Rosais
Sign in to saveRosais (literally, archaic Portuguese for "rosaries") is a civil parish in the municipality of Velas in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 743, in an area of 24.23 km².
Key facts
- Portuguese subdivision.type
- parish
- Portuguese subdivision.name
- Rosais
- Portuguese subdivision.image_skyline
- Rosais na distância, Velas, ilha de São Jorge, Açores.JPG
- Portuguese subdivision.image_caption
- Interior vista towards the northwestern coast and plateau of Rosais
- Portuguese subdivision.image_shield
- VLS-rosais.png
- Portuguese subdivision.region
- Azores
- Portuguese subdivision.island
- São Jorge
- Portuguese subdivision.municipality
- Velas
- Portuguese subdivision.established_date
- Settlement: c. 1568
- Portuguese subdivision.area_total_km2
- 24.23
- Portuguese subdivision.elevation_m
- 244
- Portuguese subdivision.population_as_of
- 2011
- Portuguese subdivision.population_total
- 743
- Portuguese subdivision.postal_code
- 9800-209
- Portuguese subdivision.area_code
- 292
- Portuguese subdivision.patron
- Nossa Senhora do Rosário
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- freguesia of Portugal
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Velas
- Area
- 24.44
- Image
- Rosais na distância, Velas, ilha de São Jorge, Açores.JPG
- Dialing code
- 292
- Patron saint
- Mary
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- Commons category
- Rosais (Velas)
- postal code
- 9800-209
- P8168
- Kilij Arslan
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
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Rosais (literally, archaic Portuguese for "rosaries") is a civil parish in the municipality of Velas in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 743, in an area of 24.23 km².
==History== Although Rosais was first mentioned in written documents in 1568, it existed as a settlement before then. It was considered the "granary" or "breadbasket" of São Jorge, due to the area's fertility. To this day the area supports rich pastures.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rosais” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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