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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
- Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães, IPA pronunciation: / ... Spring 1480 – April 27, 1521) was a Portuguese maritime explorer who, ...20 KB (3,084 words) - 17:19, 26 March 2024
- Sirène, Italian, Sirena, Polish, Syrena, and Portuguese, Sereia, show the connection between the Siren and mermaids. However, it should be noted that ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- districts on the mountain." The Portuguese shortened that to "Candea ... regions had been conquered by the Portuguese. Kandy repelled invasions ...14 KB (1,979 words) - 07:07, 28 February 2023
- Portuguese expansion into the Indian Ocean in the early 16th century ... *Colonial Voyage. [http://www.colonialvoyage.com/portuguese-persian ...14 KB (2,162 words) - 00:43, 24 November 2022
- a history of ethnocentrism, the Spanish, Portuguese, and French words—mestizaje ... The word miscegenation quickly entered the common language of the ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- to it as Qali) before the arrival of the Portuguese in the sixteenth century ... the native and the colonial. The first Portuguese fleet, led by Laurenco ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- Portuguese empire. The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) is ... are members of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries. ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- Dr. John Willinsky in the Department of Language and Literacy EducationThe ... French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish ...14 KB (1,916 words) - 23:35, 2 December 2022
- diritto comparato, Spanish: derecho comparado, Portuguese: direito comparado, Greek: Συγκριτικό Δίκαιο) is the study of differences and ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
- Inhabited from prehistoric times, Luanda came under Portuguese rule ... In 1482, Portuguese caravels commanded by Diogo Cão (born ca 1450 ...24 KB (3,367 words) - 10:35, 9 March 2023
- quot; has been part of the English language since at least 1628, and ... Though the island was first visited by the Portuguese in about 1505 ...10 KB (1,436 words) - 11:03, 2 August 2023
- The name Colombo, introduced by the Portuguese in 1505, is believed ... The first Europeans to visit Sri Lanka were the Portuguese: Francisco ...25 KB (3,677 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- as well as the archaic English (Cathay), Portuguese (Catai), and Spanish (Catay ... clothing and refused to use the Chinese language, devising a writing system ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- enclaves such as Hong Kong and nearby Portuguese Macao was never colonized ... Across the Bay, the Portuguese colony of Macao was already established ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- of yerba mate (Spanish) / erva-mate (Portuguese) (Ilex paraguariensis) ... in Latin American Spanish, a bomba in Portuguese, and a masassa in Arabic ...18 KB (3,004 words) - 09:18, 10 March 2023
- faith, St. Thomas Christian, and their language, Malayalam. According to ... into a number of churches during the Portuguese persecution, including ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- 1973; Brown 1956; Vellian 2001. The Portuguese started a Latin diocese ... various denominations as a result of Portuguese persecution.Claudius Buchanan ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 22:35, 11 January 2024
- been established and dominated by the Portuguese. Reconnoitering in the ... Java, where they clashed with both the Portuguese and indigenous Indonesians ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- stone. The English word azure, the Spanish and Portuguese azul, and the Italian azzurro are cognates. == Occurrence == Lapis lazuli usually occurs ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- the translation of the Old Persian language. Grotefend succeeded in ... He continued his career mostly working on Latin and Italian language ...9 KB (1,297 words) - 06:55, 18 April 2024
- The Portuguese were the first Europeans to arrive in the sixteenth ... In late 1941, Portuguese Timor was briefly occupied by Dutch and Australian ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- Nathan Cardozo. Cardozo's ancestors were Portuguese Jews who immigrated to the United States in the 1740s and 1750s from Portugal via the Netherlands ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
- The Portuguese reached Guinea between 1460 and 1470, around the time ... In 1970, conflict between Portuguese forces and the PAIGC in neighboring ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 02:37, 8 January 2024
- in continental Africa. Formerly the Portuguese colony of Portuguese Guinea ... thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Portuguese reached the coast in the ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 03:07, 12 July 2023
- Gaucho (gaúcho in Portuguese) is a term commonly used to describe ... gaucho literature, purporting to use the language of the gauchos and reflect ...11 KB (1,764 words) - 04:47, 18 April 2024
- island, was named after Saint Thomas by Portuguese explorers who discovered ... Seychelles). It is also the smallest Portuguese-speaking country. ...27 KB (4,031 words) - 02:25, 21 April 2023
- Juan Dias de Solis, a Portuguese explorer in service to Spain may ... seen if he had gotten that far south. Portuguese maps of South America, ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 06:51, 25 July 2023
- 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
- 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
- * 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
- 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 (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- 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
- for its maritime successes during the Portuguese Age of Discovery. The city ... The Bairro Alto (literally upper quarter in Portuguese) is a central ...34 KB (4,753 words) - 07:44, 9 March 2023
- ; November 16, 1922 - June 18, 2010) was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese ... Saramago was a member of the Portuguese Communist Party since 1969, ...13 KB (1,795 words) - 07:37, 27 February 2023
