RE: 📷Curiosities about the Azores Archipelago

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📷Curiosities about the Azores Archipelago

in hive-184714 •  7 days ago 

This is a beautiful post about the origin of the name of the Azores. I know that all the islands of the archipelago should be of volcanic origin. I was told that the name probably came from the Portuguese term for goshawk (açor), a bird of prey similar to a falcon.

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Everything indicates that they mistook the birds... Nowadays, we have many "falcons"... The goshawk does not exist around here! Cheers :)