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  2. Portuguese Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    The Portuguese Inquisition (Portuguese: Inquisição Portuguesa), ... The number of these victims ( between 1540 and 1765) is estimated as around 40,000. [12]

  3. Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    The Portuguese Inquisition held its first auto-da-fé in 1540. The Portuguese inquisitors mostly focused upon the Jewish New Christians (i.e. conversos or marranos). The Portuguese Inquisition expanded its scope of operations from Portugal to its colonial possessions, including Brazil, Cape Verde, and Goa. In the colonies, it continued as a ...

  4. Goa Inquisition - Wikipedia

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    It is a narrative of the Goan Inquisition organised by the Portuguese rulers of Goa. Lydia Sigourney included the poem "The Destruction of the Inquisition in Goa" in her Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse of 1815. Bengali writer Avik Sarkar wrote a novel, Ebong Inquisition in 2017, which stands on the backdrop of the massacre of Hindus in Goa.

  5. History of the Jews in Portugal - Wikipedia

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    The Inquisition held its first Auto da fé in Portugal in 1540. Like the Spanish Inquisition, it concentrated its efforts on rooting out converts from other faiths (overwhelmingly Judaism) who did not adhere to the strictures of Catholic orthodoxy; like in Spain, the Portuguese inquisitors mostly targeted the Jewish New Christians, conversos ...

  6. Estaus Palace - Wikipedia

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    Baroque-style Inquisition Palace before burning in 1836. The Estaus Palace (Portuguese: Paço dos Estaus; Palácio dos Estaus) in Rossio Square, in Lisbon, was the headquarters of the Portuguese Inquisition. [1] [2] The original palace was built on the north side of the square around 1450 as lodging for foreign dignitaries and noblemen visiting ...

  7. Portuguese conquest of Goa - Wikipedia

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    The Portuguese conquest of Goa occurred when the governor Afonso de Albuquerque captured the city in 1510 from the Sultanate of Bijapur. Old Goa became the capital of Portuguese India, which included territories such as Fort Manuel of Cochin, Bom Bahia, Damaon, and Chaul. It was not among the places Albuquerque was supposed to conquer.

  8. Peter Canisius - Wikipedia

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    Portuguese Inquisition; Roman Inquisition; ... He was sent to study at the University of Cologne, where he earned a master's degree in 1540, at the age of 19. [2]

  9. Iberian Union - Wikipedia

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    The Iberian Union is a historiographical term used to describe the personal union of the Kingdom of Portugal with the Monarchy of Spain, which in turn was itself the dynastic union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, and of their respective colonial empires, that existed between 1580 and 1640 and brought the entire Iberian Peninsula except Andorra, as well as Portuguese and Spanish overseas ...