Search results for "Portuguese language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- the term Marranos in Spanish and Portuguese meant "pigs," ... and Jewish neighbors to escape, and Portuguese crown severely punished ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 16:11, 6 November 2022
- The first states that it comes from the Portuguese Monte vide eu, which means ... The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan anchored at the future ...15 KB (2,073 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- The Portuguese occupied Muscat for a 140-year period (1508–1648 ... The Ottomans drove out the Portuguese, but were pushed out themselves ...14 KB (2,071 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
- The River Paraguay (Río Paraguay in Spanish, Rio Paraguai in Portuguese, and meaning “big mirror of waters” in the native Guaraní language ...13 KB (1,943 words) - 07:45, 18 November 2022
- the sole source of cloves. The Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and local kingdoms ... The Portuguese navigator António de Abreu was the first European ...21 KB (3,241 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- of Dutch, German, British, French, and Portuguese ancestry make up about ... The majority of the population speaks Afrikaans as a second language ...17 KB (2,377 words) - 02:43, 11 March 2023
- neglect under the colonial domination of the Portuguese. ... first president of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), ...25 KB (3,580 words) - 01:47, 11 March 2023
- * Curcuma in Portuguese and French * Куркума (kurkuma) in Macedonian * Kurkuma in Finnish * Gurkmeja in Swedish * 欝金 (ukon) in Japanese ...16 KB (2,344 words) - 19:02, 6 November 2022
- against independence movement across the Portuguese Empire. After decades of ... Later, in 1996, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries was formed ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 20:38, 22 December 2022
- rediscovered, possibly accidentally, by Portuguese sailors and settled by ... southeast. In the sixteenth century the Portuguese began building aqueducts ...32 KB (4,286 words) - 10:48, 9 March 2023
- *Curso pré-vestibular, or Cursinho (Portuguese, Brazil) ... specialize in subjects like math, foreign language, science, art, or English ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 01:09, 7 April 2022
- in 1582, Ricci began learning the Chinese language and customs, and eventually ... arriving on September 13 at Goa, the Portuguese colony on the central west ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- languages come from Latin (namely Portuguese, Spanish, and French). ... Chile and Uruguay. Brazil has a Portuguese-language pop rock industry ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural ... to the grammar of all the speakers of the language), in which case the term ...25 KB (3,470 words) - 18:48, 24 May 2024
- city is also known by an older English-language name, Canton. It is a port ... "Canton" was the convenient Portuguese or French romanization ...22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
- a significant milestone by the Portuguese attempting to establish ... The Khoikhoi were originally part of a pastoral culture and language ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- provided a large number of captives to the Portuguese. The empire& ... called a "gaand" in the KiLunda language. It was ruled over by a ...16 KB (2,448 words) - 03:03, 5 November 2022
- can be primarily traced to the influx of Portuguese goods into the West African ... The decline of Timbuktu began with the influx of Portuguese traders ...16 KB (2,417 words) - 23:36, 30 April 2023
- | language = Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish | registration = Optional ...18 KB (2,536 words) - 16:33, 8 March 2023
- The first, and perhaps most famous, Portuguese adventurer to reach Southern ... Though their reign was short-lived, the language of the region continues ...16 KB (2,390 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
