It is made up of 102 municipalities and its most populous cities are Maceió, Arapiraca, Palmeira dos Índios, Rio Largo, Penedo, União dos Palmares, São Miguel dos Campos, Santana do Ipanema, Delmiro Gouveia, Coruripe, Marechal Deodoro, and Campo Alegre.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Alagoano hinterland lived through the pioneering experience of Delmiro Gouveia, a Pernambucano entrepreneur who installed the Estrela thread factory, which came to produce 200 spools daily.

The line passed through a series of small towns including Olho d ' Água das Flores and Delmiro Gouveia, before reaching its destination at Petrolândia, on the banks of the upper São Francisco, and approximately 80km upstream from Piranhas.

* Westernmost town: Delmiro Gouveia

After successive appeals to the Pope asking for missionaries for the East Indies under the Padroado agreement, John III was enthusiastically advised by Diogo de Gouveia, rector of the Collège Sainte-Barbe, to draw the newly graduated youngsters that would establish the Society of Jesus.

However, the importance of the College was shadowed by rivalry between the orthodox views of the " Parisians " group headed by Diogo de Gouveia and the more secular views of the " Bordeaux " school headed by his nephew André de Gouveia, within the advent of the Counter-Reformation and the Society of Jesus.

That was the case of “ Grupo Artístico de Fados ”, with Berta Cardoso ( 1911 – 1997 ), Madalena de Melo ( 1903 – 1970 ), Armando Augusto Freire, ( 1891 – 1946 ) Martinho d ’ Assunção ( 1914 – 1992 ) and João da Mata, and “ Grupo Artístico Propaganda do Fado ”, with Deonilde Gouveia ( 1900 – 1946 ), Júlio Proença ( 1901 – 1970 ) and Joaquim Campos ( 1899 – 1978 ), or “ Troupe Guitarra de Portugal ”, with Ercília Costa ( 1902 – 1985 ) and Alfredo Marceneiro ( 1891 – 1982 ) among others.

He was a son of Fernão Álvares Cabral and Isabel Gouveia — one of five boys and six girls in the family.

Cabral was christened Pedro Álvares de Gouveia and only later, supposedly upon his elder brother's death in 1503, did he begin using his father's surname.

Ramus was made to debate Goveanus ( Antonio de Gouveia ), over two days.

It was in Santarém that he was married in 1503 to Dona Isabel de Castro, whose family ( as his mother Dona Isabel de Gouveia ) had owned property there for many years.

Marítimo was founded on 20 September 1910 as Club Português de Sport Marítimo, by Cândido Fernandes de Gouveia.

José Manuel Bastos Fialho Gouveia, ( 30 April 1935, Montijo, Portugal-2 October 2004, Coimbra, Portugal ) was a Portuguese television entertainment pioneer and former radio host, having hosted Portugal ’ s first television talk show.

Gouveia was also a popular host for other programs, namely game shows, working with Cruz behind the cameras, and became one of the mainstays of Portugal's RTP up to the early 1990s.

It was Bishop Manuel de Gouveia ( then bishop of Angra ) who proposed the creation of the ecclesiastical parish from a portion of Sé, that included: the Rua de Paulus Gomes the two bands until the home of George de Lemos de Betancor, down to the fountain and forward to the house of the sheriff, from there to the Castle and from there to the Serra cut by the ravine and mills with all the residents that exist within those limits.

* Teodósio Clemente de Gouveia ( c. 1889-Lourenço Marques ; c. 1962 ), was a Roman Catholic Cardinal, who served as Archbishop of Lourenço Marques in Mozambique from 1940 until his death ( he was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII ).

He was concurrently between 1951 and 1959, chaplain of the Third Battalion of Police, Diamantina ; faculty member of the Provincial Seminary of Diamantina ; archdiocesan director of catechesis ; faculty member of the Teacher's School of Diamantina and several schools in Gouveia.

In responding, António de Gouveia, a Portuguese Jesuit, said that Confucius was certainly saved, " which is more than can be said for King Philip IV of Spain.

Father Maurice was retired in 1962 due to illness and Father Anselm Ernest Gouveia, SS. CC., was appointed pastor after serving the faithful as pastor in Kaneohe.

Vergílio Ferreira, ( Melo, Gouveia, 28 January 1916 – Lisbon, 1 March 1996 ) was a Portuguese writer.

United States v. Gouveia, 467 U. S. 180 ( 1984 ), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that prisoners in administrative segregation pending the investigation of crimes committed within the prison had no Sixth Amendment entitlement to counsel prior to the initiation of adversary judicial proceedings against them.

