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	Portugal. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Portugal is bordered by Spain on the east and north and by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and south.
		Ferdinand’s heiress was married to a Castilian prince, John I of Castile; after the death of Ferdinand, John claimed the throne.
		Although her reign was marred by coups and dictatorship, the activities of moderates and liberals laid a groundwork for the reforms—penal laws, a civil code (1867), and commercial regulations—of the reigns of Peter V (1853–61; begun under the regency of Maria’s husband Ferdinand II) and of Louis I (1861–89).
	www.bartleby.com /65/po/Portugal.html (3353 words)

	PORTUGAL - LoveToKnow Article on PORTUGAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Climate.The climate of Portugal is equable and temperate.
		Six-sevenths of the population of continental Portugal inhabit the provinces north of the Tagus.
		The royal authority in Portugal was delegated to Margaret of Savoy, duchess of Mantua, whose train of Spanish and Italian courtiers aroused the jealousy of the Portuguese nobles, while the harsh rule of her secretary of state, Miguel de Vasconcellos de Brito, provoked the resentment of all classes.
	88.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/PORTUGAL.htm (21258 words)

	History of Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1095 Portugal was an obscure border fief of the kingdom of Leon.
		Because Philip II of Spain was the son of a Portuguese princess, Spain invaded Portugal and the Spanish ruler became Philip I of Portugal in 1580; the Spanish and Portuguese Empires were under a single rule.
		Portugal applied international pressure to secure East Timor's independence from Indonesia, as East Timor was still legally a Portuguese dependency, and recognized as such by the United Nations.
	hallencyclopedia.com /History_of_Portugal (3541 words)

	Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Portugal is a democratic republic on the Iberian Peninsula (southwestern Europe) with several islands in the Atlantic (islands of Azores Madeira and Savage).
		Mainland Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and Atlantic Ocean to the west and south.
		Portugal traces its national origin to the of São Mamede in 24th June 1128 when the first Portuguese King Afonso I son of Henry of Burgundy proclaimed as Prince of Portugal and in 1139 as King of Portugal outthrowning his mother Teresa Countess of and former Countess of Portugal.
	www.freeglossary.com /Portugal (4452 words)

	Portugal - Gurupedia
		Portugal traces its national origin to the Battle of São Mamede in 24th June 1128, when the first Portuguese King, Afonso I, son of Henry of Burgundy, proclaimed himself as Prince of Portugal and in 1139 as King of Portugal, outthrowning his mother, Teresa, Countess of Galicia and former Countess of Portugal.
		In 1249 - 1250, the Algarve is finnaly reconquest by Portugal to the Moors, and in 1255, the capital is shifted to Lisbon.
		Portugal is the country for wine lovers, known since the Roman Empire as one of the greatest in the empire; the Romans immediately associated Portugal with its God of Winery and Feast, Bacchus.
	www.gurupedia.com /p/po/portugal.htm (4142 words)

	Encyclopedia: Afonso III of Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		BerengÃ¡ria, princess of Portugal was Queen consort of Denmark, fifth daughter of Portuguese King Sancho I, wife of Danish King Valdemar II and mother of Danish Kings Eric IV, Abel and Christopher I. She was born c.
		Prince John (1349-1387) was the son of Portuguese King Peter I and a Castilian noblewoman named InÃªs de Castro that had arrived in Portugal as a maid of princess Constance of Castile, recently married to Pedro I (Prince at the time).
		Afonso, prince of Portugal (1263-1312), married to princess Violante of Castile (daughter of Juan Manuel of Castile).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Afonso-III-of-Portugal (2324 words)

	Ferdinand, Prince of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ferdinand married Jeanne on January 1212 in Paris.
		Released after this concession, Jeanne and Ferdinand soon joined the old allies of her father, king John of England and Emperor Otto IV, in an alliance against France.
		Ferdinand was to remain in French hands for the next 12 years, while Jeanne ruled alone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferdinand,_Prince_of_Portugal (234 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Blessed Ferdinand
		The Moors likewise demanded that one of the princes be delivered into their hands as a hostage for the delivery of the city.
		One of the latter, João Alvarez, his secretary and biographer, carried his heart to Portugal in 1451, and in 1473 his body was brought to Portugal, and laid to rest in the royal vault at Batalha amid imposing ceremonies.
		Prince Ferdinand has ever been held in great veneration by the Portuguese on account of his saintly life and devotion to country.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06039c.htm (1312 words)

	A Brief History of Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Because Philip II of Spain was the son of a Portuguese princess, Spain invaded Portugal and the Spanish ruler became Philip I of Portugal in 1580.
		Portugal maintained an independent law, currency and government, and the two first Spanish kings were popular.
		Portugal applied international pressure to grant East Timor's independence from Indonesia and claimed that East Timor was still a Portuguese dependency, recognized by the United Nations.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /Portugal/portugal-interest-history.html (1599 words)

