Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

Besides the Portuguese, significant numbers of people from other European and from diverse Latin American countries ( especially Brazil ) can be found.

The idea of being " born again in Christ " inspired some common European forenames: French René / Renée ( also used in the Netherlands ), Dutch Renaat / Renate, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Renato / Renata, Latin Renatus / Renata, which all mean " reborn ", " born again ".

Although the Portuguese arrived on Cameroon's doorstep in the 16th century, malaria prevented significant European settlement and conquest of the interior until the late 1870s, when large supplies of the malaria suppressant, quinine, became available.

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

European ancestors also include Spanish and Italian seamen who were granted land by the Portuguese Empire, followed by Portuguese settlers, exiles, and Portuguese Jews who were victims of the Inquisition.

In the Brazilian colony the Portuguese, like many European colonists, opted to use slavery to supply this shortage of workers.

Although mesoclisis is extremely formal in Brazilian Portuguese and tends to be circumscribed in lesser formal registers by avoiding synthetical future / conditional verb forms, European Portuguese still allows clitic object pronouns to surface as mesoclitics in colloquial situations:

Acting under a charter sanctioned by the Dutch government, the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) defeated Portuguese forces and established itself in the Moluccan Islands in order to profit from the European demand for spices.

That was one ( perhaps the main ) reason that a new name was devised for its successor currency, euro, which was felt not to favour any single language .. One other factor that maybe also influenced the decision not to use the name ecu for the actual EURO, was that in some European languages, as Portuguese, it also means " ass "

When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese ( see Nanban period ), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the Emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the Shogun to secular European rulers, e. g. the Holy Roman Emperor.

Several Spanish and Portuguese expeditions occurred in about 1340 around the island and the island were inhabited by Maurs and were afflicted with European slave holders.

European explorers-first the Portuguese in search of the Spice Islands ( Indonesia ) and then the Spanish-reached the Carolines in the 16th century, with the Spanish establishing sovereignty.

Gabon's first confirmed European visitors were Portuguese traders who arrived in the 15th century and named the country after the Portuguese word gabão — a coat with sleeve and hood resembling the shape of the Komo river estuary.

It was therefore natural for Portugal to lay claim to this region, soon to be known as Portuguese Guinea, when the European scramble for Africa began in the 1880s.

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 Portuguese were the first European colonial powers to establish themselves in Malaysia, capturing Malacca in 1511, followed by the Dutch.

" In most European countries American Budweiser is not labelled as Budweiser but as Bud, and the name Budweiser refers to the original Czech beer, Budweiser Budvar, except for Ireland and the United Kingdom, where both beers are sold as Budweiser.

Especially in Germanic studies, continental refers to the European continent excluding the Scandinavian peninsula, Britain, Ireland and Iceland.

There it refers to liberal conservatives supporting modern European welfare states.

" It discusses the distinction between colonialism and imperialism and states that " given the difficulty of consistently distinguishing between the two terms, this entry will use colonialism as a broad concept that refers to the project of European political domination from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries that ended with the national liberation movements of the 1960s.

Elbonia is supposedly located somewhere in the former Soviet bloc: a strip dated April 2, 1990 refers to the " Tiny East European country of Elbonia.

The European influence in Afghanistan refers to political, social, and mostly imperialistic influence several European nations have had on this historical development of Afghanistan.

European terminology does give generic names for single-edged and double-edged blades but refers to specific types with the term ' sword ' covering them all.

The term for tatting in most European languages is derived from French frivolité, which refers to the purely decorative nature of the textiles produced by this technique.

The name is protected in the European Union and for wine sold in the EU, " Chablis " refers only to the Chardonnay wine produced in this region of the Yonne.

Colonialism in this sense refers to Western European countries ' colonization of lands mainly in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania ; the main European countries which were active in this form of colonization were Spain, Portugal, France, the Kingdom of England, the Netherlands, and from the 18th century Great Britain.

: This article refers collectively to all true honey bees ; for the " common " domesticated honey bee, see European honey bee.

The term alpine refers to the Alps, a European mountain range.

The Muslim historian Rashid al-Din ( 1247 ?– 1318 ) refers in his universal history to the Mongol trebuchets used at the Song cities as " Frankish " or " European trebuchets " (" manjaniq ifranji " or " manjaniq firanji "):

" Almost certainly refers to Aesculus hippocastanum ( the European Horse Chestnut )

EEC is an abbreviation that usually refers to the European Economic Community, the forerunner to the European Union.

