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The neighborhood of Parque das Nações, in Lisbon, where was held the 1998 World Exposition, is a symbol of the economic modernization and development of Portugal in the late 20th century. [ 177 ] The first 10 years of the Third Republic, in the context of the transition to democracy , were years of economic troubles, during which Portugal ...
Timeline of Portuguese history. This is a timeline of Portuguese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Portugal and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Portugal. Centuries: 3rd BC · 2nd BC · 1st BC · 3rd · 5th · 6th · 8th · 9th · 10th · 11th ...
In the 20th century, Portugal no longer called itself an empire, but a pluricontinental nation with overseas provinces. António de Oliveira Salazar sought the preservation of a pluricontinental Portugal. In the wake of World War II, decolonization movements began to gain momentum in the empires of the European powers.
The Portuguese Colonial War (Portuguese: Guerra Colonial Portuguesa), also known in Portugal as the Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation (Guerra de Libertação), and also known as the Angolan, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambican War of Independence, was a 13-year-long conflict fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in ...
t. e. The First Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: Primeira República Portuguesa; officially: República Portuguesa, Portuguese Republic) spans a complex 16-year period in the history of Portugal, between the end of the period of constitutional monarchy marked by the 5 October 1910 revolution and the 28 May 1926 coup d'état.
Estado Novo. (Portugal) The Estado Novo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɨʃˈta.ðu ˈno.vu], lit. 'New State') was the corporatist Portuguese state installed in 1933. It evolved from the Ditadura Nacional ("National Dictatorship") formed after the coup d'état of 28 May 1926 against the unstable First Republic.
0–9. 20th century in Lisbon (10 C, 6 P) 1900s in Portugal (17 C, 7 P) 1910s in Portugal (18 C, 14 P) 1920s in Portugal (17 C, 16 P) 1930s in Portugal (19 C, 14 P) 1940s in Portugal (21 C, 11 P) 1950s in Portugal (18 C, 12 P) 1960s in Portugal (21 C, 5 P)
In 1960, at the initiation of Salazar's more outward-looking economic policy, Portugal's per capita GDP was only 38 percent of the European Community (EC-12) average; by the end of the Salazar period, in 1968, it had risen to 48 percent; and in 1973, under the leadership of Marcelo Caetano, Portugal's per capita GDP had reached 56.4 percent of ...