Bretanha

A Bretanha was a former Portuguese civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada, on the island of São Miguel in the archipelago of the Azores.

==History== As early as the beginning of the 16th century, the region of Bretanha was already occupied by a few settlers. The first reference to Bretanha appeared only between 1515 and 1527, since the northwestern region of the island of São Miguel was known as Capelas. In 1515, the region was deannexed from the municipality of Vila Franca do Campo and integrated into the municipality of Ponta Delgada (which was created in 1499). There is little information that survives from this period (1515-1527), a point in the region's chronology occupied with early settlement.