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 ...
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  • A former Portuguese colony, Angola, known formally as the Republic ... namely the predominance of the Portuguese language and of the Catholic ...
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  • Goa Velha ("Velha" means old in Portuguese), referring to ... in south-western India had been under Portuguese rule from 1510 and became ...
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  • Malai" (Big Mount—in Tamil language) or "Parangi Malai ... The Portuguese built the shrine of Mother Mary, a small relic-filled ...
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  • Afonso VI, King of Portugal (Portuguese pron. IPA [ ɐ'fõsu ]; English Alphonzo or Alphonse), or Affonso (Old Portuguese), (August ...
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  • spelled "Menasseh"), was a Portuguese-Jewish rabbi, kabbalist ... Born to a family of Portuguese Marranos who settled in Amsterdam, ...
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  • volume of love poetry, Sonnets from the Portuguese, in which her sentiments ... owed her profound knowledge of the Greek language and much mental stimulus ...
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  • any word that modifies any other part of language: verbs, adjectives (including ... form) by adding '-mente' (Portuguese, Spanish, Italian) or ...
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  • The Azores are a Portuguese archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, about ... named after the goshawk bird (Açor in Portuguese). This bird never existed ...
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  • Faced with rebellion by several cities and renewed Portuguese incursions ... of many nationalities, including Portuguese and Muslims. The number ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • when the Ethiopian Emperor asked the Portuguese to assist in repelling ... The Ethiopians were forced to ask for help from the Portuguese, who ...
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  • Portuguese India ( Índia Portuguesa India's independence in 1947, Portuguese India included a number ...
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  • Iguazu Falls, Iguassu Falls, or Iguaçu Falls (Portuguese: Cataratas ... displaced in turn by the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores in the sixteenth ...
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  • Macao (also spelled Macau). Founded as a Portuguese trading port in the mid ... with Goa in India. The presence of Portuguese Catholic Churches, forts ...
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  • French, English, Arabic, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Russian. With its "guarantee of excellence"—editorial quality and reliability ...
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  • were discovered and colonized by the Portuguese in the fifteenth century; ... Cape Verde was uninhabited when the Portuguese arrived in 1456, and ...
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  • Spanish: San Francisco Javier; Portuguese: São Francisco Xavier; ... the Indies, arriving in Goa, the center Portuguese activity in the East, on ...
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  • such as French (phare), Italian (faro), Portuguese (farol), Spanish (faro), Romanian (far), and Greek (φάρος). === Construction === ...
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  • In the 1470s, a Portuguese colony was formed at São Tomé, which ... eventually formed an alliance with the Portuguese, who allowed them to set ...
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  • Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães, IPA pronunciation: / ... Spring 1480 – April 27, 1521) was a Portuguese maritime explorer who, ...
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  • Sirène, Italian, Sirena, Polish, Syrena, and Portuguese, Sereia, show the connection between the Siren and mermaids. However, it should be noted that ...
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  • districts on the mountain." The Portuguese shortened that to "Candea ... regions had been conquered by the Portuguese. Kandy repelled invasions ...
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  • Portuguese expansion into the Indian Ocean in the early 16th century ... *Colonial Voyage. [http://www.colonialvoyage.com/portuguese-persian ...
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  • a history of ethnocentrism, the Spanish, Portuguese, and French words—mestizaje ... The word miscegenation quickly entered the common language of the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Portuguese empire. The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) is ... are members of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries. ...
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  • Dr. John Willinsky in the Department of Language and Literacy EducationThe ... French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish ...
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  • diritto comparato, Spanish: derecho comparado, Portuguese: direito comparado, Greek: Συγκριτικό Δίκαιο) is the study of differences and ...
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  • Inhabited from prehistoric times, Luanda came under Portuguese rule ... In 1482, Portuguese caravels commanded by Diogo Cão (born ca 1450 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The name Colombo, introduced by the Portuguese in 1505, is believed ... The first Europeans to visit Sri Lanka were the Portuguese: Francisco ...
