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Portuguese Empire_Império Português_
Portuguese coat of arms (1481–1910) Coat o airms
The owerseas interests an auries o the warld that at ane time war territories o the Portuguese Empire (diachronic).The owerseas interests an auries o the warld that at ane time war territories o the Portuguese Empire (diachronic).
Caipital Lisbon a
Offeecial leids Portuguese
Govrenment Colonialism
• Monarchs (1415–1433) João I(1908–10) Manuel II
• Preses (1911–15) Manuel de Arriaga (1996-2002) Jorge Sampaio
Laundmerk events
• Conquest o Ceuta 1415
• Sea route tae Indie 1498
• Discovery o Brazil 1500
• Iberian Union 1580–1640
• Anglo-Spainyie War 1585–1604
• Dutch–Portuguese War 1588–1654
• Restoration War 1640–1668
• Brazilian unthirldom 1822
• Loss o Indian provinces 1961
• Portuguese Colonial War 1961–1974
• Carnation Revolution 1974–1975
• Haundower o Macau 1999
• Unthirldom o East Timor 2002
^ The caipital was de facto locatit in Rio de Janeiro frae 1808 tae 1821.

The Portuguese Empire (Portuguese: Império Português), forby kent as the Portuguese Owerseas (Ultramar Português), wis the first global empire in history.[1][2][3]

  1. ↑ Page & Sonnenburg 2003, p. 481
  2. ↑ Brockey 2008, p. xv
  3. ↑ Juang & Morrissette 2008, p. 894