The municipality's history begins in 1556, when two Jesuit priests ( Braz Lourenço and Diogo Jácomo ) founded Santa Cruz, a town then called Aldeia Nova ( New Village ).

First founded under the name " Reis Magos " ( now the name of the river at whose mouth it rests ), it was then known as " Aldeia Nova " ( taking that name from neighbouring Aldeia Nova, which today is Santa Cruz ).

* Associação Recreativa e Cultural Aldeia Nova Campo

Lajes has several elementary schools with the main one located in Aldeia Nova.

Aldeia Velha became emancipated as a municipality in 1848, and changed its name to Santa Cruz.

António da Cunha Telles, who meanwhile began to produce the first films of the Portuguese Cinema Novo ( New Cinema ), became interested in him and accepted to do an executive production and co-production of two of his next films: O Crime da Aldeia Velha ( 1964 ), an adaptation of a Bernardo Santareno play and O trigo e o Joio ( 1965 ) based in the book with the same name, by Fernando Namora, who wrote the script as well.

Born in Aldeia do Bispo, Penamacor, Portugal, Esteves became a professional wrestler after coming second in the Mister Europe bodybuilding competition.

José Pedro Mourão Lamy Viçoso,, better known as Pedro Lamy (; born March 20, 1972 in Aldeia Galega, Alenquer, Portugal ), is a professional racing driver from Portugal.

Montijo was known as Aldeia Galega until July 6, 1930, in spite of the fact that it was a small town and no longer a village.

The largest of the coastal rivers are the Goiana River, which is formed by the confluence of the Tracunhaem and Capibaribe-mirim, and drains a rich agricultural region in the north-east part of the state ; the Capibaribe, which has its source in the Serra de Jacarara and flows eastward to the Atlantic at Recife with a course of nearly ; the Ipojuca, which rises in the Serra de Aldeia Velha and reaches the coast south of Recife ; the Serinhaen ; and the Uná.

Santareno also wrote " A Promessa " ( 1957 ), " O Crime da Aldeia Velha " ( 1959 ) and " Anunciação " ( 1962 ).

* Pinheiro da Aldeia Velha

* Aldeia Velha

* O Crime da Aldeia Velha, by Manuel Guimarães ( 1964 )

* Crime de Aldeia Velha ( 1964 )

There are several vistages of historical architecture and rural constructions in this parish, that include: the two main historical springs / wells ( Fonte da Pinela and Fonte d ' Aldeia ), which were subterranean channels of potable water ; watermills and ancient blacksmith's forge.

* Aldeia do Mato-historically a hinterland of forests ( it was a place where locals gathered wood ), today it is an area of small hamlets focused on the rivers, and affected by the seasonal activities around the Parque Náutico de Recreio e Lazer da Aldeia do Mato, a recreational park and summer retreat ;

Another famous titles from this popular era are Aldeia da Roupa Branca ( 1938 ), O Pátio das Cantigas and O Pai Tirano ( 1941 ), O Costa do Castelo ( 1943 ), A Menina da Rádio ( 1944 ) and O Leão da Estrela ( 1947 ).

The Church of Our Lady of Egypt was built in 1606 and the Parish consisted of the following villages under its jurisdiction :-Kole-kalyan, Aldeia, Sur, Sar, Naugar, Vancolem and Cuddy as of 1761 ( Humbert I: 223-238 ).

It changed its name on August 6, 1944, having previously been called " Aldeia do Mato.

It was built in 1606 and by 1761, had the following villages under its jurisdiction :-Kole-kalyan, Aldeia, Sur, Sar, Naugar, Vancolem and Cuddy ( Humbert I: 223-238 ).

Belém's proximity to the Tagus River also influenced the development of commercial activities in the small village, especially in the Aldeia do Restelo, which attracted marines and seafarers, rather travelling to Lisbon.

17th century-Jesuit church in São Pedro da Aldeia, near Rio de Janeiro.

The queen consorts of Portugal were awarded fiefs and villages to grant them independent incomes, and Eleanor was granted Silves e Faro and Terras de Aldeia Galega e Aldeia Gavinha for this purpose.

The origins of São José dos Campos lie at the end of the 16th Century when Jesuits founded a cattle farm, Aldeia do Rio Comprido.

Finally, the municipality of Caria, already a municipal seat with pillory in the Vila da Rua, included the small parishes of Arcozelos, Aldeia de Nacomba, Faia, Penso, Carregal, Lamosa, Quintela da Lapa and Segões.

The administrative reform of 1834 initiated a concentration of municipal authority in fewer administrative units: the small municipalities of Peravelha, Castelo, Nagosa and Arcos were extinguished and incorporated into the municipality of Moimenta da Beira ; the municipality of Caria received the parishes of Arcozelos, Aldeia de Nacomba and Segões ; and Leomil grew to include the municipalities of Paçô and Sever.