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  • as well as the archaic English (Cathay), Portuguese (Catai), and Spanish (Catay ... clothing and refused to use the Chinese language, devising a writing system ...
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  • enclaves such as Hong Kong and nearby Portuguese Macao was never colonized ... Across the Bay, the Portuguese colony of Macao was already established ...
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  • of yerba mate (Spanish) / erva-mate (Portuguese) (Ilex paraguariensis) ... in Latin American Spanish, a bomba in Portuguese, and a masassa in Arabic ...
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  • faith, St. Thomas Christian, and their language, Malayalam. According to ... into a number of churches during the Portuguese persecution, including ...
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  • 1973; Brown 1956; Vellian 2001. The Portuguese started a Latin diocese ... various denominations as a result of Portuguese persecution.Claudius Buchanan ...
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  • been established and dominated by the Portuguese. Reconnoitering in the ... Java, where they clashed with both the Portuguese and indigenous Indonesians ...
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  • stone. The English word azure, the Spanish and Portuguese azul, and the Italian azzurro are cognates. == Occurrence == Lapis lazuli usually occurs ...
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  • the translation of the Old Persian language. Grotefend succeeded in ... He continued his career mostly working on Latin and Italian language ...
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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 ...
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  • Nathan Cardozo. Cardozo's ancestors were Portuguese Jews who immigrated to the United States in the 1740s and 1750s from Portugal via the Netherlands ...
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  • The Portuguese reached Guinea between 1460 and 1470, around the time ... In 1970, conflict between Portuguese forces and the PAIGC in neighboring ...
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  • in continental Africa. Formerly the Portuguese colony of Portuguese Guinea ... thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Portuguese reached the coast in the ...
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  • Gaucho (gaúcho in Portuguese) is a term commonly used to describe ... gaucho literature, purporting to use the language of the gauchos and reflect ...
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  • island, was named after Saint Thomas by Portuguese explorers who discovered ... Seychelles). It is also the smallest Portuguese-speaking country. ...
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  • 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, ...
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  • the term Marranos in Spanish and Portuguese meant "pigs," ... and Jewish neighbors to escape, and Portuguese crown severely punished ...
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  • The first states that it comes from the Portuguese Monte vide eu, which means ... The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan anchored at the future ...
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  • The Portuguese occupied Muscat for a 140-year period (1508–1648 ... The Ottomans drove out the Portuguese, but were pushed out themselves ...
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  • The River Paraguay (Río Paraguay in Spanish, Rio Paraguai in Portuguese, and meaning “big mirror of waters” in the native Guaraní language ...
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  • the sole source of cloves. The Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and local kingdoms ... The Portuguese navigator António de Abreu was the first European ...
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  • of Dutch, German, British, French, and Portuguese ancestry make up about ... The majority of the population speaks Afrikaans as a second language ...
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  • neglect under the colonial domination of the Portuguese. ... first president of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), ...
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  • against independence movement across the Portuguese Empire. After decades of ... Later, in 1996, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries was formed ...
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  • * Curcuma in Portuguese and French * Куркума (kurkuma) in Macedonian * Kurkuma in Finnish * Gurkmeja in Swedish * 欝金 (ukon) in Japanese ...
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  • rediscovered, possibly accidentally, by Portuguese sailors and settled by ... southeast. In the sixteenth century the Portuguese began building aqueducts ...
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  • *Curso pré-vestibular, or Cursinho (Portuguese, Brazil) ... specialize in subjects like math, foreign language, science, art, or English ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • languages come from Latin (namely Portuguese, Spanish, and French). ... Chile and Uruguay. Brazil has a Portuguese-language pop rock industry ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • city is also known by an older English-language name, Canton. It is a port ... "Canton" was the convenient Portuguese or French romanization ...
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  • a significant milestone by the Portuguese attempting to establish ... The Khoikhoi were originally part of a pastoral culture and language ...
