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Brazil–Portugal relations (Portuguese: Relações Brasil-Portugal) have spanned nearly five centuries, beginning in 1532 with the establishment of São Vicente, the first Portuguese permanent settlement in the Americas, up to the present day. [1] Relations between the two are intrinsically tied because of the Portuguese Empire.
Thus, a Brazilian can exercise their political rights in Portugal, being able to vote and to be elected, while a Portuguese can offer public competition (and pursue a political career) in Brazil. [2] Brazilian citizens in Portugal who benefit from this status are allowed to acquire the Portuguese citizen card, as well as the Portuguese in ...
United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves and its colonies, 1800. Pluricontinentalism (Portuguese: Pluricontinentalismo) was a geopolitical concept, positing that Portugal was a transcontinental country and a unitary nation-state consisting of continental Portugal and its overseas provinces.
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Portugal was a full member of the Latin Union (1983) and the Organisation of Ibero-American States (1949). It has a friendship alliance and dual citizenship treaty with its former colony, Brazil. Portugal and the United Kingdom share the world's oldest active military accord through their Anglo-Portuguese Alliance (Treaty of Windsor), signed in ...
The treaty consists of eleven articles, which establish respectively: ART. I – His Most Faithful Majesty recognizes Brazil in the category of independent Empire and separated from the Kingdoms of Portugal and the Algarves; And to his most beloved and dear son Pedro by Emperor, yielding and transferring from his free will the sovereignty of the said Empire to his son and to his legitimate ...
In total, Brazilian troops numbered between 30,000 and 40,000 men, while Portuguese ones numbered around 20,000. The conflict officially ended with the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro, mediated by the United Kingdom, in which Brazil committed to paying Portugal an indemnity of 2 million pounds and grant trade privileges to Britain.
Brazil, [b] officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, [c] is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America. It is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh largest by population, with over 203 million people. Brazil is a federation composed of 26 states and a Federal District, which hosts the capital ...