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A Portuguese name, or Lusophone name – a personal name in the Portuguese language – is typically composed of one or two personal names, the mother's family surname and the father's family surname (rarely only one surname, sometimes more than two). For practicality, usually only the last surname (excluding prepositions) is used in formal ...
João Gonçalves Zarco, explorer of the Atlantic islands. João Grego, explorer of the African coast. João Infante, explorer of the African coast. João Vaz Corte-Real, explorer of North America. Lopes Gonçalves, explorer of the Atlantic. Luís Pires, explorer of the sea route to Brazil.
The name Portugal is a portmanteau that comes from the Latin word Portus ... About 4,000 Portuguese people live in the Caribbean territories of Overseas France, ...
The name of Portugal itself reveals much of the country's early history, stemming from the Roman name Portus Cale, a Latin name meaning "Port of Cale" (Cale likely is a word of Celtic origin - Cailleach-Bheur her other name; the Mother goddess of the Celtic people as in Calais, Caledonia, Beira.
Portugal, [e] officially the Portuguese Republic, [f] is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe.Featuring the westernmost point in continental Europe, to its north and east is Spain, 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 Macaronesian ...
This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. Lists of Portuguese people by occupation (2 C, 13 P)
Mário Soares (1924–2017), politician, 17th president and 53rd/60th prime ministers of Portugal. Paula Rego (c. 1935–2022), painter, illustrator and printmaker. Jorge Sampaio (1939–2021), politician, United Nations High Commissioner for the Alliance of Civilizations, former mayor of Lisbon and 18th president of Portugal.
History of Portugal. 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 ...