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  2. History of Lisbon - Wikipedia

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    SPOT Satellite image of Lisbon on the north bank of the Mar da Palha (Sea of Straw), right. The Atlantic Ocean is to the left. The history of Lisbon, the capital city of Portugal, revolves around its strategic geographical position at the mouth of the Tagus, the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula. Its spacious and sheltered natural harbour ...

  3. Lisbon massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Lisbon massacre started on Sunday, 19 April 1506 in Lisbon when a crowd of churchgoers attacked and killed several people in the congregation whom they suspected were Jews. The violence escalated into a city-wide, antisemitic riot that killed between 500 and 4,000 " New Christians " ( Cristãos-Novos ), the name for Jews who had been ...

  4. Timeline of Lisbon - Wikipedia

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    1422 – Lisbon "made the capital of the kingdom by John I" [7] 1441 – African slave trade begins (abolished in 1836). [9] 1450 – Estaus Palace built (approximate date). 1467 – Palácio Almada (residence) built. [1] 1495 – Printing press in operation (approximate date). [10] 1497 – Vasco da Gama departs from Lisbon on first voyage to ...

  5. History of Portugal - Wikipedia

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    In 1506, 3,000 New Christians were massacred in Lisbon. [88] In early 1500, ... The new Lisbon downtown was designed to resist subsequent earthquakes.

  6. History of Portugal (1415–1578) - Wikipedia

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    1487 — Afonso de Paiva and Pero da Covilhã traveled overland from Lisbon in search of the Kingdom of Prester John. 1488 — Bartolomeu Dias, crowning 50 years of effort and methodical expeditions, rounded the Cape of Good Hope and entered the Indian Ocean. They had found the "Flat Mountain" of Ptolemy's Geography.

  7. Portuguese Empire - Wikipedia

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    By 1571, a string of naval outposts connected Lisbon to Nagasaki along the coasts of Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. This commercial network and the colonial trade had a substantial positive impact on Portuguese economic growth (1500–1800) when it accounted for about a fifth of Portugal's per-capita income.

  8. List of wars involving Portugal - Wikipedia

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    This marked the end of the Portuguese Reconquista, with Lisbon becoming the capital city of the Kingdom of Portugal in 1255. War of the Strait (1292–1350) Battle of Salé; Battle of Écija (1275) Siege of Algeciras (1278–1279) Battle of Moclín (1280) Conquest of Taifa; First siege of Gibraltar; Battle of Ceuta (1309) Siege of Algeciras ...

  9. Portuguese maritime exploration - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after, the Casa da Índia was established in Lisbon to administer the royal monopoly of navigation and trade. Exploration soon lost private support, and took place under the exclusive patronage of the Portuguese Crown. The second voyage to India was dispatched in 1500 under Pedro Álvares Cabral. While following the same south-westerly ...