New Portuguese Letters (Portuguese: Novas Cartas Portuguesas) is a literary work composed of letters, essays, poems, fragments, puzzles and excerpts from...
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The Letters of a Portuguese Nun (French: Les Lettres Portugaises, literally The Portuguese Letters), first published anonymously by Claude Barbin in Paris...
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Denis of Portugal created the first Portuguese university in Lisbon (the Estudos Gerais, which later moved to Coimbra) and decreed for Portuguese, then simply...
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Mariana Alcoforado (category 17th-century Portuguese nuns)
Beja, Portugal. Debate continues as to whether Mariana was the real Portuguese author of the Letters of a Portuguese Nun (comprising five letters). Her...
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and white letters and numbers. The sequence AP–00–00 is only used by Portuguese Navy vehicles. The sequence AM–00–00 is only used by Portuguese Air Force...
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The United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves was a pluricontinental monarchy formed by the elevation of the Portuguese colony named State of...
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Maria Velho da Costa (category Articles with Portuguese-language sources (pt))
became one of the authors of the book Novas Cartas Portugesas (New Portuguese Letters), together with Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Isabel Barreno. The...
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Women's liberation movement (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
Portuguesas 1972–1975 [The Portuguese Feminist Revolution 1972–1975] (PDF) (master's degree) (in Portuguese). Lisbon, Portugal: Universidade Aberta. Archived...
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explored in 1455 and 1456 on behalf of the Portuguese. This was merely a literary flourish, not a suggestion of a new "fourth" part of the world. Cadamosto...
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Latin script (redirect from Roman letters)
script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet...
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Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters]. Monica Wittig (translator), Evelyne Le Garrec (translator) and Vera Prado (translator). Garden City, New York: Doubleday...
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Portuguese colonization of the Americas (Portuguese: Colonização portuguesa da América) constituted territories in the Americas belonging to the Kingdom...
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Amerigo Vespucci (category Maritime history of Portugal)
in 1501 during his Portuguese expedition, that Brazil was part of a fourth continent unknown to Europeans, which he called the "New World". The claim inspired...
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Maria Isabel Barreno (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
was a Portuguese writer, essayist, journalist and sculptor. She was one of the authors of the book Novas Cartas Portugesas (New Portuguese Letters), together...
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28 letters, while the Portuguese had 23. Modern versions of recent years added k and w (found only in foreign words) to both languages. Portuguese also...
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Paulo Coelho (category Members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters)
-yoh, Portuguese: [ˈpawlu koˈeʎu]; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002...
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Russian alphabet (redirect from Russian letters)
Sem Mestre" (Portuguese for Russian without Master), by Custódio Gomes Sobrinho Russian language course "Russo Sem Mestre" (Portuguese for Russian without...
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List of QWERTY keyboard language variants (redirect from Portuguese keyboard layout)
Essentially, the Portuguese keyboard contains dead keys for five variants of diacritics; the letter Ç, the only application of the cedilha in Portuguese, has its...
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uses all diacritics and all 23 letters from the Portuguese alphabet (before the Orthographic Agreement of 1990; the letters k, w, and y are found mainly...
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Old Goa (redirect from Portuguese Goa State)
Sultanate in the 15th century AD. After the Portuguese conquest of Goa, it served as capital of Portuguese Indian possessions, such as Mumbai/Bombay (Bom...
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A Portuguese name, or Lusophone name – a personal name in the Portuguese language – is typically composed of one or two personal names, the mother's family...
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Brazilian Academy of Letters and is known as Brazilian Portuguese. Differences between European and Brazilian written forms of Portuguese occur in a similar...
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Galician–Portuguese (Galician: galego–portugués or galaico–portugués; Portuguese: galego–português or galaico–português), also known as Old Galician–Portuguese...
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Diacritic (redirect from Accents on letters)
diacritic characters in alphabetical order. For example, French and Portuguese treat letters with diacritical marks the same as the underlying letter for purposes...
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Letter of marque (redirect from Letters of marque)
the same war. Likewise the notorious Lafitte brothers in New Orleans cruised under letters of marque secured by bribery from corrupt officials of tenuous...
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Azores (redirect from Portuguese Azores)
The Azores (/əˈzɔːrz/ ə-ZORZ, US also /ˈeɪzɔːrz/, AY-zorz; Portuguese: Açores, Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈsoɾɨʃ]), officially the Autonomous Region of...
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Kingdom of Kongo (redirect from Kongo-Portuguese War of 1622)
a vassal state of the Kingdom of Portugal. In 1914, following the Portuguese suppression of a Kongo revolt, Portugal abolished the titular monarchy. The...
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The Portuguese Colonial War (Portuguese: Guerra Colonial Portuguesa), also known in Portugal as the Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former...
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use different letters from non-EU style plates). The Netherlands (until 2008) and Portugal both use three groups of two characters (letters or numbers)...
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English as She Is Spoke (category Articles containing Portuguese-language text)
credibility. The Portuguese–French phrase book is apparently a competent work, without the defects that characterize the Portuguese–English one. The title...
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