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  • provided a large number of captives to the Portuguese. The empire& ... called a "gaand" in the KiLunda language. It was ruled over by a ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • | language = Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish | registration = Optional ...
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  • The first, and perhaps most famous, Portuguese adventurer to reach Southern ... Though their reign was short-lived, the language of the region continues ...
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  • for its maritime successes during the Portuguese Age of Discovery. The city ... The Bairro Alto (literally upper quarter in Portuguese) is a central ...
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  • ; November 16, 1922 - June 18, 2010) was a Nobel-laureate Portuguese ... Saramago was a member of the Portuguese Communist Party since 1969, ...
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  • as HTML. Most releases are in the English language, but many non-English works ... German, Finnish, Dutch, Chinese, and Portuguese.Jeffrey Thomas, [http://usinfo ...
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  • Nadu, and easily accessible to shipping, Portuguese colonies monopolized the ... set foot the jungles in 1602 when a Portuguese priest, Ferreiri, successfully ...
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  • Africa where Spanish is an official language (excluding the Spanish exclaves ... full membership of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP). ...
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  • the carpincho in Spanish and capivara in Portuguese, H. hydrochaeris is the ... capybara in English and capivara in Portuguese, derives from Kapiÿva ...
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  • studying philosophy and the psychology of language. Following his entrance ... an advisor on education reform in former Portuguese colonies in Africa, particularly ...
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  • are based on Catalonian law, its language is Catalan, as is a large ... in their own country; Spaniards, Portuguese, Frenchmen, and Britons ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • |languages = Zulu(many also speak English or Afrikaans or Portuguese ... Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Mozambique. Their language, isiZulu, is a Bantu language; ...
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  • states flourished after contact with the Portuguese in the 15th century, and ... states flourished after contact with the Portuguese in the fifteenth century ...
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  • and other languages including Hindi and Portuguese. Language has been ... Herald (Goa's oldest, once a Portuguese language paper known as O Heraldo ...
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  • Italian, and weekly in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French (plus ... The Vatican has no set official language, it can be changed at any ...
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  • founded the city. It developed into a Portuguese trading post exporting ... Lagos, a Portuguese word for "lakes," was a Yoruba settlement ...
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  • The Paraná River (Río Paraná in Spanish, Rio Paraná in Portuguese ... of the Waters" (from the Guaraní language) was Sebastian Cabot in 1526. ...
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  • The Arawak culture is still evident in language and traditions. The Arawak ... Dutch (official), Papiamento (national language), Spanish, English. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • | native name link = Portuguese language ... Amerigo Vespucci, who traveled with a Portuguese expedition of Gonçalo ...
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  • Retaining that title (Paulicéia Desvairada, in Portuguese), Andrade ... just of poetry but of the aesthetics of language, in order to explain the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • * Portuguese Empire * Portuguese * Decolonization * Philippines * Manila ==Notes== ...
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  • (or the Malay Archipelago) (Indonesian language: Nusantara). ... region from before the arrival of the Portuguese as evidenced in Magellan ...
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  • dominated its modern history. The Portuguese and then Omani Arabs were ... The Portuguese were the first Europeans to explore Kenya. Vasco da ...
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  • peopled by successive waves of invaders. Portuguese explorer Pedro de Cintra ... The Portuguese — and the Dutch, French, and English who arrived ...
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  • Cultural da República" in Portuguese) is a cultural center located ... (Biblioteca Nacional de Brasília in Portuguese) occupies an area of 16 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • the new-found land that was valuable in Portuguese commerce. This plant has ... the Portuguese introduced the Portuguese language, the Roman-Germanic ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • == Characteristics, behavior and language == Adult orangutan males ... The first orangutan language study program, directed by Dr. Francine ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • smaller Central American populations), Portuguese (8.7 percent). Spanish at home, while 3.8 percent spoke Portuguese, 1.96 percent French, and ...
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  • shortages on the plantations attracted Portuguese from Madeira in the 1840s ... descendants of English colonists and Portuguese migrants, as well as some ...
