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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.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Portugal (15903 words)

	Portugal - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		In 711 Muslims invaded the Iberian Peninsula from Africa and deposed the Visigothic monarchy.
		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 - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Portugal’s economy benefited from increased trade ties to Europe and from EU financial aid aimed at improving the country’s infrastructure, including recent EU grants funding a significant portion of the costs of the massive Alqueva dam project on the Guadiana River.
		Portugal has made great strides in raising its living standards since the mid-1980s, and the country’s per capita income is gradually approaching that of its EU partners.
		Portugal has commercially important deposits of tin and copper and one of the world’s major reserves of wolframite, from which tungsten is derived.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761558260__1/Portugal.html (12672 words)

	European Voyages of Exploration: The Portuguese Empire
		The stability of the monarchy was essential to the establishment of sustainable economic growth, thus the stability of the Portuguese monarchy gave the kingdom a seventy-year head start over the Spanish who were distracted by a civil war and the Reconquista of Granada.
		Portugal was born from this struggle to reconquer Iberia from the Moors.
		Portugal desperately needed strong leadership to continue to fight off the ambitious Castilian king, and in 1385 the Portuguese Cortes proclaimed the 28-year-old Master of Avis as King João I. With the support of his kingdom and his English allies, the young king soundly defeated the Castilians at Aljubarrota, thereby securing Portugal's independence.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/portuguese.html (1090 words)

	Chapter 6: History of Spain and Portugal
		The Suevi settled primarily in the northwest, in Galicia and to the south of it.
		The Coimbra-Mondego region to the south was retaken in 1064 and established as a new territory of Coimbra, administratively separate from the Portugalense.
		Thus the idea of crusade became as firmly entrenched in Portugal as in Castile, and was intrinsic in the motivations of the subsequent overseas expansion, contributing to the ultimate doom of the monarchy in Morocco in 1578.
	libro.uca.edu /payne1/payne6.htm (7159 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Portugal
		Portugal is situated on the west of the Iberian Peninsula, being bounded on the north and east by Spain and on the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean.
		The bishops renewed their complains of the disorders in Portugal, and in 1245, by the Bull "grandi non immerito", Innocent IV committed the government to Sancho's brother Alfonso who was living in France.
		As a result of the encyclicals of Leo XIII on Christian democracy, the movement for the establishment of Catholic circles for workingmen was inaugurated in Portugal, and these mutual-aid societies existed in the principal centres of population, furnished education to the workmen and their children, and kept them together by conferences, concerts, and excursions.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12297a.htm (9947 words)

	PORTUGAL EMBASSY IN INDIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Portugal is crossed by three main rivers that originate in Spain and end in the Atlantic Ocean: the Tejo which is the biggest river, the Douro and the Guadiana.
		In the transition to the nineteenth century the winds of change blowing from America and France reached Portugal putting an end to the traditional monarchy in 1820 and leading to the independence of Brazil and the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in Portugal.
		Portugal took part in the I World War alongside the Allies but by the mid-twenties the country´s economic and financial situation was very serious, a situation that eventually brought about the so called "New State" marked by corporatism and authoritarianism, with democratic liberties being suppressed.
	www.embportindia.com /country.htm (1153 words)

	Portugal Travel Information \| Asia Travel Europe
		Portugal's terrain is mountainous north of the Tagus River, and rolling plains in the south.
		Portugal's accession to the European Union was an historic landmark in the development of the Portuguese economy.
		Portugal is an upcoming capitalist economy with a per capita GDP two-thirds that of the four big West European economies.
	www.asiatravel.com /portugal/portinfo.html (1176 words)

	Portugal
		Portugal is the westernmost country of continental Europe.
		Portugal's cities have buildings that are hundreds of years old as well as modern apartment and office buildings.
		Portugal's highest mountains are in the Serra da Estrela range in the Central Range region.
	www.fortunecity.com /greenfield/bypass/314/english/portugal.htm (4898 words)

	Portugal History
		During this period the monarchy was established and expanded by reconquering territory from the Muslims and populating those lands with Christian settlers.
		During this period Portugal experienced a dynastic struggle that brought the House of Avis to the throne a series of wars with Castile that threatened the independence of the new kingdom a social revolution a second dynastic struggle and the assertion of royal supremacy over the nobility.
		During this period Portugal was part of the Iberian Union until 1640 when the monarchy was restored and a new dynasty the House of Bragança was established.
	www.world66.com /europe/portugal/history (465 words)

	History of Portugal (1112-1279) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		The origin of Portugal, as a separate state, lay in the Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula.
		His attempts to strengthen the monarchy and fill the treasury at the expense of the Church resulted in his excommunication by Pope Honorius III, and Portugal remained under interdict until Afonso II died in 1223.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Establishment_of_the_Monarchy_in_Portugal (2268 words)

	Abarbanel Wines \| The Abarbanel Family in Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Portugal was entering the age of exploration and acquiring new territories and becoming rich.
		This Uncle Afonso was a "feudalist," a person who supported the king and the monarchy, but believed the noblemen, the church and the military should play an important role along with the king in ruling a kingdom.
		Eventually the Braganza Family were to become the rulers of Portugal starting with King John IV of Braganza in 1640 up to 1910 and the rule of Manuel II, which ended with the establishment of Portugal as a republic.
	www.abarbanel.com /portugal.shtml (2188 words)

	Holidays and Festivals - Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Memorializes the death of Portugese poet Luiz Vaz de Camões (1524-1580) who is best known for his epic poem, Os Lusiadas.
		Commemorates the establishment of a republican form of government in 1910 when the monarchy that had been in power since the 11th century was overthrown in a bloodless revolution.
		Public holidays New Year's Day, Carnival (Shrove Tuesday), Good Friday, Liberty Day, Labor Day (May 1), Portugal Day, Corpus Christi, Assumption, Republic Day, All Saints' Day, Restoration of the Independence (Dec 1), Immaculate Conception, and Christmas.
	www.shagtown.com /days/portugal.html (137 words)

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