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Portuguese Romanticism

Portuguese Romanticism (Romantismo português) was the Portuguese branch of the European Romantic movement in the early 19th century, inaugurated in 1825 by Almeida Garrett's poem Camões.

Sep 24, 2026

Portuguese sack of Kilwa

The Portuguese sack of Kilwa was the 1505 storming and plunder of the Swahili city of Kilwa, in present-day Tanzania, by a fleet under Francisco de Almeida.

Portuguese settlement in Ambon

The Portuguese settlement in Ambon was a fortified trading community on Ambon Island, Indonesia, occupied from the 1510s until its surrender to the Dutch East India Company in 1605.

Portuguese Symbolism

Portuguese Symbolism (Simbolismo português) was the Portuguese branch of French Symbolism, begun with Eugénio de Castro's Oaristos in 1890 and led in poetry by Camilo Pessanha, its greatest name.

Oct 10, 2026

The Portuguese Timorese escudo was the currency of Portuguese Timor from 1958 until 1975, when Indonesia's invasion ended it; issued by Banco Nacional Ultramarino, it was replaced by the Indonesian rupiah in 1976.

Portuguese Water Dog

Portuguese Water Dog (Cão de Água Português, Algarvian Water Dog): Portuguese fisherman's working breed with curly or wavy low-shedding coat, webbed feet, 20-23 inch males, AKC recognition 1984, FCI 1955, water work titles.

Portulaca

Portulaca (purslane) is the sole genus of Portulacaceae, about 100-153 succulent species worldwide. Includes Portulaca oleracea, the first known C4-CAM plant, with OL and AL clades and base chromosome x=9.

Portulaca grandiflora

Portulaca grandiflora, moss rose or onze horas, is a South American succulent Portulacaceae ornamental with C4 plus inducible CAM photosynthesis, sunlight-closing flowers, and worldwide garden naturalization.

Portulaca oleracea

Portulaca oleracea, purslane or verdolaga (马齿苋), a cosmopolitan succulent weed and leafy vegetable; the first known C4 plant with drought-induced facultative CAM, rich in omega-3 ALA, IUCN least concern.

Portulacaceae

Portulacaceae, the purslane family (Caryophyllales), now holds only Portulaca, ca. 100 succulent C4 species, some also performing CAM; formerly a broad paraphyletic family of about 20 genera split into eight families.

Portulacaria afra

Portulacaria afra (spekboom, elephant bush) is a succulent shrub of southern Africa in Didiereaceae, used for bonsai, food, folk medicine, and large-scale thicket restoration and carbon sequestration.

Portunus pelagicus

Portunus pelagicus, the blue swimming crab or flower crab, is an Indo-Pacific portunid crab from sandy and seagrass shallows to 50 m; a major export fishery, split by Lai et al. 2010 into four species including P. armatus and P. segnis.

Oct 20, 2026

Portunus trituberculatus

Portunus trituberculatus, Gazami crab (ガザミ), a portunid swimming crab of East Asian waters; supports the world's largest crab fishery, over 540,000 tons annually, and is widely farmed in China.

Portus Cosanus

Portus Cosanus, the Roman port of Cosa at Ansedonia, Tuscany, founded 273 BC; earliest known Roman harbor, with pozzolana concrete piers, a lagoon fishery, and the earliest saqiya water-lifting device.

Portus Delphini

Delphinis (Portus Delphini, Delphini portus) was a Roman harbor settlement on the Ligurian coast, identified with modern Portofino; cited by Pliny and the itineraries, with a castrum, turris, and garrison.

Portus Dubris

Portus Dubris was the Roman port and settlement at modern Dover in Kent, England, a major naval base of the Classis Britannica fleet and a principal entry point to Britannia.

Portus Iulius

Portus Iulius (Portus Julius), Roman naval base built 37 BC by Agrippa for Octavian against Sextus Pompey, linking lakes Lucrino and Averno near Baiae; abandoned for Misenum by 30 BC, later a grain-trade hub, now submerged 5–10 m by bradyseism.

Portus Lemanis

Portus Lemanis (Lemanae), locally Stutfall Castle, a Roman Saxon Shore fort and Classis Britannica port at Lympne, Kent, built in the mid-late 270s AD, abandoned by c.350, now inland on Romney Marsh.

Portus Macedonum

Portus Macedonum, Latin for 'port of the Macedonians', is an unlocated ancient port of Carmania on the Iranian coast, attested only in Pliny's Natural History 6.110 and recorded by Pleiades near Harmozeia.

Portus Veneris (ancient city)

Portus Veneris, the ancient Roman name of Porto Venere in Liguria, was a small harbor town between Luni and Sestri Levante, listed in the Itinerarium Antonini; distinct from the Portus Veneris at Port-Vendres, France.

Portus Veneris (site)

Portus Veneris, the Roman "port of Venus", is the ancient name of Port-Vendres near Cape Béar, France, cited by Pomponius Mela, tied to a Venus temple, with Roman shipwrecks and a Pyrene identification debate.

Oct 15, 2026

Portworx

Portworx is a Kubernetes data services and cloud-native storage platform founded in 2014 in Los Altos, California, acquired by Pure Storage in 2020 for about $370 million.

Porunararruppatai

Porunararruppatai (பொருநராற்றுப்படை) is a classical Tamil guide poem, the second of the Ten Idylls, composed by Mutattamak Kanniyar in praise of the Chola king Karikala Peruvazhudhan.

Porus

Porus (Old Indian Puru), Indian king of the Pauravas between the Jhelum and Chenab rivers, defeated by Alexander at the Hydaspes in 326 BCE, reinstated as satrap, later murdered by Eudamus.

Porus (TV series)

Porus is an Indian historical drama TV series (2017) by Swastik Productions for Sony Entertainment Television, dramatizing King Porus versus Alexander the Great; a reported Rs 500 crore, 260-episode production, India's first producer-owned IP primetime series.