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Lisbon , the capital of Portugal, overlooking the Tagus river
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Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula , in Southwestern Europe , and whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira . It features the westernmost point in continental Europe , its mainland west and south border with the North Atlantic Ocean and in the north and east, the Portugal-Spain border constitutes the longest uninterrupted border-line in the European Union . Its archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments . In the mainland, Alentejo region occupies the biggest area but is one of the regions in Europe with a lower population density. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population , being also the main spot for tourists alongside Porto and Algarve .
One of the oldest countries in Europe, its territory has been continuously settled and fought over since prehistoric times . The territory was inhabited by the Celtic and Iberian peoples, such as the Lusitanians , the Gallaecians , the Celtici , Turduli , and the Conii . These peoples had some commercial and cultural contact with Phoenicians , ancient Greeks and Carthaginians . It was later ruled by the Romans , followed by the invasions of Germanic peoples together with the Alans , and later the Moors , who were eventually expelled during the Reconquista . Founded first as a county within the Kingdom of León in 868, the country officially gained independence as the Kingdom of Portugal with the Treaty of Zamora in 1143.
During the 15th and 16th centuries Portugal led the Age of Discovery and established one of the longest-lived maritime and commercial empires , becoming one of the main economic and political powers of the time. By the early 19th century, events such as the 1755 Lisbon earthquake , the country's occupation during the Napoleonic Wars , and the resulting independence of Brazil in 1822 led to a marked decay of Portugal's prior opulence . This was followed by the civil war between liberal constitutionalists and conservative absolutists over royal succession from 1828 to 1834. The 1910 revolution deposed Portugal's monarchy, and established the democratic but unstable Portuguese First Republic , later superseded by the authoritarian regimes of Ditadura Nacional (National Dictatorship) and Estado Novo (New State). Democracy was restored after the Carnation Revolution (1974), ending the Portuguese Colonial War and eventually losing its remaining colonial possessions. (Full article... )
Front page of the Portuguese-owned treaty. This page is written in Spanish.
The Treaty of Tordesillas , signed in Tordesillas , Spain, on 7 June 1494, and ratified in Setúbal , Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and the Crown of Castile , along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. That line of demarcation was about halfway between Cape Verde (already Portuguese) and the islands visited by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage (claimed for Castile and León), named in the treaty as Cipangu and Antillia (Cuba and Hispaniola ).
The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the west to Castile, modifying an earlier
bull by
Pope Alexander VI . The treaty was signed by Spain on
2 July 1494 , and by Portugal on
5 September 1494 . The other side of the world was divided a few decades later by the
Treaty of Zaragoza , signed on
22 April 1529 , which specified the
antimeridian to the line of demarcation specified in the Treaty of Tordesillas. Portugal and Spain largely respected the treaties, while the indigenous peoples of the Americas did not acknowledge them. (
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Pedro Álvares Cabral (European Portuguese: [ˈpeðɾu ˈalvɐɾɨʃ kɐˈβɾal] ; born Pedro Álvares de Gouveia ; c. 1467 or 1468 – c. 1520 ) was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil . He was the first recorded human in history to ever be on four continents, uniting all of them in his famous voyage of 1500, where he also conducted the first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America and claimed it for Portugal. While details of Cabral's early life remain unclear, it is known that he came from a minor noble family and received a good education. He was appointed to head an expedition to India in 1500, following Vasco da Gama 's newly opened route around Africa. The undertaking had the aim of returning with valuable spices and of establishing trade relations in India—bypassing the monopoly on the spice trade then in the hands of Arab, Turkish and Italian merchants. Although the previous expedition of Vasco da Gama to India, on its sea route, had recorded signs of land west of the southern Atlantic Ocean (in 1497), Cabral led the first known expedition to have touched four continents: Europe, Africa, America , and Asia.
His fleet of 13 ships sailed far into the western Atlantic Ocean, perhaps intentionally, and made landfall (April 1500) on what he initially assumed to be a large island. As the new land was within the Portuguese sphere according to the 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas , Cabral claimed it for the
Portuguese Crown . He explored the coast, realizing that the large land mass was probably a continent, and dispatched a ship to notify King
Manuel I of the new territory. The continent was South America, and the land he had claimed for Portugal later came to be known as Brazil. The fleet reprovisioned and then turned eastward to resume the journey to India. (
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The following are images from various Portugal-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 The frontispiece of the 1826 Portuguese Constitution featuring King-Emperor
Pedro IV and his daughter Queen
Maria II (from
History of Portugal )
Image 2 A bride and her groom in the carnival of Lazarim, Portugal (from
Culture of Portugal )
Image 3 The main language areas in Iberia, circa 300 BC. (from
History of Portugal )
Image 5 Portuguese rejoice during the 1975 Carnation Revolution. (from
History of Portugal )
Image 8 Typical Portuguese filigree heart shaped pendant, an iconic item in Portuguese fashion and design. (from
Culture of Portugal )
Image 11 Mértola 's
former mosque was transformed into a church in 1238. (from
History of Portugal )
Image 12 Gil Vicente , 16th-century Portuguese
playwright (from
Culture of Portugal )
Image 13 Portuguese colonies in Africa by the time of the Colonial War. (from
History of Portugal )
Image 15 Portuguese discoveries and explorations: first arrival places and dates; main Portuguese
spice trade routes in the
Indian Ocean (blue); territories of the
Portuguese Empire under
King John III rule (1521–1557) (green). The
disputed discovery of Australia is not shown. (from
History of Portugal )
Image 16 Map of Spain and Portugal showing the conquest of Hispania from 220 B.C. to 19 B.C. and provincial borders. It is based on other maps; the territorial advances and provincial borders are illustrative. (from
History of Portugal )
Image 17 The neighborhood of
Parque das Nações , in Lisbon, where was held the
1998 World Exposition , is a symbol of the economic modernization and development of Portugal in the late 20th century. (from
History of Portugal )
Image 18 Vasco da Gama landing in
Kerala, India (from
History of Portugal )
Image 19 Areas of the Roman province of Hispania occupied by the barbarian people c. 409-429 (from
History of Portugal )
Image 21 Carnival parade in
Loulé ,
Algarve region. (from
Culture of Portugal )
Image 22 Aroeira 3 skull of 400,000 year old
Homo heidelbergensis .
