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Ferdinand Magellan [a] ( c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese [3] explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies, which achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history. During the expedition, he also discovered the Strait of Magellan, allowing his fleet to pass from the Atlantic ...
Angola. Brazil (see Brazilian Portuguese) Cape Verde. Timor-Leste ( co-official with Tetum; 51,800 L1 speakers as of 2007) [1] [2] Equatorial Guinea (co-official with Spanish and French) Guinea-Bissau. Mozambique. Portugal. São Tomé and Príncipe.
According to the 2011 Census, Portuguese is the tenth most commonly spoken language in England and Wales, with 133,453 speakers. [23] A study undertaken in 2000 found that Portuguese was the 14th most common mother tongue amongst school children in London. [9] There is also a small community of Kriolu speakers in Greenwich.
Castella (カステラ, kasutera) is a kind of wagashi [1] [2] [3] (a Japanese traditional confectionery) developed in Japan based on the "Nanban confectionery" (confectionery imported from abroad to Japan during the Azuchi–Momoyama period ). The batter is poured into large square or rectangular molds, baked in an oven and cut into long ...
1996 (20th Session) Porto ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpoɾtu] ⓘ ), also known as Oporto, [a] is the second largest city in Portugal after Lisbon. It is the capital of the Porto District and one of the Iberian Peninsula 's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan ...
Local bread rolls are made according to a Portuguese recipe. All around the island, there are snèks which serve local dishes as well as alcoholic drinks in a manner akin to the English public house. [citation needed] The ubiquitous breakfast dish is pastechi: fried pastry with fillings of cheese, tuna, ham, or ground meat.
Prince Henry the Navigator. Dom Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), better known as Prince Henry the Navigator ( Portuguese: Infante Dom Henrique, o Navegador ), was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
