific, management, administrative, and waste management services at 3. 7 %, finance, insurance, real estate, and rental and leasing with 3. 4 %, wholesale trade at 3. 4 %, information with 2. 2 % and agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and mining at 1. 9 %.

According to the Statute of the Orthodox Church in America, the All-American Council is the " highest legislative and administrative authority within the Church.

According to § 1 of the main constitution of Münster, the city is divided into six administrative districts ( Stadtbezirke ).

According to the 1971 census, Westmorland was the second least populated administrative county in England, after Rutland.

According to the Constitution of Russia, oblasts are considered to be subjects of the Federation, which is a higher status than that of administrative units they had within the Russian SFSR before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

According to the law, all meetings held by the president, parliament or government must be conducted in Abkhaz ( instead of Russian which is currently a de facto administrative language ) from 2010 and all state officials will be obliged to use Abkhaz as their language of every-day business from 2015.

According to Constitution, the districts shall be disestablished in the territories where it has been created an autonomous or administrative region.

According to the preliminary results of the 2011 census, the city has an urban population of 182, 208 inhabitants, while its administrative area has a population of 257, 867.

According to the preliminary results from the 2011 census, the whole municipal area of the city of Niš ( including both, urban and rural parts of municipality ) has a population of 257, 867, while the population of urban Niš was 177, 972. while its administrative area has a population of 257, 867.

According to the Treaty of Berlin, Eastern Rumelia was to remain under the political and military jurisdiction of the Ottoman Empire with significant administrative autonomy ( Article 13 ).

According to the 2011 census, the administrative area has a population of 127, 429, while the town has 57, 627.

According to the 2011 census, the urban area has 78, 030 ( city has 59, 610 ) inhabitants, while the administrative area has 143, 962.

According to his biographer, Cathy Kunzinger Urwin, Rockefeller ’ s “ good-government ” reform proposals included: revision of the Arkansas State Constitution, governmental administrative reorganization, election law reform ( a " little Hatch Act " to prohibit state employees from engaging in political activities on the job ), teacher tenure, taxpayer-funded kindergarten under Amendment 53, adult and continuing education programs, rehabilitation and vocational training in the corrections system, and the recurring attempts at industrial recruitment.

According to the provisions of the 8th-century Ritsuryō system, there was a Fuchū in every administrative province.

According to the World Records Academy, the Palace is the world's largest civilian building, most expensive administrative building, and heaviest building.