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	ipedia.com: Portugal Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mainland Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south.
		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.ipedia.com /portugal.html (4413 words)

	Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Portugal is a democratic republic on the Iberian Peninsula (southwestern Europe) with several islands in the Atlantic (islands of Azores Madeira and Savage).
		The four main organs of politics are the presidency the prime minister and Council of Ministers (the cabinet) the Assembly of the Republic (the parliament) and the Judicial branch.
		Portugal is country for wine lovers known since the Roman Empire as one of the greatest in empire; the Romans immediately associated Portugal with God of Winery and Feast Bacchus.
	www.freeglossary.com /Portugal (4452 words)

	Politics of Portugal
		Portugal's April 25, 1976 constitution reflected the country's 1974-76 move from authoritarian rule to provisional military government to a parliamentary democracy with some initial communist and left-wing influence.
		The 1976 constitution, which defined Portugal as a "Republic...engaged in the formation of a classless society," was revised in 1982, 1989, 1992, and 1997.
		Guterres was a vigorous proponent of the effort to include Portugal in the first round of countries to collaborate and put into effect the euro in 1999.
	www.fastload.org /po/Politics_of_Portugal.html (1229 words)

	Portugal - Interest Groups
		In addition, members of the elite were barred from participating in politics or from forming political movements of their own by means of the laws forbidding far-right political activity.
		Portugal was long an essentially two-class society consisting of elites and peasants, between which existed a small class of artisans, soldiers, and tradespeople.
		For example, political leadership in Portugal was solidly middle class and spanned all parties from the far left to the far right.
	countrystudies.us /portugal/89.htm (2042 words)

	Top20Portugal.com - Your Top20 Guide to Portugal! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south.
		Portugal traces its emergence as a nation to 24 June 1128, with the Battle of SÃ£o Mamede by Afonso I.
		Portugal developed an increasingly service-based economy and it was one of the eleven founding countries of the Euro in 1999, with very restrictive criteria, and began circulating the new currency on January 1, 2002 along with twelve other EU members.
	www.top20portugal.com (6089 words)

	Qwika - similar:Portugal
		History of Portugalseries Prehistoric Portugal Pre-Roman Portugal Roman Lusitania and Gallaecia Visigoths and Suevi Moorish rule and Reconquista Catilian and Leonese rule First County of Portugal County of Coimbra Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal Second County of Portugal Establishment of the Monarchy Consolidation of the Monarchy 1383–138...
		The culture of Portugal is rooted in the Latin culture of Ancient Rome, with a Celtiberian background (a mixture of pre-Roman Moorish and Iberian).
		Politics - Politics portal Portugal This article is part of the series: Politics and government ofPortugal President: Jorge Sampaio President-elect: Cavaco Silva Assembly of the Republic Prime Minister: José Sócrates Council of Ministers Supreme Court of Justice Constitutional Court Council of State Elections: 2006 - 2005 Political Parties EU Politics Foreign rela...
	www.qwika.com /rels/Portugal (1394 words)

	Portugal - Lisbon - Boston
		To bid farewell to Portugal seems to be a very simple matter, but when I recall the events of my diplomatic career, and the scenes and associations I have enjoyed, I realize that I have had an experience in which my official services have had by no means the most important part.
		Portugal keeps her peculiar place in art and literature ; and no one can forget the uniformity and repose into which she has settled after centuries of storm and conflict.
		During the whole of that period the Government of Portugal has made no attempt either to govern or civilize or colonize the vast regions to which a claim is now advanced ; and it may be said, with respect to a very large portion of them, that no Portuguese authority has ever attempted their exploration.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles21/portugal-15.shtml (4481 words)

	Portugal Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Because of its legalistic tradition, a strict separation existed in Portugal between the formal governmental system and the sphere of political parties and interest groups.
		Unlike these first two levels, the third level of Portuguese politics was largely invisible and was the most difficult for outsiders to penetrate and comprehend.
		Knowledge of this third level of Portuguese politics was crucial for a full understanding of the formal and the informal dynamics within the Portuguese political system.
	www.country-studies.com /portugal/politics.html (279 words)

	Portugal - Introduction
		Portugal, with its long Atlantic coast, lies on the western side of the Iberian peninsula.
		A constituent assembly was elected in 1975 and the armed forces withdrew from politics thereafter.
		Portugal then began a substantial program of economic modernization and accompanying social change.
	dev.prenhall.com /divisions/hss/worldreference/PT/introduction.html (98 words)

