Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Carnation Revolution" ¶ 11
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Portuguese and Air
* Portuguese Air Force
TAP Air Portugal the Portuguese national carrier operates a daily service from Lisbon to Sal with late evening departures returning after midnight and reaching Lisbon in the early morning.
The armed forces of Portugal, commonly known as the Portuguese Armed Forces ( Forças Armadas Portuguesas ) encompasses a Navy ( Marinha ), an Army ( Exército ) and an Air Force ( Força Aérea ).
Portuguese paratroopers being launched from an Air Force ' helicopter in Angola during the Colonial War.
A Portuguese Air Force F-16 fighter.
* Portuguese Air Force
However, the first regular parachute unit was only created in 1955, by the Portuguese Air Force, as the Parachute Caçadores Battailon.
In 1993, the Paratroopers Corps was transferred from the Portuguese Air Force to the Portuguese Army and become the Airborne Troops Command, with the Independent Airborne Brigade as its operational unit.
* Asas de Portugal ( Portuguese Air Force )
* Rotores de Portugal ( Portuguese Air Force — Helicopters )
Beyond the Comandos, the Portuguese Armed and Security Forces used several other commando type forces in the Colonial War in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea, like the Caçadores Especiais ( Special Hunters ) of the Portuguese Army, the Caçadores Paraquedistas ( Parachute Hunters ) of the Portuguese Air Force, the Fuzileiros Especiais ( Special Marines ) of the Portuguese Navy, the Flechas ( Arrows ) of the International and State Defense Police and the Grupos Especiais ( Special Groups ) of the Government of Mozambique.
Presently, the Portuguese Armed Forces have the following commando type forces: the Special Operation Troops, the Comando Troops, the Parachute Troops, the Marines Special Actions Detachment and the Force Protection Unit of the Air Force.
White does seem to be regarded as a different tincture from argent in Portuguese heraldry, as evidenced by the arms of municipal de Santiago do Cacém in Portugal, in which the white of the fallen Moor's clothing and the knight's horse is distinguished from the argent of the distant castle, and in the arms of the Logistical and Administrative Command of the Portuguese Air Force.
The SAM includes the Portuguese Navy, the Portuguese National Republican Guard, the Portuguese Air Force, the Border and Imigration Service, the Civil Protection Authority, the National Medical Emergency Institute and the Criminal Police.
The aircraft operated within the SAM include fixed-wing aircraft from the Portuguese Air Force and helicopters from the Navy, the Air Force and the Civil Protection.
The Portuguese Navy is responsible for all sea rescues, the Portuguese Air Force for all the rescues originating within the airspace, including aircraft crashes and the Autoridade Nacional de Protecção Civil ( ANPC ) for all inland rescues.

Portuguese and helicopter
From 1968 to 1971, Dom Duarte fulfilled his military service as a helicopter pilot in the Portuguese Air Force in Portuguese Angola at the time of the Portuguese Colonial War.
* 2 August 1996 – A helicopter Puma SA-330J from the Spanish Air Force simulated a landing on Selvagem Grande Island, committing a double infraction: violation of the Portuguese air space and flying below 200 m over the reserve.
The Portuguese Navy has been especially active in peace-enforcement campaigns using combat ships, helicopter missions and special force marine detachments in amphibious and air evacuation of Portuguese nationals and other foreign civilians from dangerous war zones in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Portuguese Navy Westland Lynx | Lynx Mk-95 helicopter takes off from the flight deck of NRP Vasco da Gama ( F330 ) | NRP Vasco da Gama frigate.
* Rotores de Portugal, Portuguese Air Force helicopter display team

