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	AllRefer.com - Louis I, king of Portugal (Spanish And Portuguese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Louis I, king of Portugal, Spanish And Portuguese History, Biographies
		In 1886, Portugal secured French and German recognition of its claim to the African interior between Angola and Mozambique, but this was challenged by Great Britain.
		Slavery was abolished in the Portuguese colonies during Louis's reign, and Portugal made considerable progress in transportation, commerce, and industry.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Louis1Por.html (241 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Spanish Armada
		It is true that the ineffective attempts of Spain to shut out the rest of Europe from traffic with her colonies were unwise, perhaps unjust, and acted as an incentive to secret and unwarranted traffic.
		Slave labor, with its attendant corruptions, in the colonies, want of organization, and free government at home, joined with grasping at power abroad--these, and not any single defeat, however great, were the causes of the decline of the great world-power of the sixteenth century.
		Among the many side-issues which meet the student of the history of the Armada, that of the cooperation or favor of the Pope, and of the Catholic party among the English, is naturally important for Catholics.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01727c.htm (2627 words)

	MSN Encarta - Angola (country)
		Until 1975 it was ruled by Portugal and was sometimes called Portuguese West Africa.
		Angola became independent in 1975 after almost 15 years of war waged by Angolans against Portuguese rule.
		Portuguese remains Angola’s official language and is widely spoken in cities, although most Portuguese settlers have left the country.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761571092 (482 words)

	LINGUISTIC DECOLONIZATION: English as the Language of Liberation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It's time for all former colonies around the world to abandon the languages of colonialism and aspire to the language of liberation: English — American English, the language of the first modern anticolonial power, which is now transforming the world, especially via its creation, the Internet.
		It is pitiful and contemptible that the ruling class of so many former colonies (but especially French and Portuguese colonies) are still trying desperately to win the approval of their former colonial overlords, to fit in with the ruling class that held them in contempt and used them to exploit their people and resources.
		The ruling class of such colonies as try to win such approval by mastering the language of colonialism are less than lapdogs to the ruling class of France and Portugal.
	members.aol.com /XPUS2/EngLib.html (8738 words)

	Daman and Diu on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Daman and Diu were administered jointly with Goa as the union territory of Goa-Daman and Diu until 1987, when Goa became a separate state.
		It consisted of a coastal section, Daman proper, and a detached inland section, Nagar Haveli, which in 1961 became part of the Indian union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
		Before the decline of Portuguese power in the 18th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/Daman.asp (489 words)

	The Middle Colonies as the Birthplace of American Religious Pluralism--Essay-Related Seventeenth- and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Another commentary by a Pennsylvania colonist, here a recent German immigrant, who states that the colony "possesses great liberties above all other English colonies, inasmuch as all religious sects are tolerated there." From a Swarthmore College course collection.
		Document prepared by an Anglican clergyman for the Archbishop of Canterbury to outline the missionary needs, colony by colony, in British America.
		Intriguing look into the life of one colonial Quaker who personifies the moderating influence of the Middle Colonies (but who insisted on remaining a slaveholder): "Although Norris's faith was fervent, it was characterized by moderation and tolerance rather than by fanaticism or dogmatism." From the online Biographical Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators.
	www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080 /tserve/eighteen/elinksmidcol.htm (2171 words)

	BOLIVIA - Online Information article about BOLIVIA
		line between Bolivia and Brazil has its origin in the limits between the Spanish and Portuguese colonies determined by the See also:
		San Ildefonso (175o and 1797), which were modified by the treaties of 1867 and 1903.
		original colonial frontier, which extended down the Madeira to a point midway between the Beni and the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BLA_BOS/BOLIVIA.html (6779 words)

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