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The Portuguese people (Portuguese: Portugueses – masculine – or Portuguesas) is 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. [88] [89] [90]
Portuguese folk music is the joint of the traditional songs of a community that express through a poetic character their beliefs and tell their history to other people and generations. The danças do vira (Minho), Pauliteiros de Miranda (Miranda), Corridinho do Algarve or Bailinho (Madeira), are some examples of dances created by the sound of folk.
Conii - according to some scholars, Conii and Cynetes were two different peoples or tribes and the names were not two different names of the same people or tribe; in this case, the Conii may have dwelt along the northern banks of the middle Anas river, in today's western Extremadura region of Spain, and were a Celtici tribe wrongly confused ...
Pedro Julião, ordained Pope John XXI, (c. 1215–1277), was the only Portuguese-born Pope; Fernão Lopes (c. 1385–after 1459), chronicler appointed by King Edward of Portugal. Fernão Lopes wrote the history of Portugal, but only a part of his work remained. His way of writing was based on oral discourse, and, on every page, it revealed his ...
The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis.. The Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, which lasted almost two centuries, led to the establishment of the provinces of Lusitania in the south and Gallaecia in the north of what is now Portugal.
Zé Povinho became first a symbol of the Portuguese working-class people, and eventually into the unofficial personification of Portugal. [2] Between 1926 and 1929 Pinheiro regularly drew comic strips for the children's weekly ABCzinho , "and is the author of almost the entire front and back pages of each issue, in color".
Bento Gonçalves (1902–1942), General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party; Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto (1936–1985), Prime Minister; Carlos Carvalhas (born 1941), General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party; Diogo Freitas do Amaral, President of the General Assembly of the United Nations and Minister of Foreign Affairs
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