Editing Azores (section)

===Population===
[[File:Ilha de São Miguel DSC00659 (36586155410) (cropped) (cropped).jpg|thumb|Ponta Delgada, on São Miguel Island, is the largest city in the Azores.]]
[[File:Angra do heroismo garden view (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Angra do Heroísmo, on Terceira Island, is [[UNESCO World Heritage]].]]

According to the 2019 Census, population in the Azores was 242,796.<ref name=ine2021>[https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_indicadores&contecto=pi&indOcorrCod=0008273&selTab=tab0 "População residente".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105115121/https://www.ine.pt/xportal/xmain?xpid=INE&xpgid=ine_indicadores&contecto=pi&indOcorrCod=0008273&selTab=tab0 |date=5 November 2016 }} Instituto Nacional de Estadística. Retrieved 13 November 2020.</ref> The Azores were uninhabited when Portuguese navigators arrived in the early 15th century; settlement began in 1439 with migrants from mainland Portugal as well as Spaniards, [[Sephardic Jews]], [[Moors]], Italians, Flemings, and Africans from [[Guinea]], [[Cape Verde]] and [[São Tomé and Príncipe]].<ref name="HLA Class I and II profiles in São">{{cite journal |last1=Pacheco |first1=Paula R. |last2=Branco |first2=Claudia C. |last3=Gomes |first3=Cidália T. |last4=Cabral |first4=Rita |last5=Mota-Vieira |first5=Luisa |date=12 May 2010 |title=HLA Class I and II profiles in São Miguel Island (Azores): genetic diversity and linkage disequilibrium |journal=BMC Research Notes |volume=3 |issue=134 |pages=134 |doi=10.1186/1756-0500-3-134 |pmc=2883542 |pmid=20462405 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

The first Sephardic Jews in the Azores were slaves after their expulsion from Portugal by King [[Manuel I of Portugal|Manuel I]] in 1496. The islands sometimes served as a waypoint for ships carrying [[Atlantic slave trade|African slaves]].<ref name="Colonialism: An International, Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qFTHBoRvQbsC&pg=PA42 |title=Colonialism: An International, Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia |author1=Page, Melvin Eugene |author2=Penny M. Sonnenburg |name-list-style=amp |isbn=978-1-57607-335-3 |year=2003 |publisher=Abc-Clio |access-date=20 March 2018 |archive-date=25 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325033933/https://books.google.com/books?id=qFTHBoRvQbsC&pg=PA42 |url-status=live }}</ref>