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  • by ethnic groups using a click-tongue language similar to that of southern ... origin that held ascendancy until the Portuguese destroyed it in the early 1500s. ...
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  • in Japan began in 1549, carried out by Portuguese-sponsored Jesuits and later ... interested in the weapons brought by Portuguese traders and open to the ...
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  • closest to Argentina. It shares a common language and many social customs ... quot; comes from Guaraní the language, meaning "river of ...
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  • coastal area. The capital is Porto-Novo (Portuguese for New Port), which is ... 1886 (cropped).jpg|thumb|400px|The Portuguese Empire was the longest ...
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  • in the sixteenth century, when the Portuguese arrived in the area and ... Bombay holds that it was derived from a Portuguese name meaning good bay. ...
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  • South America and are known as araras in Portuguese and guacamayos in Spanish. ... ==Speech and language learning== As with many species of parrots, macaws ...
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  • The word baroque is derived from the ancient Portuguese noun "barroco ... It is a French translation of the Portuguese phrase "pérola barroca ...
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  • the Kongo Kingdom, which encountered the Portuguese in 1484. Trading contracts ... The Portuguese did not venture into the interior but bought goods ...
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  • , the Persian shambe, Spanish and Portuguese Sábado, the Greek Savato, the Russian "subbota" (суббота) and the Italian word ...
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  • During the Age of Exploration, the Portuguese Empire was the first ... with distinctive features, and a language derived in part from Arabic ...
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  • and hence, the local people and their language is referred to as Cantonese ... the South China Sea, particularly the Portuguese and British, traded extensively ...
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  • where his shrine still stands. His native language was Old Tati (Āzarī), ... Safavids. During his reign, the official language at the royal court was Azerbaijanian ...
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  • including works in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French ... They speak Soqotri, an unwritten Semitic language related to other Modern ...
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  • The Portuguese communist secretary-general Álvaro Cunhal is believed to have been the only political leader from western Europe to have supported ...
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  • the European colonial powers: first the Portuguese, who captured Melaka in ... and settled in Malaysia and some Portuguese. Most of the Middle Easterners ...
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  • A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or ... a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of language that has a meaning, even ...
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  • The first European fleet, four Portuguese ships from Malacca, arrived ... In 1522, another Portuguese named Enrique Leme visited Sunda with ...
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  • Cochin, and Cochi. Occupied by the Portuguese in 1503, Kochi became the ... After the arrival of the Portuguese, and later the British, the name ...
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  • contact began in the 1500s, when Portuguese sea captain Diego Dias ... three official languages. The Malagasy language is of Malayo-Polynesian ...
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  • Juan de Bermudez. Both Spanish and Portuguese ships used the islands ... Some years later, a Portuguese ship on the way home from San Domingo ...
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  • Guaraní tribe (Taylor 2005) comes from the Portuguese guaraná, which has its origins in the Sateré-Maué word warana (Merriam-Webster 2008). ...
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  • Maldives was dominated by the Portuguese beginning in the mid-1500s ... In 1558, the Portuguese established themselves on Maldives, which ...
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  • to Eastern Africa, united by a common language family (the Bantu languages ... that they must be part of a single language group. This basic thesis ...
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  • 039;s male population, the Spaniards and Portuguese interbred with the indigenous ... === Language === Rioplatense Spanish or River Plate Spanish (in Spanish ...
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  • he changed to Deusu from the Latin and Portuguese Deus. The Buddhist monks ... *Bucknell, Roderick, and Martin Stuart-Fox. 1986. The Twilight Language: ...
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  • from the Romance word casta (seen in Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian) ... colonial Latin America under Spanish and Portuguese rule, Japan, Korea, some ...
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  • The first circumnavigation of the Cape of Good Hope by Portuguese ... in effect Zulu people because the language they speak is Zulu and they ...
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  • 14(3) (2006): 285-287 [English with Portuguese abstract]. Brassicaceae ... 23(1) (2006): 202–210. [English with Portuguese abstract]. Retrieved December ...
