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eslsite.com country index eslsite.com destination Introduction Facts for the Traveler When to Go Events ... Activities History Culture Environment Getting Around Portugal History Portugal's history goes back to the Celts, who settled the Iberian Peninsula around 700 BC. The region soon attracted a succession of peoples and was colonised by the Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and Visigoths. In the 8th century, the Moors crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and commenced a long occupation that introduced their culture, architecture and agricultural techniques to Portugal. But resistance to the Moors grew and they were finally ejected during the 13th century. In the 15th century, Portugal entered a phase of overseas expansion due to the efforts of Prince Henry the Navigator. Mariners set off to discover new trade routes and helped create an enormous empire that, at its peak, extended to India, the Far East, Brazil and Africa. This period marked the apogee of Portuguese power and wealth, but it faded towards the end of the 16th century when Spain's Felipe II claimed the throne. Although Spanish rule lasted only a few decades, the momentum of the empire declined over the following centuries. At the close of the 18th century Napoleon sent expeditionary forces to invade Portugal but they were forced back by the troops of the Anglo-Portuguese alliance. During the 19th century the economy faltered and republicanism took hold. National turmoil led to the abolition of the monarchy in 1910 and the founding of a democratic republic.

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Home Study Abroad Portugal Lusitania In the early first millennium BC, several waves of Celts invaded Portugal from Central Europe and intermarried with local peoples, the Iberians, forming the Celt-Iberians. Early Greek explorers named the region "Ophiussa" (Greek for "land of serpents") because the natives worshipped serpents. In 238 BC, the Carthaginians occupied the Mediterranean coasts of the Peninsula. At this time several small tribes occupied the territory, of which the most important ones were the Lusitanian's, who lived between the Douro and Tagus rivers, and the Callaeci who lived north of the Douro river. The Cynetes or Conii, influenced by Tartessos, were long established in Algarve. The Celtici, a later wave of Celts, settled in Alentejo. In 219 BC, the first Roman troops invaded the Iberian Peninsula, driving the Carthaginians out during the Punic Wars. The Roman conquest of Portugal started from the south, where they found friendly natives, the Conii. Over decades, the Romans increased their sphere of control. But in 194 BC a rebellion began in the north, and the Lusitanian's successfully held off the Romans, taking back land and ransacking Conistorgis, the Conii capital, because of their alliance with Rome. Viriathus, born in Lorica, todays Loriga, in Portugal, was the Lusitanian leader. Viriathus waged a successful, protracted war against Rome, which prevailed only by bribing Lusitanian officials to kill their own leader. After the conquest, the process of Romanization began.

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Portugal History The moment of truth Like the Netherlands, Portugal has earned a fine footballing reputation over the years despite a relatively small population, and their stylish game has benefited from players with origins in former Portuguese colonies like Angola and Mozambique, and also players from Brazil. Ancient history The first match was played in Portugal in 1888, almost a century before the great Eusébio dazzled supporters at the finals of the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England, finishing top scorer with nine goals including four in the remarkable quarter-final win against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea . However, it took some time for Portuguese football to find its feet, and the Portuguese Football Federation was not founded until 1914. Bright start Their first international match was to end in a 3-1 defeat by neigbours Spain in 1921, but after becoming members of FIFA in 1923, Portugal made a bright start. Early successes included reaching the quarter-finals at the 1928 Olympic football tournament in Amsterdam, some six years before the foundation of the first Portuguese professional league. Proud refusal Portugal were not to have much success in subsequent decades - the nearest they came to a major achievement was refusing a place at the 1950 World Cup finals in Brazil after Turkey pulled out; a decision which says much for the pride the Portuguese take in their football.

