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City of Nedlands
The City of Nedlands is a local government area in the inner western suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, about 7 kilometres (4 mi) west of Perth's central business district. The City covers an area of 20.0 square kilometres (7.7 sq mi), maintains 137 km of roads and a little over 380 hectares of parks and gardens, and has a population of over 21,000 as of 2016.
City of Nedlands History
The City of Nedlands had its origins in the Claremont Road District, which was created in 1893 after a petition from ratepayers who lived in the areas of Nedlands and Claremont, which had grown substantially in population at the end of the 19th century. Seven men were nominated to the new Board, which became the first local government authority for the Nedlands/Claremont area. In 1898, Claremont itself split away to form a municipal government, which still exists today as the Town of Claremont.
In 1932, the Claremont Road Board was renamed Nedlands, and on 1 July 1959, it became a city. The City was made up of four wards – Melvista, Hollywood, Dalkeith and Coastal. These wards continue to the present day.
"On 1 July, 1959 the City of Nedlands was proclaimed at the command of Governor Sir Charles Gairdner, in the packed Dalkeith Civic Hall. Mr Allan Jenkins read out the proclamation and the Minister for Local Government, Mr Leslie Logan, M.L.C. conducted the official swearing in ceremony of the new Mayor, John Charles Smith, the twelve new Councillors and the auditors. He then appointed Mr Allan Jenkins as the City's first Town Clerk. Among those present was MLA for Nedlands, Deputy Premier Charles Court." - From the City of Nedlands Council Website https://www.nedlands.wa.gov.au/history. City of Nedlands community Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/nedlands/.
City of Nedlands Suburbs
Dalkeith, Floreat, Karrakatta, Mount Claremont, Nedlands, Shenton Park, SwanbourneAbout the Portuguese Language
Portuguese is a West Romance language and the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé and Príncipe. It also has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau in China.
As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese and Portuguese creole speakers are also found in Goa, Daman and Diu in India; in Batticaloa on the east coast of Sri Lanka; in the Indonesian island of Flores; in the Malacca state of Malaysia; and the ABC islands in the Caribbean.
Portuguese evolved from the medieval language, known today by linguists as Galician-Portuguese, Old Portuguese or Old Galician, of the northwestern medieval Kingdom of Galicia and County of Portugal. It is in Latin administrative documents of the 9th century that written Galician-Portuguese words and phrases are first recorded. This phase is known as Proto-Portuguese, which lasted from the 9th century until the 12th-century independence of the County of Portugal from the Kingdom of León, which had by then assumed reign over Galicia.
In the first part of the Galician-Portuguese period (from the 12th to the 14th century), the language was increasingly used for documents and other written forms. For some time, it was the language of preference for lyric poetry in Christian Hispania, much as Occitan was the language of the poetry of the troubadours in France. The Occitan digraphs lh and nh, used in its classical orthography, were adopted by the orthography of Portuguese, presumably by Gerald of Braga, a monk from Moissac, who became bishop of Braga in Portugal in 1047, playing a major role in modernizing written Portuguese using classical Occitan norms. Portugal became an independent kingdom in 1139, under King Afonso I of Portugal. In 1290, King Denis of Portugal created the first Portuguese university in Lisbon (the Estudos Gerais, which later moved to Coimbra) and decreed for Portuguese, then simply called the "common language", to be known as the Portuguese language and used officially.
In the second period of Old Portuguese, in the 15th and 16th centuries, with the Portuguese discoveries, the language was taken to many regions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. By the mid-16th century, Portuguese had become a lingua franca in Asia and Africa, used not only for colonial administration and trade but also for communication between local officials and Europeans of all nationalities.
Its spread was helped by mixed marriages between Portuguese and local people and by its association with Roman Catholic missionary efforts, which led to the formation of creole languages such as that called Kristang in many parts of Asia (from the word cristão, "Christian"). The language continued to be popular in parts of Asia until the 19th century. Some Portuguese-speaking Christian communities in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Indonesia preserved their language even after they were isolated from Portugal.
City of Nedlands Portuguese Translator Services
Portuguese translator for certified translation services:
- Portuguese driving license translation
- Portuguese financial translation and bank statement translations
- Portuguese birth certificate translation
- Portuguese marriage certificate translation
- Portuguese name-change certificate translation
- Portuguese degree translation
- Portuguese diploma translation
- Portuguese school transcript translation
- Portuguese passport translation
- Portuguese police report translation
- Portuguese police check translation
- Portuguese personal letters and cards
- Portuguese utility bill translations
- Portuguese death certificate translation
Perth Translation provides fast and affordable Portuguese translation services in the City of Nedlands for all types of personal documents by NAATI translators.
Portuguese Document Translation
Portuguese documents vary significantly between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese in vocabulary, spelling, and document conventions. The 2009 Orthographic Agreement standardised some spelling differences, but many documents predate its adoption. Documents from Lusophone African nations (Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome) follow European Portuguese conventions but with locally specific administrative terminology.
Portuguese Document Types
Key Portuguese civil documents include certidao de nascimento (birth certificate), certidao de casamento (marriage certificate), and diploma (degree certificate).
Where Portuguese Is Official
Portuguese is the official language of Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, East Timor, Cape Verde, and Sao Tome and Principe. It is an official EU language. Each country maintains distinct document formats, and differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese standards can be substantial in administrative contexts.
Portuguese uses the Latin alphabet with diacritical marks including acute and circumflex accents, the tilde on a and o, and the cedilla on c. The 2009 spelling reform eliminated some diacritics in European Portuguese, so documents from different periods may spell words differently.
About City of Nedlands
The City of Nedlands covers approximately 20 square kilometres on the northern bank of the Swan River, west of Perth CBD. With a population of around 23,000, it is one of Perth's most established and affluent residential areas, shaped significantly by the presence of the University of Western Australia and several major hospital campuses.
The LGA includes Nedlands, Dalkeith, Mount Claremont, Karrakatta, Shenton Park, and Floreat Park, with Hampden Road and Broadway serving as the main local commercial strips.
Council offices are on Stirling Highway in Nedlands, with the Nedlands Library located nearby. The area houses several state-level institutions including QEII Medical Centre, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, and Hollywood Private Hospital.
Stirling Highway is the primary east-west corridor connecting to both Perth CBD and Fremantle. The Loch Street and Shenton Park stations are on the Fremantle line, and multiple bus routes operate along Stirling Highway and through the UWA campus.
