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Nov 27, 2013 · Introduction. Resulting from the Iberian Reconquest, the kingdom of Portugal has maintained its independence since the 12th century, except for a brief period of incorporation into the Spanish Habsburg composite monarchy between 1580 and 1640.
The Kingdom of Portugal [3] was a monarchy in the western Iberian Peninsula and the predecessor of the modern Portuguese Republic. Existing to various extents between 1139 and 1910, it was also known as the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves after 1415, and as the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves between 1815 and 1822. The ...
A composite monarchy (or composite state) is a historical category, introduced by H. G. Koenigsberger in 1975 and popularised by Sir John H. Elliott, that describes early modern states consisting of several countries under one ruler, sometimes designated as a personal union, who governs his territories as if they were separate kingdoms, in accordance with local traditions and legal structures.
Mar 14, 2019 · The Problems of a European Composite Monarchy. Charles V (1500–1558) inherited a collection of very different territories dotted across Central and Western Europe. 2 His patrimony was probably the most extensive European political enterprise ruled in Europe by one person since the Romans.
- Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla
- Bartolome.Yun.Casalilla@EUI.eu
- 2019
The 5 October 1910 revolution was the overthrow of the centuries-old Portuguese monarchy and its replacement by the First Portuguese Republic. It was the result of a coup d'état organized by the Portuguese Republican Party . By 1910, the Kingdom of Portugal was in deep crisis: national anger over the 1890 British Ultimatum, [1] the royal ...
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Jan 1, 2017 · Like other European countries, Portugal built its contemporary state on the foundations of the monarchy, successively establishing the models most appropriate for the time and most acceptable to ...
Sep 2, 2015 · How Did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony?Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2012. 251 pp., 1 halftone, 4 tables. ISBN 9781845195441 (hbk.) $74.95 ...
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