Pedro de Merelim

Pedro de Merelim was a pseudonym of the Portuguese-born historian and ethnographer Joaquim Gomes da Cunha (São Pedro de Merelim, Portugal, 1913 - Angra do Heroísmo, Azores Islands, 2002).

He was born in the parish of São Pedro de Merelim, Braga, he moved to the Azores and signed to the Corpo Expedicionário (Expeditionary Body) in which it was headed for the archipelago during the Second World War. He was settled in Angra do Heroísmo and was later involved in important investigator work of history and locla tradition, he publicated several volumes on these themes.

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