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In what is today's mainland Portugal territory, before the rule of the Roman Empire, several peoples and tribes were living there for many centuries and they had their own culture, language and political organization (tribal chiefdoms, tribal confederations and early forms of kingdoms and states), these peoples and tribes were in the Iron Age.
Venezuela has the most Portuguese people in Latin America after Brazil. Portuguese started arriving to Venezuela in the early and middle 20th century as economic immigrants, particularly from Madeira. [327] Some 1.3 million people (4.61%) are of Portuguese descent. [327] Migration occurred mainly in the 1940s and 1950s.
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.
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.
The following is a list of notable and historically significant people from Portugal This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Portuguese people" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Soft Portuguese style, is an architectural model adopted mainly by public buildings; Pombaline style, an architectural style of the 18th century; Portuguese colonial architecture, a collection of styles of architecture that the Portuguese built across the Portuguese Empire