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  Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Portugal is a democratic republic on the Iberian Peninsula (southwestern Europe), with several islands in the Atlantic Ocean (islands of Azores, Madeira, and Savage).
Mainland Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south.
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.
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 Luis I of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luis was a cultured man who wrote vernacular poetry, but otherwise had no distinguishing gifts in the political field into which he was thrust by the deaths of his brothers Pedro V and Ferdinand in 1861.
Luis' domestic reign was a tedious and ineffective series of transitional governments formed at various times by the Progressives (Liberals) and Regenerators (Conservatives – the party generally favoured by King Luis, who secured their long term in office after 1881).
Luis was mostly a man of the sciences, with a passion for oceanography.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luis_I_of_Portugal   (319 words)

  
 Luis Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Luis Portugal died on July 21, 1998 in Lisbon, Portugal, at the young age of 34.
Portugal, A. Portugal and J. Júdice, "Estimação de parâmetros cinéticos de um sistema reaccional utilizado na preparação de resinas de melamina formaldeido em meio butanólico," in M. Turkman and M. Carvalho (Eds.), Proceedings of the First Portuguese Conference on Statistics and Optimization, Troia, pp.
Portugal, L. Fernandes and J. Júdice, "A truncated Newton interior-point algorithm for the solution of a multicommodity spatial equilibrium problem," in M. Ferris and J. Pang, (Eds.), Complementarity and Variational Problems, SIAM, pp.
www.research.att.com /~mgcr/pdnet/portugal.html   (414 words)

  
 Portugal down Holland to reach final
Portugal, defeated in the 1984 and 2000 European Championship semis and in the last four at the 1966 World Cup, face the Czechs or Greeks on Sunday in Lisbon.
Portugal, though, began to exert pressure, with captain Figo in sharp form on the wing in his 109th international, which briefly gave him a share of Fernando Couto's Portuguese record.
Portugal (4-5-1): 1-Ricardo; 13-Miguel, 16-Ricardo Carvalho, 4-Jorge Andrade, 14-Nuno Valente; 6-Costinha, 18-Maniche (5-Fernando Couto 87), 20-Deco, 7-Luis Figo, 17-Cristiano Ronaldo (8-Armando Petit 68); 9-Pauleta (21-Nuno Gomes 75)
www.rediff.com /sports/2004/jul/01portugal.htm   (795 words)

  
 Team portugal one luv   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Portugal coach Luis Felipe Scolari, who guided Brazil to victory in last year's World Cup, has said Deco had come to his attention.
The midfielder could make his Portugal debut against his native Brazil at an upcoming friendly on March 29 in Porto, where Deco has gained hero status for his role in giving FC Porto a clear lead in the Portuguese league.
Before moving to Portugal in 1997, Deco played for Nacional Sao Paulo and Corinthians in the land of his birth.
www.megaone.com /teamportugal/othernews.html   (232 words)

  
 TheFA.com - Luís leads praise
He had been roundly criticised for refusing to join the celebrations after that match, but tonight Figo rolled back the years and was a deserving winner of the Carlsberg Man of the Match award as Portugal reached the final of a major tournament for the first time.
"Portugal have fantastic players and Portugal also have young players and the country needs to be happy for the future as we have a great team developing.
It was a player from the opposite end of the age spectrum, 19-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo, who opened the scoring for Portugal, heading home at close range from a corner.
www.thefa.com /Euro2004/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2004/06/PortugalvHolland_figoreaction.htm   (633 words)

