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 ...

• Lords of the Ocean: Treasures of the Portuguese Empire of the 16th to 18th Centuries, Moscow Kremlin Museums, 8 December-25 February 2018. Exhibitions Russia Portugal . Share.

High on the cliffs above the Cuanza River in Angola, the fortress of Cambambe is a crumbling but imposing remnant of Portuguese colonial ambition. Built in 1604, this stone bastion played a ...

Besides trade, the Portuguese, steeped in Iberian crusading traditions where the last Muslim outpost (Grenada) was only conquered in 1492, also ventured into Asia to outflank the Ottoman 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.

And he wrote Os Lusíadas, which is the epic poem of the Portuguese Empire. It’s equivalent to the Odyssey or the Iliad, but of the Luso world in the Age of Exploration. ...

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 ...

The treasures of the English, French and Habsburg rulers have all been shown in special exhibitions at the Moscow Kremlin Museums and now the Russian institution is turning its attention to the ...

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.