	Department of Politics - Comparative Politics
		This seminar is designed to enable students to evaluate different approaches to the study of political parties, to explain differences across parties (e.g., in electoral performance), and to weigh the consequences of parties' behavior for democratic governance.
		The objective of this course is to examine different analytical perspective on the politics of economic reform.
		After presenting the evolution of the Vietnamese polity, the focus is on the contemporary challenges of political and economic development in their domestic and external contexts.
	www.virginia.edu /politics/grad_program/comp_politics_clas.html (1098 words)

	Wilf Family Department of Politics" + titlesec + "
		Traces the political and social development of the historic countries of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales; the growth of British hegemony and imperialism; the politics of decline and decay; and the promise of rebirth.
		Analysis of the political culture and institutions of Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago.
		Specific social, political, and economic problems-using a few selected countries for comparison and analysis-including the role of the military, the intelligentsia, the religious classes, the legitimation of power, urban-rural cleavages, bureaucracy, and political parties.
	www.nyu.edu /gsas/dept/politics/undergrad/undergrad_list.shtml (5400 words)

	Portugal - Gurupedia
		Mainland Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and the
		One of which, the Suevi, stopped fighting and founded a kingdom whose domains was, approximately, in today's Portugal, they fixed their capital in Bracara.
		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.
	www.gurupedia.com /p/po/portugal.htm (4142 words)

	Bibliography on Party Politics in Portugal, 1950-1962 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The political scene was dominated by Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal since the 1930s.
		The 680 code fits into this grouping in that much of the literature which does exist on Portuguese politics is concerned with the structure of the Portuguese corporative state, a structure which is intimately bound to the dictator and his party.
		As may be seen from the table of index codes, what little information is available on political parties in Portugal during the time period, tends to be predominantly leadership oriented.
	www.janda.org /icpp/ICPP1980/Book/PART3/17-PortugalBib.htm (911 words)

	AllRefer.com - Portugal - Government and Politics \| Portuguese Information Resource
		Under the forceful and able leadership of Aníbal Cavaco Silva as prime minister, the single-party PSD cabinet was able to meet the challenges posed by Portugal's membership in the European Community (EC--see Glossary).
		At the beginning of the 1990s, Portugal's democracy was only a decade and a half old, but the transition to democracy seemed to have been highly successful.
		These developments were testaments that Portugal had at last found a place in the community of Western democratic nations, a remarkable transition from the long dictatorship and the subsequent periods of revolutionary upheaval and government weakness and instability.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/portugal/portugal117.html (989 words)

	Portugal: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		The new king, Manoel II, was driven from the throne in the revolution of 1910, and Portugal became a French-style republic.
		Portugal was admitted to the European Economic Community (now European Union) on Jan. 1, 1986, and on Feb. 16, Mario Soares became the country's first civilian president in 60 years.
		Portugal's Socialist government continued to take advantage of rosy economic conditions in 1997, and in 1999, Portugal became a founding member of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU).
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107895.html (1365 words)

	Portugal
		It also includes three groups of islands in the Atlantic: the Azores (Açores), the Madeira and the Savage Isles, a small, remote and unhabited group administrated by Madeira.
		Emerging from the Reconquista as an independent kingdom in 1143, and with almost always the same main territory border line since the 13th century, Portugal has always been turned to the sea.
		Henry the Navigator's interest in exploration together with some technological developments in navigation brought together, gave way to the Portuguese expansion and to great geographical knowledge advancements.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/p/po/portugal.shtml (1001 words)

	Politics of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Portugal takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		The national and regional governments are dominated by two political parties, the PS, a Social Democratic party, that resembles the British Labour or the German SPD, and the PSD, a conservative party, member of the European People's Party, both with similar base politics: pro-European, and focusing on market economy.
		The prospect of a communist takeover in Portugal generated considerable concern among the country's NATO allies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Portugal (1476 words)

	Portugal - Government and Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Politics: Free and democratic, with variety of parties articulating wide range of poltical viewpoints.
		Political system gradually being dominated by PSD and PS.
		In 1987 and 1991 national elections, PSD won with slight majorities and formed governments with its leader, Anibal Cavaco Silva, as prime minister.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-10833.html (500 words)