  
 Viva Portugal
Portugal came from a goal down to beat Liechtenstein 2-1 in a Group Three qualifier on Saturday and guarantee a place in next year's finals.
Portugal coach Luiz Felipe Scolari on Friday recalled four players for his team's final qualifiers at home to Liechtenstein on October 8 and Latvia four days later.
Portugal are top of Group Three, five points ahead of second-placed Slovakia and Russia, and need one point to qualify for the finals in Germany next year.
www.livejournal.com /community/viva_portugal   (559 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Football | Euro 2004 | Portugal 1-2 Greece
Portugal finally began to find their feet and Rui Costa should have been celebrating the equaliser but after Ferreira found him unmarked in the box, the AC Milan midfielder could only direct his header tamely wide.
Portugal continued to have more of the ball but were let down by a lack of urgency in the final third of the pitch.
Portugal: Ricardo, Paulo Ferreira, Andrade, Couto, Rui Jorge, Costinha (Nuno Gomes 65), Maniche, Figo, Rui Costa (Deco 45), Simao (Ronaldo 45), Pauleta.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/euro_2004/3787343.stm   (702 words)

  
 Carlos I of Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the son of Louis of PortugalKing Luís Filipe and Princess Maria Pia of Savoy daughter of Umberto I of ItalyUmberto I/, King of Italy.
Domestically, Portugal was twice declared bankrupt - on June 14 1892, and again on May 10 1902 - causing industrial disturbances, socialist and republican antagonism and press criticism of the monarchy.
The assassins were shot at the spot by members of the bodyguard and later recognized as members of the Republican Party.
www.infothis.com /find/Carlos_I_of_Portugal   (398 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Lisbon, Spain & Portugal (Spanish And Portuguese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
677,790), W Portugal, capital of Portugal and of Lisboa dist., on the Tagus River where it broadens to enter the Atlantic Ocean.
Lisbon is Portugal's largest city and its cultural, administrative, commercial, and industrial hub.
Although many of the old buildings were destroyed by earthquakes, particularly the disastrous earthquake of 1755, some of the medieval buildings remain.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Lisbon.html   (466 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Football | Euro 2004 | Portugal | Figo fires warning shot
Portugal's captain Luis Figo warned the hosts are gathering momentum after victory over Spain put them through to the quarter finals.
Portugal's campaign began in stuttering style with a defeat to group A runners-up Greece, and Figo admitted: "The first game wasn't easy for us.
Figo's view was echoed by Portugal coach Luis Felipe Scolari who said: "We were bad in the first game against Greece and so we had to bet everything on the other matches.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/euro_2004/portugal/3788239.stm   (312 words)

  
 sport.iafrica.com | soccer | euro 2004 | star players Luis Figo - Portugal
Luis Figo has won everything there is to win in club football but amazingly Portugal's 'Lion King' has never won anything at senior international level a">
Luis Figo has won everything there is to win in club football but amazingly Portugal's 'Lion King' has never won anything at senior international level and Euro 2004 probably means one last chance for him.
The 31-year-old has suggested that if he were fit by the time of the 2006 World Cup finals he would consider playing but realistically this is the the last chance for himself and several other members of the 'golden generation' who won the 1991 World Youth Cup to capture an international title.
sport.iafrica.com /soccer/euro_2004/star_players/326587.htm   (609 words)

  
 Luis Couto
After several years in Lisbon and assuming that I was a "mouro" I am going to the capital of the "morcoes".
Thanks to all the people for the time there, specially Zoe for letting me "invade" her birthday party and Marcio for the great rest of Friday night.
This last month was full of job interviews and after some possibilities, I finally got selected for a position at Philips Portugal.
luis.nomadlife.org   (878 words)

  
 ESPNsoccernet.com World Cup 2002: Portugal: Luis Figo
Luis Figo has the chance in the finals to prove he is the greatest Portuguese player since Eusebio.
Aptly, Figo iced the cake at Portugal's qualification party when he scored an outstanding lobbed goal in Portugal's 5-0 win over Estonia in October which sealed Portugal's place in the finals.
A member of Portugal's "golden generation" side that twice lifted the World Youth Cup, Figo has now won 78 caps -- a record he shares with Lazio defender Fernando Couto, Figo scored six goals in the qualifying round for World Cup 2002, two of them in important draws against the Netherlands and Ireland.
worldcup.espnsoccernet.com /player?id=20334&lang=en   (562 words)