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  • influences of Persian art, architecture, language and literature. Subsequently ... east from sporadic conflicts with the Portuguese. While the Mughals had ...
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  • sea," bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan ... divided into three phases: Spanish and Portuguese; Dutch; and English and French. ...
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  • is wide enough, Ashkenazi Jews and Spanish and Portuguese Jews tilt the case so that the top slants toward the room the door opens into. This is done ...
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  • treaty with the sultan of Ternate. The Portuguese brought large quantities ... century. During the monopoly of both the Portuguese and the Dutch, these nations ...
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  • and Calcutta, Chinese from Manila, and Portuguese from Macao. Ibid. During the first half of the nineteenth century, Sulu faced increasing competition ...
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  • 1459 with the final expulsion of the Portuguese. Finally, in 1479, Portugal ... The language of the islands is a dialect of Spanish, known as "Canary ...
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  • of teaching children in their native language. Instruction occurs in the ... Given that a common language is essential for good communication and ...
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  • As part of the Portuguese Empire, Brazil inherited the devotion to ... this Yoruba divinity is known in the Portuguese language) is often identified ...
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  • Dutch is the official language of Suriname, but Sranan Tongo serves ... * Sarnami Hindi is the third largest language of the nation. A form ...
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  • in Egypt: Arabic Schools and Experimental Language Schools. Arabic Schools ... Hindi and/or the state's official language is also taught.Anuradha ...
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  • on the continent, along with the Brazil (Portuguese) and Suriname (Dutch) and ... Chinese, and Europeans (mostly British and Portuguese). ...
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  • of cultures brought by African slaves, Portuguese servants and British settlers. ... sugar planters. There is a presence of Portuguese or mixed African-Portuguese ...
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  • a commercial war existed between the Portuguese holding Goa and Malacca ... and despaired with the difficulty of the language and with the refusal of ...
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  • island. In 1503, Mayotte was observed by Portuguese explorers but not colonized. ... *Shimaore, a dialect of the Comorian language (a close relative of Swahili) ...
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  • local customs). After learning the local language, however, they discovered ... with Europeans, specifically with the Portuguese in Macao, should be reduced ...
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  • Aristotelianism has made an indelible contribution to the language ... Scipion Dupleis, and the scholars of the Portuguese Comibra school formed a ...
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  • cachalot. The word cachalot is originally Portuguese (cachalote), probably coming from cachola, a colloquial term for "head." Sperm whales were ...
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  • Bijapur repulsed an invasion by the Portuguese against the city of Goa ... architecture. The development of Dakhani language stands out as an important ...
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  • " The conquest of Malacca by the Portuguese in 1511 meant Brunei benefited ... The Portuguese were more interested in trade and did little to interfere ...
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  • sets a core curriculum consisting of Portuguese, History, Geography, Science ... school, basic information, Turkish language, Mathematics, Sciences, ...
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  • Hideyoshi tried but failed to hire two Portuguese galleons to join the invasion; ... first introduced 50 years earlier by Portuguese traders in 1543, in Tanegashima ...
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  • the Yoruba derived from the Yoruba language. In Spanish and Portuguese ... merely to describe speakers of the Yoruba language. The first documented use ...
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  • During the 1800s, hundreds of Corsican, French, and Portuguese, along ... and English. Spanish is the primary language of Puerto Ricans, though ...
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  • centuries. They, together with the Portuguese, ventured over vast stretches ... perfected their knowledge of the Ilokano language in Santa Maria before they ...
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  • responsible for hot winds. The related Portuguese word tufão, used in Portuguese for any tropical cyclone, is also derived from Greek tuphōn. ...
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  • of indigenous peoples. In today's language, such colonization would ... of Ceuta. Colonialism was led by Portuguese and Spanish exploration ...
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  • see below for derivation) is a Bantu language of the Sabaki subgroup of ... Although only 5-10 million people speak it as their native language ...