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History Europe History Portugal History Journey to Portugal: In Pursuit of Portugal's History and Culture Jos¿ Saramago February 2002 Paperback From Publishers Weekly In 1979, 19 years before he won the Nobel Prize for literature, Portuguese novelist Saramago (Blindness) journeyed across his homeland, hoping "to write a book on Portugal that [would be] capable of offering a fresh way of looking, a new way of feeling" about the country's history and culture. Out of that personal quest comes this monumental work, a literary hybrid that intermingles an intimate portrait of a nation with aspects of a novel, travel log and guide book. From the outset, a deep sense of Portuguese and European history pervades Saramago's descriptions, which evince a longing for the past whose fragments lie in every crevice, niche and portico. For example, upon seeing "traces of ancient anti-Spanish rancor in the form of obscene graffiti scored into good 15th-century stone" in Miranda do Douro, he... Commander of the Armada : The Seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia Dogs of God James Reston Oct 2005 Hardcover From Publishers Weekly Veteran journalist and author Reston brings to life three key elements of Spanish history that intertwined in 1492. Columbus takes a back seat to the Inquisition and the defeat of Islamic Granada, but plays a key role in demonstrating their relationship to the rise of empire and the modern state. Reston (Warriors of God; Galileo) has done tremendous research, though the shadows of his mostly older sources tend to show in stereotypes of the treasure-hungry, Machiavellian Ferdinand and the handsome adventurer Columbus charming Isabella. While he reduces the order of Dominicans to their role as inquisitors, he generally does justice to the complexities of his subject, examining the worlds of Christians, Muslims and Jews with sympathy and irony, and incorporating portraits of several lesser-known figures. The...

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Subject Summary Subject Books Subjects Search Recently Added Portugal History Referred from 37 books Books on this subject: Here are some of the most recently loaded books on this subject, you can also see all 37 matching books on a separate page. Studies in Portuguese literature and history in honour of Lu­s de Sousa Rebelo edited by Helder Macedo Publisher: London : Tamesis Books ISBN: 1855660121 The Portuguese The Portuguese: the land and its people Marion Kaplan Publisher: London : Penguin ISBN: 0140113525 DDC: 946.9044 Edition: (pbk.) :£7.99 Internationalism and the three Portugals Internationalism and the three Portugals: the memoirs of Francis Millet Rogers edited by Sheila Rogers Ackerlind Publisher: New York : P. Lang ISBN: 0820419346 DDC: 946.904092 LCC: DP538 Edition: (alk. paper) Subject structure: Below you can see components of the subject along with their types and similar subjects. Click on a subject component to see other subjects that include it. "Portugal" Miscellaneous, 653/a Similar Subjects: Portugal Politics and government 1974 Portugal Guidebooks Portugal History Period of discoveries, 1385-1580

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Search The Web! Search The Web! Search The Web! Search The Web! Free Travel Cheap Tickets Auction ... Make Money Portugal HISTORY (government) Portugal's April 25, 1976 constitution reflected the country's 1974-76 move from authoritarian rule to provisional military government to a parliamentary democracy with some initial communist and left-wing influence. The 1976 constitution, which defined Portugal as a "Republic. . .engaged in the formation of a classless society," was revised in 1982, 1989, 1992, and 1997. The 1982 revision placed the military under strict civilian control, trimmed the powers of the president, and abolished the Revolutionary Council (a non-elected committee with legislative veto powers). The 1989 revision eliminated much of the remaining Marxist rhetoric of the original document, abolished the communist-inspired "agrarian reform," and laid the groundwork for further privatization of nationalized firms and the government-owned communications media. The constitution provides for progressive administrative decentralization and calls for future reorganization on a regional basis. The Azores and Madeira Islands have constitutionally mandated autonomous status. A regional autonomy statute promulgated in 1980 established the Government of the Autonomous Region of the Azores; the Government of the Autonomous Region of Madeira operates under a provisional autonomy statute in effect since 1976. Apart from the Azores and Madeira, the country is divided into 18 districts, each headed by a governor appointed by the Minister of Internal Administration. Macau, a dependency which will revert to Chinese sovereignty in 1999, is headed by a presidentially nominated governor general. The four main organs of the national government are the presidency, the prime minister and Council of Ministers (the government), the Assembly of the Republic (parliament), and the courts.

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