It forms part of an island group with the Ilhas Desertas, the Ilhas Selvagensas and Porto Santo.  
It forms part of an island group with the Ilhas Desertas, the Ilhas Selvagensas and Porto Santo.  The Romans knew about it but it had to be rediscovered by Zarco and Texeira in the 15th century.  The British briefly occupied it in the 19th century and used its main port of Funchal, and the Spanish ran it from 1580 to 1640, but otherwise since Henry the Navigator's time the Portuguese have controlled, FTP, what island near Morocco that is best known for a very nice kind of wine.
It forms part of an island group with the Ilhas Desertas, the Ilhas Selvagensas and Porto Santo.  
Madeira