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Portugal in the Reconquista
Portugal in the Reconquista: the Christian conquest of Muslim Iberia by the western kingdom, from the county of Portugal (1096) through Afonso Henriques, Lisbon 1147, and Afonso III's capture of Faro in 1249, ending Portugal's Reconquista before Spain's.
Portugal national football team
Portugal national football team (Seleção das Quinas), men's team of the Portuguese Football Federation. Debut 1921; third at the 1966 World Cup; UEFA EURO 2016 and Nations League 2019 and 2025 winner; round of 16 at the 2026 World Cup under Roberto Martínez.
Portugal–Spain border
The Portugal–Spain border, known as the Raia or frontera, is Portugal's only land border, roughly 1,214–1,234 km long and largely unchanged since the 1297 Treaty of Alcañices.
Portugal. The Man
Portugal. The Man is an American indie rock band formed in Wasilla, Alaska, in 2004 and based in Portland, Oregon, best known for the Grammy-winning single "Feel It Still".
Portuguesa (district)
Portuguesa is a federal state of Venezuela in the central-western llanos, capital Guanare, named for the Portuguesa River. Covers its geography, 1591 founding, 1909 statehood, sediments, fish ecology, and agriculture.
Portuguesa (football club)
Portuguesa (Associação Portuguesa de Desportos, Lusa), São Paulo football club founded 14 August 1920 by five Portuguese immigrant clubs; Canindé stadium, three Paulista titles, Rio-São Paulo 1952 and 1955, now a SAF with Tauá at 80%.
Portuguese Air Force
Força Aérea Portuguesa (Portuguese Air Force, FAP): Portugal's independent air branch, created 1 July 1952 by merging Army and Navy aviation after NATO entry; runs Europe's largest search and rescue area, flies F-16s, KC-390, A-29N, and P-3C Orions.
Portuguese Angola
Portuguese Angola: the territory ruled by Portugal from Diogo Cão's 1484 arrival and the 1575 founding by Paulo Dias de Novais until independence on 11 November 1975 under the Alvor Agreement, marked by forced labor and export cycles of slaves, coffee, and oil.
Portuguese Army
Portuguese Army (Exército Português), land branch of the Portuguese Armed Forces, commanded by the Chief of Staff of the Army (General Eduardo Mendes Ferrão since 2023), about 11,000 personnel, engaged in NATO, EU and UN missions and modernizing under the Military Programming Law 2023-2034.
Portuguese arrival and embassy to the Mutapa court
The Portuguese arrival and embassy to the Mutapa court was Portugal's 16th-century push inland from Sofala in search of gold, ending when commander Barreto died at Sena in 1573 without a treaty.
Portuguese arrival at Benin
The Portuguese arrival at Benin was the first sustained contact between the kingdom of Benin, in southern Nigeria, and a European power, beginning in 1485 or 1486.
Portuguese arrival in Kongo
The Portuguese arrival in Kongo began in 1482–1483, when Diogo Cão's expedition reached the Kingdom of Kongo at the mouth of the Congo River, opening a lasting relationship with Portugal.
Portuguese arrival on the Swahili coast
The Portuguese arrival on the Swahili coast began with Vasco da Gama in 1498 and brought two centuries of Portuguese dominance, ending with Oman's takeover in 1698.
Portuguese capture of Asilah and Tangier
The Portuguese capture of Asilah and Tangier (احتلال أصيلة وطنجة) was a conquest in Morocco in August 1471, in which Afonso V of Portugal took Asilah and occupied Tangier.
Portuguese capture of Goa
The Portuguese capture of Goa (गोवा पर पुर्तगाली कब्ज़ा) was the seizure of Goa in India in 1510 by Afonso de Albuquerque from the Bijapur sultanate.
Portuguese capture of Mombasa (1505)
The Portuguese capture of Mombasa was the storming, plundering, and burning of the Swahili city by a Portuguese fleet under Dom Francisco de Almeida in August 1505.
Portuguese Cartaz system
The Portuguese Cartaz system (कार्ताज़), named from the Arabic qirtas for paper, required Asian ships in the Indian Ocean to buy navigation passes from the early 1500s, with patrols confiscating ships and enslaving crews that refused.
Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida)
Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida), also Mazagão, al-Brija, al-Mahdouma: a Portuguese fortified colony in Morocco, 90 km southwest of Casablanca, built 1514 and enlarged 1541-1548 into a star fort; abandoned 1769, UNESCO World Heritage site since 2004.
Portuguese Colonial War
Portuguese Colonial War (Guerra Colonial Portuguesa, Guerra do Ultramar), 1961–1974: Portugal's counterinsurgency conflict in Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique against independence movements; ended by the 1974 Carnation Revolution and decolonization of five African countries.
Portuguese colonization of the Americas
Portuguese colonization of the Americas (América Portuguesa), effectively Brazil, 1500–1822: Tordesillas line 1,770 km west of Cape Verde, fifteen captaincies, brazilwood then sugar and slavery, 42 percent of Americas slave imports, independence in 1822.
Portuguese Communist Party
Partido Comunista Português (PCP), Portugal's oldest continuously existing party, founded 6 March 1921 as a Comintern section; Marxist-Leninist, 48 years underground, CDU coalition with PEV since 1987, led by Paulo Raimundo since 2022.
Portuguese conquest of Gaza
The Portuguese conquest of Gaza was the 1894–1895 campaign by which Portugal destroyed the Gaza Empire in southern Mozambique, capturing King Ngungunyane at Chaimite in December 1895.
Portuguese conquest of Goa
The Portuguese conquest of Goa (गोवा की पुर्तगाली विजय) was the 1510 seizure of Goa by Afonso de Albuquerque from the Adil Shahi sultanate of Bijapur.
Portuguese conquest of Kasanje
The Portuguese conquest of Kasanje was the 1910–1911 incorporation of the Kingdom of Kasanje, an Imbangala state in Angola's Kwango River valley, into the Portuguese colony of Angola.
Portuguese conquest of Ksar es-Seghir
The Portuguese conquest of Ksar es-Seghir (Alcácer Ceguer) was the capture in October 1458 of the fortified Moroccan town by King Afonso V of Portugal, who held it until 1550.
Portuguese conquest of Ndongo
The Portuguese conquest of Ndongo was a series of campaigns from 1617 to 1671 by which Portugal broke the independence of the kingdom of Ndongo in Angola.
Portuguese conquest of Pungo Andongo
The Portuguese conquest of Pungo Andongo was the storming of the rock fortress of Pungu-a-Ndongo, capital of the Kingdom of Ndongo in Angola, on 29 November 1671, ending the kingdom.
Portuguese conquest of Safi and Azemmour
The Portuguese conquest of Safi and Azemmour (احتلال آسفي وأزمور) was Portugal's seizure of the Moroccan Atlantic ports of Safi in 1508 and Azemmour in 1513, under King Dom Manuel I.
Portuguese conquest of the Banda Oriental
The Portuguese conquest of the Banda Oriental was Portugal's military occupation of present-day Uruguay, carried out in 1811 and 1816 and annexed as the Cisplatina province in 1821.
Portuguese conquest of the Ovimbundu kingdoms
The Portuguese conquest of the Ovimbundu kingdoms was the 1890 to 1904 subjugation of twelve African kingdoms in Angola's central highlands, ending Bailundu and Bihe's independence.