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