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The Portuguese Wikipedia was the third edition of Wikipedia to be created, simultaneously with other languages. It started its activities on May 11, 2001, [5] having reached the mark of one hundred thousand articles on January 26, 2006. [6] Logo commemorating 500,000 articles. Logo commemorating one million articles.
Luisa Castro (2024 -) Children. 1. Andrés Felipe Robledo Londoño (born 12 December 1986), [1] better known as Reykon " El Líder " " Pel mazo ", is a reggaeton performer from Colombia. [2] He is considered one of the biggest proponents of Latin America's reggaeton music genre. [3] He is from Envigado, Antioquia.
The national monuments of Portugal (Portuguese: Monumentos Nacionais) were constructed throughout the Portuguese territory, and the oldest date back to the period of pre-historic settlement of occupation. Subsequently, the region that is today Portugal has been colonized by many civilizations, which have left marks in the territory ...
Reconquista. 18th century painting of the Battle of Ourique. Portuguese participation in the Reconquista occurred from when the County of Portugal was founded in 868 and continued for 381 years until the last cities still in Muslim control in the Algarve were captured in 1249. Portugal was created during this prolonged process and largely owes ...
Portugal was a full member of the Latin Union (1983) and the Organization of Ibero-American States (1949). It has a friendship alliance and dual citizenship treaty with its former colony, Brazil. Portugal and the United Kingdom share the world's oldest active military accord through their Anglo-Portuguese Alliance (Treaty of Windsor), signed in ...
The Portuguese Empire ( Portuguese: Império Português, European Portuguese: [ĩˈpɛ.ɾju puɾ.tuˈɣeʃ] ), also known as the Portuguese Overseas ( Ultramar Português) or the Portuguese Colonial Empire ( Império Colonial Português ), was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom ...
38°41′47″N 9°12′27″W. / 38.69639°N 9.20750°W / 38.69639; -9.20750. Timeline. Opening. 23 June 1940. Closure. 2 December 1940. The Portuguese World Exhibition ( Portuguese: Exposição do Mundo Português) was held in Lisbon in 1940 to mark 800 years since the foundation of the country and 300 years since the restoration of ...
The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis . The Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, which lasted almost two centuries, led to the establishment of the provinces of Lusitania in the south and Gallaecia in the north of what is now Portugal.