García headed a Portuguese expedition in the Indian ocean in 1554 and died before completing the return travel.

Though definite proof is lacking, there is evidence that the islands were first discovered by an unrecorded Portuguese expedition before Magellan set sail.

He functioned as a primary organizer of the Portuguese expedition to Tangier in 1437.

Lured by the potential of high profits from another expedition, the Portuguese established a permanent base south of the Indian trade port of Calicut in the early 15th century.

The ocean's current name was given by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the Spanish expedition of world circumnavigation in 1521, who encountered favourable winds as he reached the ocean and called it Mar Pacifico in Portuguese, meaning " peaceful sea ".

Later, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan sailed the Pacific on a Spanish expedition of world circumnavigation from 1519 to 1522.

However, both the location of the island and its name were quoted in a Dutch book in 1508, which described a 1505 Portuguese expedition led by Francisco de Almeida from the East Indies: " n the twenty-first day of July we saw land, and it was an island lyng six hundred and fifty miles from the Cape, and called Saint Helena, howbeit we could not land there.

The complete conquest of Ethiopia was averted by the timely arrival of a Portuguese expedition led by Cristóvão da Gama, son of the famed navigator Vasco da Gama.

The Portuguese had been in the area earlier in early 16th centuries ( in search of the legendary priest-king Prester John ), and although a diplomatic mission from Portugal, led by Rodrigo de Lima, had failed to improve relations between the countries, they responded to the Ethiopian pleas for help and sent a military expedition to their fellow Christians.

The 16th century Somali-Portuguese wars in East Africa meant that geopolitical tensions would remain high and the increased contact between Somali sailors and Ottoman corsairs worried the Portuguese who sent a punitive expedition against Mogadishu under Joao de Sepuvelda, which was unsuccessful.

Ottoman-Somali cooperation against the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean reached a high point in the 1580s when Ajuuraan clients of the Somali coastal cities began to symphatize with the Arabs and Swahilis under Portuguese rule and sent an envoy to the Turkish corsair Mir Ali Bey for a joint expedition against the Portuguese.

Portuguese chronicles noted that the king of Sukhothai had sent an expedition to Malacca at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula in 1455.

* Some believe that Australia was sighted by a Portuguese expedition led by Cristóvão de Mendonça.

This is followed up by Rafael Perestrello, a cousin of Christopher Columbus, who commands an expedition from Portuguese Malacca in 1516 to land on the shores of mainland southern China, in order to trade with Chinese merchants at Guangzhou.

* July 21 – Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral returns to Lisbon from his expedition to Calicut ( Nicolau Coelho having arrived on June 23 ).

* Ferdinand Magellan ( 1480 – 1521 ), Portuguese sea captain ( serving Spain ), leader of first expedition to sail around the world

The stage was thus set for Houtman's four-ship exploratory expedition to Banten, the main pepper port of West Java, where they clashed with both the Portuguese and indigenous Indonesians.

Also, in 1438 in a military expedition to Tangier, the Portuguese were defeated.

On land he again defeated the Moors, who attempted to retake Ceuta in 1418 ; but in an expedition to Tangier, undertaken in 1437 by King Edward ( 1433 – 1438 ), the Portuguese army was defeated, and could only escape destruction by surrendering as a hostage Prince Ferdinand, the king's youngest brother.

The follow-up expedition, the Second India Armada launched in 1500, was placed under the command Pedro Álvares Cabral, with the mission of making a treaty with the Zamorin of Calicut and setting up a Portuguese factory in the city.

English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian speakers may use the term American to refer to either inhabitants of the Americas or to U. S. nationals.

Some etymologists believe it comes from a dialectal pronunciation of the Portuguese " bandore " or from an early anglicisation of the Spanish word " bandurria ", though other research suggests that it may come from a West African term for a bamboo stick formerly used for the instrument's neck.

Portuguese explorers may have been the first Europeans to discover the island of Diego Garcia.

The Portuguese navigator Pedro de Mascarenhas may have discovered the island during his voyage of 1512 – 1513, but there is little corroborative evidence for this ; cartographic analysis points to 1532 or later.

In other streams of Judaism there is considerable variability: Sephardic communities may use Ladino or Portuguese for many prayers ; Conservative synagogues tend to use the local language to a varying degree ; and at some Reform synagogues almost the whole service may be in the local language.

Speakers of language variants ( Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese, for example ) may be considered to possess a single lexicon.

Portuguese may refer to:

Apart of English, in all Brazilian Portuguese dialects the ⟨ rr ⟩ phoneme, or, may be actually realized as other, traditionally non-rhotic, fricatives ( and most often is so ), unless it occurs single between vowels, being so realized as a dental, alveolar, postalveolar or retroflex flap.

