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Joaquim Antonio de Macedo (1874), "The Press", Guide to Lisbon and its Environs, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co. British Museum (1885), "Lisbon", Periodical Publications, Catalogue of Printed Books, London {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher "Portugal: Directory: the Press". Europa World Year Book 2004. Europa Publications. 2004
In Portugal, as in the rest of Europe, the printing press played a key role in its Renaissance. The first printing presses came to Portugal by the hand of Jewish printers via Italy. [17] The first book printed in Portuguese in Portugal was the Sacramental, printed in Chaves, in 1488, by Clemente Sanches de
The global spread of the printing press began with the invention of the printing press with movable type by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany c. 1439. [1] Western printing technology was adopted in all world regions by the end of the 19th century, displacing the manuscript and block printing .
Mass media in Portugal includes a variety of online, print, and broadcast formats, such as radio, television, newspapers, and magazines. During most of the 20th century, the Portuguese government censored the media until the " 1976 constitution guaranteed freedom of the press."
Portugal, [e] officially the Portuguese Republic, [f] is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe.Featuring the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the ...
1622 - Printing press in operation. [5] 1628 - Tax revolt. [2] 1661 - Tax revolt. [2] 1692 - Igreja da Venerável Ordem Terceira de São Francisco (church) construction begins. 1703 - Methuen Treaty on wines taxes facilitated export of port wine. [2] 1734 - Episcopal Palace construction begins. [1] 1750s - Clérigos Church built. [1]
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.
The Lusa News Agency (Portuguese: Lusa – Agência de Notícias de Portugal, SA; lit. ' Lusa - Portuguese News Agency ') is the largest news agency in Portugal, as well as the largest news agency in the Portuguese language, incorporated on 28 November 1986 [1] under the name of Agência Lusa — Cooperativa de Interesse Público de Responsabilidade Limitada (Lusa Agency - Public Interest ...