Geographicals

Azores

A group of nine islands and several islets belonging to Portugal in the north Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal. The islands are named after the acores, the Portuguese for goshawks, living there in abundance. (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p102 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p42)

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A group of nine islands and several islets belonging to Portugal in the north Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal. The islands are named after the acores, the Portuguese for goshawks, living there in abundance. (Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p102 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p42)

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Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.

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a group of 9 Atlantic islands off the coast of Portugal

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  1. Z01w.639w.040w.218w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Azores. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001394. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001394
  2. Azores. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azores
  3. Azores. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25263