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  • The term curry (meaning “a stew”) existed in the English language ... has European origins, derived from the Portuguese "vinho" (wine ...
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  • Portuguese explorers visited the archipelago in 1505. France first ... the country. French is the official language of the country. ...
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  • its theme the love of one's native language.Teofilo H. Montemayor, ... orthography and structure of the Tagalog language. He left Heidelberg a poem ...
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  • the learning and use of the Japanese language in schools. Other methods ... |Community of Portuguese Language Countries | align="center" |1996 ...
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  • In 1601 Hakluyt edited a translation from the Portuguese of Antonio Galvão's The Discoveries of the World. In the same year ...
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  • themselves. It has been traced through Portuguese, Malay, and Persian back ... translation of the 1516 journal of the Portuguese explorer Duarte Barbosa. ...
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  • of its use and properties written in the Nahuatl language.]] ... gave vanilla its name. The Spanish and Portuguese sailors and explorers brought ...
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  • ===Race, language, and age=== [[Image:Cherokee_rose.jpg|thumb|300px ... the state's culture in food, language, and music. The majority ...
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  • that would lead from Europe to Asia. Portuguese admiral Antonio da Saldanha ... who were asked about their first language, 35.7 percent spoke Afrikaans ...
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  • quot;) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic ... as a fundamental creative act using language.Dylan Thomas, Quite Early ...
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  • Although the Portuguese reached the area in the sixteenth century, the first significant Western contact was the arrival of David Livingstone ...
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  • name Singapore is derived from the Malay language words singa (lion) and pura ... During the Malay-Portugal wars in 1613, Portuguese troops set fire to Singapore. ...
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  • it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms ... of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom (Gordon ...
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  • pride. He used strong, even ideological language to condemn communism during ... . Father António Vieira was a Portuguese Jesuit and writer, the ...
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  • Edson Arantes do Nascimento ( (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈɛtsõ aˈɾɐ̃tʃiz ... insult since the word had no meaning in Portuguese. He discovered in the 2000s ...
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  • === Race, ancestry, and language === As of 2004, 11.4 percent of the ... populations, as well as German and Portuguese-American, second highest ...
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  • of words, song, or complete silence. When language is used, prayer may take ... "pray." Closely related is the Portuguese perguntar, "to ask ...
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  • called Kakure Kirishitan. Soon afterward, the Portuguese were permanently expelled, members of the Portuguese diplomatic mission were executed, all ...
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  • word for large bird that was later used by Portuguese explorers to describe the related cassowary in New Guinea (AM 2001). In Victoria, some terms ...
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  • offered their services since the arrival of the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, a few Europeans served as ladies-in-waiting to the last queen Supayalat ...
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  • on the young girl. However, she recounts her Portuguese nanny, Anita, as a strong influence that kept her grounded. "Ingrid," she said "you ...
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  • river valley. In the ancient Egyptian language, the Nile is called iteru ... better knowledge give the credit to the Portuguese Jesuit Pedro Páez. The ...
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  • a number of reasons, including religion, language, customs, culture, and shared ... or culture, especially with concern to language, behavior, customs, and ...
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  • speaking countries it is called aguacate, and in Portuguese it is abacate. The name "avocado pear" is sometimes used in English, as are "alligator ...
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  • III decided not to let William II learn the language. However, Frederick ... In addition to his native language, German, Frederick spoke French ...
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  • in the lowlands and speak the Vietnamese language. A homogeneous social group ... Vietnamese, part of the Austro-Asiatic language family. Vietnamese writing ...
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  • The adjective (language, ethnicity and citizenship) derived from Madagascar ... contact began in the 1500s, when Portuguese sea captain Diego Dias ...
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  • Language is a structured system of communication that consists of ... Depending on philosophical perspectives on the definition of language ...
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  • there in 1549, as well as the Portuguese and the Dutch who did not ... servants, and around 40 Spaniards and Portuguese, including Sebastian Vizcaino ...
