Adjectives derived from " United States " ( such as United Statesian ) are awkward in English, but similar constructions exist in Spanish ( estadounidense ), Portuguese ( estado-unidense, estadunidense ), Finnish ( yhdysvaltalainen: from Yhdysvallat, United States ), as well as in French ( états-unien ), and Italian ( statunitense ).

To give a more specific English-language demonym for US citizens other than " American " however would be somewhat challenging: United Statian is awkward in English, but it exists in Spanish ( estadounidense ), French ( étatsunien ( ne ), although americain ( e ) is preferred ), Portuguese ( estado-unidense or estadunidense ), Italian ( statunitense ), and also in Interlingua ( statounitese ).

But the firm has recognized the tight dollar and the tourist's desire to visit the `` smaller, less-traveled and relatively inexpensive countries '', and is now prepared to teach modern Greek and Portuguese through recordings.

Of course, the " substrate " of Angolan culture is African, mostly Bantu, while Portuguese culture has been imported.

An African influence is evident in music and dance, and is moulding the way in which Portuguese is spoken, but is almost disappearing from the vocabulary.

He is generally considered a world conquest military genius, given his successful strategy: he attempted to close all the Indian Ocean naval passages to the Atlantic, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and to the Pacific, transforming it into a Portuguese mare clausum established over the Ottoman power and their Muslim and Hindu allies .< ref >

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.

* 1542 – Turkish-Portuguese War ( 1538-1557 ) – Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.

* 1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys – the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders.

* 1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.

It is also similar to the use of quotation marks in many other languages ( including Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Dutch and German ).

The word negro is the Spanish and Portuguese word for the color black.

Although Afrikaans adopted words from languages such as Malay, Portuguese, the Bantu languages, and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95 percent of Afrikaans vocabulary is ultimately of Dutch origin.

In Brazil, the brew and the vine are informally called either caapi or cipó ; the latter is the Portuguese word for liana ( or woody climbing vine ).

This air base is a joint American and Portuguese venture.

Aveiro is sometimes called " The Portuguese Venice ", because of its canals and boats that remind one of the Italian city of Venice, as the city faced similar problems when it tried to conquer the water.

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word baroque is derived from the Portuguese word " barroco ", Spanish " barroco ", or French " baroque ", all of which refer to a " rough or imperfect pearl ", though whether it entered those languages via Latin, Arabic, or some other source is uncertain.

The majority of the population is French, but there are sizable groups of Italians, Spaniards ( Up to 20 % of the Bordeaux population claim some degree of Spanish heritage ), Portuguese, Turks, Germans and North Africans ..

The game of Crown Green Bowls is looking to grow with the introduction of the Portuguese Masters in October and recent interest from Sky TV to re-televise the sport.

In 1643, three years after the Portuguese regained the crown in the metropolis, Father António Vieira – frowned upon, persecuted by the Inquisition and admirer of Aboab – recommended the King of Portugal occupy the capital of the New Christian and Jewish immigrants to help the depressed Portuguese finances

The Portuguese government asked Britain to appoint Arthur Wellesley to this role, Wellesley indicated he could not do the role justice due to his prior engagements and recommended Beresford.

These norms recommended a gradual approach to Portuguese, using Portuguese as the most suitable orthographic reference for spoken Galician and, still, often allowing for a number of different solutions in case of doubt.

The French form translates as " moon of honey " ( lune de miel ), as do the Spanish ( luna de miel ), Portuguese ( lua de mel ) and Italian ( luna di miele ) equivalents.

The Azulejo (, ) refers to a typical form of Portuguese or Spanish painted, tin-glazed, ceramic tilework.

Their names / surnames were used to form the M. M. D. C., a revolutionary group that would act against the dictatorial governament, especially in the Constitutionalist Revolution (" Revolução Constitucionalista ", in Portuguese ), the major uprising in Brazil during the 20th century.