It can be questioned due to the Portuguese Reconquista that had ended in 1249, and both the Castillian and Portuguese kingdoms that may have begun profiting from maritime expansion along Africa before the Jews and Moors were expelled.

Supporters of Nordicism and Germanism consider Nordic people ( Scandinavians, Germans, English, Balts and Dutch ) to be superior, shunning those of Southern and Eastern Europe ( who may have darker features and different cultures ), including mostly Jews, Poles, Celts ( Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Basque ), Gypsies, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, white Latin Americans, Lusophone, white Africans, and Russians, along with anyone whose ethnic heritage is not European.

The Portuguese historian Teixeira de Aragão suggests that Vasco da Gama studied at the inland town of Évora, which is where he may have learned mathematics and navigation and it has even been claimed ( although dubiously ) that he studied under the astronomer Abraham Zacuto.

The difference between Hakka and the better-known Cantonese may be compared to that between Portuguese and Spanish, whereas Mandarin might be compared to French – more distantly related, and with a quite different phonology.

Azul means " blue " in Portuguese and Spanish and may refer to:

The 2000 Brazilian soap opera O Cravo e a Rosa was also based on the play ( this title means " The Carnation and the Rose " and comes from a children's song about a couple of engaged flowers who had a serious " fight " – which, in Portuguese, may mean either an awful argument or some physical confrontation ).

Cabiai may be an adaptation of the Portuguese çavia ( now savia ), which is itself derived from the Tupi word saujá, meaning rat.

Santa Fe or Santa Fé ( Spanish and Portuguese, respectively, for " holy faith ") may refer to:

In Portuguese, “ lagoa ” may be a body of shallow sea water, but also a relatively small freshwater lake not linked to the sea.

Historical terminology overlaps with that applied to the Zweihänder sword in the 16th century: French espadon, Spanish espadón or Portuguese montante may also be used more narrowly to refer to these large swords.

Réunion itself was dubbed Santa Apolonia after a favorite saint, which suggests that the date of the Portuguese discovery may have been February 9, her saint day.

While the Portuguese may have originally reserved the term crioulo for people of strictly European descent, the crioulo population came to be dominated by numerous people of mixed Portuguese and African ancestry.

The first assembly of the estates-general convened at Lamego ( wherein he would have been given the crown from the Archbishop of Braga, to confirm his independence ) is a 17th century embellishment of Portuguese history.

The Dutch followed the Portuguese to Banda but were to have a much more dominating and lasting presence.

The exception to this rule is in the state of Goa, where a Portuguese uniform civil code is in place, in which all religions have a common law regarding marriages, divorces and adoption.

As a result, Cape Verdeans are mulattos ( mestiços in Portuguese ), who have mixed African and European origins.

Some Chaosium products have been translated into French, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Spanish and Italian, and were available in France from Jeux Descartes, in Germany from Pegasus Press, in Spain from Joc Internacional and La factoría de ideas and in Italy from Stratelibri and Grifo Edizioni.

Several Portuguese explorers / cartographers have also documented various parts of the Maritimes, namely Diogo Homem.

Portuguese has also made use of the following composite characters: " è, ì, ò, ù, ï, ü ", but have come to be abolished during the last 5 orthographic reforms occurring between 1911 and 2011.

Since King Valdemar II of Denmark was married to the Portuguese princess, Berengária of Portugal, it is not unthinkable that the origin of the story, if not the flag, was the Spanish tale or a similar tale, which again might have been inspired by an even older legend.

Dollfuss staged a parliamentary session with just his party members present in April 1934 to have his new constitution approved, effectively the second constitution in the world espousing corporatist ideas ( after that of the Portuguese Estado Novo ).

About 10 % of last names in Gibraltar have Portuguese origin.

Portuguese has for now two official written standards, respectively Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese, but in a short term it will have a unified orthography.

The shipwrecked Ottoman Admiral Seydi Ali Reis is known to have introduced the earliest type of Matchlock which were utilized against the Portuguese during the Siege of Diu ( 1531 ).

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.

The Portuguese also began a channel of trade with the Japanese, becoming the first recorded Westerners to have visited Japan.

They have become a typical aspect of Portuguese culture, manifesting without interruption during five centuries the consecutive trends in art.

The Portuguese, often married Tanka women since Han Chinese women would not have relations with them.

A number of returning Portuguese nationals have also invested in the country as well as some Italian organizations.

These words have the constraint that they can only be used to refer to people, as in the case with Portuguese.

* The Latin short vowels and have preserved their original sound ( in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese they became and, respectively.