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The history of Portugal from the dynastic crisis in 1578 to the end of the reign of the Marquis of Pombal in 1777 is a period of transition. The Portuguese Empire was near its height at the start of this 200 year period and continued to enj...
Here's several good sites with history of Portugal, Portugal and Spain, Portugal and Brazil, etc. The three best are in the links list below. Good luck, it's always good to know about the background of your cultural heritage. http://www....
Portugal Background Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the i...
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Any amount of research would show that 'b' is correct, since it was Henry the Navigator (or Prince Henry) that instituted a "navigator's center" or "commission place" to not only educate explorers but also sponsor them. ...
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His great four-volume history of Portugal (1846-53) is notable for its treatment of feudal institutions and of social conditions.
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The first telephone experiments in Portugal connected Carcavelos to the Central do Cabo in Lisbon, in 1877. In 1882, the Edison Gower Bell Telephone Company of Europe Limited was set up in Lisbon and Porto, to explore the respective telepho...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal_Telecom
Towards the close of the 11th century crusading knights came from every part of Europe to aid the kings of León, Castile and Aragon in combatting the Moors. Among these adventurers was Henry of Burgundy, who, in 1095, married Theresa of Leó...
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The history of Portuguese military aviation dates back to 1911, when a Balloon Company was founded as part of the Army Telegraphic Service and received a handful of aircraft. During World War I in the Western Front, while the Portuguese Arm...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Air_Force
During the 1940s and 1950s Portugal experienced economic growth due to increased raw material exports to the war-ravaged and recovering nations of Europe. Salazar managed to discipline the Portuguese economy, after the chaotic First Portugu...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estado_Novo_(Portugal)
The region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Neanderthals and then by Homo sapiens. Early in the first millennium BC, several waves of Celts invaded Portugal from central Europe and intermarried with the local populations, forming di...
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