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Statistics from Portuguese administration in the 1960s stated that the racial composition of the inhabitants was 78 % of mestiços, 21 % of “ Africans ” ( i. e. blacks ) and 1 % of “ Europeans ” ( i. e. whites ).
Between 1580 and 1640 the Crown of Portugal and the Crown of Spain were held by the same kings and therefore Casablanca and all other areas occupied by the Portuguese were under Spanish control, even though maintaining an autonomous Portuguese administration.
It had a strong centralized administration and an aggressive military stance towards invaders, the Ajuuraan Empire successfully resisted an Oromo invasion from the west and a Portuguese incursion from the east during the Gaal Madow, meaning Black Christians, and the Ajuuraan-Portuguese wars.
Self administration was not achieved until the 1840s and it was subsequently transitioned into a Portuguese territory when Qing signed the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking, until its handover to China in 1999.
China retained sovereignty and Chinese residents were subject to Chinese law, but the territory was under Portuguese administration.
In 1891 the Portuguese shifted the administration of much of the country to a large private company, under a charter granting sovereign rights for 50 years to the Mozambique Company, which, though it had its headquarters at Beira, was controlled and financed mostly by the British.
In Macau, under Portuguese administration, the same colour of ink was used for all stamps, but the stamps had slightly different borders to indicate entry / exit by air, land, or sea.
The fall of the Portuguese monarchy and a favourable international climate led to reforms in administration, agriculture, and education.
Thousands of Japanese occupied Timor, in February 1942, and the borders of the Dutch and Portuguese were overlooked with Timor island being made a single Japanese army administration zone.
Communication between this sector and the large majority of rural Africans was limited ; only a small proportion of the Africans could speak Portuguese, the language of the administration and the modern economic sector.
The Portuguese attempted to legitimate and consolidate their trade and settlement positions through the creation of prazos ( land grants ) tied to Portuguese settlement and administration.
By the early 20th century the Portuguese had shifted the administration of much of Mozambique to large private companies, like the Mozambique Company, the Zambezia Company and the Niassa Company, controlled and financed mostly by the British, which established, with the Portuguese, railroad lines to neighbouring countries.
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.
However, the development's administration gradually started to pass directly from the trading companies to the Portuguese government itself.
In the 1940s, the integration of traditional authorities into the colonial administration was deepened, a level of social integration, miscegenation and social promotion based in skill and human qualities of each individual, rather than in the ethnic background, which was coined lusotropicalismo and had been a major feature of the Portuguese Empire throughout history.
By this time, Mozambique had become a Portuguese colony, but administration was left to the trading companies ( like Mozambique Company and Niassa Company ) who had received long-term leases from Lisbon.
Portuguese armed forces were stationed in Macau until 1974, although Macau remained under Portuguese administration until 1999.
By this time, Mozambique had become a Portuguese colony, but administration was left to the trading companies ( like Mozambique Company and Niassa Company ) who had received long-term leases from Lisbon.
After the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, over 250, 000 ethnic Portuguese pulled out virtually overnight, leaving Mozambique's economy and administration unmanageable.
The resulting failures in administration brought on a gradual decline of the Portuguese trade monopoly.
The Portuguese colonial administration granted concessions to Oceanic Exploration Corporation to develop the deposits.

Portuguese and protested
Some of the rabbis protested against these uproarious excesses, considering them a disturbance of public worship, but the custom of using a ratchet in the synagogue on Purim is now universal, with the exception of Spanish and Portuguese Jews, who consider them a breach of decorum.
Following these actions, the Portuguese Foreign Affairs Ministry protested.
With the new President, he tried to awaken interest in the former Portuguese colonies in Africa, and when Giscard protested that they were a long way away, he answered, " Yes, but they are getting nearer ".

Portuguese and was
The legal system was based on Portuguese and customary law but was weak and fragmented.
Trade was mostly with the Portuguese colony of Brazil ; Brazilian ships were the most numerous in the ports of Luanda and Benguela.
By this time, Angola, a Portuguese colony, was in fact like a colony of Brazil, paradoxically another Portuguese colony.
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.
Amalaric ( Gothic: Amalareiks ), or in Spanish and Portuguese, Amalarico, ( 502 – 531 ) was king of the Visigoths from 526 until his assassination in 531.
Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.
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.
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.
Afonso II (; English Alphonzo ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin version ), nicknamed " the Fat " ( Portuguese o Gordo ), King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city.
Afonso, born in Lisbon, was the rightful heir to the Portuguese throne.
A peace treaty was signed in Seville in 1339 and, in the next year, Portuguese troops played an important role in the victory of the Battle of Rio Salado over the Marinid Moors in October 1340.
But perhaps his most important contribution was the importance he gave to the Portuguese navy.
Opposition rose and without any important ally among the Portuguese aristocracy other than Afonso, Count of Barcelos, the illegitimate half brother of King Edward and count of Barcelos, the queen's position was untenable.
The San Agustin was commissioned into the Portuguese Navy as the Santo Agostinho, and command of her was given to Phillip.
The construction of the Abbey at Batalha commenced in 1388 and was added to by various Portuguese Kings over these next two centuries.
A very successful Portuguese feature film was made in the early 20th century that dramatically captured the primitive and dangerous life of these fishermen.

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