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However, the French decided to take over both countries, overthrowing the King of Spain and forcing the Portuguese royal family to escape to the Portuguese colony of Brazil. Spain and Portugal subsequently became allies for the first time in centuries and, allied to a British army under Sir Arthur Wellesley, drove the French back across the ...
"Relations Between Portugal and Brazil (1930–1945) The Relationship Between the Two National Experiences of the Estado Novo." Titulo: E-journal of Portuguese History 4.2 (2006). Sayers, Raymond S., ed. Portugal and Brazil in transition (U of Minnesota Press, 1968)
In this post, Sócrates and his team focused on the EU-Brazil (1st EU-Brazil summit) and EU-African Union (2007 Africa-EU Summit) relations, as well as in the approval of the Treaty of Lisbon. Portugal was a founding member of NATO; it is an active member of the alliance by, for example, contributing proportionally large contingents in Balkan ...
In 1834, Spain recognized the independence of Brazil and both nations established diplomatic relations. [4] Spain soon opened a diplomatic legation in Rio de Janeiro. [5] In 1871, Brazilian Emperor Pedro II visited Spain and met with Spanish King Amadeo I. [6]
The Iberian Union is a historiographical term used to describe the personal union of the Kingdom of Portugal with the Monarchy of Spain, which in turn was itself the dynastic union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, and of their respective colonial empires, that existed between 1580 and 1640 and brought the entire Iberian Peninsula except Andorra, as well as Portuguese and Spanish overseas ...
LISBON (Reuters) - A bright comet fragment lit up the skies over parts of Spain and Portugal late on Saturday, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), with one Lisbon resident saying the ...
Coat of arms of Philip II and I of Spain and Portugal, inserting the coat of arms of Portugal over those of Castile and León and Aragon. In 1580, a succession crisis led to the union of Portugal and Spain being ruled by the Habsburg king Philip II. The unification of the crowns of the two Iberian kingdoms, known as the Iberian Union, lasted ...
Brazil: See Brazil–Spain relations. Brazil has an embassy in Madrid and a consulate-general in Barcelona. [132] Spain has an embassy in Brasília and consulates-general in Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and São Paulo. [133] See also: Brazilians of Spanish descent and Spanish immigration to Brazil. Canada: 21 February 1953 [134]