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 | | IPA /ɐ'fõsu/; English Alphonzo or Alphonse), or Affonso (Old Portuguese), (August 21, 1643–September 12, 1683) was the twenty-second (or twenty-third according to some historians) King of Portugal and Algarves, the second of the House of Braganza, known as the Victorious (Port. |
 | | Colonial affairs saw the Dutch conquest of Jaffnapatam, Portugal's last colony in Sri Lanka (1658) and the cession of Bombay and Tangier to England (June 23, 1661) as dowry for Afonso's sister, Catherine of Braganza who had married King Charles II of England. |
 | | Afonso was banished to the island of Terceira in the Azores for seven years, returning to mainland Portugal shortly before he died at Sintra in 1683. |
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