The temple was built in 1669-71 by King Luang Sorasak, who was born in the village of Pho Prathab Chang, between a Banyan and a Sacred Fig.

While Portuguese and Spanish activity in the region had weakened, the English had built fortified trading posts on tiny Ai and Run islands, ten to twenty kilometres from the main Banda Islands.

The term " frigate " ( Italian: fregata ; Spanish / Catalan / Portuguese / Sicilian: fragata ; Dutch: fregat ; French: fregate ) originated in the Mediterranean in the late 15th century, referring to a lighter galleass type ship with oars, sails and a light armament, built for speed and maneuverability.

The Portuguese sighted the Bay of Arguin in 1443 and built an important fort there around the year 1448.

* When Spanish and Portuguese Christians took control of Iberia, they built churches over mosques and destroyed other imagery of Islam.

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 ).

Bahrain Fort was built during this era, probably to keep out the Persians who nevertheless managed a series of invasions as the whole island alternated between the Portuguese, Persians, and Omanis for the following two centuries.

In 1669 – 71 the Portuguese built a fort at Colonia del Sacramento.

To compensate, the Uruguayan government encouraged the architectural restoration of Colonia, which was originally built by the Portuguese in colonial times.

In Spain and Portugal, the Visigoths built several churches and left an increasing number of archaeological finds, but most notably a large number of Spanish, Portuguese given names and surnames.

In that year the Portuguese built a fort, São de Mina ( modern day Elmina ), on the Gold Coast, and their king, John II, was permitted by the Pope II or Innocent VIII to style himself Lord of Guinea, a title that survived until the recent extinction of the monarchy.

According to Swahili traders whose accounts were recorded by the Portuguese historian João de Barros, Great Zimbabwe was an ancient capital city built of stones of marvellous size without the use of mortar.

The chartered companies and the Portuguese administration built roads and ports to bring their goods to market including a railroad linking present day Zimbabwe with the Mozambican port of Beira.

* The Snoa in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles was built by Sephardic Portuguese Jews from Amsterdam and Recife, Brazil.

* A fort built by the Portuguese in Malacca in the 16th century

The principal island was Ternate at the chain's northern end ( 0 ° 47 ' N, only in diameter ) on whose southwest coast the Portuguese built a stone fort () during 1522 – 23, which could only be repaired, not modified, according to the Treaty of Saragossa.

A fort, named Fort Coligny, was built to protect them from attack from the Portuguese troops and Brazilian Native Americans.

The Trịnh were much stronger, with a larger population, economy and army, but they were unable to vanquish the Nguyễn, who had built two defensive stone walls and invested in Portuguese artillery.

Portuguese built cars, especially those from when production was winding down, have a reputation in the UK for being much less well made and more prone to corrosion than those made in France.

Nearby, in Cabeço de São Miguel da Mota, another temple dedicated to Endovelicus was built and, on its ruins, the Alans built or readapted the previous temple, a sanctuary dedicated to Saint Michael ( São Miguel in Portuguese ).

The origin of the ship of the line can be found in the nau ( carrack ) first built by the Portuguese and similar great ships built by Britain and other western European states in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Those of Portugal were initially built in standard gauge, but by 1864 were all converted to a gauge of five Portuguese feet – close enough to allow interoperability in practice.

The word borough derives from common Germanic * burg, meaning fort: compare with bury ( England ), burgh ( Scotland ), Burg ( Germany ), borg ( Scandinavia ), burcht ( Dutch ) and the Germanic borrowing present in neighbouring Indo-european languages such as borgo ( Italian ), bourg ( French ) and burgo ( Spanish and Portuguese ).

Maintaining their independence, the Bandanese never allowed the Portuguese to build a fort or a permanent post in the islands.

* 1542 – Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente.

In 1605, armed Dutch merchants captured the Portuguese fort at Amboyna in the Moluccas, which was developed into the first secure base of the company.

" Mozambique " first described a small coral island at the mouth of Mossuril Bay, then the fort and town on that island, São Sebastião de Moçambique, and later extended to the whole of the Portuguese colonies on the east coast of Africa.

