Some authors claim that the deal was negative for Portugal, since it meant that the country would not develop its industrial infrastructures ( and therefore lost the industrial race ) and other types of agricultural products.

Domestically, Portugal was twice declared bankrupt – on 14 June 1892, and again on 10 May 1902 – causing industrial disturbances, socialist and republican antagonism and press criticism of the monarchy.

Vila das Aves, population 8492 ( 2001 Census ), 6 km², is an industrial town and parish ( freguesia ) in northern Portugal.

In 1946, 1775 people worked in the hat-making industrial in Portugal, while 1212 were located in São João da Madeira.

During the 1960s, Covilhã's municipality surpassed 70, 000 inhabitants, but the Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 – 1974 ) and the generalized emigration phenomena of the 1960s to 1980s Portuguese society, its geographical location in the mountainous interior of central Portugal, increasing mechanization and the stagnation of its textile industrial sector, caused a period of decline of its population to nearly 50, 000 in the 1990s.

Over the next 10 years Oliveira struggled to make films, abandoning several ambitious projects and making a handful of short documentaries on subjects ranging from artistic portraits of coastal cities in Portugal to industrial films on the origins of Portugal's auto industry.

Besides its woodland assets and plants in Portugal, Portucel has developing since 2010 forestation and industrial projects abroad.

From the 1960s, the country made public education available for all children between the ages of six and twelve, expanded a robust network of industrial and commercial technical schools aimed at intermediate education of future skilled workers ( ensino médio ), recognized the Portuguese Catholic University in 1971, and by 1973 a wave of new state-run universities were founded across mainland Portugal ( the Minho University, the New University of Lisbon, the University of Évora, and the University of Aveiro-Veiga Simão was the Minister in charge for education by then ).

There is however no attention to the impoverished national agriculture, inadequate transport, neglected merchant navy and minimal industrial development of the country since corn and cloth can easily be exported, foreign ships can be hired and ‘ every problem in Portugal can be solved by the King ’ s gift of a little basket of gold coins bearing his effigy ’.

* Toyota Caetano Portugal SA, which aggregates the business and industrial representation of Toyota and Lexus.

Biotecnol S. A. is a Portuguese research-based biotechnology company headquartered in Oeiras, Portugal.

The corporate vehicle at the center of the Gulf network outside the USA, Spain & Portugal is Gulf Oil International, a company owned by the Hinduja Group.

The montado landscape of Portugal produces approximately 50 % of cork harvested annually worldwide, with Corticeira Amorim being the leading company in the industry.

The company operates through fully owned subsidiaries or joint ventures with local companies in India, Poland, Turkey, China, United States, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Uzbekistan, Portugal and Germany / Austria.

In 1997, Kimberly-Clark sold its 50 % stake in Canada's Scott Paper to forest products company Kruger Inc. and bought diaper operations in Spain and Portugal and disposable surgical face masks maker Tecnol Medical Products.

The company failed in 1974 during the Portuguese Revolution that overthrew the country's right wing Estado Novo ( Portugal ) dictatorship, with the production works taken over by the revolutionary forces, even though Rego's family had been supporters of the political left.

In Portugal the Pendolino is named Alfa Pendular and is operated by the Portuguese state railway company CP.

* Companhia das Lezírias, an agri-business company in Portugal

Additionally, several measures were taken to increase the demand for EVs in Portugal: ( 1 ) EVs are fully exempt from both the Vehicle Tax due upon purchase ( Imposto Sobre Veículos ) and the annual Circulation Tax ( Imposto Único de Circulação ); ( 2 ) Personal Income Tax provides an allowance of EUR 803 upon the purchase of EVs ; ( 3 ) EVs are fully exempt from the 5 %- 10 % company car tax rates which are part of the Corporation Income Tax ; ( 4 ) The Budget Law provides for an increase of the depreciation costs related to the purchase of EVs for the purpose of Corporation Income Tax ; ( 5 ) the first 5, 000 EVs to be sold in Portugal will receive a 5, 000 € incentive fund, and the Cash-for-Clunkers program grants an additional 1, 500 € fund if an internal combustion engine vehicle built before 2000 is delivered when acquiring the new EV ; ( 6 ) The Portuguese State did also commit to play a pedagogic role and defined that EVs will have a 20 % share of the annual renewal of public car fleet, starting in 2011.

The company has already closed down its stores in Ecuador, Spain, Portugal and El Salvador.

The company owned 2. 3 million hectares of forest of which 1. 6 million hectares ( an area larger than Connecticut ) in Sweden and the rest in Canada, Portugal and Brazil.

Endemol is an international television production and distribution company based in the Netherlands, with subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including Albania, United Kingdom, the United States, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Poland, Portugal, Russia, India, South Africa, Lebanon, Morocco, Philippines, Belgium, Turkey and Australia.

He spent several winters travelling in Spain, Portugal and the Madeira Islands, sometimes in the company of the philosopher and traveller Alfred Lyall.

