"Dom João" meaning in English

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          "text": "Perhaps it would have been simpler if, like Taipa and Coloane, the Portuguese had physically merged Macau with two other islands: Montanha and Dom João (Xiao Hengqin and Da Hengqin, in Cantonese, with Montanha known as Tai Vong Cam).[…]\nThe most curious thing: this small, economically more valuable part corresponds almost entirely to the landfill that in the 90’s linked the two islands, which means that the original land of Montanha and Dom João was mostly hilly and unsuitable for real estate development (as the images in these pages show).[…]\nFor a short time, two years later, the Japanese expelled the Portuguese, and at the end of World War II, Montanha and Dom João passed definitively to the Chinese side (in 1938, a Portuguese-language newspaper published in Macau tells us that General Chiang-Kai Chek proposed a landfill connect the two islands . . .).",
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