The commercial and political importance of Mozambique was eclipsed by Lourenço Marques.

* Maputo ( Lourenço Marques )

Missions in Maputo ( then Lourenço Marques ) and Lisbon were closed in 1975 following the Carnation Revolution in Portugal.

At the time of unification the bulk of cargo destined for the Witwatersrand area entered through Lourenço Marques ( now Maputo in Mozambique ) owing largely to the relative distance and the ZARs policy of reducing its dependence on the British Empire.

Lourenço Marques explored the area that is now Maputo Bay in 1544.

View of Lourenço Marques, ca.

Each district, except Lourenço Marques which was run by the governor-general, was overseen by a governor.

In 1900, the part of modern Mozambique northwest of the Zambezi and Shire Rivers was called Moçambique ; the rest of it was Lourenço Marques.

Various districts existed, and even issued stamps, during the first part of the century, including Inhambane, Lourenço Marques, Mozambique Colony, Mozambique Company, Nyassa Company, Quelimane, Tete, and Zambésia.

Sul do Save district divided into Gaza, Inhambane, and Lourenço Marques.

The districts with its respective capitals were: Lourenço Marques-Lourenço Marques ; Gaza-João Belo ; Inhambane-Inhambane ; Beira-Beira ; Vila Pery-Vila Pery ; Tete-Tete ; Zambézia-Quelimane ; Moçambique-Nampula ; Cabo Delgado-Porto Amélia ; Niassa-Vila Cabral.

The capital of Portuguese Mozambique, Lourenço Marques ( Maputo ), had a population of 355, 000 in 1970 with around 100, 000 Europeans.

In major urban areas, most notoriously the cosmopolitan provincial ports of Lourenço Marques and Beira, racial integration and socioeconomic opportunities for all kind of skilled citizens were already very deep.

The largest coastal cities, the first founded or settled by Portuguese people since the 16th century, like the capital Lourenço Marques, Beira, Quelimane, Nampula and Inhambane were modern cosmopolitan ports and a melting pot of several cultures, with a strong South African influence.

As the 1960s and 1970s approached, Lourenço Marques was yet again at the center of a new wave of architectural influences made most popular by Pancho Guedes.

Cities, towns and villages were founded all over East African territories by the Portuguese, especially since the 19th century, like Lourenço Marques, Beira, Vila Pery, Vila Junqueiro, Vila Cabral and Porto Amélia.

Lately the Lourenço Marques Oil Refinery was established by the Sociedade Nacional de Refinação de Petróleo ( SONAREP )-a Franco-Portuguese syndicate.

In 1962, the first Mozambican university was founded by the Portuguese authorities in the provincial capital, Lourenço Marques, the Universidade de Lourenço Marques, awarding a wide range of degrees from engineering to medicine, during a time that in the European Portuguese mainland only four public universities were in operation.

Several sports clubs were founded across the entire territory, among them were some of the largest and oldest sports organizations of Mozambique like Sporting Clube de Lourenço Marques established in 1920.

Other major sports clubs were founded in the following years like Grupo Desportivo de Lourenço Marques ( 1921 ), Clube Ferroviário de Lourenço Marques ( 1924 ), Sport Club de Vila Pery ( 1928 ), Clube Ferroviário da Beira ( 1943 ), Grupo Desportivo da Companhia Têxtil do Punguè ( 1943 ), and Sport Lourenço Marques e Benfica ( 1955 ).

To maintain their communications with diplomatic and trade contacts in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, the Boers had to sent messengers through Swaziland.

Having spent two years as a Regimental Intelligence Officer in England, by 1942 he was in MI6, and had been posted to Lourenço Marques as a bogus vice-consul ( called a Special Correspondent by London Controlling Section ).

FRELIMO supporters retaliated with bloody riots in the black shantytowns surrounding the city and, during several days, thousands of people, mostly Portuguese, were barbarously slaughtered, along with blacks who had allegedly remained loyal to their employers. The second episode of violence happened a few weeks later, on 21 October 1974, when a quarrel between Portuguese commandos and FRELIMO guerrillas in downtown Lourenço Marques gave rise to another wave of bloody riots in the black shantytown areas, with the murder of dozens of whites.

In 2001 census the city of Portalegre had 15, 768 inhabitants in its 2 parishes ( Sé and São Lourenço ).

During the 1970s the airline had international flights to Johannesburg and Durban in South Africa, Beira, Vilanculos and Lourenço Marques in Mozambique, and Blantyre in Malawi.

In 1823 Captain ( afterwards Vice-Admiral ) W. F. W. Owen, of the Royal Navy, finding that the Portuguese exercised no jurisdiction south of the settlement of Lourenço Marques, concluded treaties of cession with native chiefs, hoisted the British flag, and appropriated the country from the English river southwards ; but when he visited the bay again in 1824 he found that the Portuguese, disregarding the British treaties, had concluded others with the natives, and had endeavoured ( unsuccessfully ) to take military possession of the country.

Nellmapius had previously established a transport business between Lourenço Marques and Pilgrim's Rest, as well as several industrial concerns ( a gin and whisky factory, South Africa's first gun powder factory, and the Irene lime works ).

