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 ...

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.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s National Museum offered a glimpse of its renovated building and collection on Monday, two days ...

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

Some of the best examples of Portuguese architecture can be found in its stunning palaces. They are known for their grandeur ...

What Liverpool’s Owners Are Planning Beyond AnfieldMulti-Club Model Driven by Strategy and RevenueFenway Sports Group (FSG), ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

Williams reports that a “deal in principle” has already been agreed with Getafe, which could see FSG commit around £200m to ...

I n June 1494, a document was created that effectively divided the newly 'discovered' lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire. Known as the Treaty of Tordesillas, ...