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Portugal was important in the world exploration for two reasons. Henry the Navigator, a prince from Portugal, was very interested in exploration. Inventions in navigation led to a bigger knowledge of geography. This world exploration began the Portuguese Empire. Portugal was a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries. It tried to colonize ...
Portuguese orthography is based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla to denote stress, vowel height, nasalization, and other sound changes. The diaeresis was abolished by the last Orthography Agreement.
Our Lady of Fátima ( Portuguese: Nossa Senhora de Fátima, pronounced [ˈnɔsɐ sɨˈɲɔɾɐ ðɨ ˈfatimɐ]; formally known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fátima) is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
Vindaloo. Vindaloo or Vindalho is an Indian curry dish, originally from Vasai and Goa. It is based on the Portuguese dish carne de vinha d'alhos. [1] [2] [3] It is known globally in its British Indian form as a staple of curry house and Indian restaurant menus and is often regarded as a fiery, spicy dish. The traditional recipe uses pork, but ...
Cachaça ( Portuguese pronunciation: [kaˈʃasɐ]) [1] is a distilled spirit made from fermented sugarcane juice. Also known as pinga, caninha, [2] and other names, it is the most popular spirit among distilled alcoholic beverages in Brazil. [3] Outside Brazil, cachaça is used almost exclusively as an ingredient in tropical drinks, with the ...
The musical history of Portugal can be divided in different ways. Portuguese music encompasses musical production of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras, especially from Angola with Kizomba. Portugal has very good dancing clothes making Portuguese dancing famous.
The Letters of a Portuguese Nun ( French: Les Lettres Portugaises, literally The Portuguese Letters ), first published anonymously by Claude Barbin in Paris in 1669, is a work believed by most scholars to be epistolary fiction in the form of five letters written by Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues (1628–1684), a minor peer ...
