The music of Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias ( Spain ) and Portugal are also considered Celtic music, the tradition being particularly strong in Brittany, where Celtic festivals large and small take place throughout the year, and in Wales, where the ancient eisteddfod tradition has been revived and flourishes.

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.

* 1497 – Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.

In countries where holders of the first law degree traditionally use the title of doctor ( for example, Peru, Brazil, Macau, Portugal, Argentina, and Italy ), J. D.

Yet in nations or regions where traditional folk music is a badge of cultural or national identity, the loss of traditional music can be slowed ; this is held to be true, for instance in the case of Bangladesh, Hungary, India, Ireland, Scotland, Latvia, Turkey, Portugal, Brittany, and Galicia, Greece and Crete all of which retain their traditional music to some degree, in some such areas the decline of traditional music and loss of traditions has been reversed.

Francis devoted much of his life to missions in Asia, after being appointed by King John III of Portugal to take charge as Apostolic Nuncio in Portuguese India, where the king believed that Christian values were eroding among the Portuguese.

Gazpacho is widely consumed in Spanish cuisine, as well as in neighboring Portugal, where it is known as gaspacho.

Though he wanted to return to private life at the end of his appointment, Washington appointed him minister to Portugal in 1796, where he was soon promoted to the Berlin Legation.

Panicked Portuguese left the country via plane, road and sea and had to leave behind all their assets, returning to Portugal where they became destitute and fell under the ridicule of the European Portuguese who saw their rehabilitation as a burden on the country's meagre resources.

After crossing the Pyrenees in 409, a group of Marcomanni, Quadi and Buri, established themselves in the Roman province of Gallaecia ( modern Galicia and northern Portugal ), where they were considered foederati and founded the Suebi Kingdom of Gallaecia.

It is not clear when and where olive trees were first domesticated: in Asia Minor in the 6th millennium ; Greece has by far the largest per capita consumption of olive oil worldwide, over 26 liters per person per year ; Spain and Italy, around 14 l ; Tunisia, Portugal, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, around 8 l. Northern Europe and North America consume far less, around 0. 7 l, but the consumption of olive oil outside its home territory has been rising steadily.

From 1697 to 1710 he acted as papal nuncio to the Kingdom of Portugal, where he is believed to have formed those unfavourable impressions of the Jesuits which afterwards influenced his conduct towards them.

By royal command, Lopez returned to Portugal about 1526 and then travelled to Rome, where Pope Clement VII granted him an audience.

The Visigoths invaded Italy under Alaric I and famously sacked Rome in 410 AD, eventually settling in Spain and Portugal, where they founded a powerful Kingdom.

There was even a case where an agent started running deception operations independently from Portugal using little more than guidebooks, maps and a very vivid imagination to convince his Abwehr handlers that he was spying in the UK.

In May 1943 he made his way back in the guise of Hugh Anson, an obnoxiously unruly steward, sailing on a merchant ship, the ' The City of Lancaster ', from Liverpool to Lisbon in neutral Portugal where he then jumped ship.

He then becomes Afonso I, King of Portugal, after calling the first assembly of the estates-general of Portugal at Lamego, where he is given the Crown from the Bishop of Bragança, to confirm the independence.

* February 13 – In Lisbon, a peace treaty is established between Afonso VI of Portugal and Carlos II of Spain, by mediation of Charles II of England, where the legitimacy of the Portuguese monarch is recognized.

The Portuguese government impelled this even further by taking full advantage of this and by creating several important research centres in Portugal, where Portuguese and foreign experts made several breakthroughs in the fields of mathematics, cartography and naval technology.

Mortadella is very popular in Spain and Portugal, where a variety with pepper and olives is widely consumed, especially in sandwiches.

There are some vestiges of the Alans in Portugal, namely in Alenquer ( whose name may be Germanic for the Temple of the Alans, from " Alan Kerk ", and whose castle may have been established by them ; the Alaunt is still represented in that city's coat of arms ), in the construction of the castles of Torres Vedras and Almourol, and in the city walls of Lisbon, where vestiges of their presence may be found under the foundations of the Church of Santa Luzia.

