ThePortugueseEmpire (Portuguese: Império Português, European Portuguese: [ĩˈpɛ.ɾju puɾ.tuˈɣeʃ]), also known as thePortuguese Overseas (Ultramar Português)...
territories grew within thePortugueseEmpire, Portuguese sovereignty over Macau strengthened and it became a constitutional part ofPortuguese territory. Chinese...
The flag ofPortugal (Portuguese: Bandeira de Portugal) is the national flag ofthePortuguese Republic. It is a rectangular bicolour with a field divided...
The territorial evolutionofthe British Empire is considered to have begun with the foundation ofthe English colonial empire in the late 16th century...
The Dutch Empire is a term comprising different territories that were controlled by the Netherlands from the 17th to 20th centuries. They settled outside...
least the 16th century. In the early 16th century, Sohar was conquered by thePortugueseEmpire, which used the city to control the entrances to the Arabian...
Old Portuguese, also known as Medieval Galician, began to diverge from other Romance languages after the fall ofthe Western Roman Empire and the Germanic...
ThePortuguese people (Portuguese: Portugueses – masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country...
The Omani Empire (Arabic: الْإِمْبَرَاطُورِيَّة الْعُمَانِيَّة) was a maritime empire, vying with Portugal and Britain for trade and influence in the...
empire after separating from thePortugueseEmpire in 1822. France has twice transitioned from being called the French Republic to being called the French...
Portugal, officially thePortuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes...
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the 19th century and it comprised the colonies, protectorates, concessions and dependencies ofthe Kingdom of Italy. In Africa, the colonial empire included...
Territorial evolutionofthe British Empire History ofthe foreign relations ofthe United Kingdom Historical flags ofthe British Empire and the overseas...
addition, Portugal still ruled the Asian territories ofPortuguese India, Portuguese Timor and Portuguese Macau. On 1 February 1908, King Dom Carlos I of Portugal...
agencies. The emblem is an adaptation ofthe Lion Capital of Ashoka, an ancient sculpture dating back to 280 BCE during the Maurya Empire. The statue is...
territorial ventures. The Dutch were among the earliest empire-builders of Europe, following Spain and Portugal and one ofthe wealthiest nations of that time.[citation...
ofPortuguese citizens from Portugal's African territories (mostly from Angola and Mozambique), creating over a million Portuguese "returned" – the retornados...
Theevolutionof languages or history of language includes theevolution, divergence and development of languages throughout time, as reconstructed based...
The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empireofthe German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed...
French Indochina, Portuguese Angola and Portuguese Guinea, Portuguese Mozambique and Portuguese Timor, among other colonies. The civilizing mission also...
became a national emblem ofPortugal and, more specifically, ofthePortugueseempire. A similar flag was introduced for thePortuguese ships that sailed to...
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, theempire stretched from the outer fringes ofthe Indus River Basin in the west...
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation ofthe Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity...
on thePortuguese spoken in the area including and surrounding the cities of Coimbra and Lisbon, in central Portugal. Standard European Portuguese is...