Aveiro is sometimes called " The Portuguese Venice ", because of its canals and boats that remind one of the Italian city of Venice, as the city faced similar problems when it tried to conquer the water.

Henry would hold this position for the remainder of his life, and the order was an important source of funds for Henry's ambitious plans, especially his persistent attempts to conquer the Canary Islands, which the Portuguese had claimed to have discovered before the year 1346.

African slaves who fought for the Portuguese repulsed the Dutch attack, and the Dutch never tried to conquer Macau again.

* 1147 – The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.

* September 20-October 19 – A Portuguese attempt to conquer Tanger fails and Prince Ferdinand is taken hostage.

* The Portuguese troops conquer Beja from the Almohads.

To prevent the Portuguese or the English from ever recapturing Sri Lanka, the VOC went on to conquer the entire Malabar Coast from the Portuguese, almost entirely driving them from the west coast of India.

The bull also conferred exclusive trading rights to the Portuguese between Morocco and the Indies with the rights to conquer and convert the inhabitants.

" " eaceful trade became the rule all along the African coast ", although there were some rare exceptions when acts of aggression led to violence ; for instance Portuguese traders attempted to conquer the Bissagos Islands in 1535, which was followed in 1571 when Portugal, supported by the Kingdom of Kongo, was able to capture the south-western region of Angola in order to secure its threatened economic interest in the area.

Eugene tempered Sicut Dudum with another bull ( 15 September 1436 ) issued in response to complaints made by King Edward of Portugal that allowed the Portuguese to conquer any unconverted parts of the Canary Islands.

John I of Castile, accompanied by allied French cavalry, then entered Portugal again by way of Ciudad Rodrigo and Celorico to conquer Lisbon and remove John I from the Portuguese throne, but the disastrous defeats suffered by his army in Trancoso and Aljubarrota in May and August of 1385 ended any possibility of his reigning as king of Portugal.

Fernão Pires de Andrade commanded a vessel in the naval venture of the Portuguese explorer and conqueror Afonso de Albuquerque from Cochin in India to conquer the Malacca Sultanate in 1511.

The Dutch and later the Portuguese attempted several times to conquer Palmares, until an army led by famed São Paulo-born Domingos Jorge Velho managed to destroy the great quilombo and kill Zumbi in 1695.

However, English aid to Portugal went back much further to the 1147 Siege of Lisbon, when English and other Northern European Crusaders en route to the Holy Land to participate in the Second Crusade stopped and helped Portuguese King Afonso Henriques to conquer the city.

Finally in 1526, a large force of Portuguese ships, under the command of Pedro Mascarenhas, was sent to conquer Bintan, where Sultan Mahmud was based.

Things changed incisively when the Portuguese started in the 19th century to conquer and occupy the territory of what at present is Angola.

Largely in response to the two attempts of France to conquer territory in Brazil ( the other one was named France Équinoxiale and occupied present-day São Luís, state of Maranhão ), between 1612 and 1615, the Portuguese crown decided to expand its colonization efforts in Brazil.

In 1535, this enabled them to rout the Portuguese when they attempted to conquer the islands, which were not taken by Portugal until 1936.

Under his leadership, the Portuguese started the utmost endeavours to conquer the island of Diu.

Six Portuguese expeditions tried to conquer Palmares between 1680 and 1686, but failed.

Once this had happened, however, Álvaro sent an army to Angola to assist the Portuguese and to conquer Ndongo.

* 1488 Portuguese conquer Safi

The same year, the troops of the young Portuguese kingdom take Sintra and Santarém and sack Palmela.

Palmela, once a fortress, was conquered by the Portuguese in the 12th century, from Muslim invaders.

Palmela is the birthplace of the Portuguese explorer Hermenegildo Capelo and, as a curiosity, where some famous individuals such as Hans Christian Andersen were briefly hosted.

Octávio Joaquim Coelho Machado ( born 6 May 1949 in Palmela, Setúbal District ) is a Portuguese retired football defensive midfielder and coach.

** The towns of Almada and Palmela, just south of Lisbon, are taken from the Moors by the Portuguese.

The king ( 1211 – 1223 ), was no warrior, but in 1212 a Portuguese contingent aided the Castilians to defeat the Moors at Las Navas de Tolosa, and in 1217 the ministers, bishops and captains of the realm, reinforced by foreign crusaders, retook Alcácer do Sal.

Little is known about Nunes ' early education life or family background, only that he was born in Alcácer do Sal, his origins are Jewish and that his grandchildren spent a few years behind bars after they were accused by the Portuguese Inquisition of professing and secretly practicing Judaism.

The Spanish terms Alcázar and Portuguese Alcácer are derived from this North African Arabic word, and appear in place names and buildings originating as fortresses.

Portuguese terços in the Battle of Alcácer Quibir ( 1578 ).

This was the Portuguese force which fought the Battle of Alcácer Quibir.

During the 13th century, in the Portuguese Reconquista, the Portuguese Navy helped in the conquest of several littoral moorish towns, like Alcácer do Sal, Silves and Faro.

