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===European discovery===
[[File:Azores old map.jpg|thumb|left|235px|1584 map of the Azores.]]
The islands were known in the fourteenth century and parts of them appear in the [[Atlas Catalan]]. In 1427, a captain sailing for [[Henry the Navigator]], possibly [[Gonçalo Velho]], rediscovered the Azores, but this is not certain. In [[Thomas Ashe (writer)|Thomas Ashe]]'s 1813 work, ''A History of the Azores'',<ref name="History1813">{{cite book|first=Thomas|last=Ashe|title=History of the Azores, or. Western islands|year=1813|publisher=Oxford University}}</ref> the author identified a [[Flemish people|Fleming]], Joshua Vander Berg of [[Bruges]], who made landfall in the archipelago during a storm on his way to [[Lisbon]].<ref name="History1813"/> He stated that the Portuguese explored the area and claimed it for Portugal.<ref name="History1813"/> Other stories note the discovery of the first islands ([[São Miguel Island]], [[Santa Maria Island]] and [[Terceira Island]]) by sailors in the service of [[Henry the Navigator]], although there are few documents to support the claims.