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33 unusual facts about Portugal


1998 Estoril Open

Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Estoril Court Central, in Oeiras, Portugal, from April 6 through April 13, 1998.

2005 Estoril Open

Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Estoril Court Central, in Oeiras, Portugal, from April 25 through May 2, 2005.

2008 Estoril Open

Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Estoril Court Central in Oeiras, Portugal, from April 14 through April 20, 2008.

2012 Estoril Open

Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, Portugal, from April 28 through May 6, 2012.

2013 Portugal Open

Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, Portugal, from April 28 through May 5, 2013.

Adriano de Paiva

Adriano de Paiva (1847–1907) was a Portuguese scientist who was one of the pioneers of telectroscope.

Anadia

Anadia, Portugal, a municipality in the district of Aveiro, Portugal

Anastasia Grishina

In June, Grishina competed at the Anadia World Challenge Cup in Anadia, Portugal.

António Pinto

António Coelho Pinto (born 22 March 1966 in Vila Garcia, Amarante) is a Portuguese long-distance runner.

Associação Empresarial de Portugal

In 1996, the Associação Empresarial de Portugal was officially upgraded to Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Norte Region (decree no. 58/96 of 22 February).

Atlantic Europe

Patrick O'Flanagan, based on the theories of Pedrayo and Ribeiro, states that Atlantic Europe is a cultural reality that stretches along the coastal fringe of Europe, from Norway to South-Central Portugal (roughly down to the Santarém area), and including Britain and Ireland.

Beaker culture

Very early dates for Bell Beakers were found in Castelo Velho de Freixo de Numão in Guarda, Northern Portugal.

Bom Dia

Bom Dia (Portuguese for Good Morning) is the first album of the Portuguese band Pluto.

Disputed status of Olivenza

The Disputed status of Olivenza refers to a dispute between Portugal and Spain over the territory on the border of those two states known as Olivenza (Olivença in Portuguese).

Espinho

:** Espinho, Portugal, the city/urbanized catchment area of the municipality of Espinho

Eugenia of Rome

There is also a tomb dating from about 1000 AD in the city of Barcelos, high on a hill that reads "tomb of Saint Eugenia." It is possible that this tomb is the tomb of Saint Eugenia.

Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale

Masséna had been busy besieging general Wellington in Lisbon, but he was not able to pierce the fortified Lines of Torres Vedras and subsequently retreated to Almeida.

High-speed rail in Portugal

The Northern Line was modernised to allow trains to run at 220 km/h between Lisbon-Alverca, Vila Franca de XiraSantarém, PombalAlfarelos and MealhadaEspinho, and to allow full use of the tilting to achieve speeds between 140–180 km/h in the remaining intermediate sections.

Ibero-German

Ibero-German means of or pertaining to people of Spanish or Portuguese descent living in Germany or the German speaking countries.

Ibn Bassam

Ibn Bassam describes how the incessant invasions of the Castillans forced him to run away from Santarém in Portugal, "the last of the cities of the west," after seeing his lands ravaged and his wealth destroyed, a ruined man with no possessions save his battered sword.

Instituto de Medicina Molecular

Historically, IMM benefited from the full integration of academic researchers into the Lisbon Medical School who initiated their academic training and scientific careers at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), in Oeiras, one of the first national institutions to introduce and make use of state-of-the-art cell and molecular biology techniques.

João Pedro Mouzinho de Albuquerque

– at her old house at the Violeiros Street, Portalegre, January 17, 1907), married at the Oratory of the old Family House, São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, July 1, 1815, being testemonies her brothers Pedro and Luís da Silva, as his second wife Fernando Pereira de Faria Cota Falcão, 9th Lord of the Majorats da Amieira and da Pipa, who made himself to be represented by his cousin Gaspar Cota Falcão Aranha de Sousa e Meneses, and had issue

Johann Natterer

financed an expedition to Brazil on the occasion of the wedding of his daughter Archduchess Leopoldina to the Portuguese crown prince, Dom Pedro of Alcantara (who was later to become Emperor of Brazil).

