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The airport is not listed as João Paulo II anywhere.
The airport's own website calls itself simply Ponta Delgada, and has no mention of João Paulo.
Template:Regions of Portugal: statistical (NUTS3) subregions and intercommunal entities are confused; they are not the same in all regions, and should be sublisted separately in each region: intermunicipal entities are sometimes larger and split by subregions (e.g. the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon has two subregions), some intercommunal entities are containing only parts of subregions. All subregions should be listed explicitly and not assume they are only intermunicipal entities (which accessorily are not statistic subdivisions but real administrative entities, so they should be listed below, probably using a smaller font: we can safely eliminate the subgrouping by type of intermunicipal entity from this box).
I say Trebopala is "probably a goddess" because the name ends in -a. In the Centum branch of Indo-European languages, notably the Celtic and Italic branches to which Lusitanian seems most likely to be akin, a-stems tend to be feminine. While Lusitanian seems to lose final -s (OILA for expected *oilas in Ribeira da Venda) obscuring the distinction between feminine and masculine -a stems, a feminine - and therefore a goddess - is still more likely. Lest I be accused of original research, Witczak agrees, seeing a parallel with the Indian Vispala. Paul S (talk) 23:11, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
