Salazar’s persona united the holy trinity of Portugal’s fascist regime, the “Estado Novo” (“New State”). From 1932 to 1968, he ruled over an empire backed by the Catholic church and ...

High on the cliffs above the Cuanza River in Angola, the fortress of Cambambe stands as a stark monument of Portuguese colonial ambitions in Africa.

Dan tells the epic story of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, whose daring voyages at the turn of the 16th century laid the foundations for the Portuguese Empire.

There was a time when the old Portuguese Empire encompassed colonies in both West Africa and East Africa. In terms of South African engagement, being adjacent to both of the regional colonial outposts ...

More: Portuguese-American woman launches children’s books to encourage learning Portuguese “My Neighbor Fibaloneas” tells the story of Roxa-jóia, a third grader who is tired of her ...

The researchers studied the similarity of non-native species in 1183 regions of the former British, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish empires. The time that regions colonised by the same empire spent ...

Macau, where the Macanese language originated, was a Portuguese territory up until the 1990s. After over 400 years of Portuguese colonial rule, it was handed over to China in December 1999.

Object Details Author Casale, Giancarlo Notes Originally published: 2010. Contents Introduction : an empire of the mind -- Selim the navigator : 1512-1520 -- Ibrahim Pasha and the Age of ...

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Portuguese language surged as a Romance tongue, spreading its roots globally as Portugal forged the pioneering and most enduring colonial and commercial empire ...

Dan Snow’s History Hit. Vasco da Gama and the Rise of the Portuguese Empire. Dan tells the story of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama who changed the world in 1499.