* 28 June 1984: a TAM Airlines Embraer EMB 110C Bandeirante registration PP-SBC operating a chartered flight by Petrobras from Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont to Macaé flew into a hill while descending through rain and clouds over the Municipality of São Pedro da Aldeia.

By regal decree, dated 18 December 1768, the lands were referred to as the Aldeia da Rainha (), and many tried to adapt to the new environment.

: Also of Baroque style, this fountain was built in 1744, in a pleasant place outside Aldeia de Santo André.

Aldeia da Luz, a small village that lay in the projected flood zone of the dam, was completely rebuilt on a new site.

The city was later renamed Nova Roma by Constantine the Great, but popularly called Constantinople and briefly became the imperial residence of the classical Roman Empire.

In 1867 Nova Scotia and New Brunswick merged with the Canadas in Confederation, with Prince Edward Island joining them six years later in 1873.

It appears that Data General originally intended the Nova 3 to be the last of its line, planning to replace the Nova with the later Eclipse machines.

In his later lectures ( his Nova Methodo ), Fichte incorporated it into his revised presentation of the very foundations of his system, where the summons takes its place alongside original feeling, which takes the place of the earlier Anstoss ( see below ) as both a limit upon the absolute freedom of the I and a condition for the positing of the same.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton, in The Attache: Second Series, published in 1844, reminisced about boys from King's College School in Windsor, Nova Scotia, playing " hurly on the long pond on the ice " when he was a student there, no later than 1810.

It was in this context, as the imperial mathematician and astrologer to the emperor, that Kepler described the new star two years later in his De Stella Nova.

Another example is the Principality of Outer Baldonia, a rocky island off the coast of Nova Scotia, founded by Russell Arundel, chairman of the Pepsi Cola Company ( later: PepsiCo ), in 1945 and comprising a population of 69 fishermen.

During the first 80 years the French and Acadians were in Nova Scotia, there were nine significant battles as the English and Scottish ( later British ), Dutch and French fought for possession of the colony.

Nova Scotia had established representative government in 1758, an achievement that was later commemorated by erecting the Dingle Tower in 1908.

In 2004 the Canadian province of Nova Scotia gave an invitation to join but Canada's government said they would look at the matter later.

Gaining sole reign of the empire, he is also noted for re-establishing a single imperial capital, choosing the site of ancient Byzantium in 330 ( over of the current capitals, which had effectively been changed by Diocletian's reforms to Milan in the West, and Nicomedia in the East ) to build the city soon called Nova Roma ( New Rome ); it was later renamed Constantinople in his honor.

In 1969, in the UK, in the course of being interviewed by a Nova magazine reporter, artist Yoko Ono said, "... woman is the nigger of the world "; three years later, her husband, John Lennon, published the song " Woman is the Nigger of the World " ( 1972 )— about the virtually universal exploitation of woman – which was socially and politically controversial to US sensibilities.

Book II of the Experimenta Nova is an extended philosophical essay in which von Guericke puts forward a view of the nature of Space similar to that later espoused by Newton.

* Oldsmobile Omega ( 1973 – 1984 )-compact car based on the Chevrolet Nova and later the Chevrolet Citation.

João Álvares Fagundes and Pêro de Barcelos established fishing outposts in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia around 1521 CE ; however, these were later abandoned, with the Portuguese colonizers focusing their efforts on South America.

Two months later, Mulroney entered Parliament as the MP for Central Nova in Nova Scotia, winning a by-election in what was then considered a safe Tory seat after Elmer MacKay stood down in his favour.

Walloon Monument in Battery Park, NYCBarred by the government from settling in New France, Huguenots led by Jessé de Forest, sailed to North America and settled instead in the Dutch colony of New Netherland ( later incorporated into New York and New Jersey ); as well as Great Britain's colonies, including Nova Scotia.

They sailed via the Bahamas to Nova Scotia where they were received by the Duke of Kent, son of King George III and later father of Queen Victoria.

On 22 December 1977, the band split up, Clarke, Griffiths and Wylie formed The Nova Mob ( along Julian Cope ), and Paul Rutherford formed The Opium Eaters, while Littler moved to London in January 1978, where joined The Photons, alongside Steve Strange ( later Visage ).

His autobiography, The Hank Snow Story, was published in 1994, and later The Hank Snow Country Music Centre opened near his ancestral home in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

McLachlan's parents insisted she finish high school and complete one year of studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design before moving to Vancouver and embarking on a new life as a recording artist, and McLachlan finally signed to Nettwerk two years later before having written a single song.

As the battle had damaged his own ship, Drake was forced to go ashore on the coast of Nova Albion, founding Fort Drake Borough which later became Duckburg, for the sole purpose of burying the library below the fort, on Kill Mole Hill where Scrooge built his Money Bin in 1902.

The Miramichi thus became a part of the British colony of Nova Scotia, and later New Brunswick.