However this had little effect on the local economy as the traffic was primarily passing through to Lourenço Marques ( now Maputo ).

Formerly known as " Radio 5 ", the station developed from a commercial station, LM Radio, which had been operating from Lourenço Marques ( now Maputo ) in neighbouring Mozambique.

* Estate of São Lourenço (), the old property of Tomás de Porra Pereira, former Captain-Donatorio of Faial, and recently transferred to the islands's Serviços Agrários do Faial (), where for many years it has been used as the location of the island's fairs, expositions, folklore festivals and other activities.

Similarly, the wines of the São Lourenço foothills, as well as other wines and sweet liqueurs, have been commercialized.

But remnants of Roman era artifacts have been isolated in many parts of the municipality, including Aguim, Avelãs de Caminho, Avelãs de Cima, Mogofores, Moita, Óis do Bairro, São Lourenço do Bairro, Vila Nova de Monsarros, Vilarinho do Bairro and, especially, in Anadia ( Monte Crasto ) and Sangalhos.

Gestos e Fragmentos ( 1982 ), approaches the relation between the military forces and power in Portugal, based in the experiences of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, in the point of view of the philosopher and writer Eduardo Lourenço and the American director Robert Kramer.

Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685, Santos, São Paulo, colony of Brazil – November 18, 1724, Toledo, Spain ), was a priest and naturalist born in the then Portuguese colony of Brazil, noted for his early work on lighter-than-air airship design.

There, in the " Land Beyond ", Araribóia founded the Village of Saint Lawrence of the Indians ( in Portuguese, Vila de São Lourenço dos Índios ), the embryo for the future city of Niterói, a Tupi name that means " Hidden Waters ".

Born in Lourenço Marques in the then-Portuguese colony of Mozambique, Bowlly gained his musical experience singing for a dance band led by Edgar Adeler on a tour of South Africa, Rhodesia, India and Indonesia during the mid-1920s.

However, one month before independence, i. e., in mid-May 1975, Samora Machel crossed over into Mozambique from Tanzania, in the far North, and started a tour heading for the capital city of Lourenço Marques, in the far South, where he would arrive on the eve of Independence Day.

In his memoirs, Dr António de Almeida Santos, a renowned lawyer from Lourenço Marques who, after the fall of Caetano's regime, became Minister for the Coordination of Portuguese-Administered Territories and who was a close friend of Machel's, sustains that FRELIMO's President was strongly affected by two outbursts of violence involving the white population.

The Zamorin prepared a large fleet of 200 ships to oppose the Portuguese, but in March 1506 Lourenço de Almeida ( son of Francisco de Almeida ) was victorious in a sea battle at the entrance to the harbor of Cannanore, the Battle of Cannanore ( 1506 ), an important setback for the fleet of the Zamorin.

It encompassed two parcels, the Quinta de Baixo and Quinta do Meio, which the monarch purchased from João da Silva Telo, 3rd Count of Aveiros the space for 200, 000 cruzados, in addition to the contiguous farmlands of the Counts of São Lourenço with the objective of constructing a summer home.

The institution was set up as a center for higher education in 1962 in what was then Lourenço Marques, the capital of Portugal's overseas province of Mozambique.

Lourenço de Almeida, the Portuguese Admiral for India invaded Ceylon and made it a part of Portuguese colony.

São Lourenço ( Portuguese for Saint Lawrence ) may refer to:

* Lagar de Diogo Santos Faleiro-located in São Lourenço ( Santa Bárbara ); carved volcanic rocks used for squeezing grapes into wine.

* Teodósio Clemente de Gouveia ( 13 May 1889 ; São Jorge-6 February 1962 ; Lourenço Marques )-Roman Catholic Cardinal for Lourenço Marques, and first resident Cardinal in Africa.

de Bruin as secretary, embarks at Lourenço Marques ( now Maputo ) for Europe and the United States, seeking international intervention in the South African War and aid for the beleaguered Boer republics.

The Chapel of São Lourenço (), of a Manueline-style, was established at the end of the 16th century, as a small sacristy, and in 1550, it became the basis for the new parish, where it remained until the second quarter of the 18th century.

On 21 November 1745, Archbishop Lourenço de Santa Maria decreed that in order to qualify for priesthood, the knowledge of, and the ability to speak only in Portuguese, not only for the pretendentes, but also for all the close relations, men as well as women, confirmed by rigorous examinations by reverend persons was an essential prerequisite.

In 1514, the municipalities of Anadia, Avelãs de Cima, Vilarinho do Bairro, Carvalhais ( which included Ferreiros, Fontemanha and Vale de Avim ), São Lourenço do Bairro, Aguim, Sangalhos, Pereiro ( the parish of Avelãs de Cima ), Óis do Bairro, Mogofores, Avelãs de Caminho, Boialvo ( parish of Avelãs de Cima ) and Vila Nova de Monsarros ; in 1519 Paredes do Bairro was granted a writ and then in 1520 forals for Mogofores and Óis do Bairro were established.