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  2. History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    A product of the competition for control of the lands of Brazil between the French and the Portuguese in Brazil was the creation of tribal alliances, with the Tupinamba, the group referred to in History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Also Called America, siding with the French against the Tupiniquim, who allied themselves with the ...

  3. Indo-European languages - Wikipedia

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    A third view, especially prevalent in the so-called French school of Indo-European studies, holds that extant similarities in non-satem languages in general—including Anatolian—might be due to their peripheral location in the Indo-European language-area and to early separation, rather than indicating a special ancestral relationship. [61]

  4. Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    Romance; Latin/Neo-Latin: Geographic distribution: Originated in Old Latium on the Italian peninsula, now spoken in Latin Europe (parts of Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, and Western Europe) and Latin America (a majority of the countries of Central America and South America), as well as parts of Africa (Latin Africa), Asia, and Oceania.

  5. Portuguese Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The Portuguese Renaissance refers to the cultural and artistic movement in Portugal during the 15th and 16th centuries. Though the movement coincided with the Spanish and Italian Renaissances, the Portuguese Renaissance was largely separate from other European Renaissances and instead was extremely important in opening Europe to the unknown and bringing a more worldly view to those European ...

  6. Influence of Arabic on other languages - Wikipedia

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    Between the 9th century and up to 1249 [16] when the Arabs were expelled from the Algarve, Portuguese acquired words (between 400 and 600 estimate [17]) from Arabic by influence of Moorish Iberia. Although the native population spoke the Lusitanian- Mozarabic , they kept some Mozarabic-derived words.

  7. Lusotropicalism - Wikipedia

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    They were more likely to think of Portuguese colonialism as a logical historical extension or continuation of the Reconquista. [5] For example, Armindo Monteiro, Portuguese Minister of Colonies between 1931 and 1935, considered himself a "social Darwinist" and was a proponent of the traditional colonial "civilizing mission" and white saviorism. [5]

  8. Lexical similarity - Wikipedia

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    The variations due to differing wordlists weigh on this. For example, lexical similarity between French and English is considerable in lexical fields relating to culture, whereas their similarity is smaller as far as basic (function) words are concerned. Unlike mutual intelligibility, lexical similarity can only be symmetrical.

  9. France–Portugal relations - Wikipedia

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    Between 2016 and 2020, French investment in Portugal grew by 86%. Around 750 French companies are established in Portugal, with their subsidiaries creating the most added value in the country. In the tourism sector, France was in 2021 Portugal's second largest market in terms of guests, third in terms of overnight stays and first in terms of ...