Add to ORKGA week ago I was standing with my wife by the River Tagus in Lisbon, next to the Monument to the Discoveries. The monument is at the spot where Vasco da Gama set out to discover the southeast passage from Europe to Asia, past the Cape of Good Hope. Vasco’s discovery marked the beginning of the Portuguese maritime empire. At the furthest tip of Europe, Portugal was perfectly situated to found such an empire. As well as conquering parts of Africa, they gained footholds in China and India, and colon-ised Brazil on the other side of th
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interested in the Eastern trade, anxious to discover a new route beyond the control of the Turks.&qu...
he first named Terra de Vera Cruz and that later came to be known as Brazil. On the 22 March they ca...
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The history of the transatlantic flights goes back to 1919, and began with a flight between Newfound...
Peoples, nations, and universal humankind experience high moments in their history. For the Portugue...
Portugal has a singular geographic position in lhe European context (Ribeiro et al., 1987). Set on ...
In the fifteenth century, the world beyond Europe began to emerge from myth and legend, and it was t...
The origins of the Portuguese Estado da Índia—the sum of all Portuguese Crown possessions east of th...
Late Medieval Portugal would find itself in a rather unique position, being situated on the Western-...
Scenic view of Lisbon sitting along the historic Tagus River, from where Portugal\u27s explorers set...
The advent of Europeans on the Coromandal Coast advocated the Socio-political changes not in India. ...
Luís Mendes de Vasconcelos publishes in 1608 Do Sítio de Lisboa. Diálogos [About Lisbon. Dialogues]....
Lisbon, November 2017: Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa speaks at the 9th edition of the Web ...
The world’s memory may have retained such Portuguese names as Vasco da Gama and Pedro Álvares Cabra...
interested in the Eastern trade, anxious to discover a new route beyond the control of the Turks.&qu...
he first named Terra de Vera Cruz and that later came to be known as Brazil. On the 22 March they ca...
In the Lusiad, published in Lisbon in 1572 and regarded by some scholars as the national epic of Por...
Among themore emphasised aspects of theAtlantic history are themobility of ideas and goods but also...
The history of the transatlantic flights goes back to 1919, and began with a flight between Newfound...
Peoples, nations, and universal humankind experience high moments in their history. For the Portugue...
Portugal has a singular geographic position in lhe European context (Ribeiro et al., 1987). Set on ...