The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis. The...
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and Portuguese Galician language History of Galicia History of Portugal History of Brazil List of English words of Portuguese origin Portuguese vocabulary...
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The economic history of Portugal covers the development of the economy throughout the course of Portuguese history. It has its roots prior to nationality...
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with the ascension of Afonso III of Portugal, the first to claim the title of King of Portugal and the Algarve. The history of Portugal in the period between...
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history of Portugal is as long as the history of the country, from before the emergence of the independent Portuguese state. Before the emergence of Portugal...
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This is a timeline of Portuguese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Portugal and its predecessor states...
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The history of the Kingdom of Portugal from the Illustrious Generation of the early 15th century to the fall of the House of Aviz in the late 16th century...
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Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring the westernmost point in continental...
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The Estado Novo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɨʃˈta.ðu ˈno.vu], lit. 'New State') was the corporatist Portuguese state installed in 1933. It evolved from...
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by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal. It was one of the longest-lived colonial empires in European history, lasting 584 years...
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The history of the Jews in Portugal reaches back over two thousand years and is directly related to Sephardi history, a Jewish ethnic division that represents...
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religion in Portugal, with Catholicism being its largest denomination. Portugal is a secular state and its constitution guarantees freedom of religion....
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into an independent Kingdom of Portugal. The history of the county of Portugal is traditionally dated from the reconquest of Portus Cale (Porto) by Vímara...
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The Third Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: Terceira República Portuguesa) is a period in the history of Portugal corresponding to the current democratic...
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Portugal has a long music history, beginning around the year 600 C.E, which accompanied and strongly contributed to the development of the music history...
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Politics in Portugal operates as a unitary multi-party semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Portugal is the...
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The history of the kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves, from the First Treaty of San Ildefonso and the beginning of the reign of Queen Maria I in 1777...
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of Portugal under the House of Braganza was a constitutional monarchy from the end of the Liberal Civil War in 1834 to the Republican Revolution of 1910...
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From the House of Braganza restoration in 1640 until the end of the reign of the Marquis of Pombal in 1777, the Kingdom of Portugal was in a transition...
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a city in the District of Faro, in Portugal. According to tradition, the city was founded about 2,000 years before the Birth of Christ, having been under...
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Indian and Pacific Oceans throughout different moments in history). Portugal was a founding member of NATO (1949), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...
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was King of Portugal. The eldest son of Afonso III of Portugal by his second wife, Beatrice of Castile, and grandson of Afonso II of Portugal, Denis succeeded...
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(Portuguese: o Cardeal-Rei), was king of Portugal and an inquisitor and cardinal of the Catholic Church, who ruled Portugal between 1578 and 1580. As a clergyman...
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Sebastian (Portuguese: Sebastião I [sɨβɐʃˈti.ɐ̃w]; 20 January 1554 – 4 August 1578) was King of Portugal from 11 June 1557 to 4 August 1578 and the penultimate...
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– 20 March 1816) was Queen of Portugal from 24 February 1777 until her death in 1816. Known as Maria the Pious in Portugal and Maria the Mad in Brazil...
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June 1714 – 24 February 1777), known as the Reformer (Portuguese: o Reformador), was King of Portugal from 31 July 1750 until his death in 1777. Among other...
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Republic) spans a complex 16-year period in the history of Portugal, between the end of the period of constitutional monarchy marked by the 5 October...
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I (European Portuguese: [mɐnuˈɛl]; 31 May 1469 – 13 December 1521), known as the Fortunate (Portuguese: O Venturoso), was King of Portugal from 1495 to...
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(Portuguese: João III Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈɐ̃w]; 6 June 1502 – 11 June 1557), nicknamed The Pious (Portuguese: o Piedoso), was the King of Portugal...
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(Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈfõsu]; 21 August 1643 – 12 September 1683), known as "the Victorious" (o Vitorioso), was the second king of Portugal of the...
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