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The government initially claimed not to have received a letter to this effect and rejected the request on 4 March. Germany then declared war on Portugal on 9 March. [2] This made Portugal Germany's eleventh opponent. [3] Decrees were issued in Portugal on 20 and 23 April 1916 which not only expelled resident Germans but also reversed ...
German Democratic Republic (commonly referred to at the time as East Germany) declared fully sovereign 5 May 1955: Federal Republic of Germany (commonly referred to at the time as West Germany) declared fully sovereign 15 May 1991: Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany ends the Four Power occupation. Greece: 11 June 1975
Relative to Western Europe, Portugal remained stagnant (and thus poor and underdeveloped) for most of the Estado Novo regime (particularly in the first 30 years), but the modernization of the economy and development of the country still started in the last years of the regime, with a period of strong growth from 1961 to 1973. However, the gap ...
Portugal, [e] officially the Portuguese Republic, [f] is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe.Featuring the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the ...
March 15: Austria-Hungary declared war on Portugal. June 9: Finance Minister Afonso Costa took part in an Allied Economic Conference in which the Allies decided that Germany must return the territories of Alsace-Lorraine to France (occupied since 1871) and Kionga in Mozambique to Portugal (occupied since 1894) as a condition for peace.
The First Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: Primeira República Portuguesa; officially: República Portuguesa, Portuguese Republic) spans a complex 16-year period in the history of Portugal, between the end of the period of constitutional monarchy marked by the 5 October 1910 revolution and the 28 May 1926 coup d'état.
See Germany–Portugal relations. Germany has an embassy in Lisbon. Portugal has an embassy in Berlin and has consulates-general in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Stuttgart. Both countries are full members of the European Union and NATO. Greece: 22 July 1835 [8] See Greece–Portugal relations. Greece has an embassy in Lisbon.
1919–1922 — The Treaty of Versailles divides Germany's African colonies into mandates of the victors (which largely become new colonies of the victors). Most of Cameroon becomes a French mandate with a small portion taken by the British and some territory incorporated into France's previously existing colonies; Togo is mostly taken by the British, though the French gain a slim portion ...