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Eight of the former colonies of Portugal have Portuguese as their official language. Together with Portugal, they are now members of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, which when combined total 10,742,000 km 2, or 7.2% of the Earth's landmass (148 939 063 km 2). [221]
Treaties of dependent territories of Portugal (1 C) U. ... 28 P) Pages in category "Former Portuguese colonies" The following 145 pages are in this category, out of ...
English: Map of Portuguese colonial wars. Modern Portugal in green, former Portuguese colonies in orange Modern Portugal in green, former Portuguese colonies in orange Português: Mapa francês da guerra colonial portuguesa: Portugal moderno verde, colónias cor-de-laranja
Portuguese presence in Africa started in 1415 with the conquest of Ceuta and is generally viewed as ending in 1975, with the independence of its later colonies, although the present autonomous region of Madeira is located in the African Plate, some 650 km (360 mi) off the North African coast, Madeira belongs and has always belonged ethnically, culturally, economically and politically to Europe ...
The new government instituted sweeping democratic reforms and granted independence to all of Portugal's African colonies in 1975. Portugal is a founding member of NATO, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries.
The captaincies were autonomous, and mostly private, colonies of the Portuguese Empire, each owned and run by a Captain-major. In 1549, due to their failure and limited success, the Captaincy Colonies of Brazil were united into the Governorate General of Brazil. The captaincy colonies were reorganized as provincial districts to the Governorate.
The original Pink Map (1886) The Pink Map (Portuguese: Mapa cor-de-rosa), also known as the Rose-Coloured Map, [1] was a map prepared in 1885 to represent the Kingdom of Portugal's claim of sovereignty over a land corridor connecting the Portuguese "colonies" of Angola and Mozambique during the Scramble for Africa.