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38 unusual facts about Portugal


1620s in South Africa

1622 - The Portuguese ship, Sao João Baptista, was lost off the eastern coast of South Africa

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.

2009 Estoril Open

Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, Portugal, from May 2 through May 10, 2009.

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.

Ana Bailão

Bailão was born in Vila Franca de Xira in Portugal and a former resident of Alenquer Municipality, Bailão moved to Canada and settled in Davenport with her family at the age of 15.

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.

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.

Brig Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador

The Avenger sank approximately 45 miles south of Faro, Portugal.

Campo Maior

Campo Maior, Portugal, a municipality in the Portalegre District, Alentejo Region, Portugal.

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).

Olivenza had been under continuous Portuguese sovereignty since 1297 when it was occupied by the Spanish in 1801 and formally ceded by Portugal later that year by the Treaty of Badajoz.

Eduardo Henriques

Eduardo António da Silva Henriques (born 24 March 1968 in Alenquer, Oeste) is a Portuguese runner who specialized in the 3000 metres steeplechase and cross-country running.

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.

Felgueiras

Felgueiras, Portugal, the city/urban catchment within the municipality of Felgueiras

History of the African Union

However, the strong rivalry between European powers such as Great Britain, Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, meant the reality soon dawned that no one nation was powerful enough to outdo all the others, and take complete control of the continent.

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.

He was born in Santarém (sometimes spelled Shantarin or Xantarin) and died in 1147.

Instituto Superior Técnico

It has three campi, all located in the Greater Lisbon area (Alameda in Lisbon, Taguspark in Oeiras and Tecnológico e Nuclear Campus in Loures), and consists of ten Departments and one Autonomous Section that are responsible for teaching the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

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

José Santos Marques

José Santos Marques is the mayor of Oleiros, a municipality in central Portugal.

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.

Mora

Mora Municipality, Portugal, a municipality in the district of Évora and a civil parish within it

New Bedford Highway Killer

Guedes could still be prosecuted for the 2000 murder of a prostitute in Aveiro, Portugal and similar murders in Germany (or neighboring countries) where Guedes resided in the 1990s.

Opera Design Matters

1st prize for the Santarém Strategic Project of the riverside area - Real Estate National Portuguese Awards 2009 - Urban development category

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.

Qwentin

After the success of this show, Qwentin returned to CCC in September for a presentation of a less theatrical nature, was also presented later in Portalegre during “Games 2006”.

Roussas

If you are looking for Roussas, a Portuguese parish in Melgaço, see Roussas (Melgaço)

Sapper Divers Detachments

These units are based in the Submarine Fleet buildings in the Alfeite Naval Base; they are under Administrative Command of that Fleet and under Operational Command of the Naval Command in Oeiras.

Silvinho

Silvinho is a Portuguese nickname for various people with Sílvio given names, it means small Sílvio.

The Sims 3: Generations

Portugal. The Man have also contributed the song "Everything You See (Kids Count Hallelujahs)" from their forthcoming album In The Mountain In The Cloud.

Visions of Jesus and Mary

The visions of the Virgin Mary appearing to three shepherd children at Fátima, Portugal, in 1917 were declared "worthy of belief" by the Catholic Church in 1930 but Catholics at large are not formally required to believe them.


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.

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.

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.

Adriano de Paiva

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

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.

Andrea Marcato

That, apart from another test match against Portugal later in October, was the only match Marcato played for the next one and half years.

Angelica pachycarpa

Angelica pachycarpa is found growing in the Crithmo-Armerion maritimae (Géhu 1968) community of plants in Spain and Portugal which includes these species also: Armeria berlengensis, Armeria euscadiensis, Armeria maritima subsp.

António Arnault

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

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.

Cabo de Santo Agostinho

Although the official Portuguese discovery of Brazil was by Pedro Álvares Cabral on April 21, 1500, some historians believe that Vicente Yáñez Pinzón already had set anchor in a bay in Cabo de Santo Agostinho on January 26, 1500, which he named Cabo de Santa María de la Consolación.