Luso

A prefix meaning Portuguese (after the Roman province of Lusitania, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal)

Malaysian Chinese religion

According to the Encyclopedia of Malaysia, there are records where Persian and Turkish traders with Nestorian Christian origins came around the year 650 CE, but it was not until the conquest of Malacca by the Portuguese in year 1511, that marked the introduction of Roman Catholicism.

Medieval antisemitism

The Kingdom of Portugal followed suit and in December 1496, it was decreed that any Jew who did not convert to Christianity would be expelled from the country.

Óbidos

:* Óbidos, Portugal, the municipal seat of the municipality of Óbidos

Portugal 1111: A Conquista de Soure

Portugal 1111: A Conquista de Soure ("Portugal 1111: Soure's Conquest") is a real-time strategy game developed by Ciberbit, a Portuguese multimedia company, in partnership with the Municipality of Soure and historians from the University of Coimbra.

Portuguese colonialism in Indonesia

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to reach the islands of Indonesia.

Rabeca

The rabeca is thought to have originated in the Entre-Douro-e-Minho region of northern Portugal, especially in the areas around Amarante during the 18th century.

Tiro de Diu

After the defeat of the Muslim forces, the gun was sent to Lisbon, first being set in the Castle of São Jorge and, after 1640, in the Fortress of S. Julião da Barra, in Oeiras, to defend the mouth of the River Tagus.

Trofa

:* Trofa, Portugal, the urbanized city and municipal seat of the municipality of Trofa

WEQX

It was an all day free music festival that featured Portugal. The Man, Said The Whale, Cayucas among others.


2006 FIFA World Cup seeding

Mexico lost to Argentina, and France beat Spain, so while Spain and Mexico were eliminated earlier than the seedings would have predicted, Ukraine and Portugal went farther than the seedings predicted, Portugal going on to reach the semi-finals.

2010 Men's European Volleyball League

In the final four tournament, the semi-final matches featured Portugal and Spain defeating Romania (3–2) and Turkey (3–0), respectively, to produce a rematch of the 2007 final.

A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening

First published in Portugal in Portuguese in 1994 as Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde, the novel won several awards, including the 1996 Pegasus Prize, and became a best-seller in Portugal.

Active Space Technologies

Founded in 2004, the company's work and expansion has been reported in several media, including Expresso, Correio da Manhã, The Wall Street Journal, Diário As Beiras, Público, Diário de Coimbra, RDP Antena 1, Jornal de Notícias, TSF, Agência Lusa, Rádio Universidade de Coimbra, El Mundo, RTP 2, Rádio Renascença, etc.

Agonum muelleri

In Europe, it is found in Albania, the Azores, Baltic states, Belarus, Benelux, Great Britain including the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, mainland Portugal, Russia, Sardinia, Sicily (doubtful), mainland Spain, Ukraine, Scandinavia, Yugoslavian states, and Central Europe.

Alberto Gollán

Through Televisión Litoral, Gollán started in 1977 the Ibero-American Advertising Festival (Festival Iberoamericano de Publicidad, or FIAP), which has continued to be celebrated annually, with the participation of producers from Spain, Portugal and several Latin American countries.

Alexandrina Maria da Costa

In June 1938, based on the request of Father Mariano Pinho, a jesuit priest, several bishops from Portugal wrote to Pope Pius XI, asking him to consecrate the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, based on the reported messages received directly from Jesus and Virgin Mary by Alexandrina Maria da Costa.

Angolan War of Independence

The USA granted the company Aero Associates, from Tucson, Arizona, the permission to sell seven Douglas B-26 Invader bombers to Portugal in early 1965, despite Portugal's concerns about their support for the Marxists from Cuba and the USSR.

António Arnault

António Duarte Arnault, GOL (born 1936 in Cumieira, Penela, Portugal) is a Portuguese poet, fiction writer, essayist, lawyer, and politician.

