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1 day ago · Portuguese India. The State of India (Portuguese: Estado da Índia [ɨʃˈtaðu ðɐ ˈĩdiɐ] ), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Portuguese: Estado Português da India, EPI) or simply Portuguese India (Portuguese: Índia Portuguesa ), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a sea route to ...
20 hours ago · The Portuguese Colonial War ( Portuguese: Guerra Colonial Portuguesa ), also known in Portugal as the Overseas War ( Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation ( Guerra de Libertação ), and also known as the Angolan, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambican War of Independence, was a 13-year-long conflict fought between ...
2 days ago · Papia Kristang or Kristang is a creole language spoken by the Kristang, a community of people of mixed Portuguese and indigenous Malay ancestry, chiefly in Malaysia ( Malacca ), Singapore and Perth, Australia . In Malacca, the language is also called Cristão, Portugues di Melaka ("Malacca Portuguese"), Linggu Mai ("Mother Tongue") or simply ...
4 days ago · Portuguese owes its importance—as the second Romance language (after Spanish) in terms of numbers of speakers—largely to its position as the language of Brazil, where in the early 21st century some 187 million people spoke it. In Portugal, the language’s country of origin, there are more than 10 million speakers.
3 days ago · Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish. Portuguese and Spanish, although closely related Romance languages, differ in many aspects of their phonology, grammar, and lexicon. Both belong to a subset of the Romance languages known as West Iberian Romance, which also includes several other languages or dialects with fewer speakers, all of which are ...
4 days ago · Big Brother VIP (BBVIP) is the third celebrity version of the Portuguese Big Brother, and the first in Portugal to use "VIP" in its name. The show started on 21 April 2013 and finished on 21 July 2013, lasting 92 days. Pedro Guedes was voted as the winner. Big Brother 2020
1 day ago · 1996 (20th Session) Porto ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpoɾtu] ⓘ ), also known as Oporto, [a] is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula 's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan ...
