Five centuries of empire - undone by a war they couldn’t win. From Angola to Mozambique to Guinea-Bissau, Portugal fought a brutal, bloody war to hold onto its crumbling colonies. But the world had ...

The fate of Portugal will serve as a sobering lesson for any country, group of people or even individuals whose idea of wealth building is by conquering, exploiting and impoverishing others, instead ...

LOWELL - Portuguese historian and researcher José Pedro Monteiro, who is currently a visiting professor a Brown University, will be examining in a webinar how events, processes and actors challenged ...

Most of us think of the Age of Discovery as a westward movement: Columbus seeking a new route to the Indies by crossing the Atlantic and — quite by accident — discovering the Americas. That discovery ...

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This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Subscribe to Undertones. When in Lisbon, images of ships and references to Portugal’s seafaring past are ...

The colonial empire at various times included Angola, Brazil, East Timor, Cape Verde and Mozambique, as well as some parts of India MADRID, April 28. /TASS/. The Portuguese government has refused to ...

Today, Portugal is only a small European country, but it used to be one of the world’s largest and longest-lived maritime empires. The most well-known of its former colonies is Brazil. Many African ...