Team, Place & City Details

Amarante F.C.

Amarante Futebol Clube is a Portuguese football club based in Amarante in the district of Porto.

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.

Amarante

Amarante may refer to:

Amarante, Portugal
Amarante, Portugal

Amarante ]) is a municipality and municipal seat in the northern Portuguese district of Porto. The population in 2011 was 56,264, in an area of 301.33 square kilometres (116.34 sq mi).

Amarante Municipality

Amarante Municipality may refer to:

Amarante do Maranhão

Amarante do Maranhão is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil.

Amarante, Piauí

Amarante, Piauí is a municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil.

Order of Amarante
Order of Amarante

The Order of Amarante, or Amarante Order , was a fraternal order of Swedish knights, founded in 1653 by Christina, Queen of Sweden at Epiphany. The Order was established in honor and memory of her meetings with the Spanish ambassador Don Antonio Pimentel, who originated from Amarante, Portugal.

Amarante massacre

The Amarante massacre took place on April 16, 1997 at the Meia Culpa bar in Amarante, Portugal. Three armed men wearing hoods forced the clients and staff against the wall and doused the place with gasoline, which they then ignited.

Amaranth
Amaranth

Amaranthus, collectively known as amaranth, is a cosmopolitan genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants. Some amaranth species are cultivated as leaf vegetables, pseudocereals, and ornamental plants.

Amaranthaceae
Amaranthaceae

Amaranthaceae is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the amaranth family, in reference to its type genus Amaranthus. It includes the former goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae and contains about 165 genera and 2,040 species, making it the most species-rich lineage within its parent order, Caryophyllales.