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1 day ago · Carnation revolution In Lisbon, Portugal 25 April 1974. Photograph: Jean-Claude Francolon/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images. View image in fullscreen. Carnation revolution In Lisbon, Portugal 25 April 1974.
1 day ago · Portugal is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, which marked the end of the Estado Novo dictatorship and the country’s colonial wars in Africa.
1 day ago · 50 Years Of Portugal's "Carnation Revolution" — It All Began In Africa. It all started on April 25, 1974, when some frustrated military officers — who had seen with their own eyes the effects of colonization in Western Africa — decided to overthrow the military regime. And over the past half-century, Portugal has gone from an archaic ...
1 day ago · UN News Debate on the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. On 25 April 1974, military officers overthrew the nearly 50-year dictatorship in Portugal in a largely peaceful coup known as the Carnation Revolution. Named after the flowers civilians stuffed in the muzzles of the soldiers’ guns, the revolution put Portugal on ...
1 day ago · Fifty years on, the chip is still there, a rare physical trace of a revolution that swept away 48 years of Portuguese dictatorship in less than 24 hours: a discreet notch, barely 50 centimeters ...
1 day ago · Thousands of people in Portugal are marking the fiftieth anniversary of the country's Carnation Revolution – a military coup that put an end to Europe's longest dictatorship and to 13 years of ...
5 days ago · The Carnation Revolution turned Portugal into the country it is today. Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, the head of the Captains’ Revolution, pictured in 1976 with a carnation in his hand .
