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	House of Braganza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		IPA: /bɾɐ.'ɣɐ̃.sɐ/) was the royal house of Portugal from 1640 to 1910 and ruled the Empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1889.
		It was a collateral line of the House of Aviz, which ruled Portugal from 1385 until the Habsburg seizure of the Portuguese throne in 1580.
		After the accession of the House of Bragança to the Portugese throne in 1640, following the Philippine Dynasty of Spanish Habsburgs, the heir of the Portuguese Crown has been known as the Duke of Bragança together with, or alternately to Prince of Beira.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/House_of_Braganza (1509 words)

	Duke of Braganza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The title Duke of Braganza in the House of Braganza is one of the most important titles in the peerage of Portugal, as the ancient Duchy of Braganza (Bragança), is one of the oldest and most important Dukedoms of Portugal.
		Since the House of Bragança acceded to the throne of Portugal in 1640, the heir of the Portuguese Crown has been known as the Duke of Bragança together with, or alternately to Prince of Beira.
		The tradition of the heir to the throne being titled Duke of Braganza was revived by various pretenders after the foundation of the Republic in October 5, 1910, to signify their claims to the throne.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_of_Braganza (554 words)

	List of Portuguese monarchs - Psychology Central
		The dynasty began with the acclamation of Philip II of Spain as Philip I of Portugal in 1580, officially recognized in 1581 in the Cortes of Tomar.
		The House of Braganza traced its origins to 1442 when the Duchy of Braganza was created by Alphonzo V and offered to his uncle Alphonzo, son of John I. The royal lineage of Dukes that followed intercrossed with the House of Aviz and became one of the most important noble families of the country.
		The House of Braganza continues unofficially until today, and the title of Duke of Braganza is still used by Duarte Pio, the 24th Duke of Bragança and the presumptive heir to the throne of Portugal.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/King_of_Portugal (1766 words)

	PRELIMINARY REMARKS
		Houses of Tudor in England and of Stewart in Scotland.
		The House of Wittelsbach in the Palatinate and Bavaria.
		Dukes of Mantua: House of Gonzaga from 1478.
	www.uni-mannheim.de /mateo/camenaref/cmh/vol13.html (3049 words)

	Braganza: From House to Palace to 'municipio' - Apr. 18, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Braganza called the driver to swing by the house for fancy duds, while he jumped into a taxicab to meet with his boss.
		Among pieces of legislation Braganza co-authored in Congress were the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act, the Clean Air Act and the Irrigation Crisis Act-all pertaining to the land and the environment, issues close to Braganza's small-town roots.
		Braganza plans to talk to a Metro Manila mayor or two to provide a trading post for his farmers' produce, cooperative to cooperative, eliminating the middlemen, and getting fairer prices for their vegetables, fruit and bangus (milkfish).
	www.inq7.net /nat/2004/apr/18/nat_10-1.htm (1333 words)

	Braganza
		Braganza, royal house that ruled Portugal from 1640 to 1910 and Brazil from 1822 to 1889.
		The house of Braganza ruled Portugal until the establishment of a republic in 1910.
		Catherine of Braganza - Catherine of Braganza, 1638–1705, queen consort of Charles II of England, daughter of John...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0808690.html (227 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features
		The typical Goan house, whether a simple basic structure to provide shelter or the grand ornate mansion, was a vital pivot on which family ties revolved.
		The architecture of the house is again not very impressive, but as you enter, the charm and grace of a lifestyle of a bygone era unfolds like pages from a wonderful fairytale.
		A model housing complex where garbage collected and recycled and a septic tank system where the human excreta is treated and used as fertilizer is working well in a 114 acre housing complex in Ja-Ela.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/08/13/fea07.html (2635 words)

	THE ORDER OF OUR LADY OF THE CONCEPTION OF VILA VIÇOSA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The fortunes of the Royal House of Braganza and the Kingdom of Portugal have been united for centuries.
		The latter's younger but only surviving daughter, the Duchess of Braganza, and her husband were unable to establish sufficient support, and Philip was able to take advantage of the ensuing uncertainty.
		Here the father of the present Duke of Braganza, de jure Duarte II of Portugal (died 1976), was interred in a moving ceremony among the remains of his ancestors.
	www.chivalricorders.org /orders/portugal/vilavic.htm (3453 words)

	The Braganza: An Historical Account
		History of the Braganza, or the Regent of Portugal as told by Joseph Mawe who recounts events including the mention of Napoleon, Brazil, the Star of the South, and King John.
		The house of Braganza was divided against itself for many years during the first quarter of this century and very nearly came to destruction thereby.
		Indeed the Braganza stone leads so secluded a life that its very form is not distinctly known, but is said to be octahedral, a type of crystallization frequently met with in diamonds and topazes.
	www.jjkent.com /articles/braganza-historical-account.htm (2830 words)