The historical action include the assassination of Viriathus, the Battle of Toro, the Battle of Alcácer Quibir and the more recent Portuguese Colonial War.

* 1578: Battle of Alcácer Quibir: Moroccan victory over the Portuguese army ;

The Portuguese succession crisis of 1580 () came about as a result of the death of young King Sebastian I of Portugal in the Battle of Alcácer Quibir in 1578.

* 1217-The Portuguese take the town of Alcácer do Sal from the Moors.

** Portuguese troops utterly defeated in Africa, in the battle of Alcácer Quibir ; king Sebastião disappears in the battle never to be seen again.

Infante John, Lord of Reguengos de Monsaraz, Colares, and Belas (,; Santarém, January 13, 1400 – October 18, 1442, Alcácer do Sal ) was a Portuguese infante ( prince ) of the House of Aviz, Constable of Portugal and master of the Portuguese Order of St. James ( Santiago ).

The opening of the tomb provoked considerable concern among some sectors of Portuguese society and IPPAR – Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico ( Portuguese State Agency for Architectural Patrimony ).

While with the Portuguese Navy, Phillip commanded a frigate, the Nossa Senhora do Pilar.

However, there are some Jews, particularly the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, who do hold public readings of the Book of Job on the Tisha B ' Av fast ( a day of mourning over the destruction of the First and Second Temples and other tragedies ).

It belongs to the so-called plane chart model, where observed latitudes and magnetic directions are plotted directly into the plane, with a constant scale, as if the Earth were a plane ( Portuguese National Archives of Torre do Tombo, Lisbon ).

The Portuguese explorer, Fernão do Pó, seeking a route to India, is credited with having discovered the island of Bioko in 1471.

The French form translates as " moon of honey " ( lune de miel ), as do the Spanish ( luna de miel ), Portuguese ( lua de mel ) and Italian ( luna di miele ) equivalents.

From his Vila do Infante in 15th Century Portuguese, Estate or Town of the Prince on the Sagres peninsula located at the south-westernmost point of Iberia and with sea access to both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Henry sponsored voyages down the coast of Africa, sailing as far as Guinea, that were primarily exploration expeditions, later on bringing back to the nearby town of Lagos, from whence they set out, numerous African slaves and goods.

In 1618 the Portuguese built the fortress called Fortaleza São Pedro da Barra, and they subsequently built two more: Fortaleza de São Miguel ( 1634 ) and Forte de São Francisco do Penedo ( 1765-6 ).

This machete is issued with a 5-inch Bowie knife and a sharpening stone in the scabbard ; collectively called a " jungle kit " ( Conjunto de Selva in Portuguese ); it is manufactured by Indústria de Material Bélico do Brasil ( IMBEL ).

Also, given his limited resources and manpower, Irala could do little to check the raids of Portuguese marauders along his eastern borders.

* Mundo do Hóquei ( Portuguese Roller Hockey Portal )

After the islands were discovered by Fernão do Pó, Portuguese navigators explored the islands and decided they would be a good location for bases to trade with the mainland.

Its variants do differ slightly, as is the case with other pluricentric languages ( English, French, Spanish, German, Hindustani and Portuguese, among others ), but not to a degree which would justify considering them as different languages.

* September 28 – The Portuguese sports club Futebol Clube do Porto is founded.

Having defeated Portugal's ally, the ruler is happy to do business, and Lancaster seizes a large Portuguese galleon and loots it.

* April – Pirates John Taylor and Olivier Levasseur capture the 700-ton Portuguese galleon Nossa Senhora do Cabo at Réunion.

The Seven Provinces ( the Dutch ) captured a large portion of the Brazilian coast including the entire coasts except that of Bahia and much of the interior of most contemporary Northeastern states ( Bahia, Sergipe, Alagoas, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará ), while Dutch privateers sacked Portuguese ships in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

The knowledge of wind patterns and currents, the trade winds and the oceanic gyres in the Atlantic, and the determination of latitude led to the discovery of the best ocean route back from Africa: crossing the Central Atlantic to the latitude of the Azores, using the permanent favorable winds and currents that spin clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere because of atmospheric circulation and the effect of Coriolis, facilitating the way to Lisbon and thus enabling the Portuguese venturing increasingly farther from shore, the maneuver that became known as the " volta do mar " ().

Carmen Miranda was born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha in Várzea da Ovelha e Aliviada, a village in the northern Portuguese municipality of Marco de Canaveses.

Maria do Carmo, later Carmen, never returned to Portugal, but retained her Portuguese nationality.

The Sirens of Greek mythology are often confused with the GorgonsGorgonsportrayed in later folklore as half women-half birds, ( birds sing beautiful, enchanting songs, like the sirens are portrayed to do ); the fact that in Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian and Portuguese the word for mermaid is respectively Sirena, Sirène, Sirena, Syrena, Sirenă and Sereia, and that in biology the Sirenia comprise an order of fully aquatic mammals that includes the dugong and manatee, add to the visual confusion, so that Sirens are even represented as mermaids.

When making comparisons, the word liu (" more ") is used after the adjective, followed by duké (" than " from Portuguese do que ):