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There are four anthologies of Portuguese-American literature: Luso-American Literature: Writings by Portuguese-Speaking Authors in North America edited by Robert Henry Moser and António Luciano de Andrade Tosta and published in 2011, The Gávea-Brown Book of Portuguese-American Poetry edited by Alice R. Clemente and George Monteiro, published ...
Portuguese merchants have been trading in the West Indies. To such an extent, that, for instance, for the Portuguese town of Póvoa de Varzim, most of its seafarers dying abroad, most of the deaths occurred in the Route of the Antilles, in the West Indies. At the turn of the 17th century, with the union with Castile, the Spanish kings favored ...
Portuguese America [1] [2] (Portuguese: América Portuguesa), sometimes called América Lusófona or Lusophone America in the English language, in contrast to Anglo-America, French America, or Hispanic America, is the Portuguese-speaking community of people and their diaspora, notably those tracing back origins to Brazil and the early Portuguese colonization of the Americas.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. American blacksmith and soldier (1760–1831) This article is about the American blacksmith and soldier. For the South African snooker player, see Peter Francisco (snooker player). Peter Francisco Miniature portrait of Francisco Born Pedro Francisco (1760-07-09) July 9, 1760 Porto Judeu ...
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.
Because these people arrived using their Portuguese passports, they were registered as Portuguese immigrants by the Hawaiian (and later, the American) authorities. Portuguese immigration to the islands slowed after 1887, which was the same year that King Kalākaua was stripped of power, and about the same time that importation of other ethnic ...
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Portuguese neighborhoods in the United States (9 P) Pages in category "Portuguese-American history" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.