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  2. History of Portugal - Wikipedia

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    The treaty divided the (largely undiscovered) New World equally between the Portuguese and the Castilians, along a north–south meridian line 370 leagues (1770 km/1100 miles) west of the Cape Verde islands, with all lands to the east belonging to Portugal and all lands to the west to Castile. Map of Brazil issued by Portuguese explorers in 1519

  3. Portuguese people - Wikipedia

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    In the United Kingdom, people of Portuguese origin were estimated at 400,000 in 2021. [381] [382] Other sources claim as many as 500,000 Portuguese there, [383] considerably higher than the estimated 170,000 Portuguese-born people residing in the country in 2021 [384] (excluding British-born people of Portuguese descent).

  4. Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

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    Conquerors focuses on the early history of the Portuguese presence in Asia, specifically the period from the early Portuguese attempts to reach Asia by sailing around Africa to the death of Afonso de Albuquerque. [1] Crowley was noted for his comparison of the voyages of the Portuguese to the Ming treasure voyages. [2]

  5. File:Map of the Portuguese Diaspora in the World.svg

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    Empty map: File:World map (Miller cylindrical projection, blank).svg Information available on page Portuguese people , Portuguese diaspora and their linked pages on the English Wikipedia Number of Portuguese people living abroad per country: NW, 1615 L. St. Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project Global Migration Map: Origins and ...

  6. History of Portuguese - Wikipedia

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    The Portuguese language developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin spoken by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd century BC. Old Galician, also known as Medieval Portuguese, began to diverge from other Romance languages after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Germanic invasions, also known as barbarian invasions, in the 5th century, and started appearing in ...

  7. Age of Discovery - Wikipedia

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    In English, "discovery" and its forms in romance languages derive from "disco-operio, meaning to uncover, to reveal, to expose to the gaze", what was revealed existed previously. [11] Few Europeans during the period used the term "invention" for the European encounters, with the exception of Martin Waldseemüller , whose map first used the term ...

  8. Timeline of Portuguese history - Wikipedia

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    The Portuguese armies take Serpa and Moura (in Alentejo) from the Moors. 1168: Portuguese frontiersman Gerald the Fearless goes into the territory of Badajoz. 1169: King Afonso I of Portugal grants the Knights Templar one third of all they conquer to the Moors in Alentejo. Gerald the Fearless seizes Badajoz from the Almohads.

  9. Portuguese colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Spanish and Portuguese empires in 1790. Between 1630 and 1654, the Netherlands came to control part of Brazil's Northeast region, with their capital in Recife. The Portuguese won a significant victory in the Second Battle of Guararapes in 1649. By 1654, the Netherlands had surrendered and returned control of all Brazilian land to the Portuguese.