Ana Batista, Sónia Matias and Ana Rita are among the first and most renowned cavaleiras of Portugal.
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In 2009, the city hall of Viana do Castelo imposed a prohibition of bullfighting shows in the city.
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Jorge de Montemayor (born 1521), Portuguese novelist and poet, who wrote almost exclusively in Spanish
Inspired by the outrage felt by the Portuguese people, the lyricist, Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, accepted Keil's request to create words to suit his melody.
Adriano de Paiva (1847–1907) was a Portuguese scientist who was one of the pioneers of telectroscope.
His book The Age of Villages, with a foreword by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Director of Chatham House, won the “Latino Book Award” (best book by an author whose original language is in Spanish or Portuguese) in the category of contemporary history/political sciences, at the BookExpo America celebrated in Chicago in 2003.
Anália de Oliveira Rosa (born 28 February 1976 in Troviscal, Oliveira do Bairro) is a Portuguese long-distance runner who competes in cross country, track and road running events, including the marathon.
It is named after the Portuguese naturalist and explorer José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta.
António Duarte Arnault, GOL (born 1936 in Cumieira, Penela, Portugal) is a Portuguese poet, fiction writer, essayist, lawyer, and politician.
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.
Arthur Dunkel (August 26, 1932 - June 8, 2005) was a Swiss (Portuguese-born) administrator.
As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Bahr negus Yeshaq first appears in history about the time the Portuguese fleet arrived at Massawa in 1541.
Banif Financial Group a Portuguese financial services company originally from Funchal
The Duke of Wellington was anxious to secure both cities before advancing into Spain and chose to conduct the operations in the north himself and leave Marshal Beresford, the Commander in Chief of the Portuguese army, in command of the southern operation.
Bruno Filipe Santos Matias (born 4 March 1989 in Santarém) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for FC Etzella Ettelbruck, as a midfielder.
Dutch (official), Sranan Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population), Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Javanese, English (widely spoken), French due to cultural influence from French Guiana, Portuguese and Spanish.
In 2009, Diran followed Portuguese ex-F1 and current WTCC driver Tiago Monteiro around the world for a whole year, shooting an extraordinary movie titled "Tiago Monteiro, The Man In Every Shot".
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.
Entradas is a Portuguese town/parish within the boundaries of the municipality of Castro Verde, in the southern Alentejo region.
The Polytechnic School of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Escola Politécnica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), also called "Poli", founded in 1792, is the third most ancient engineering school of the world and the most ancient of America, with the Military Institute of Engineering (Instituto Militar de Engenharia - IME), being one of the firsts institutions of higher education in Brazil.
Her children were raised in the Portuguese court, where they were known by their appellation Noronha (Portuguese translation of Noreña).
Filipe Augusto Carvalho Souza (born 12 August 1993 in Bahia, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Portuguese top side Rio Ave.
The club has a distinct Portuguese background, and therefore its colours are that of the Portuguese national football team.
Confusion of the unusual Portuguese saint name Gonçalo with Spanish Diego led to the misnomer "Diego Alvarez island" in English sources from 1800s to 1930s.
Aqui na Terra (Here on Earth), a Portuguese film directed by João Botelho
However, the Portuguese ambassador in London, Bernardo José de Abrantes e Castro, Count of Funchal, was an extreme combatant of Costa's journal, and would create one of himself, entitled O Investigador Português em Inglaterra (The Portuguese Investigator in England), which ran from 1811 to 1819.
Ibero-German means of or pertaining to people of Spanish or Portuguese descent living in Germany or the German speaking countries.
The station is at the northern end of the University of Porto campus and is named after the nearby Instituto Português de Oncologia (Portuguese Oncology Institute).
The presence of Dutch, French, and English explorers in the estuary of the Amazon River has concurred for the settlement of Portuguese expeditionaries in the current territory of the State of Pará, and also for the expedition of Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco which, in 1616, has founded the city of Belém.
Abortion, in languages such as French, Italian, and Portuguese where "voluntary interruption of pregnancy" translates with this abbreviation
João Pedro Pinto Martins, (born 1982), Mozambican-Portuguese footballer currently playing for FK Ventspils
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.
Donna Juliana Dias da Costa (1658–1733) was a woman of Portuguese descent from Kochi taken to the Mughal Empire's court of Aurangzeb in Hindustan, who became Harem-Queen to the Mughal emperor of India Bahadur Shah I, Aurangzeb's son, who became the monarch in the year 1707.
However, Kakegawa has a noticeable Nikkei (particularly, South American) population and it is more common to find signs written in Portuguese than in English.
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.
He has also been a regular columnist at French daily Le Monde and in the Portuguese newspapers Expresso, Público, Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias and Diário de Notícias, having recently started publishing in the last one a new Thursday column, untitled «A Boa Distância» (which can both mean «The Good Distance» and «From a Good Distance»).
D Antonio I, king of Kongo challenged the Portuguese interferences and sent an army down to take Mbwila.
Meu erro (Portuguese for My mistake") is a rock single by Os Paralamas do Sucesso that was a Brazilian hit.
After the death of Sobhuza, Mswati inherited an area which extended as far as present day Barberton in the north and included the Nomahasha district in the Portuguese territory of Mozambique.
--Infonatura Rangemap--> In Portuguese it is known as Uirapuru or many other variants of this name, all based on the Tupi wirapu 'ru.
The construction of the mine installations and a 300 km railway were commissioned to Krupp of Germany and the modern harbour terminal to SETH, a Portuguese company owned by Højgaard & Schultz of Denmark.
Examples are the flags of the city of São Paulo and the Portuguese Autonomous Region of Madeira, the coat of arms of several Portuguese and Brazilian cities and municipalities, the badges of the Portuguese and Brazil national football teams and the roundels of the Portuguese Air Force aircraft.
Francisco Sanches (c.1550–1623), Portuguese or Galician philosopher of Jewish origin; refugee from the Inquisition
Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, leading his men of the 95th Rifles in retreat from the French victory at Oporto, are unexpectedly saved by a small detachment of Portuguese soldiers led by Lt. Jorge Vincente, a law student who joined his country's army out of patriotism.
The Snoa in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles was built by Sephardic Portuguese Jews from Amsterdam and Recife, Brazil.
The Stodarts are the children of a Scottish father and a Portuguese mother and were born in Trinidad in the Caribbean, where their mother was an opera singer and had her own TV show.
Tomaz Eduardo Carvalho Morais (born in 6 April 1970 in Lobito, Angola) is a Portuguese rugby union coach and a former player.
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The son of Portuguese settlers in Angola, Morais moved to Portugal following the 25 April 1974 revolution.
Josse van Huerter, first settler, and captain-major of the island of Faial in the Portuguese Azores.
A former member of the ill-fated Portuguese embassy of 1517 to Beijing, capital of the Ming Empire, Calvo has since been living in internal exile in one of the capital's suburbs.
Roughly equivalent words in other languages include Sociolismo in Cuba; Blat in Russia; Guanxi in Chinese and Vetternwirtschaft in German, protektzia in Israeli slang; in Brazilian-Portuguese it is called "Pistolão", or in the slang "peixada".