	Senator raps Palace, House ... - Jun. 26, 2003
		The statement was issued amid renewed talk that the amendments being pursued by the President's allies in the House of Representatives were aimed at bringing about an extension of her assumed term, which ends in June next year.
		De Venecia said the Senate and the House had a "non-negotiable agreement" that there would be no term extension for any elected official beyond 2004, and that next year's elections would proceed as scheduled.
		According to Braganza, Ms Macapagal "does not have any knowledge of [and] has not given any authority" to a 40-member study group that will draft the proposed amendments of the 1987 Constitution, as earlier claimed by her own adviser on special concerns, Norberto Gonzales.
	www.inq7.net /nat/2003/jun/26/text/nat_4-1-p.htm (946 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Travel
		Nestled in beautiful surroundings with a small church nearby in a tiny hamlet in Chandor, Mrs Braganza’s House is a major landmark 10 km in east of Madgaon.
		No guides have been employed for taking you around the house because it is the eightysix-year-old lady of the house who herself undertakes the task of introducing her heritage home to the visitors.
		Mrs Braganza does not do much of talking with the visitors and goes about her work in a matter-of-fact manner but since we were the last group that evening, she opened up: "After the land laws were introduced in Goa, the family’s entire property and estates were no more with us.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20031116/spectrum/travel.htm (844 words)

	ALPHONSO - LoveToKnow Article on ALPHONSO
		, the second king of the house of Braganza, was born in 1643 and succeeded his father in 1656.
		In 1667 he was compelled by his wife and brother to abdicate the throne and was banished to the island of Terceira.
		A certain instability of character is revealed by the fact that he took up arms agains't Ramiro, having repented of his renunciation of the world.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AL/ALPHONSO.htm (1139 words)

	Portugal - Mill - oshow4
		Hence, Nun' Alvarez Pereira was one of the ancestors of Catherine of Braganza who married Charles II and became Queen of England (in which role she introduced toast to the British!).
		More importantly, the House of Braganza, albeit reluctantly at first, ruled Portugal from 1640 until the monarchy was abolished and the Republic instituted in 1910.
		This success, on 14 August 1385, secured the independence of Portugal for almost 200 years, established the House of Avis on the throne and, as HV Livermore states, importantly for the future development of the country, assured the fall of the old landed magnates and the rise of the merchant classes of Lisbon and Oporto.
	www.users.bigpond.com /bobhay/portl01/oshow4.html (595 words)

	Somerset House - the Tudor palace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Although it was a courtyard house in the Tudor tradition, with a gatehouse to the Strand and a great hall opposite on the river front, the Strand facade departed from the old Gothic style of architecture and, instead, combined Doric and Ionic pillars in the most serious attempt at classical composition yet seen in England.
		Finally completed in 1553, the house was occupied by Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth I, until her accession to the throne in 1558.
		So when she was given Somerset House for her own use she took up residence and entertained there on a lavish scale, renaming the place 'Denmark House', it became the centre of English social and artistic life.
	www.somerset-house.org.uk /history/tudorpalace (2416 words)

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		‘Braganza is name of the former royal family of Portugal and Brazil, and of the ducal house from which the family was descended.
		That is the devil fish inside a Braganza shell!’ ‘Manuel II and son were shot and killed by the people of Portugal in 1908.’ Remembered Carlos.
		The Duke talked of a War of Tripple Alliance, planned by his house and executed faultlessly about the same time his vassal Habsburg had usurped the crown of Spain and was waiting for the confederate success on the border to the United States.
	www.geocities.com /touxxaint1/book5.txt (19901 words)

	On Granting Aid to Portugal by George Canning. Great Britain: II. (1780-1861). Vol. IV. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Anterior in existence to the accession of the House of Braganza to the throne of Portugal—it derived, however, fresh vigor from that event; and never from that epoch to the present hour, has the independent monarchy of Portugal ceased to be nurtured by the friendship of Great Britain.
		It was then felt that, as the necessity of his most faithful majesty’s absence from Portugal had ceased, the ground for the obligation originally contracted in the secret convention of 1807, and afterward transferred to the patent treaty of 1810, was removed.
		When I state this, it will be obvious to the House that the vote for which I am about to call upon them is a vote for the defense of Portugal, not a vote for war against Spain.
	www.bartleby.com /268/4/12.html (1648 words)

	2,000 farmers demand Braganza's resignation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Braganza, a nephew of former President Ramos and a former congressman from Pangasinan, surely has an idea of what social justice is all about.
		Inside a farmer's house near Hacienda Agueda, Braganza and other DAR officials were in a closed-door meeting with farmer-leaders, a female lawyer and community organizers of the task force.
		Braganza interceded and introduced himself to the guards as the secretary of the DAR.
	www.cyberdyaryo.com /features/f2001_0420_03.htm (2034 words)

	Duke of Braganza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Since the to the throne of the Dynasty of in 1640 the heir of the Portuguese Crown is the Duke of Bragança a tradition that lasted even after foundation of the Republic in October 5 1910.
		Another claimant to the position of head the House of Braganza is the Italian Rosario Poidimani calling himself "Rosario of Braganza" not her son or grandson.
		Poidimani is a relative of one Hilda Toledano who claimed in the 1930s to an illegitimate child of king Carlos I by a Maria Amelia Laredo e This branch defends its claim based on Monarchic Constitution promulgated in 1838 and revoked in 1910 by the Republic.
	www.freeglossary.com /Duke_of_Braganza (1419 words)