Portuguese and operating
The Portuguese government granted operating rights for Block Zero to the Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, a subsidiary of ChevronTexaco, in 1955.
Among other goals, the Portuguese military wanted to kill or capture Sekou Toure due his support of the PAIGC, a guerilla movement operating inside Portuguese Guinea.
A Portuguese artillery Corps was also sent to man French batteries, which they started operating by March 1918.
* Banco Comercial Português, a major Portuguese bank, operating under the Millennium bcp brand
Regardless, most of his efforts were not credited ; years later, in an interview to António Ferro, he lamented, " The operating room in the Portuguese Hospital in Paris, during the War, was constructed by me.
The slaves were described as Catholic, and some spoke Portuguese, learned from the traders operating in the Kongo Empire at the time.
KFOR Tactical Reserve Manoeuvre Battalion ( KTM ) is a Portuguese Battalion level unit, operating as part of KFOR CJSOR since 2005.
In 1972, Cabral began to form a People's Assembly in preparation for the birth of an independent African nation, but disgruntled former rival Inocêncio Kani, with the help of Portuguese agents operating within the PAIGC, shot and killed him before he could complete his project.
In June 2001 Stagecoach announced the sale of their Portuguese operations to ScottURB for £ 14 million ( generating £ 6 million surplus for Stagecoach ), even though turnover and operating profit for the year ended 30 April 2000 had been £ 6. 8 million and £ 1. 1 million respectively.
In 1961, the Portuguese Air Force EICAP ( heavy aircraft advanced training unit ) was transferred to Lajes, operating Douglas C-47, Douglas C-54 and later CASA C-212 Aviocar.
He escaped to Portugal after Charles decided to confiscate the Mendes fortune, and, after the Holy Inquisition began operating against Portuguese Marranos, moved to Antwerp, in the Habsburg Netherlands, with his aunt, Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi.
The Portuguese national airline, TAP-Air Portugal took over some TAGP flights, operating them with Boeing aircraft instead of with TAGP's Cessnas.
Cimpor-Cimentos de Portugal is the largest Portuguese cement group, operating in eleven countries-Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Brazil, Tunisia, Turkey, Cape Verde, Mozambique, China, Egypt and South Africa, involved in manufacturing and marketing cement, hydraulic lime, concrete and aggregates, precast concrete and dry mortars.
In November 1981, Line 2 ( or Linha 2 in Portuguese ) started operating with only two stations: São Cristóvão and Maracanã ( which serves the Maracanã football stadium ).

Portuguese and African
We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.
* From 1415 to 1488, Portuguese navigators sailed along the Western African coast, reaching the Cape of Good Hope.
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.
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.
* 1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
Some etymologists believe it comes from a dialectal pronunciation of the Portuguese " bandore " or from an early anglicisation of the Spanish word " bandurria ", though other research suggests that it may come from a West African term for a bamboo stick formerly used for the instrument's neck.
African slaves were brought to the islands to work on Portuguese plantations.
As a result, Cape Verdeans are mulattos ( mestiços in Portuguese ), who have mixed African and European origins.
Most of them were Dutch, French, British ( English ), Arab and Jewish ( from Lebanon and Morocco ), Chinese ( especially from Macau ), American, and Brazilian ( including people of Portuguese and African descent ).
Capoeira's history probably begins with the adoption of African slavery by Portuguese colonists in Brazil.
Even though slaves outnumbered the Portuguese colonists, the lack of weapons, the colonial law, the disagreement between slaves coming from different African cultures and their complete lack of knowledge about the land and its surroundings would usually discourage the idea of a rebellion.
French, Native American, Caribbean, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and African culinary influences can be detected in Cajun food.
The Portuguese found Muslim merchants entrenched along the African coast as far as the Bight of Benin.
Henry was 21 when he, his father and brothers captured the Moorish port of Ceuta in northern Morocco, that had long been a base for Barbary pirates who raided the Portuguese coast, depopulating villages by capturing their inhabitants to be sold in the African slave market.
His objectives included finding the source of the West African gold trade and the legendary Christian kingdom of Prester John, and stopping the pirate attacks on the Portuguese coast.
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.
The first contacts with the African slave market were made by expeditions to ransom Portuguese subjects enslaved by pirate attacks on Portuguese ships or villages.
After the 16th century, Benin mainly exported pepper, ivory, gum, and cotton cloth to the Portuguese and Dutch who resold it to other African societies on the coast.
The majority of its population was African, but it was dominated by a strong minority of white Portuguese origin.
Many people of Luanda are of mixed race-European / Portuguese and native African.
African slaves who fought for the Portuguese repulsed the Dutch attack, and the Dutch never tried to conquer Macau again.
Their main African base was in Mozambique, therefore the Portuguese navigators preferred to use the Mozambique Channel to go to India.

3.718 seconds.