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This is a list of population by city, which means that it refers to the number of inhabitants in the city proper, excluding inhabitants from the same municipality but living outside the urban area of the city in other civil parishes of the municipality. In some cases (e.g. Lisbon), the entire municipality and the city proper cover the same ...
There are also records of there being Black slaves in Lisbon in the Middle Ages. [7] By the mid-16th century, there were approximately 10,000 Africans in Lisbon, around 10% of the city's population. [8] By the end of the 16th century, the predominantly African neighborhood of Mocambo was established in the modern neighborhood of Madragoa . [9]
Lisbon (/ ˈ l ɪ z b ən / ⓘ LIZ-bən; Portuguese: Lisboa [liʒˈβoɐ] ⓘ) [2] is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits [3] and 2,961,177 within the metropolis. [4]
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 ...
The Brazilian census enumerated people by race in all censuses since 1872 with the exception of 1900, 1920, and 1970. [197] The Brazilian census classifies people by race as either white, black, pardo (brown), yellow (Asian), or indigenous.
The Ciganos were the object of fierce discrimination and persecution. [6] The number of Ciganos in Portugal is about 40,000 to 50,000 spread all over the country. [7] The majority of the Ciganos concentrate themselves in urban centers, where from the late 1990s to the 2000s, major public housing (bairros sociais) policies were targeted at them in order to promote social integration.
Total population Portugal: c. 10.6 million [1] Regions with significant populations Brazil c. 5,000,000 (includes Portuguese nationals and their descendants down to the third generation; excludes more distant ancestry) [2]
Pages in category "People from Lisbon" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 246 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.