Miguel is a Spanish and Portuguese form ; Michel is French and popular in the Netherlands.

* In Romance languages many adverbs are formed from adjectives ( often the feminine form ) by adding '- mente ' ( Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Italian ) or '- ment ' ( French, Catalan ) ( from Latin mens, mentis: mind, intelligence ).

There is a feminine Spanish and Portuguese form, Fernanda.

The name Guinea is usually said to have been a corrupt form of the name Ghana, picked up by the Portuguese in the Maghrib.

In Portuguese and Spanish, some personal pronouns merged with the preposition with ( com in Portuguese and con in Spanish ) to form what can be considered as comitative case declensions of the pronouns.

Although the Portuguese claimed the island of Timor in 1520, the Dutch ( in the form of the Dutch East India Company ) settled West Timor in 1640, forcing the Portuguese out to East Timor.

Portuguese East Africa was a string of Portuguese overseas colonies and later a Portuguese overseas province along the south-east African coast, which now form the republic of Mozambique.

Many of the forms castigated in the Appendix Probi proved to be the productive forms in Romance ; e. g., oricla ( Classical Latin auricula ) is the source of French oreille, Catalan orella, Spanish oreja, Italian orecchia, Romanian ureche, Portuguese orelha, " ear ", not the Classical Latin form.

Timor was one of the few Portuguese colonies where a local language, and not a form of Portuguese, became the lingua franca: this is because Portuguese rule was indirect rather than direct, the Europeans governing through local kings who embraced Catholicism and became vassals of the King of Portugal.

To form adjectives from verbs, the suffix-dór ( derived from Portuguese ) can be added:

Uriel da Costa (; c. 1585 – April 1640 ) or Uriel Acosta ( from the Latin form of his Portuguese surname, Costa, or da Costa ) was a philosopher and skeptic from Portugal.

Modern Spanish, however, no longer uses this diacritic, although it is still current in Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan, and French, which gives English the alternative spellings of cedille, from French “ cédille ”, and the Portuguese form cedilha.

Recited Portuguese poetry | Portuguese lyric PoetryIn the early years of the 20th century rhymed lyric poetry, usually expressing the feelings of the poet, was the dominant poetic form in America, Europe and the British colonies.

The colonial power, Portugal, becoming ever richer and more powerful, would not tolerate the growth of these neighbouring states and subjugated them one by one, so that by the beginning of this century the Portuguese had complete control over the entire area.

* 1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383 – 1385: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.

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

* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

Lisbon was recovered by the Portuguese in 1147.

Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.

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.

His campaigns were successful and, on 25 July 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of the Portuguese by his soldiers, establishing his equality in rank to the other realms of the Peninsula.

The king managed to keep security within Portuguese borders only by outlawing and exiling his kin.

* 1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union ( UDT ) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.

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

The Bassas da India was first recorded by Portuguese explorers in the early sixteenth century as the " Baixo da Judia " (" Jewess Shoals ").

The Judia (" Jewess ", for the ancestry of its owner Fernão de Loronha ) was the Portuguese ship that discovered the feature by running aground on it in 1506.

Charlton opened the scoring with a crisp side-footed finish after a run by Roger Hunt had forced the Portuguese goalkeeper out of his net ; his second was a sweetly struck shot after a run and pull-back from Geoff Hurst.

The first written accounts of Banda are in Suma Oriental, a book written by the Portuguese apothecary Tomé Pires who was based in Malacca from 1512 to 1515 but visited Banda several times.

Distracted by hostilities elsewhere in the archipelago, such as Ambon and Ternate, the Portuguese did not return until 1529 ; a Portuguese trader Captain Garcia landed troops in the Bandas.

Once this islands were covered with savanna on the plains and arid shrubland on the mountainsides, but over 500 years of human habtitation, since colonisation by the Portuguese in the 15th century, nearly all the original vegetation has been cleared by widespread agriculture including the grazing of goats, sheep and cattle and the planting of imported crop species.