Search results for "Portuguese language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful ... kingdom of Prester John), and to gain Portuguese access to the commercial ...13 KB (2,082 words) - 14:38, 3 May 2023
- A former Portuguese colony, Angola, known formally as the Republic ... namely the predominance of the Portuguese language and of the Catholic ...17 KB (2,316 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
- Goa Velha ("Velha" means old in Portuguese), referring to ... in south-western India had been under Portuguese rule from 1510 and became ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:24, 31 December 2023
- Malai" (Big Mount—in Tamil language) or "Parangi Malai ... The Portuguese built the shrine of Mother Mary, a small relic-filled ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 16:21, 8 February 2023
- Afonso VI, King of Portugal (Portuguese pron. IPA [ ɐ'fõsu ]; English Alphonzo or Alphonse), or Affonso (Old Portuguese), (August ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 22:00, 23 November 2020
- spelled "Menasseh"), was a Portuguese-Jewish rabbi, kabbalist ... Born to a family of Portuguese Marranos who settled in Amsterdam, ...12 KB (1,865 words) - 06:43, 5 November 2022
- volume of love poetry, Sonnets from the Portuguese, in which her sentiments ... owed her profound knowledge of the Greek language and much mental stimulus ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 16:14, 13 February 2024
- any word that modifies any other part of language: verbs, adjectives (including ... form) by adding '-mente' (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian) or ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 23:31, 17 December 2022
- The Azores are a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about ... named after the goshawk bird (Açor in Portuguese). This bird never existed ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:18, 26 August 2023
- Faced with rebellion by several cities and renewed Portuguese incursions ... of many nationalities, including Portuguese and Muslims. The number ...18 KB (2,701 words) - 04:45, 1 May 2023
- The Treaty of Tordesillas (Portuguese: Tratado de Tordesilhas, Spanish: ... to Spain, even if east of the line. The Portuguese King John II was not pleased ...16 KB (2,550 words) - 14:58, 2 May 2023
- when the Ethiopian Emperor asked the Portuguese to assist in repelling ... The Ethiopians were forced to ask for help from the Portuguese, who ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 06:52, 16 June 2023
- Portuguese India ( Índia Portuguesa India's independence in 1947, Portuguese India included a number ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- Iguazu Falls, Iguassu Falls, or Iguaçu Falls (Portuguese: Cataratas ... displaced in turn by the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores in the sixteenth ...10 KB (1,592 words) - 13:42, 4 February 2023
- Macao (also spelled Macau). Founded as a Portuguese trading port in the mid ... with Goa in India. The presence of Portuguese Catholic Churches, forts ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 21:51, 31 January 2024
- French, English, Arabic, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Russian. With its "guarantee of excellence"—editorial quality and reliability ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 06:44, 16 June 2023
- were discovered and colonized by the Portuguese in the fifteenth century; ... Cape Verde was uninhabited when the Portuguese arrived in 1456, and ...19 KB (2,758 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- Spanish: San Francisco Javier; Portuguese: São Francisco Xavier; ... the Indies, arriving in Goa, the center Portuguese activity in the East, on ...15 KB (2,402 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- such as French (phare), Italian (faro), Portuguese (farol), Spanish (faro), Romanian (far), and Greek (φάρος). === Construction === ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 01:38, 26 October 2022
- In the 1470s, a Portuguese colony was formed at São Tomé, which ... eventually formed an alliance with the Portuguese, who allowed them to set ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:51, 3 December 2023
