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  Portugal - LoveToKnow 1911
The climate of Portugal is equable and temperate.
Six-sevenths of the population of continental Portugal inhabit the provinces north of the Tagus.
In 1095 Portugal was an obscure border fief of the kingdom of Leon.
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 Portugal - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
Portugal recovered a measure of prosperity in the late 17th and 18th centuries, after gold, and then diamonds, were discovered in Brazil.
Portugal’s entry in the EC spurred unprecedented economic growth, in part because the EC (and later its successor, the European Union) began to funnel large financial transfers to Portugal for economic modernization and infrastructure development.
Portugal’s successful transition to democratic rule in the late 20th century greatly contributed to its success in approaching the economic and social development of other EU members, after many decades at the margins of Europe.
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 Portugal History
Portugal's accession to the EC at the beginning of 1986 also benefited the country; the first of the organization's extensive aid packages began to improve Portugal's backward infrastructure almost immediately.
Austerity measures undertaken in the mid-1980s and large transfers of financial aid to Portugal by the EC led to a sustained period of growth in the latter half of the 1980s and early 1990s that was among the best among member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Portugal's agricultural sector was only one-half to one- fourth as productive as those of most other EC member states, despite US$2 billion of EC funds that had been invested in modernization efforts between 1986 and the early 1990s.
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 History of Portugal (1279-1415) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hostilities between Portugal and the reunited kingdoms of Leon and Castile were terminated in 1297 by a treaty of alliance, in accordance with which Ferdinand IV of Castile married Constance, daughter of Diniz, while Alphonso, son of Diniz, married Beatrice of Castile, daughter of Ferdinand.
On April 16, 1385 the cortes assembled at Coimbra declared the crown of Portugal elective, and at the instance of Joao das Regras, the chancellor, D. John was chosen king.
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 Moreno: Revolution and Counter Revolution in Portugal (Part 4)
Almost fifty years of apoliticalness in Portugal prevented the rise and consolidation of a petty-bourgeois party (and within it, figures closely linked to the bourgeoisie): This is the vacuum that the MFA fills, willy-nilly.
In Portugal, the absence of such a big party of the middle class fragmented the representation of that class into two or three political sectors, but obliged it to organize itself in a united form within the army.
One of these is that unlike Western Europe after the war, the Portuguese bourgeoisie does not have the guarantee that the presence of Allied occupation troops signified, especially the U.S. army, which was victorious, disciplined, and without the slightest trace of an internal crisis, exactly the opposite to the present Portuguese army.
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 History of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1112 – Afonso Henriques inherits the County of Portugal, a fiefdom of the Kingdom of León.
1279–1383 The monarchy was gradually consolidated in spite of resistance from the Church, the nobles and the rival kingdom of Castile.
Portugal invades Conakry, in the Republic of Guinea.
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 PORTUGAL PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC
Portugal is a republic with a unicameral legislature; the chief of state is the president, and the head of government is the prime minister.
Portugal is bordered by Spain on the east and north and by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and south.
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).
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 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Portugal / Bibliography
Fascism and Resistance in Portugal: Communists, Liberals, and Military Dissents in the Opposition to Salazar, 1941-1974.
Portugal in the 1980s: Dilemmas of Democratic Consolidation.
Portugal: The Constitution and the Consolidation of Democracy, 1976- 1989.
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 Worldroots.com
Duarte, Duke de Braganca+Infant of Portugal 1907-1976 and Maria Francesca, Pss d'Orleans
Joao V de Braganca *the Magnanimous*, King of Portugal (1689-1750)
Maria da Gloria II de Braganca, Queen of Portugal (1819-1953)
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 AllRefer.com - Portugal - Popular Monarchist Party | Portuguese Information Resource
The PPM stood for a constitutional and limited monarchy similar to the one in Spain.
This would mean that the monarch was a ceremonial chief of state, not a ruling head of government.
The PPM argued that a monarchy would help unify the government, promote stability, and give the country a single, if mainly symbolic, head.
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 PORTUGAL History Geography Anthem Culture Cuisine
Portugal has an industrialized economy in which both public and private sectors participate.
Dialing Code The international dialing code for Portugal is: 351
Asas de Portugal - Rolling in the Sky
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