Campo Maior, Portugal

On May 31, 1297, the Treaty of Alcanizes was signed by King Ferdinand IV of Castile and King Denis of Portugal, whereby Campo Maior, together with Olivença and Ouguela, were transferred to Portugal.

David ben Judah Messer Leon

However, in 1495 the city fell to the French under Charles VIII, and he fled east to the Ottoman Empire to escape the violent pogroms that ensued, spending time in Istanbul before moving sometime between 1498 and 1504 to teach Torah in Salonica, at that time in a state of intellectual vibrancy due to the settlement there of many Sephardi exiles forced to leave after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, Sicily in 1493, and Portugal in 1496.

Dutch Brazilian

The Dutch West India Company was established in Amsterdam in 1621 and soon came into contact with the overseas domains of Portugal and Spain.

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.

Edward Quillinan

His latter years had been chiefly employed in translations of Luís de Camões' Lusiad, five books of which were completed, and of Alexandre Herculano's History of Portugal.

Eleanor 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.

Filipe Augusto

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.

Francisco Adam

According to TVI, Francisco was supposed to become the central character in Morangos com Açúcar in the following season.

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.

Henning Mankell

In his youth Mankell was a left-wing political activist and a strong opponent of the Vietnam War, South African apartheid, and Portugal's colonial war in Mozambique.

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.

Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra

Its status was changed from university when it was integrated into the polytechnic subsector in 1988 through the decree "Decreto-Lei nº389/88", of 25 of October", and incorporated into the newly created Polytechnical Institute of Coimbra.

Jonathan da Silva Oliveira

Jonathan da Silva Oliveira (born 10 July 1991 in Santa Maria da Feira), is a Portuguese footballer who plays for C.D. Feirense as a forward.

La Belle Alliance

Blücher, the Prussian commander, suggested that the battle should be remembered as la Belle Alliance, to commemorate the European Seventh Coalition of Britain, Russia, Prussia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, and a number of German States which had all joined the coalition to defeat the French Emperor.

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.

Mario Radovan

He was a visiting scholar at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal in the year 1985/86; he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholarship for academic year 1997/98, which he spent at the University of California at Berkeley.

Miklós Horthy, Jr.

Father and son went into exile in Portugal, where Miklós Horthy Jr. lived almost fifty years before dying at Estoril, near Lisbon, in 1993.

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.

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.

Populo

Nossa Senhora do Pópulo is one of the sixteen civil parishes that make up the municipality of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.

Portuguese-style bullfighting

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

Radoslav Zdravkov

During his professional career, which spanned nearly 20 years, Zdravkov represented Lokomotiv Sofia (1973–80), CSKA Sofia (1980–86), Portugal's G.D. Chaves (1986–89), Sporting de Braga (1989–90), Paços de Ferreira (1990–91) and F.C. Felgueiras (1991–92) - after he had left the Iron Curtain at the age of 30 - Yantra Gabrovo (1992–93) and Litex Lovech (1993–94).

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.

Rudinilson Silva

Rudinilson Gomes Brito Silva (born 20 August 1994 in Bissau) aka Rudinilson Silva or Rudinilson, is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Benfica B as a defender.

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.

Stephen of Durazzo

He moved to Portugal as a crusader, having fought the Moors alongside "his cousin" king Afonso IV of Portugal at the battle of Salado, as mentioned in Duarte Nunes de Leão's Chronicles of the Kings of Portugal.

Stratos Boats

Stratos began building boats in 1984, and sells throughout a network of dealers throughout the United States, Australia, France, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Italy and Venezuela.

Tarragona International Dixieland Festival

On several occasions, Tarragona has worked with the Jazz Festival of Terrassa, in Catalonia, and since 2006 it has been working with the Dixieland Festival of Cantanhede in Portugal and with the Catalan Trapezi Circus Fair from Reus.

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.

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.