The oldest trace of human history in Portugal. (from
History of Portugal )
Image 23 Rooster of Barcelos , the iconic Portuguese souvenir (from
Culture of Portugal )
Image 24 John IV of Portugal (from
History of Portugal )
Image 25 Most of Portugal and Spain as
Caliphate of Córdoba circa 929 to 1031. (from
History of Portugal )
Image 26 Megalithic spirals,
cromlech near
Évora (from
History of Portugal )
Image 27 The Roman Provinces
Lusitania and
Gallaecia , after the reorganization of
Diocletian AD 298 (from
History of Portugal )
Image 28 "Levantamento do mastro" in Fonte Arcada, Portugal (from
Culture of Portugal )
Image 29 Flute player of Podence (from
Culture of Portugal )
Image 30 "
Festa da Coca " during the
Corpus Christi celebration, in
Monção , Portugal (from
Culture of Portugal )
Image 31 Iberian Peninsula
c. 560.
Suebi territory with its capital in
Braga (blue);
Visigothic territory with its capital in
Toledo (green) (from
History of Portugal )
Image 32 Monument of Pelagius at Covadonga where he won the
Battle of Covadonga and initiated the Christian
Reconquista of
Iberia from the Islamic
Moors . (from
History of Portugal )
Image 33 Natural cork bags. (from
Culture of Portugal )
Image 34 This 1755 copper engraving shows the ruins of
Lisbon in flames and a
tsunami overwhelming the ships in the harbor. (from
History of Portugal )
Image 36 Gomes da Costa and his troops march victorious into Lisbon on 6 June 1926. (from
History of Portugal )
Image 37 Visigothic kingdom in Iberia from 625 to 711 (from
History of Portugal )
Image 39 Monarchist counter-revolutionary soldiers holding the
flag of the monarchy after the capture of
Porto in 1919. (from
History of Portugal )
Image 40 Dolmen of Cerqueira,
Sever do Vouga (from
History of Portugal )
Image 41 Caliphate disintegrated into small
Taifas kingdoms in 1031. (from
History of Portugal )
Image 43 Example of Castræ round houses,
Citânia de Briteiros (from
History of Portugal )
Image 44 Caretos in the carnival of Podence, Portugal (from
Culture of Portugal )
Image 45 Map of Brazil issued by
Portuguese explorers in 1519 (from
History of Portugal )
Image 47 Maios celebration in Madeira island
[1] (from
Culture of Portugal )
Image 48 The arrival of the Portuguese in Japan, the first Europeans to reach it, initiating the
Nanban ("southern barbarian") period of active commercial and cultural exchange between Japan and the West. (from
History of Portugal )
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Anémona de mar común (Anemonia viridis), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-21, DD 07
Anémona incrustante amarilla (Parazoanthus axinellae), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2022-07-20, DD 49
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Erizo de mar violáceo (Sphaerechinus granularis), Madeira, Portugal, 2019-05-31, DD 40
Espirógrafo (Bispira volutacornis), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-23, DD 43
Espirógrafo (Sabella spallanzanii), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-23, DD 70
Estrella roja del Mediterráneo (Echinaster sepositus), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-31, DD 79
Gusano de fuego (Hermodice carunculata), Madeira, Portugal, 2019-05-31, DD 45
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Iglesia de San Ildefonso, Oporto, Portugal, 2012-05-09, DD 01
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Maria I, Queen of Portugal - Giuseppe Troni, atribuído (Turim, 1739-Lisboa, 1810) - Google Cultural Institute
Maria Isabel of Portugal in front of the Prado in 1829 by Bernardo López y piquer
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Pez ballesta (Balistes capriscus), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-23, DD 24
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Puente Don Luis I, Oporto, Portugal, 2012-05-09, DD 13
Salmonete de fango (Mullus barbatus), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-21, DD 59
Sepia común (Sepia officinalis), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-21, DD 62
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Erizo de mar violáceo (Sphaerechinus granularis), Madeira, Portugal, 2019-05-31, DD 40
Estrella roja del Mediterráneo (Echinaster sepositus), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-31, DD 79
Gusano de fuego (Hermodice carunculata), Madeira, Portugal, 2019-05-31, DD 45
Iberian Peninsula antique map
Iglesia de San Ildefonso, Oporto, Portugal, 2012-05-09, DD 01
Lagoa do Capitão com montanha do pico
Lang's short tail blue (Leptotes pirithous) male underside
LuzLissabon
Maria I, Queen of Portugal - Giuseppe Troni, atribuído (Turim, 1739-Lisboa, 1810) - Google Cultural Institute
Maria Isabel of Portugal in front of the Prado in 1829 by Bernardo López y piquer
POR-4-Imperial Treasury-2400 Reis (1798-99)
Pez ballesta (Balistes capriscus), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-23, DD 24
Porto Covo pano April 2009-4
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Portugal 1729 8 Escudos
Puente Don Luis I, Oporto, Portugal, 2012-05-09, DD 13
Salmonete de fango (Mullus barbatus), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-21, DD 59
Sepia común (Sepia officinalis), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020-07-21, DD 62
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