	Ferdinand de Saussure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ferdinand de Saussure (November 26, 1857 - February 22, 1913) was a Swiss linguist.
		ferdinand ferdinand magellan ferdinand marcos ferdinand plavidal ludwig ferdinand rasse
		Ferdinand, Prince of Portugal, always pious and known for his generosity.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Ferdinand_de_Saussure.html (499 words)

	Royal Family of Europe - pafg36 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Jodao Prince Of PORTUGAL AND THE ALGARVES [Parents] was born on 13 Jan 1400 in, Santarbem, Santarbem, Portugal.
		Filippa Princess Of PORTUGAL was born in 1432 in Of, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
		Hans "the Younger" Prince Of DENMARK was born on 25 Mar 1545 in Koldinghus, Kolding, Vejle, Denmark.
	www.ishipress.com /royalfam/pafg36.htm (1780 words)

	John II of Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Joo II of Portugal, "the Perfect Prince", fourteenth king of Portugal was born in Lisbon in March 3 1455 and died in Alvor in October 25 1495.
		He was the son of king Afonso V of Portugal by his wife, Isabel of Coimbra, princess of Portugal.
		As a prince, Joo II accompanied his father in the campaigns in northern Africa and was made a knight by him after the victory in Arzila in 1471.
	www.enlightenweb.net /j/jo/john_ii_of_portugal.html (1000 words)

	Bl. Ferdinand
		"Prince Ferdinand the Constant" he was called by the great Spanish playwright Calderon in a play written about this patriotic son of King John I of Portugal.
		In Ferdinand of Portugal were blended the royal blood of both Portugal and England, but it was precisely because he was a prince that he had to suffer and die as a hostage.
		Ferdinand and his famous explorer brother, Henry the navigator, persuaded their elder brother, King Edward (Duarte) to send them on an expedition against the Moors in northern Africa.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id722.htm (608 words)

	Ferdinand
		Ferdinand IV, Archduke of Austria, duke of Modena.
		Ferdinand IV of Castile and Leon[?] - 1285-1312; became king 1295.
		Ferdinand of Austria, Cardinal-Infante of Spain[?] - 1618-1641
	www.fastload.org /fe/Ferdinand.html (280 words)

	Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Portugal is a democratic republic on the Iberian Peninsula (southwestern Europe), with several islands in the Atlantic Ocean (islands of Azores, Madeira, and Savage).
		Portugal, three years earlier, did not accept Christopher Columbus' idea of reaching India from the west, because it was seen as unreasonable.
		Portugal made international pressure to grant East Timor's independence from Indonesia (Portugal cut diplomatic relations with this country and prohibited the import of Indonesian products) and applied that East Timor was still a Portuguese dependency, recognized by the United Nations.
	www.aseannewsnetwork.com /articles/content/p/po/portugal.html (4726 words)

	Henry the Navigator
		Henry the Navigator (13941460), prince of Portugal, noted as the patron of navigation and exploration, born in Oporto.
		In Portugal, meanwhile, Pedro's brother, Dom Miguel, appealed to the supporters of absolute monarchy to overthrow the constitutionalists, and an insurrection led by the prince almost succeeded on April 30, 1824.
		In 1826 Pedro I of Brazil succeeded to the throne of Portugal as Pedro IV.
	www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu /antillians/henry.html (1893 words)

	Prince Regent: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Subject to certain limitations for a period, the Prince Regent was able to exercise the full powers of the King.
		The Prince of Wales (The male heir apparent of the British sovereign) continued as regent until his father's death in 1820, when he became George IV.
		Another notable Prince-Regent was Prince William of Prussia (additional info and facts about Prince William of Prussia), who served as regent from 1858 to 1861 for his older brother Frederick William IV (King of Prussia who violently suppressed democratic movements (1795-1865)), who had become mentally unfit to rule.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pr/prince_regent.htm (315 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: Blessed Ferdinand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Confessor, Prince of Portugal, born Santarem, Portugal, 1402; died Fez, Morocco, 1443.
		He was the son of King John I of Portugal, and from his youth led a life of sanctity at court, reciting the canonical hours daily and devoting himself to the poor.
		The Moors refused and Ferdinand was flung into a dungeon at Fez, where after five years of insult and torture, borne patiently, he died.
	www.catholic-forum.com /Saints/ncd03256.htm (150 words)

