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The Portuguese Colonial Act – passed on 13 June 1933 as one of the fundamental statutes of the Estado Novo regime led by Salazar – eliminated "overseas province" as the official designation of the territories and fully replaced it by that of "colony". The colonies of Angola and Mozambique were themselves subdivided in provinces.
Composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal, it was one of the longest-lived colonial empires in European history, lasting 584 years from the conquest of Ceuta in North Africa in 1415 to the transfer of sovereignty over Macau to China in 1999.
Portuguese Timor: an overseas territory between 1951 and 1961, until unilaterally declaring independence as East Timor in 1975, it was annexed by Indonesia in 1976, recognised by UN as non-self-governing-territory under Portuguese administration between 1961 and 1999. After 1999 it was a United Nations protectorate until formal independence in ...
Leased territory subordinated to Goa (1557–1844). Overseas province (1844–1883). Combined overseas province with Portuguese Timor under Goa (1883–1951). Overseas province (1951–1976). Autonomous region (1976–1999). Returned to full sovereignty of the People's Republic of China as a special administrative region in 1999.
This is a list of territories of the Portuguese Empire (Portuguese: Império Português), that at various times were officially called "states" (estados): State of India (Estado da Índia) (1505–1961) [1] State of Brazil (Estado do Brasil) (1621–1815) [2] State of Maranhão (Estado do Maranhão) (1621–1751)
The first provinces, instituted during the Roman occupation of the Iberian peninsula, divided the peninsula into three areas: Tarraconensis, Lusitania and Baetica, established by Roman Emperor Augustus between 27 and 13 B.C. [1] Emperor Diocletian reordered these territories in the third century, dividing Tarraconesis into three separate territories: Tarraconensis, Carthaginensis and Gallaecia.
In 1951, the Portuguese authorities changed the statute of the territory from a colony to an overseas province of Portugal. Legally, the territory was as much a part of Portugal as Lisbon but as an overseas province enjoyed special derogations to account for its distance from Europe.
European Portuguese Equatorial Guinea: Africa 1,795,834 [21] Brazilian Portuguese East Timor: Asia 1,245,000 [22] East Timorese Portuguese Guinea-Bissau: Africa 1,110,000 [23] Guinean Portuguese Macau: Asia 641,000 [24] Macanese Portuguese Cape Verde: Africa 499,000 [25] Cape Verdean Portuguese Sao Tome and Principe: Africa 212,679 [26] Sao ...