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  • The Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish language: Devlet-i Aliye-i Osmaniye; ... Porte or the Porte, from the French language translation of the Ottoman ...
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  • Testament and Psalms into the Mongolian language built a central church, ... Father Michele de Ruggieri to Macao, a Portuguese trading post in Southern ...
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  • for European commerce with India. The Portuguese set up bases in Goa, Daman ... The largest ethnic and language group in India is Indo-Aryan, with ...
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  • Language 32 (1) (Jan-Mar 1956): 5, India as a Lingustic Area. quote ... learned and practiced. The classical language of Tamil, one of the oldest ...
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  • *2,000 Portuguese Anthony Joes in Journal of Conflict Studies wrote that: ... Desertion was high among Spanish and Portuguese formations. These ...
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  • south, while the lower mountains of the Portuguese frontier and Spanish Galicia ... beginning of the incorporation of the Portuguese empire in 1580 (lost in ...
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  • produced the treatises on linguistics Language Made Plain and A Mouthful ... for the screen; invented the prehistoric language spoken in Quest for Fire; ...
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  • tower of the University of Coimbra, the oldest Portuguese university.]] The capture of Constantinople in 1204 by Crusaders during the Fourth Crusade ...
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  • In 1520, while attempting to circumnavigate the earth, the Portuguese ... === Language === The official language is Spanish, though it is difficult ...
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  • Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão reached the mouth of the Congo River ... and Swahili. French is also an official language. It is meant to be a neutral ...
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  • exists that speakers of protoa-Tamil language produced prehistoric pottery ... . Thus, Kerala and Tamil Nadu once shared a common language, ethnicity ...
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  • and has defended the use of English, a language of colonizers, in African ... boys purely on the basis of ability. The language of the school was English ...
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  • ) dates from 1542, when Portuguese sailors sighted an uncharted island ... Taivoan people, written by the Dutch and Portuguese variously as Taiouwang ...
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  • In the early sixteenth century, Portuguese built a fort in the area ... Kuwait's official language is Arabic, though roughly half the ...
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  • #039;s interpreter, Jacob Van Braam, whose first language was neither French nor English. Van Braam either misinterpreted or was unaware of what he ...
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  • as cricket and football), and the English language itself. ... dominant over the French, Dutch and Portuguese trading companies in the ...
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  • and colonies under Spanish and Portuguese rule, the name was adopted ... both of which were of the Chibcha language family. The Muisca people ...
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  • Hanafi school of thought and in Chinese language." When the Chinese ... When Melaka was successively colonized by the Portuguese, the Dutch ...
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  • mostly of Italian, Spanish, German, and Portuguese stock. Other important ... The national and official language is Spanish; 31 indigenous languages ...
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  • What distinguished the three groups was language, religion, and national ... its creators Lord Peter Carrington and Portuguese Ambassador José Cutileiro ...
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  • meaning "destruction" in Hebrew language, became the standard Hebrew ... assisted Jews during the Holocaust is Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa ...
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  • of the Chinese T’ang dynasty. A written language developed using Chinese ... (南蛮, “Southern Barbarians”). The Portuguese first acted as trade intermediaries ...
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  • in Burma after being removed from a temple by the Portuguese in 1608. It is reported to have weighed about 300|tonne. *The Tsar Bell by the Motorin ...
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  • quot; which is the name of an Aboriginal language spoken in the northern part ... on the people of Northern Australia—in language, art, economy, and even ...
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  • far north as the Russian River was the Portuguese João Rodrigues Cabrilho ... five and older spoke English as a first language at home, while 25.8 percent ...
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  • being defeated by a joint Ethiopian-Portuguese force in 1543. The Ajuuraan ... a Latin script to make Somali a written language for the first time. They ...
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  • #039;s longest continuously used written language system: Chinese characters ... of religion, philosophy, culture, and language. However, it has also been ...
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  • from the Earliest Times to the Coming of the Portuguese |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hlpLH0w6VWUC&pg=PA45 |year=1921 |publisher=Asian ...