In Portugal and Spain, mouro ( feminine, moura ) may also refer to supernatural beings known as enchanted moura, where " moor " implies ' alien ' and ' non-Christian '; These beings were siren-like fairies with golden or reddish hair and a fair face.

Moorish architecture is a term used to describe the articulated Islamic architecture of North Africa and parts of Spain and Portugal where the Moors were dominant from 711 – 1492.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

Afonso, born in 1109, took the title of Prince after taking the throne of his mother, supported by the generality of the Portuguese nobility who disliked the alliance between Galicia and Portugal Countess Theresa had come to, marrying a second time the most powerful Galician count.

The County of Portugal still had to be acknowledged diplomatically by the neighboring lands as a kingdom and, most importantly, by the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope.

With this title and its lands, he became the most powerful man in Portugal and one of the richest men in Europe.

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

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 European rights to the beer are owned by Heineken International, who brew and distribute a 4 % ABV Foster's in most European countries, including the United Kingdom, Greece, France, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Finland, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and Ireland.

This was the first book of Masses by a native composer: in the Italian states of his day, most composers of sacred music were from the Low Countries, France, Portugal, or Spain.

In the 15th century, the most important among all of the separate Christian kingdoms that made up the old Hispania were the Kingdom of Castile ( occupying northern and central portions of the Iberian Peninsula ) the Crown of Aragon ( occupying northeastern portions of the peninsula ) and the kingdom of Portugal occupying western iberian peninsula.

Portugal was lost to the crown for good ; in Italy and most of Catalonia, French forces were expelled and Catalonia's independence was suppressed

In Portugal, besides several varieties of wet-cured hams called fiambre ( not to be confused with the Guatemalan dish, also called fiambre ), the most important type of ham is presunto, a dry-cured ham similar to Spanish jamón and Italian prosciutto.

There is a wide variety of presuntos in Portugal ; among the most famous are presunto from Chaves and presunto from Alentejo made from black Iberian pig ( see also pata negra ).

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.

After the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon on April 25, 1974, with the advent of independence and the start of the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ), most of the white Portuguese Luandans left as refugees, principally for Portugal, with many travelling overland to South Africa.

Progestin-only EC is available as a dedicated emergency contraceptive product under many names worldwide, including: in the U. S., Canada and Honduras as Plan B ; in Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal and Italy as Levonelle ; in South Africa as Escapelle ; in 44 nations including France, most of Western Europe, India, and several countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America as NorLevo ; and in 44 nations including most of Eastern Europe, Mexico and many other Latin American countries, Portugal, Australia and New Zealand, Israel, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore as Postinor-2.

The situation was critical for Alexander III, because according to many chronicles of the time ( perhaps exaggerating ), Barbarossa's antipope received the approval of most of the kingdoms of Europe, with the exception of the kingdoms of Portugal, Sicily and Spain.

Fátima, Portugal | Fátima Statue of Pope Pius XII, who consecrated Russia and the World: « Just as a few years ago We consecrated the entire human race to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( Roman Catholic ) | Virgin Mary, Mother of God, so today We consecrate and in a most special manner We entrust all the peoples of Russia to this Immaculate Heart ...»

Urban's support had dwindled to the northern Italian states, Portugal, England, and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, who brought with him the support of most of the princes and abbots of Germany.

Nevertheless, the expression " Reconquista " continues to be used to designate this historical period by most historians and scholars in Spain and Portugal, as well as internationally.

Attracting settlers proved difficult, however, and most of the earliest inhabitants were " undesirables " sent from Portugal, mostly Jews.

West of Madrid, the Sistema Central shows its highest peak, Pico Almanzor, of 2, 592 m. The mountains of the Sistema Central, which continue westward into Portugal, display some glacial features ; the highest of the peaks are snow-capped for most of the year.

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.