* October 7: Teresa Patrício Gouveia becomes Foreign Minister of Portugal replacing António Martins da Cruz.

The Redskins then increased their lead 24 – 0 just 16 seconds into the second half after linebacker Kurt Gouveia intercepted Kelly's pass on the first play of the third quarter and returned it 23 yards to the Bills ' 2-yard line.

Then Redskins kicker Chip Lohmiller made a 20-yard field goal after linebacker Kurt Gouveia intercepted a pass and returned it 38 yards to the Detroit 10-yard line.

After being admitted to hospital on 24 August 2004 for bacteria-induced respiratory and circulatory problems, Gouveia died from multiple organ failure.

However that might be, strong opposition by Portuguese in Kongo, led by Álvaro's confessor, Francisco Barbuda, prevented most of Gouveia Sottomaior's instructions from being carried out.

Antonio de Gouveia from Portugal wrote about cuneiform inscriptions following his visit in 1602.

The monarch awarded many scholarships to universities abroad, mainly in the University of Paris, having sent fifty Portuguese students to the Collège Sainte-Barbe headed by Diogo de Gouveia.

In 1542 John III created in Coimbra a College of Arts ( Liberal arts ) for which he quickly recalled the many prominent Portuguese and European teachers headed by André de Gouveia at the College of Guienne in Bordeaux.

He had been enthusiastically endorsed by Diogo de Gouveia, who had been his teacher at the Collège Sainte-Barbe and advised the king to draw the youngsters of the newly-formed Society of Jesus.

* March-António de Gouveia, legal writer ( born c. 1505 )

His maternal side also had origin in Gouveia and Santarém, where his mother Dona Isabel Gouveia had received lands as a bequest from her brother João de Gouveia, the husband of Leonor Gonçalves, who owned vast estates in the capital of Ribatejo.

Fialho Gouveia, a noted Portuguese television presenter, attended the Romance Philology course at the Faculdade de Letras but dropped out in order to follow a successful career in radio and television.

Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra-a view from the André de Gouveia street.

The mountain range, situated between the municipalities of Seia, Manteigas, Gouveia, Guarda and Covilhã, is about long and is at its widest point.

It runs 234 km from the Gouveia municipality ( at 1425 meters ) in Serra da Estrela, to its mouth into the Atlantic Ocean next to the city of Figueira da Foz.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

Running across the deck, which was empty now that the livestock had been killed and eaten, they sniffed the spice-laden breezes that came from the shore, each pointing out new and exciting wonders to the other.

Two of our men were killed, a third was wounded.

As the cloth dried, more of the mixture was applied, and after twenty-four hours the felon was supposed to be `` killed ''.

There is no accounting of his movements in this long gap of time which covers the early hours when Mrs. Borden was killed.

He found them near the carcass of a zebra that had been killed the night before, and he circled once, nose to the ground, hair shooting up along his back, as it did when he was after lion or bear, and then he lifted his head and bayed, and the pack joined in, all heads high, and Jones knew it was a hot trail.

( In the graveyard at Nairobi he had been shown the graves of thirty-four big game hunters killed hunting the animals he was attempting to lasso.

`` The Bartlett girl was killed by Mr. Dronk's son.

When Alec finished reading he was sure that either Forbes or Stacy had killed Diana Beauclerk.

There was still a little, not much, left in the first bottle and we passed it around once and killed it, and Charlie opened his.

That way we'll never know which of us really killed him and which was just the accomplice.

Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.

Mrs. Hengesbach was killed on Aug. 31, 1958.

A young man was killed and two others injured at midnight Friday when the car they were riding slid into a utility pole on Lake Avenue near Waddell Street, NE, police said.

Another man tried to swim across the river from the East to the West, but was shot and killed.

If 500 Japanese were ordered to hold a position, we had to kill 495 before it was ours -- and then the last five killed themselves ''.

Race-drivers, on the other hand, are quite often killed on the circuit, and since it was obviously Mr. Remarque's intention to establish automobile racing as life in microcosm, one might reasonably have expected him to demonstrate precise knowledge not only of techniques but of mores and attitudes.

I had killed snakes before, when I was younger, but there had been no animal like this one, and I knew it was unthinkable that an animal such as that should die.

`` Suppose it was not us that killed these aliens.

Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.

* in Labadea, east of Delphi, Trophonius, another son of Apollo, killed his brother and fled to the cave where he was also afterwards consulted as an oracle

Apollo killed Python but had to be punished for it, since Python was a child of Gaia.