António Bagão Félix

He is a columnist in several newspapers such as Express, Economic Daily, Public, Weekly, The Ball, among others, and he participates in the radio program Board on Antena1.

António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama

After another eight years, on 14 May 1878, King Luis raised him still higher to Duque de Ávila e Bolama (Duke of Ávila and Bolama), thus making him the first non-noble-born individual so honored, especially in view of the fact that the title of Duke was, traditionally, granted in Portugal solely to members of high nobility and relatives of the Portuguese Royal Family.

Armando Santiago

From 1962 to 1964 he studied in Rome with Boris Porena privately and with Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia through grants awarded to him by the governments of Portugal and Italy.

Arthur Dunkel

Arthur Dunkel (August 26, 1932 - June 8, 2005) was a Swiss (Portuguese-born) administrator.

Bahr negus Yeshaq

Bahr negus Yeshaq first appears in history about the time the Portuguese fleet arrived at Massawa in 1541.

Bruno Matias

Bruno Filipe Santos Matias (born 4 March 1989 in Santarém) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for FC Etzella Ettelbruck, as a midfielder.

Calcutta Light Horse

The Ehrenfels was known to be transmitting information on Allied ship movements to U-boats from Mormugao harbour in Portugal's neutral territory of Goa.

CroisiEurope

In France, CroisiEurope sail on the Seine, the Rhône, the Saône, the Gironde, the Meuse, and the Rhine; in Italy, on the Po; in Spain, on the Guadalquivir; in Portugal, on the Guadiana and the Douro; in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, on the Rhine; in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, and Romania, on the Danube; and in Germany, on the Havel and the Oder.

Dinheirosaurus

Its remains were found in the upper section (Kimmeridgian) of the Late Jurassic strata of the Camadas de Alcobaça Formation located in central-western Portugal at Porto Dinheiro, Lourinhã.

Eduardo Mondlane

One of António de Oliveira Salazar's most important advisers, Adriano Moreira, a political science professor who had been appointed to the post of Portugal's Minister of the Overseas (Ministro do Ultramar), met Mondlane at the United Nations when both were working there and, recognizing his qualities, tried to bring him to the Portuguese side by offering to him a post in Portuguese Mozambique's administration.

Eleanor of Portugal

Eleanor of Viseu (1458–1525), aka Eleanor of Viseu or Eleanor of Lancaster, daughter of Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu and Infanta Beatrice, Duchess of Viseu, wife of John II of Portugal

Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (1434–1467), daughter of Edward I of Portugal and wife of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor

Emerson Alcântara

He then ended his playing career with one of Portugal’s oldest club C.F. Os Belenenses in 1996.

Francisco de Oliveira Dias

He was the 4th President of the Assembly of the Republic between 22 October 1981 and 2 November 1982, during which he was also a Member of the Portuguese Council of State.

Hintze Ribeiro disaster

On the night of March 4, 2001, the Hintze Ribeiro disaster occurred when the Hintze Ribeiro Bridge, made of steel and concrete, collapsed in Entre-os-Rios, Castelo de Paiva, Portugal, killing 59 people, including those in a bus and three cars that were attempting to get to the other side of the Douro River.

Horseball

The latest edition of the tournament was held at Ponte de Lima in 2008 (Portugal), and was won by France, United Kingdom won the silver and Spain won the bronze.

House of Asturias

Stanley G. Payne, A History of Spain and Portugal, Volume 1, Chapter Three (The Early Christian Principalities and the Expansion of

Ibón Pérez Arrieta

In his country, Pérez could never play in higher than the third division in his beginnings, moving in 2001 to Iberian Peninsula neighbours Portugal with Desportivo de Chaves where he scored at incredible rate, always in the second division.

Ílhavo

Ílhavo is a city in Ílhavo Municipality in Aveiro District in Portugal.