	Chandor Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dominating the dusty village square, the house, built in the 1500s by the wealthy Braganza family for their two sons, has a huge double-storey facade, with 28 windows flanking its entrance.
		Braganza de Perreira, the great-grandfather of the present owner, was the last knight of the king of Portugal; more recently, Menezes Braganza (1879-1938), a famous journalist and freedom fighter, was one of the few Goan aristocrats to actively oppose Portuguese rule.
		The house's most famous feature, however, is its ostentatiously grand ballroom, or Great Salon, where a pair of matching high-backed chairs, presented to the Perreira-Braganzas by King Dom Luís of Portugal, occupy pride of place.
	www.infohub.com /Destinations/Asia/India/Chandor (308 words)

	Travelmasti - Goa, Chandor Village - Accommodation, Access
		Thirteen kilometers east of Margoa across the fertile rice fields of Salcete lies sleepy Chandor village, a scattering of tumbledown villas and farm houses ranged along shady tree-lined lanes.
		Dominating the dusty village square, the house, built in the 1500s by the wealthy Braganza family for their two sons, has a huge double-storeyed facade, with twenty-eight windows flanking its entrance.
		Braganza de Perreira, the great-grandfather of the present owner, was the last knight of the king of Portugal; more recently, Menezes Braganza was a famous journalist and freedom fighter, one of the few Goan aristocrats to actively oppose Portuguese rule.
	www.travelmasti.com /domestic/goa/chandor.htm (246 words)

	Braganza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		BRAGANZA (Braganca), the capital of an administrative district formerly included in the province of Traz-os-Montes, Portugal; situated in the north-eastern extremity of the kingdom, on a branch of the river Sabor, 8 m.
		Head of the Royal House of Braganza The Duke of Braganza was born in Berne 15 May 1945, married 13 May 1995 Dona Isabel II Nuno, Duke of Braganza, and Princess Francisca of Orléans-Braganza, and succeeded.
		ITC Braganza is the work of British designer Phill Grimshaw, an elegant typeface 16th century, the name Braganza refers to Catherine, Duchess of Braganza, who was.
	www.99hosted.com /names6155.html (396 words)

	History of Tea : England
		The first pot of tea was made in the kitchen and carried to the lady of the house who waited with her invited guests, surrounded by fine porcelain from China.
		As coffee houses were places of sobriety and moderation, they were known as locales for discussions about literature, politics and art.
		Coffee houses were so active in political discussion and free speech that the government felt threatened by them and made an attempt to abolish them.
	www.geocities.com /lgol27/HistoryTeaEngland.htm (4047 words)

	Wikinfo \| Royal House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Britain's Royal House is the House of Windsor.
		Similarly, though the British Royal House name under Queen Victoria and King Edward VII was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the personal surname of Victoria's descendants was Wettin.
		In 1917, both the Royal House name and surname were changed to Windsor.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Royal_House (236 words)

	The aging of the Spice Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Braganza says he is not new to the agrarian reform law, and had pushed for agrarian reform since his college days.
		Braganza had been in office barely two months when he invited the ire of farmers' groups that said he had "no political will" to implement agrarian reform.
		Braganza now says he was only trying to "avert bloodshed" since there were other farmers who did not belong to TFM and whose side had not been heard.
	www.cyberdyaryo.com /features/f2002_0111_05.htm (3090 words)

	The Amazon Throne: The Orleans-Braganza of Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Referred to as Leopoldina, the Austrian Archduchess was one of the daughters of Emperor Franz I and a sister of Empress Marie-Louise, Napoleon's second wife.
		The Braganzas had been very good at producing offspring, unfortunately for the dynasty most of these children were little Infantas.
		Francisca of Braganza was married to Prince Philippe of Bourbon-Orleans, the fourth son of King Louis-Philippe of France; Januaria of Brazil was married to Prince Louis of the Two-Sicilies, Count of Aquila, brother of Empress Theresa.
	www.eurohistory.com /braganza.html (5175 words)

	Margao,Margao Travel,Tourism in Margao,Margao Tours,Margao in Goa,India
		Surrounded by fertile farmland, the town has always been an important agricultural market, and was once a major religious centre, with dozens of wealthy temples and Dharamshalas - however; most of these were destroyed when the Portuguese adsorbed the area into their Novas Conquistas during the 17th century.
		Route Caetan Miranda house, two minutes' walk south of the square, and Salvador Costa House, tucked away on the western edge of the village, are other mansions worth hunting out; the later is occupied by an elderly lady who only welcomes visitors by appointment.
		Dominating the dusty village square, the house, built in the 1500s by the wealthy Braganza family for their two sons, has a huge double-storeyed façade, with 28 windows flanking its entrance.
	goa.indiantravelportal.com /margao (1222 words)

	History of PORTUGAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		She is Catherine, duchess of Braganza, niece of John III.
		As a result it remains only sixty years in Spanish hands, until the Portuguese royal family is restored as the house of Braganza.
		In 1662 the English king Charles II marries John's daughter, Catherine of Braganza.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?groupid=1709&HistoryID=ab46 (2336 words)

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