Search results for "Portuguese language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