* The year that the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, refers to in his text 2083-A European Declaration of Independence, when " The Western European cultural Marxist / multiculturalist regimes will fall ...".

In many European languages, but not in English, the word paprika also or only refers to the Capsicum fruit itself.

The Age of Enlightenment refers to the 18th century in European philosophy, and is often thought of as part of a period which includes the Age of Reason.

The name is the Comanche compound ' worm eater ' from woa ' worm ' + ' eat ' and presumably refers to a group of Comanche living in the area or to some early European settlers.

Unity refers to Arab unity, or Pan-Arabism ; liberty emphasizes freedom from foreign control and interference ( self-determination ); socialism refers to Arab socialism, rather than to European socialism or communism.

When Austria became a member of the European Union, the Austrian variety of the German language — limited to 23 agricultural terms — was " protected " in Protocol No 10, regarding the use of specific Austrian terms of the German language in the framework of the European Union, which forms part of the Austrian EU accession treaty.

This broad-winged raptor has a wide variety of plumages, and in Europe can be confused with the similar Rough-legged Buzzard ( Buteo lagopus ) and the only distantly related European Honey Buzzard ( Pernis apivorus ), which mimics the Common Buzzard's plumage for a degree of protection from Northern Goshawks.

These cultures show a variety of influences: Pomeranian, Milograd, Scythian and Getic, with La Tene and Roman Danubian influences evident at their maturity ; making them more " Central European " in outlook ( i. e. similar to the Przeworsk culture ) rather than of the " forest-Venedic " or Carpic-Dacian types.

Users refer to European nightcrawlers by a variety of other names, including dendrobaenas, dendras, Dutch Nightcrawlers, and Belgian nightcrawlers.

A variety of factors, scholars argue, lead to the elimination of cultures, worldviews, and epistemologies, such as " de-linguicization " ( replacing native African languages with European ones ) and devaluing ontologies that are not explicitly individualistic.

Most European conservatives writers do not accept American conservatism as genuine ; they consider it to be a variety of liberalism.

Asian mail was typically lighter than the European variety and sometimes had prayer symbols stamped on the rings as a sign of their craftsmanship as well as for divine protection.

*** Smetana, Central and Eastern European variety of sour cream

Over the years, the term ' dagger ' has been used to describe a wide variety of thrusting knives, including knives that feature only a single cutting edge, such as the European rondel dagger or the Persian pesh-kabz, or, in some instances, no cutting edge at all, such as the stiletto of the Renaissance.

The clone's outputted messages can also be customized for a variety of European languages or Japanese and can be compiled with a variety of C compilers.

Sore Throat cites Discharge, Disorder, and a variety of European D-beat and thrash metal groups, including Hellhammer, and American hardcore groups, such as Poison Idea and DRI.

The European powers set up a variety of different administrations in Africa, reflecting different ambitions and degrees of power.

Lesotho has received economic aid from a variety of sources, including the United States, the World Bank, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Germany.

48 forms ( species and infraspecific taxa ) of fish have been encountered in the lake, including roach, carp bream, zander, European perch, ruffe, endemic variety of smelt, two varieties of Coregonus albula ( vendace ), eight varieties of Coregonus lavaretus, a number of other Salmonidae as well as, albeit rarely, endangered European sea sturgeon.

European scholars over the past 1, 000 years have termed this variety of the language " Mishnaic Hebrew ".

Since the fall of the Eastern European communist regimes, the Soviet Union, and a variety of African communist regimes, only a few currently remain, including: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam.

Despite the crackdown by Interpol on traffic and illicit manufacture of temazepam, the country has also become a major exporter of illicit temazepam of the " jelly " variety, trafficking it to the United Kingdom and other European nations.

Archeological finds as well as testimonials by early European explorers describe diverse native isthmian groups exhibiting cultural variety and already experienced in using regional trade routes.

The European Cultivated Potato Database ( ECPD ) is an online collaborative database of potato variety descriptions, updated and maintained by the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency within the framework of the European Cooperative Programme for Crop Genetic Resources Networks ( ECP / GR )— which is organised by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute ( IPGRI ).

Delegations had been sent by 16 European states, sixty-six Imperial States, representing the interests of a total of 140 involved Imperial States, and 27 interest groups, representing the interests of a variety of a total of 38 groups.

Serbia and Montenegro had more demographic variety than most other European countries.