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People of former Portuguese colonies (4 C) A. Agadir (4 C, 12 P) Portuguese Angola (21 C, 43 P) B. Bandar Abbas (3 C, 8 P) Colonial Brazil (12 C, 104 P) C.
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]
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 ...
From 1534 to 1536, 15 Captaincy colonies were created in Portuguese America. 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 ...
These five African countries are former colonies of the Portuguese Empire, which collapsed shortly after the Carnation Revolution military coup of 1974 in Lisbon. The strains of the Portuguese Colonial War overextended and weakened the Portuguese dictatorship and precipitated the overthrow of António de Oliveira Salazar's regime. [11]
Former Portuguese colonies (22 C, 145 P) F. Portuguese fortifications (2 C, 2 P) H. History of the Portuguese Empire (7 C, 4 P) M. Maritime history of Portugal (9 C ...
Toggle Colonies by former countries subsection. 6.1 Ancient Greece. 6.2 Ancient Egyptian. ... Portuguese India Portuguese women in Goa, India, early 18th century;
This is a list of former European colonies. The European countries which had the most colonies throughout history were: United Kingdom ... Portuguese colonial empire;