	Expatriates in Portugal » politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		My guess would be that Portugal supports the French position, but I read somewhere that the Spanish government isn’t an avid supporter of the agriculture subsidies so perhaps based on what is getting subsidized Portugal might be ambivalent about it.
		The Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos) was an almost bloodless left-leaning revolution started on April 25, 1974, in Lisbon, Portugal, that effectively changed the Portuguese regime from an authoritarian dictatorship to a liberal democracy at the end of a two year process of a communist dominated military administration.
		Freedom Day on April 25 is one of the major holidays in Portugal, usually a day of celebration and joy, though some right-wing sectors of population still regard the developments after the coup d’état as pernicious for the country.
	expat.drzeus.net /index.php?cat=10 (973 words)

	European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress.
		Things got interesting when an obviously politically inept Secretary of State of Energy came forward to justify the raise as being the fault of consumers, who for too long were spending too much energy at unduly low prices.
		Portugal is highly dependent on imports of oil and coal, but plagued with huge degrees of inefficiency.
		The energy efficiency of the average home is deplorable due to poor construction standards, it's not infrequent to have a house that is colder than outside in winter, and hotter than outside in summer.
	www.eurotrib.com /story/2006/10/27/6289/1172 (826 words)

	NewStandard: 9/30/99
		There is rapid economic development and really rapid modernization and all that it implies," said the conference's coordinator, Michael Baum, a political science professor at UMass who has lived in Portugal for several years and holds dual nationality.
		Overall, more than a dozen speakers are scheduled to present summaries of their papers, documenting and dissecting Portugal's government, social structure and political climate during its post-revolutionary period.
		Presentations include environmental politics and collective action, the absence of a women's movement, the development of the Portuguese welfare state and abortion as the impetus for single-interest citizen interest groups and referenda.
	www.s-t.com /daily/09-99/09-30-99/c02lo055.htm (482 words)

	CNNSI.com - Soccer - Soccer-politics mix unsettles Portugal's Euro 2004 - Monday February 04, 2002 11:21 AM
		Posted: Monday February 04, 2002 11:21 AM LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- In the run-up to next month's general election, most public issues are fair game for political point-scoring -- including soccer.
		The latest spat threatens to disrupt preparations for the biggest international sports event ever held in Portugal: the 2004 European soccer championships.
		In Portugal, there is a long tradition of overlap between politics and soccer, by far the country's most popular sport.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/news/2002/02/04/euro_2004 (588 words)

	WHKMLA : History of Portugal, ToC
		Political Resources on the Net : Portugal; Governments on the WWW : Portugal; Country Report : Portugal, from Polity IV
		Chronology of Catholic Dioceses : Portugal, from Kirken i Norge
		James Maxwell Anderson, The History of Portugal, Greenwood 2000, 248 pp.; KMLA Lib.Sign.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/spain/xportugal.html (551 words)

	Among European powers, it is Portugal which had the longest duration of colonization : more than five hundred years ...
		The opposition, however, had no alternative policy to be proposed; these demonstrations proved only that the occupation of the African colonies, with the successive military campaigns, benefited from a practically unanimous support of these elites.
		Nevertheless, the usual evolution, which, after the exhaustion of the possibilities of armed resistance, led to the passage towards political and reformist action, with a certain delay it manifested in the Empire.
		Nevertheless, while admitting the necessity of a political solution, meaning negotiations, he is still far from admitting the unconditional independence of colonies.
	www.african-geopolitics.org /show.aspx?ArticleId=3703 (5755 words)

	1978: Portugal - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		Cross references refer to Archive articles of the same year.
		The problem arose from the failure of any party to command a majority in the Legislative Assembly.
		The Socialist Party of Mário Soares, who is clearly the most popular politician in Portugal, could not govern without the cooperation of...
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_1741583384/1978_Portugal.html (131 words)

	Core Faculty
		He is the author of Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan (Princeton University Press), and Captured by Texts: Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian Captivity (University Press of Virginia).
		He began exploring these themes in his Ph.D. dissertation, which examined the ways religious practice and popular pietism became coordinated with authoritarian politics in Portugal in the wake of the country’s 1910 Republican Revolution.
		Subsequent to doing ethnographic and archival research in Portugal, Jeff earned an International Diploma in humanitarian assistance from Fordham University and he served as an Assistant Collegiate Professor and Harper Fellow at the University of Chicago.
	cas.umkc.edu /religious_studies/faculty.htm (514 words)

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