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Ancient slave market in Lagos. Although there may have been people of Black African descent living in Portugal since the Antiquity, they started arriving in significant numbers only after the Moorish conquest of the Iberian Peninsula and, more significantly, after the creation of the Portuguese Empire.
Matheus Luiz Nunes (born 27 August 1998) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the Portugal national team.. Nunes started his career with Ericeirense, before moving to LigaPro side Estoril.
Francisco Fernandes da Conceição (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku kõsɐjˈsɐ̃w̃]; born 14 December 2002) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Primeira Liga club Porto and the Portugal national football team.
Mário Sérgio Quaresma Gonçalves Marques (born 25 February 1957) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, who served as member of the Assembly of the Republic. He was the Regional Secretary of Parliamentary and European Affairs in the Regional Government of Madeira, between 2015 and 2017, in the first regional government led by Miguel Albuquerque.
Maria Isabel Stilwell (born 8 May 1960) is a Portuguese journalist and writer. Already known in Portugal for her journalism, broadcasting, historical novels, children's books and short stories, she expanded outside of Portugal as the author of Philippa of Lancaster – English Princess, Queen of Portugal, which was first published in translation in 2015.
The overwhelming majority of Portuguese Africans are found in countries where Portuguese enjoys the status of official language. This is due to historical, linguistic and cultural reasons. They are commonly known as "PALOP". The acronym "PALOP" stands for "Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa" in Portuguese, which translates to ...
Missing person. Rui Pedro Teixeira Mendonça (born 28 January 1987) is a Portuguese child who went missing on 4 March 1998 in Lousada, northern Portugal. Mendonça was 11 years old and riding his bicycle outside near his home when he disappeared. The subsequent police investigation was criticized by both the media and by the missing boy's family.
Isabela Figueiredo was born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, and went to Portugal in 1975 as a returnee. [ 2] She went to live with her grandmother, being separated from her parents, who stayed in Mozambique, for 10 years. Her father was an electrician.