Belem meaning

bə-lĕm, -lāɴ
A city of northern Brazil in the Amazon delta. It is the chief port and commercial center of the vast Amazon River basin.
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(place) Seaport in NE Brazil, in the Amazon delta, on the Pará River: capital of Pará state.
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State capital of Pará (Brazil).
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Belem Sentence Examples

  • His great-nephew, King Dom Manuel, had a statue of him placed over the centre column of the side gate of the church of Belem.

  • She died on the 31st of December 1705, bequeathing her great wealth, the result of long hoarding, after the payment of divers charitable legacies, to King Pedro; and was buried with great ceremony and splendour at Belem.

  • 4 The Brazilian official titles are given for the state capitals: Belem for Para; Sao Luiz for Maranhao; Sao Salvador for Bahia; and Recife for Pernambuco.

  • His remains lie in a majestic tomb in the Jeronymos at Belem, near Lisbon, which was raised by public subscription to the greatest modern historian of Portugal and of the Peninsula.

  • A counterrevolution, planned in the royal palace at Belem and hence known as the Belemzada, was frustrated in November 1836; and in 1837 a Chartist insurrection was crushed after severe fighting.

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