Vitória Sport Clube, commonly known as Vitória de Guimarães, is a Portuguese professional football club based in Guimarães that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top-flight of football in Portugal. Vitória de Guimarães have finished third in the Primeira Liga on four occasions, most recently in 2007–08.
Maria Elisa Guimarães Zanini is a former international freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who participated in a Summer Olympics for her native country.At 15 years old, she participated at the inaugural World Aquatics Championships in 1973 Belgrade, where she finished 10th in the 400-metre freestyle, 12th in the 800-metre freestyle, and 15th in the 200-metre freestyle.She was at the 1975 World Aquatics Championships in Cali. In the 800-metre freestyle, she finished 17th, with a time of 9:34.48, far from her personal best at this moment, the South American record (9:15.77).
Joseph Guimarães is a Brazilian Paralympic footballer that won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece.
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.
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.
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.
Guimarães ) is a city and municipality located in northern Portugal, in the district of Braga. Its historic town centre is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001, in recognition for being an "exceptionally well-preserved and authentic example of the evolution of a medieval settlement into a modern town" in Europe.
João Guimarães Rosa was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer and diplomat.Rosa published four books of short stories in his lifetime, all of them revolving around the life in the sertão, but addressing themes of universal literature and of existential nature. Rosa only wrote one novel, Grande Sertão: Veredas (known in English as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands), a revolutionary text for its blend of archaic and colloquial prose and frequent use of neologisms, taking inspiration from the spoken language of the Brazilian backlands.
The Castle of Guimarães , is the principal medieval castle in the municipality Guimarães, in the northern region of Portugal. It was built under the orders of Mumadona Dias in the 10th century to defend the monastery from attacks by Moors and Norsemen.The castle is a military fortification grounded primarily in the late Romanesque period, and elaborated during the early Gothic epoch of Portuguese architecture.
José Guimarães may refer to:
Guimarães is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil. It was founded as New Guimarães in 1758.
Linha de Guimarães is a railway in Portugal operated by Comboios de Portugal. It runs between Oporto and Guimarães; until 1986 it extended eastwards to Fafe.
Guimarães RUFC is a rugby team based in Guimarães, Portugal. As of the 2012/13 season, they play in the Second Division of the Campeonato Nacional de Rugby .