  
 SI.com - SPORTSTICKER EURO RECAP (NETHERLANDS-PORTUGAL)
LISBON, Portugal (Ticker) -- Portugal has made it through to the final of a major international competition for the first time after posting a 2-1 victory over the Netherlands in the first semifinal of Euro 2004.
Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo put the Portuguese on the board in the 26th minute when he was left undefended on Luis Figo's corner kick and he promptly headed the ball in from just outside the six-yard box.
Portugal seemed to have put the game away on Nuno Maniche's brilliant strike from the edge of the penalty area that curled around Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar in the 58th minute.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/world/2004/euro2004/recaps/2004/06/30/por_ned   (374 words)

  
 Luís Silveira (Univ . Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Portugal in the Iberian Context] in Casmirri, Silvana and Suárez Cortina, Manuel (eds.) - La Europa del Sur en la Época Liberal.
The data we wanted to map were the outcome of a survey launched in 1836 on the tithes collected in the years 1827-1831.
Results: based on the published sheets of the Agricultural and Forestry Map of Portugal (1891-1910) (Carta Agrícola e Florestal de Portugal) we prepared a digital land use map covering a significant part of the province.
www.geog.port.ac.uk /hist-bound/people/silveira.htm   (841 words)

  
 Luis de Camoes
Amorous, quarrelsome and unsuccessful in any wordly sense, Camões lost an eye in Morocco, served in India and was deported from China, struggling back in 1570 to Lisbon, infirm and penniless.
Portugal's poetry had included Galician cantigas, canciones (often influenced by Italian models) and the work (religious and bucolic poems) of Diogo Bernardes (c1530-1605) and Frei Agostinho da Cruz (1540-1619).
Romanticism (João Batista da Silva Leitão de Almeid Garret, António Feliciano de Castilho and Soares de Passos) and Modernismo (Engénio de Castro) brought fresh life; Brazilian writers widened literary content; and the influence of the extraordinary Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) continues to be felt.
www.poetry-portal.com /poets15.html   (443 words)

  
 Magic: The Gathering Event Coverage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Luis Sousa had three byes coming into the Grand Prix from winning a recent Grand Prix Trial.
As Bruno tried to witch the Grappler away during Luis' upkeep, Luis not only saved it by tapping out, but used a Lunge to get rid of the troublesome witch and dropped a Seal of Fire.
Bruno was slightly colour screwed at the start and that gave Luis the time to round up a large army of small creatures to nibble at Bruno's life total.
www.wizards.com /sideboard/eventarticle.asp?event=GPPORTO00&name=928fm8b   (463 words)

  
 TheFA.com - Figo doubt
Real Madrid star Luis Figo missed Portugal's training session in Lisbon this morning, as a leg muscle strain confined him to a solo session in the gym.
Meanwhile Porto defender Ricardo Carvalho has backed Felipe 'Big Phil' Scolari after the Portugal coach stated that Jorge Andrade and Fernando Couto would be his first choice centre-back partnership.
Portugal trained today for the first time since beating Lithuania 4-1 in their final warm-up match.
www.thefa.com /Euro2004/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2004/06/Portugal_Figo_Carvalho.htm   (169 words)

  
 Camoes, Luis de --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Regarded as Portugal's national poet, Luís de Camões left his homeland in 1553 as a young poet and returned 17 years later as a mature one.
Portugal's great national poet, author of the epic poem Os Lusíadas (1572; The Lusiads), which describes Vasco da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India.
Portugal's daily cultural life centers on the home and family.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9273471?tocId=9273471   (680 words)

  
 Portugal News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Portugal news continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Portugal 0, Russia 0 MOSCOW (AP) -- Portugal will have to wait until October to qualify for the World Cup after drawing 0-0 with a 10-man Russia on Wednesday.
Members of U2 received Portugals Order of Liberty, one of the countrys highest honors, on Sunday in recognition of their work for humanitarian causes over the past 25 years.
www.topix.net /world-soccer/portugal   (833 words)