- as HTML. Most releases are in the English language, but many non-English works ... German, Finnish, Dutch, Chinese, and Portuguese.Jeffrey Thomas, [http://usinfo ...19 KB (2,741 words) - 01:18, 12 April 2023
- Nadu, and easily accessible to shipping, Portuguese colonies monopolized the ... set foot the jungles in 1602 when a Portuguese priest, Ferreiri, successfully ...15 KB (2,206 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
- Africa where Spanish is an official language (excluding the Spanish exclaves ... full membership of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP). ...26 KB (3,689 words) - 19:14, 13 February 2024
- the carpincho in Spanish and capivara in Portuguese, H. hydrochaeris is the ... capybara in English and capivara in Portuguese, derives from Kapiÿva ...10 KB (1,545 words) - 00:03, 15 November 2021
- studying philosophy and the psychology of language. Following his entrance ... an advisor on education reform in former Portuguese colonies in Africa, particularly ...18 KB (2,693 words) - 01:43, 23 November 2022
- are based on Catalonian law, its language is Catalan, as is a large ... in their own country; Spaniards, Portuguese, Frenchmen, and Britons ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- leading to it being targeted by the Portuguese, who destroyed the town in 1468. The Portuguese used the ruins of Anfa to build a military fortress ...20 KB (2,766 words) - 14:16, 29 November 2023
- |languages = Zulu(many also speak English or Afrikaans or Portuguese ... Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique. Their language, isiZulu, is a Bantu language; ...23 KB (3,468 words) - 06:14, 13 June 2023
- states flourished after contact with the Portuguese in the 15th century, and ... states flourished after contact with the Portuguese in the fifteenth century ...16 KB (2,385 words) - 20:13, 14 December 2023
- and other languages including Hindi and Portuguese. Language has been ... Herald (Goa's oldest, once a Portuguese language paper known as O Heraldo ...39 KB (5,868 words) - 08:05, 24 January 2023
- Italian, and weekly in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French (plus ... The Vatican has no set official language, it can be changed at any ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- founded the city. It developed into a Portuguese trading post exporting ... Lagos, a Portuguese word for "lakes," was a Yoruba settlement ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 23:06, 21 October 2022
- The Paraná River (Río Paraná in Spanish, Rio Paraná in Portuguese ... of the Waters" (from the Guaraní language) was Sebastian Cabot in 1526. ...15 KB (2,350 words) - 11:25, 11 March 2023
- The Arawak culture is still evident in language and traditions. The Arawak ... Dutch (official), Papiamento (national language), Spanish, English. ...22 KB (3,174 words) - 17:44, 16 August 2023
- the Seven Years War as well as in the Portuguese navy against Spain. The ... the son of Jacob Phillip, a German-born language teacher, and his English ...18 KB (2,828 words) - 17:36, 16 August 2023
- | native name link = Portuguese language ... Amerigo Vespucci, who traveled with a Portuguese expedition of Gonçalo ...21 KB (2,904 words) - 17:27, 26 March 2024
- Retaining that title (Paulicéia Desvairada, in Portuguese), Andrade ... just of poetry but of the aesthetics of language, in order to explain the ...29 KB (4,379 words) - 15:58, 6 November 2022
- battle by Balthazar, a prince of the Portuguese. Don Andrea tells the story ... Meanwhile, at the scene of the battle, the Portuguese have been defeated ...12 KB (1,976 words) - 21:20, 30 April 2023
- * Portuguese Empire * Portuguese * Decolonization * Philippines * Manila ==Notes== ...13 KB (1,737 words) - 20:19, 3 May 2023
- (or the Malay Archipelago) (Indonesian language: Nusantara). ... region from before the arrival of the Portuguese as evidenced in Magellan ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- dominated its modern history. The Portuguese and then Omani Arabs were ... The Portuguese were the first Europeans to explore Kenya. Vasco da ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- peopled by successive waves of invaders. Portuguese explorer Pedro de Cintra ... The Portuguese — and the Dutch, French, and English who arrived ...24 KB (3,436 words) - 21:04, 27 November 2023
- Cultural da República" in Portuguese) is a cultural center located ... (Biblioteca Nacional de Brasília in Portuguese) occupies an area of 16 ...27 KB (4,135 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
- it to Tuscany where he adapted it to his language when he founded the Neo ... Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese and the sonnets of Dante ...11 KB (1,767 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- French Indochina. This term is derived via Portuguese and French from the Japanese word bonsō for a priest or monk, and has become less common in modern ...18 KB (2,886 words) - 03:36, 1 October 2023
- the new-found land that was valuable in Portuguese commerce. This plant has ... the Portuguese introduced the Portuguese language, the Roman-Germanic ...42 KB (5,904 words) - 22:53, 20 November 2023
- were brought to Europe by Spanish and Portuguese explorers and sweet potato ... The word yam is probably from nyami in the language of the West African ...11 KB (1,640 words) - 07:24, 24 October 2022
- == Characteristics, behavior and language == Adult orangutan males ... The first orangutan language study program, directed by Dr. Francine ...14 KB (1,986 words) - 10:40, 11 March 2023
- is that of Lopo Vaz de Sampayo, governor of the Portuguese possessions in India. Having been brought home in disgrace after usurping his position from ...14 KB (2,216 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- smaller Central American populations), Portuguese (8.7 percent). Spanish at home, while 3.8 percent spoke Portuguese, 1.96 percent French, and ...30 KB (4,360 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
- shortages on the plantations attracted Portuguese from Madeira in the 1840s ... descendants of English colonists and Portuguese migrants, as well as some ...18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