	Maria II of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was the second Queen of Portugal and the 29th (or 30th according to some historians) Portuguese monarch.
		She married again to Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, son of Ferdinand August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his wife Maria Antoniette Gabrielle of Kohari.
		Married Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Singmaringen and was the mother of King Ferdinand I of Romania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maria_II_of_Portugal (868 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Blessed Ferdinand
		A prince, the son of King John I of Portugal.
		The Portuguese were defeated at Tangiers; Ferdinand offered himself as a hostage to secure the cession of Ceuta to the Moors.
		Ferdinand was thrown into a dungeon at Fez, Morroco where he survived five years of abuse and torture.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintf3q.htm (124 words)

	Portugal
		In 997 the territory between the Douro and Minho rivers (now northern Portugal) was retaken from the Moors by Bermudo II, king of León, and in 1064 the reconquest was completed as far south as present-day Coimbra by Ferdinand I, king of Castile and León.
		Portugal was recognized as independent by the pope in 1179.
		During the 1950s, Portugal developed close relations with the United States, and in 1958 Salazar allowed an opposition candidate, Humberto Delgado, to run for the presidency, but he was defeated by the government's candidate, Rear Admiral Américo Deus Tomás.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/GeogHist/histories/history/hiscountries/P/portugal.html (3417 words)

	Ferdinand, Prince of Portugal (1217-1246) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		IPA /fɨɾ.'nɐ̃.du/) in Portuguese as a Portuguese Prince son of Afonso II, King of Portugal and his wife Urraca of Castile, daughter of Alfonso VII of Castile.
		Ferdinand was born after 1217 and soon was made Lord of Serpa.
		It is known that he travelled to Rome around 1239 to beg for pardon from Pope Gregory IX.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferdinand,_Prince_of_Portugal_(1217-1246) (117 words)

	Prince Charles ~ The Sustainable Prince
		The Prince’s Anglo-Saxon and Danish royal forefathers sprang from Dark Age kings who incarnated the storm-spirit Woden (after whom Wednesday is named), and among his pagan Celtic royal forefathers were King Niall of the Nine Hostages and the Dynamic Iron Age sacral kings of Tara, the great sanctuary of ancient Ireland.
		In the seventies, the Prince started to involve himself with organic farming, architecture, and homeopathic medicine, all of which are the components of a “holistic” philosophy, by returning to nature, Mother Earth.
		Gerald Paget, The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales.
	www.despatch.cth.com.au /Despatch/Vol93_Charles_sustainable.htm (5073 words)

	Saints of June 5
		Born at Santarem, Portugal, in September 29, 1402; died in Fez, on June 5, 1443; cultus approved in 1470.
		Ferdinand, son of King John I of Portugal and his queen, Philippa, daughter of John of Gaunt, was unusually pious for a prince in that age.
		Henry escaped, but Ferdinand was captured and maltreated when his brother, King Edward, refused to ransom him with the stronghold of Ceuta.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0605.htm (1898 words)

	PORTUGAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Duke of Burgundy (died 1071), a member of the Royal House of France, established himself as ruler of a substantial portion of modern Portugal, with the title Count, circa 1093, and was father of Alfonso I (died 1185), who assumed the title King of Portugal ca 1139.
		The House of Aviz, as John’s descendants became, was extinguished in the legitimate male line with the death of Henry I, Cardinal King in 1580, when the throne was assumed by his nephew, Philip II King of Spain.
		King John’s yr son, (2) Infante Miguel, Duke of Bragança (born 26 Oct 1802; died 14 Nov 1866), was King of Portugal as Miguel I from 30 Jun 1828 to 26 May 1834, but he and his descendants were deprived of their rights and expelled from the throne 19 Dec 1834.
	www.chivalricorders.org /royalty/gotha/porthist.htm (342 words)

	Prince Ferdinand's rule (from Bulgaria) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Born on June 7, 1959, in Minneapolis, Minn., Prince Rogers Nelson was named after the Prince Rogers Trio, a jazz group led by his father.
		Prince was playing in a band by the age of 12 and at 17 broke into the music business.
		Marcos, Ferdinand E. The annual salary of Ferdinand Marcos as president of the Philippines was 5,700 dollars.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-42739 (811 words)

	Worldroots.com
		Prince von Eichstaett and Princess Augusta of Bavaria
		Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Titular King of
		Portugal, son of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,
	worldroots.com /brigitte/famous/p/pedro4brazildescendants.htm (427 words)

	AllRefer.com - John of Gaunt (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He served under his brother, Edward the Black Prince, in the Hundred Years War and went (1367) on his campaign to aid Peter the Cruel of Castile.
		In 1386, allied with John I of Portugal, who married one of his daughters, he led an expedition to make good his Castilian claims against John I of Castile.
		John of Gaunt finally agreed to peace in 1388, transferred his claims to his daughter by Constance of Castile, and married her to the future Henry III of Castile.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/JohnGaun.html (549 words)

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