Jorge Sampaio

His maternal grandmother Sara Bensliman Bensaúde, who died in 1976, was a of Sephardi Jew from Morocco of Portuguese origin, and his maternal grandfather Fernando Branco (1880–1940) was a Naval Officer of the Portuguese Navy and later the Foreign Minister of Portugal; Sampaio himself is agnostic, and does not consider himself a Jew.

José Villalobos

He was a member of Costa Rica U23 team who competed at 2004 Summer Olympics, playing the full 90 minutes in all matches as Costa Rica lost to Argentina on the quarterfinals and scoring in the group stage match against Portugal.

Leonardo Jardim

Born in Barcelona, Anzoátegui, Venezuela, to Portuguese parents who had settled in the country, Jardim returned to Portugal at a very young age, relocating to the island of Madeira.

Leonel Moura

Leonel Moura (born on December 26, 1948 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a conceptual artist whose work shifted in the late 1990s from photo based work to Artificial Intelligence and Robotic art.

Louis Tirlet

The year 1810 found Tirlet commanding the II Corps artillery under Jean Reynier during André Masséna's invasion of Portugal in the Peninsular War.

Luís Moniz Pereira

Luís Moniz Pereira(born in 1947 in Lisbon, Portugal) is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the AI centre at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Magdolna Purgly

Due to her son's skill, the family managed to move to Estoril, Portugal.

Moura, Queensland

In 1854 Charles Marshall named the local property Moura after Moura in Portugal where he served in the British Army during the Peninsular Wars.

Oliver Smedley

Smedley also owned and ran a bar and nightclub in Albufeira, Portugal, called the Seven and the Seven and a Half.

Perivaldo Dantas

In the late 80s, after living three years in South Korea, he relocated to Portugal in hopes of finding a new club, but eventual poor choices and several misfortunes ended up with him as an homeless person having to resort to street vending in Lisbon.

Portugal national table tennis team

Portugal has one of the best Table Tennis team of the World.The team is composed by Marcos Freitas, Tiago Apolónia and João Pedro Monteiro.

Portuguese presidential election, 2006

Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Prime Minister from 1985 to 1995, supported by the Social Democratic Party and by the People's Party;

Portuguese-style bullfighting

Ana Batista, Sónia Matias and Ana Rita are among the first and most renowned cavaleiras of Portugal.

Ricardo Salgado

On January 2013 BES was the only Portuguese bank to manage the operation that marks the return of Portugal to the markets, since the country has been subject to Troika's intervention.

Roman villa of Santo André de Almoçageme

In Santo André de Almoçageme, Sintra, Portugal, is located the westernmost villa of the Roman Empire with occupation from the second to the sixth centuries AD.

Spanish expedition to Formosa

The rivalry with Portugal, however, was not entirely economic: from 1580, after the battle of Ksar El Kebir, the Portuguese crown had been joined to that of Spain in an "Iberian Union" under Philip II of Spain.

Teatro Diogo Bernardes

The Teatro Diogo Bernardes is a theatre and opera house in Ponte de Lima, Portugal, is an Italian-style theatre built in 1893 and inaugurated in 1896.

Tomaz Morais

Tomaz Eduardo Carvalho Morais (born in 6 April 1970 in Lobito, Angola) is a Portuguese rugby union coach and a former player.

Trefftz method

The hybrid Trefftz method is also being applied to some fields, e.g. computational modeling of hydrated soft tissues or water-saturated porous media, through ongoing research project at the Technical University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico in Portugal.

Wartenberg Trust

WartenbergTrust is a global multi-family office, wealth management and investment advisory firm established in 1921 to manage financial and other assets of the Wartenberg family in German-speaking Europe and from 1931 also in France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the US and Italy.

Wilfrid B. Israel

On 26 March 1943 Israel left London for Lisbon, Portugal and spent the next two months distributing certificates of entry to British ruled Palestine, and investigating the situation of Jews on the peninsula; during World War II the fascist regimes in Spain and Portugal sympathized with Nazi Germany but refused to hand over Jews to the Germans.