Based in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States, the company has retail stores, serving customers under its original name in Austria, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, and the United States, while operating subsidiaries in Argentina as Officenet-Staples, Belgium and Netherlands as Staples Office Centre, Canada as Staples Canada ( Bureau En Gros in Quebec ), and in Italy as Mondoffice.

The agreement ended decades of dispute between Portugal and its former territory in East Africa over the company, called Hidroelectrica Cahora Bassa.

The company now has nearly 90 equipment rental centers — mostly in North America — and continues to expand its operations in Europe with rental centers in Portugal and Spain.

The airport is run by state-owned company ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal.

In November 2006, the company operating the airport, ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal, announced an expansion plan for some airport structures, in order to respond to current passenger traffic growth trends and full capacity use of the airport, until the new airport is finished in 2017.

Back in Portugal he acquired a US car dealership and tried to take over the ailing company " Ambaca ".

The form is roughly equivalent to the “ public limited company ” ( plc ) in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, to the “ publicly-held / open corporation ” in the United States, to the naamloze vennootschap in the Netherlands and Belgium, to the S. A. in Spain, France, Portugal and other civil-law jurisdictions, and to the Societas Europaea in the European Union.

Beginning with the acquisition of Ei System in Spain, the company has expanded over the years and now has a presence in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Sweden ( website only ).

The name of Rodoviária de Lisboa survived as part of the Barraqueiro bus company, but another part, serving the area to the west of Lisbon, became Stagecoach Portugal in 1995.

In 1980, the company started its international expansion through Porto, Portugal.

His contributions to the parish, include: founding member of the Núcleo Cultural da Horta (); founded the Casa dos Rapazes () in 1955, which functioned until 1971, while at the same time helping to organize the Corpo Nacional de Escutas () local chapter 171 ; in 1956 he helped to organize the Grupo Coral da Igreja das Angústias (), today known as the Grupo Coral Mater Dei ; in 1957 he also began teaching in Horta's lyceum ( high school ), which he continued to do in various disciplines until 1977 ; in 1960 he founded Conferencia Vicentina () in order to assist construction projects in the parish, and to support the parish kitchens ( which served 120 meals daily until 1974 ); in 1963, he organized the third company of the Associação Guias de Portugal (), while also founding the Instituo Açoriano de Cultura (); he also helped to inaugurate the Museu de Arte Sacra da Horta () in 1965 and was a co-founder of the Academia Mariana dos Açores () in 1990.

A valid American driving license is accepted in all countries except Portugal, Spain, Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe.

Anthropology in Greece and Portugal is greatly influenced by British anthropology.

* 1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.

* 1661 – The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.

In July 2006, the tomb of the king ( which is located in the Santa Cruz Monastery in Coimbra ) was to be opened for scientific purposes by researchers from the University of Coimbra ( Portugal ), and the University of Granada ( Spain ).

Finally, in 1267, a treaty was signed in Badajoz, determining that the southern border between Castile and Portugal should be the River Guadiana, as it is today.

After the indecisive < ref name =" British historian Townsend Miller "> British historian Townsend Miller: “ But, if the outcome of < nowiki > battle of </ nowiki > Toro, militarily, is debatable, there is no doubt whatsoever as to its enormous psychological and political effects ” in The battle of Toro, 1476, in History Today, volume 14, 1964, p. 270 </ ref > Battle of Toro in 1476 against King Ferdinand II of Aragon, the husband of Isabella I of Castile, he went to France to obtain the assistance of Louis XI, but finding himself deceived by the French monarch, he returned to Portugal in 1477 in very low spirits.

King Sebastian of Portugal is killed in the battle, leaving his elderly uncle, Cardinal Henry, as his heir.

Aveiro ( or ) is a city in Aveiro Municipality in Portugal, with a total area of 199. 9 km², a total population of 78, 463 inhabitants, and 61, 430 electors ( 2006 ).

It is the second most populous city in the Centro Region of Portugal, after Coimbra.

Aveiro is known in Portugal for its traditional sweets, ovos moles, trouxas de ovos, both made from eggs and " tripa de aveiro ".

Unfortunately, he never came back to Portugal ; he died in the region and is credited for bringing to Lisbon the first pepper that ever came out of those parts.

The University of Aveiro was created in 1973 and is considered one of the most dynamic and innovative universities of Portugal, attracting thousands of students to the city.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

It is one of the busiest railways in Europe, with 20 % more train services than France, 60 % more than Italy, and more than Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Portugal and Norway combined.

The current Romance language spoken, Galego, has many words of Celtic origin and is the ancestor of the Portuguese language used mainly in Brazil and Portugal.

The same is true of the music of Asturias, Cantabria, and that of Northern Portugal ( some say even traditional music from Central Portugal can be labeled Celtic ).

Couscous is also very popular in France, where it is now considered a traditional dish, and has also become popular in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.

The census in Portugal is carried out by Instituto Nacional de Estatística ( INE ) every 10 years.

Anta is the term used in Portugal and Galicia, Spain.

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.