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Part of the Cold War and decolonisation of Africa. Date. 4 February 1961 – 25 April 1974. (13 years, 2 months and 3 weeks) Location. Portuguese Africa ( Angola, Guinea, and Mozambique) Result. Carnation Revolution. Portuguese military success and general victory in Angola and Mozambique.
Mar 10, 2021 · Intended to make amends for the explicit racism of the Portuguese colonial dictatorship that was overthrown in 1974, this clause in the constitution has become a major sticking point for anti...
The Portuguese Colonial War (Portuguese: Guerra Colonial Portuguesa) was fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974. Portugal fought the MPLA, FNLA, UNITA and FLEC in Angola between 1961 and 1974.
Feb 11, 2023 · The Portuguese Colonial War was a 13-year-long conflict fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974. The Portuguese ultraconservative regime at the time, the Estado Novo, was overthrown by a military coup in 1974, and the change in government brought the conflict ...
Feb 26, 2017 · Publish with us. Policies and ethics. Chapter 3 focuses on the public memory of the Portuguese colonial war, identifying two distinct phases: from 1974 to 1999 (the postwar silence), and from 2000 onward (a time for revival). This chapter begins with a contextualization of the Portuguese colonial...
Nov 12, 2021 · This article presents an analysis of the monumentalization of the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974) and explores the dynamics that sustain its growth recently, while other symbols and forms of public memorialization associated with the colonial past have increasingly been called into question and contested, nationally and internationally.
ual experience and memory with collective representations of the war. She details the changing ways in which Portuguese society both remembered and forgot the colonial wars, from postwar neglect to a revival of interest in the 2000s. She shows how the veterans have been variously represented