The Portuguese founded a fort at the port city of Colombo in 1517 and gradually extended their control over the coastal areas.

Portuguese ships began visiting regularly in the late 15th century, and for a while they maintained a fort on the north shore of the Freetown estuary.

Dutch control of Ambon was achieved when the Portuguese surrendered their fort in Ambon to the Dutch-Hituese alliance.

In 1613, the Dutch expelled the Portuguese from their Solor fort, but a subsequent Portuguese attack led to a second change of hands ; following this second reoccupation, the Dutch once again captured Solor, in 1636.

Later in 1505, a Portuguese fort would be established here and the land around the fort would become the Portuguese colony of Mozambique.

* Madagascar: a Portuguese settlement: the Portuguese fort near Tolanaro

After the Ambonese helped the Dutch to construct a fort at Hitu Larna, the Portuguese began a campaign of retribution against which the Ambonese invited Dutch aid.

The fort was destroyed in 1560 by the Portuguese, who captured part of the Huguenots.

* 1415 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta.

* 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.

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.

These immigrants immediately created a faction among the Portuguese court, aiming at privileges and power that, somehow, could compensate what they lost at home.

The construction of the Abbey at Batalha commenced in 1388 and was added to by various Portuguese Kings over these next two centuries.

Since after independence from Portugal in 1975, a number of Cape Verdean students continued to be admitted every year at Portuguese high schools, polytechnical institutes and universities, through bilateral agreements between the Portuguese Government and the Cape Verdean Government.

Apart from a visit by the French Parmentier brothers in 1529, for much of the 16th century the only Europeans to visit the islands were Portuguese ; British and Dutch ships began arriving at the turn of the century and the island of Ndzwani became a major supply point on the route to the East.

The Portuguese pavement wave pattern at Copacabana beach

Cão then coasted down along the present Angola ( Portuguese West Africa ), and erected a second pillar, probably marking the termination of this voyage, at Cape Santa Maria ( the Monte Negro of these first visitors ).

Then, due to displeasure at what he considered un-Christian life and manners on the part of the Portuguese which impeded missionary work, he travelled from the South into East Asia.

Their first attempt to reach the port of Massawa failed due to the actions of Lopo Soares de Albergaria, governor of Portuguese India, which got no closer than the Dahlak Archipelago and was aborted with the death of the Portuguese ambassador, old Duarte Galvão at Kamaran.

* Egyptian * marar ( to see, to look ) and Japanese miru ( 見る ) ( to look ) and Spanish mirar ( to look at, to watch )/ Portuguese mirar ( to stare )

The PAIGC National Assembly met at Boe in the southeastern region and declared the independence of Guinea-Bissau on 24 September 1973 and was recognized by a 93-7 UN General Assembly vote in November, unprecedented as it denounced illegal Portuguese aggression and occupation and was prior to complete control and Portuguese recognition.

For a brief period in the 1790s the British attempted to establish a rival foothold on an offshore island, at Bolama, but by the 19th century the Portuguese were sufficiently secure in Bissau to regard the neighbouring coastline as their own special territory.

Angola, at the presidency of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries ( CPLP ) since 2010, has since March 21, 2011, a military mission in Guinea-Bissau ( MISSANG ) to assist the reform in sector of defence and security.

The college of Saint Clement at Bologna was founded by Albornoz for the benefit of Hispanic ( both Castilian, Aragonese and Portuguese ) students, in 1364.

This occupation of the Iberian peninsula fueled local nationalism, and soon the Spanish and Portuguese fought the French using guerilla tactics, defeating the French forces at the Battle of Bailén ( June and July 1808 ).

On 25 May 1420, Henry gained appointment as the governor of the very rich Order of Christ, the Portuguese successor to the Knights Templar, which had its headquarters at Tomar.

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.

As a second fruit of this work João Gonçalves Zarco, Bartolomeu Perestrelo and Tristão Vaz Teixeira rediscovered the Madeira Islands in 1420, and at Henry's instigation Portuguese settlers colonized the islands.

Later, maize ( corn ) and cassava ( manioc ) would be introduced to the region via trade with the Portuguese at their ports at Luanda and Benguela.