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The Portuguese people (Portuguese: Portugueses – masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country that occupies the west side of the Iberian Peninsula in south-west Europe, who share culture, ancestry and language.
A similar 2009 study of Y-chromosome with 659 samples from Southern Portugal, 680 from Northern Spain, 37 samples from Andalusia, 915 samples from mainland Italy, and 93 samples from Sicily found significantly higher levels of North African male ancestry in Portugal, Spain and Sicily (7.1%, 7.7% and 7.5% respectively) than in peninsular Italy ...
Barragán, or Barragan in English-speaking countries, is a Spanish surname of Galician origins, from where they went to Extremadura, Spain, and even into Alentejo and Estremadura, in Portugal, where the surname was changed into Barragano, Barregano, Barregão, Barregoso, Barregosa (feminine), Varregoso, Varregosa (feminine).
Portugal is also home to about 17,000 Buddhists, [75] mostly Chinese from Macau and a few Indians from Goa. Portugal is still one of the most religious countries in Europe, most Portuguese believe with certainty in the Existence of God and religion plays an important role in the life of most Portuguese.
The show will begin at 6 p.m. local time, with Paramore opening for Swift. Lisbon is five hours ahead of the East Coast, so it will be 1 p.m. EST when Paramore kicks off the concert.
Pimentel is a Portuguese and Spanish surname of Portuguese origin, whose nobles initially belonged to the illustrious Portuguese Benavente family. Another branch was established in Spain, in which its members comprised the House of Pimentel , a Spanish noble family of Portuguese origin , who also became established and distinguished in the ...
Oliveira is a Portuguese (and Galician surname), used in Portuguese-speaking countries, and to a lesser extent in former Portuguese and Spanish colonies. Its origin is from the Latin word olivarĭus, meaning 'olive tree'. In Portuguese, de Oliveira may refer to both 'of the olive tree' and 'from the olive tree'.
An image describing Brazil, at the end of the 19th century, by Nouveau Larousse illustré, in France: Indians, mestiços, examples of the fauna and flora of the country. In Colonial Brazil, it was initially used to refer to mamelucos, persons born from a couple in which one was an Indigenous American and the other a European.