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Team, Place & City Details

Villarreal CF

Villarreal Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. , usually abbreviated to Villarreal CF or just Villarreal, is a Spanish professional football club based in Villarreal that plays in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football. Founded in 1923, the club spent much of its history in the lower divisions of Spanish football, and only made their La Liga debut in 1998.

Vila Real Football Association

The Vila Real Football Association is the district governing body for all football competitions in the Portuguese district of Vila Real.

Vila Matautia

Vila Matautia is a Samoan former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. He was a Samoan international and played at the 1995 Rugby League World Cup.

Villarreal
Villarreal

Villarreal , officially called Vila-real), is a city in the province of Castellón which is part of the Valencian Community in the east of Spain. The city is located at 42 m above sea level, 7 km to the south of the province's capital (Castelló de la Plana), which it is separate from by the Millars River.

Vila Real District
Vila Real District

The District of Vila Real ) is a district of northern Portugal. With an area of 4,239 km², the district is located east of the port city of Porto and north of the Douro River.

Vila Real de Santo António
Vila Real de Santo António

Vila Real de Santo António ) is a city, civil parish, and municipality in the Algarve, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 19,156, in an area of 61.25 km².

Vila Real
Vila Real

Vila Real ) is the capital and largest city of the Vila Real District, northern Portugal. The population in 2011 was 51,850, in an area of 378.80 square kilometres (146.26 sq mi).Vila Real was ranked seventh in the list of Portugal's most livable cities in the survey of living conditions published by the Portuguese newspaper Expresso in 2007.

Vila Mariana (São Paulo Metro)
Vila Mariana (São Paulo Metro)

Vila Mariana is a station on Line 1 of the São Paulo Metro.

Vila Madalena (São Paulo Metro)
Vila Madalena (São Paulo Metro)

Vila Madalena is a station on Line 2 of the São Paulo Metro and is the current terminus.

Vila Madalena (TV series)

Vila Madalena is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast at the time of 19 hours by Rede Globo, November 8, 1999 to May 5, 2000 in 155 chapters .Written by Walther Negrão, with the collaboration of Thelma Guedes, Elizabeth Jhin, Júlio Fischer, Paulo Cursino, Vinícius Vianna and Ângela Carneiro. Directed by Jorge Fernando, Roberto Naar, Fabrício Mamberti and Marcus Alvisi, with core direction of Jorge Fernando.

Maria de Fonseca
Maria de Fonseca

Maria de Fonseca was the great wife of Msiri, the powerful warrior-king of Katanga, at the time when the Stairs Expedition arrived in 1891 to take possession of the territory for the Belgian King Leopold II, with or without Msiri's consent.Msiri typically cemented alliances with trading partners by marriage. Maria was the daughter of mixed Portuguese-African parents from Angola, and was also the sister of Coimbra, the first trader to supply him with gunpowder from the west coast, the key to Msiri's power.In 1891, Maria was about forty-five years old and Msiri, about sixty, and had been ruler of Katanga for thirty years.

Revolution of Maria da Fonte
Revolution of Maria da Fonte

The Revolution of Maria da Fonte, or Revolution of the Minho, is the name given to a popular revolt in the spring of 1846 against the Cartista government of Portugal . The revolt resulted from social tensions remaining from the Liberal Wars, exacerbated by great popular discontent generated by new military recruitment laws, fiscal alterations and the prohibition on burials inside churches.

Maria da Fonte anthem
Maria da Fonte anthem

The "Maria da Fonte anthem" , also known as the "Anthem of Minho" (Portuguese: Hino do Minho) is a Portuguese patriotic anthem, written in 1846 by Angelo Frondoni with lyrics by Paulo Midosi, following the popularly-called Revolution of Maria da Fonte.