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  • The name for Turkey in the Turkish language, Türkiye, can be divided ... Empire welcomed millions of Spanish and Portuguese Jews after 1492, Russian ...
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  • People's Republic of China and ejecting the Portuguese from Goa by military force. Gandhi, 508-512. When Nehru pressured Dr. Rajendra Prasad ...
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  • West as Persia, due to the ancient Greek language name for Iran, Persis. The ... Iran, called Fars or Pars in the Persian language. This region was the core ...
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  • It is the place of origin of the French language and civil law forms the ... to as Gauls and who spoke the Gaulish language. On the lower Garonne the ...
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  • This modern concept of emotion first emerged in the English language ... displays of emotion, including body language. For example, spite seems ...
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  • operas have become part of the English language (even if not originated ... into many languages, including Portuguese, Yiddish, Hebrew, Swedish ...
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  • armed struggle. During the 1970s, in the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique ... nations, the relation with the French language is often more complex. Algerian ...
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  • commands. Lajes Field, in the Portuguese Azores, is an important transatlantic staging post. Directly responsible to SACEUR is the NATO Airborne ...
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  • and fire in 1755, and imprisonment by the Portuguese Inquisition, Pangloss is left as a beggar infected with syphilis. Yet the philosopher remains ...
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  • quot;). Early seventeenth-century Portuguese called it Miyaco or Miaco. João Rodriguez, Arte da Lingoa de Iapam (1604). A common English pronunciation ...
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  • of the White Australia Policy; introduced language programs for non-English ... #039;s plans to annex East Timor, then Portuguese Timor. ...
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  • of Europeans (especially of the early Portuguese traders who visited Japan ... which is not corroborated by Japanese-language sources. ...
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  • only truly civilized people in Africa. Language and ideology paralleled ... to Komatipoort, Kruger sought asylum in Portuguese East Africa (modern Mozambique ...
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  • European visitor was Jorge Álvares, a Portuguese mariner who arrived in 1513. ... Hakka and Teochew. Cantonese, a Chinese language commonly spoken in southern ...
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  • of the Native American [Algonquian]] language family.) It was recorded ... dousing behavior in conjunction with that language's term for "bear ...
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  • Dictionary and derived from the Persian language for the people who lived ... sacred texts are composed in the Sanskrit language. Indeed, much of the morphology ...
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  • period of the Kingdom of Portugal and the First Portuguese Republic. * In Romania, with the reign of Carol I. * In Russia, with the reign of Alexander ...
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  • and the "proto-Tibeto-Burman" language may have split sometime ... Portuguese missionaries visited in 1624 and built a church, and two ...
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  • Tens of thousands of Portuguese who survived the Great Lisbon Earthquake on November 1 were killed by a tsunami which followed a half hour later ...
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  • of one's mother tongue or any Indian language as opposed to English—the ... jokes. Gandhi also taught Patel Sanskrit language. Gandhi's secretary ...
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  • between the two world wars; Spaniards, Portuguese and North Africans from ... a higher education in the finer arts of language, physics, music and theology ...
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  • like in the relatively nonviolent Portuguese Carnation Revolution. ... *Sharp, Gene. Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle: Language ...
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  • The word slave in the English language originates from the Scottish ... time the British, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese delegations blocked an ...
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  • allied "Austracist" army with Portuguese and English presence that ... rather "outmoded" architectural language, with the purpose of turning ...
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  • years later, British traders battled the Portuguese at the Battle of Swally ... period. The predominance of the English language in India, has also proved ...
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  • return to Spain, fleeing the persecution of the Portuguese Inquisition that was founded in 1532. This translated into a rapid increase in the trials ...
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  • plantations successfully used by the Portuguese in Brazil, which depended ... , and in the global spread of the English language and Anglican Christianity ...
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  • of megalomania as early as 1892, by the Portuguese man of letters Eça de ... to droop. Wilhelm even learned the Dutch language. Wilhelm developed ...
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