  
 Hotel D Luis, Coimbra, Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Hotel D. Luis is designed with the modern traveller in mind, combining high-tech conveniences with a distinctive, luxurious Portuguese style.
The Luis has a spectacular hillside view of Coimbra, a thriving cultural hotspot.
The Luis is also happy to cater for business lunches and banquet receptions.
www.hotelgenie.com /coimbra/d_luis.shtml   (339 words)

  
 22ND GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
King Luis I of PORTUGAL was born in 1838 in Portugal.
He was married to Maria Pia of SAVOY Queen of Portugal (daughter of Victor Emmanuel II of PIEDMONT King of Italy and Sardinia and Maria di SAVOIA) in 1862.
Maria Pia of SAVOY Queen of Portugal was born about 1840 in Turin -.
home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d5993.htm   (102 words)

  
 Bovis Lend Lease > Global Locations > Europe > Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bovis Lend Lease has been in Portugal for more than twenty years and has offices in Lisbon and the Algarve.
We have been involved in a range of projects spanning Oporto in the north to Lisbon and the Algarve in the south.
Bovis Lend Lease is strategically placed to provide clients with integrated real estate solutions and ensure that they achieve maximum value on their real estate development and construction projects.
www.bovislendlease.com /llweb/bll/main.nsf/all/gl_portugal   (222 words)

  
 Francisco Luis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
NORTH ADAMS -- Francisco Luis, 89, formerly of Lawrence, died Friday at North Adams Regional Hospital.
While living in Portugal, he owned and operated a produce farm.
He was the father of the late Eduardo Luis.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20020318/OB_008.htm   (106 words)

  
 Euro 2004 | Portugal | Soccer | UEFA | Football | Nelly Furtado | Kids Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The 16 teams are divided into four divisions and will play a round-robin tournament to determine the eight teams which will advance to the quarter-finals.
Euro 2004 will be played between June 12 and July 4, 2004 in nine cities in the host country, Portugal, a small country in the far southwest of Europe.
Some of the players you'll see in the three-week tournament include David Beckham and Michael Owen from England, Luis Figo from Portugal, Zinedine Zidane from France and Pavel Nedved of the Czech Republic.
www.kidzworld.com /site/p4501.htm   (295 words)

  
 PFCO-WFS Luis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Channel Op Luis is 47 years old, married, and has two children, Raquel who is 14 years old, and Beatriz who is 8 years old.
Luis saw the band live in Lisbon during the 1994 tour.
All pictures and texts are copyright to their respective owners and cannot be used without permission.
www.pinkfloyd-co.com /wfs/w_luis.html   (99 words)

  
 World Cup Soccer - USA vs. Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
But Portugal, which has made large comebacks in major competitions before, struck in the 39th minute through Beto, making it 3-1 at halftime.
But the Americans' miserable experience in France, which included losses to Iran and Yugoslavia, was seen as proof that this powerful nation in political and economic terms was proportionally feeble in the football world.
In its opening match at Euro 2000, Portugal yielded two goals in the opening 18 minutes against England before rallying for a 3-2 win.
www.usatoday.com /sports/scores102/102155/20020605WCS--PORTUGAL--0.htm   (969 words)

  
 CNN.com - Deco likely to take over from Figo - Aug 26, 2004
LISBON, Portugal -- Deco is likely to replace former captain Luis Figo in the Portugal line-up after coach Luiz Felipe Scolari named the Barcelona midfielder in his 20-man squad for next month's World Cup qualifying matches.
Portugal play Latvia in Riga on September 4 and are at home to Estonia four days later in Group Three, which also includes Slovakia, Russia, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg.
The 31-year-old Figo has announced he is taking an indefinite break from international football after leading his team to the final of Euro 2004, where Portugal lost to Greece.
edition.cnn.com /2004/SPORT/08/26/portugal.squad   (316 words)

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