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Bragança (Portuguese: [bɾɐˈɣɐ̃sɐ] ⓘ; Mirandese: Bergáncia), also known in English as Braganza (/ b r ə ˈ ɡ æ n z ə / brə-GAN-zə, US also /-ˈ ɡ ɑː n-/- GAHN-), [1] [2] is a city and municipality in north-eastern Portugal, capital of the district of Bragança, in the Terras de Trás-os-Montes subregion of Portugal.
King John IV of Portugal, the first Braganza to reign. The Curse of the Braganzas (in Portuguese a Maldição dos Braganças) is a myth, referred to in several historical chronicles, concerning the House of Braganza, that ruled the Kingdom of Portugal (1640–1910), the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (1815–1822) and the Empire of Brazil (1822–1889) and, therefore, all ...
Ecuador would typically buy electricity from its neighbor Colombia, but a prolonged regional drought has weakened electrical grids throughout the region. Quito, Ecuador, during a scheduled 14-hour ...
Duchy of Braganza, a fief in medieval history of Portugal; Braganza (company), a Norwegian holding E company; Mr Renford Braganza or his widow, the claimant in the case of Braganza v BP Shipping Limited and another, a 2015 UK Supreme Court case addressing the concept of Wednesbury unreasonableness, or irrationality, in relation to employment law
Afonso I, first Duke of Braganza and founder of the House of Braganza Isabel of Braganza was the first to intermarry with the royal family, as wife of Infante João, Constable of Portugal. The House of Braganza originated with Afonso I, an illegitimate son of King John I of Portugal, founder of the House of Aviz, and Inês Pires.
During the Portuguese Restoration War, João II of Braganza sold many of the Portuguese crown jewels to finance the war with Spain. When João II became King of Portugal as João IV and deposed the Philippine Dynasty in 1640, he placed his crown with a statue of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception and said that she was the "true Queen of Portugal".
Bragança District (Portuguese: Distrito de Bragança [bɾɐˈɣɐ̃sɐ] ⓘ; Mirandese: Çtrito de Bergáncia) is a traditional political division of Portugal, in the northeast corner bordering on Spain (Castile and Leon and Galicia), covering 7.4% of the nation's continental landmass.
The House of Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha [1] (also known as the House of Saxe-Coburg-Braganza or the Constitutional Branch of the Braganzas) [2] is a term used to categorize the last four rulers of the Kingdom of Portugal, and their families, from 1853 until the declaration of the republic in 1910.