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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.
Besides the Portuguese, significant numbers of people from other European and from diverse Latin American countries ( especially Brazil ) can be found.
* 1959 – Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
Category: 16th-century Portuguese people
Category: Dutch people of Portuguese descent
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 ).
Category: 15th-century Portuguese people
Category: 16th-century Portuguese people
Category: 15th-century Portuguese people
This population was mixed, of Portuguese and local islanders descent and Larantuqueiros, Topasses ( people that wear heats ) or, as Dutch knew them, the ' Black Portuguese ' ( Swarte Portugueezen ).
The English word " vulgar " ( something vile, rude, crude or disgusting ) has the rough translation of " ordinário / a " in Portuguese which is also used as an adjective to insult people: " Seu ordinário!
The country also has a Chinese minority, including Macanese people of mixed Portuguese and Chinese blood from Macau.
Category: Portuguese people of British descent
Category: 15th-century Portuguese people
Category: Canadian people of Portuguese descent
Portuguese explorers established contacts with people of the land later known as " Liberia " as early as 1461.
Many people of Luanda are of mixed race-European / Portuguese and native African.
The Portuguese reached the area via the Mozambican port of Tete in the 16th century and gave the first written reports on the people of Malawi.
These words have the constraint that they can only be used to refer to people, as in the case with Portuguese.
* Portugal: Although surrounded by other lands and people, the Portuguese nation has occupied the same territory since the romanization or latinization of the native population during the Roman era.
Category: 13th-century Portuguese people
* Portuguese people, an ethnic group native to the country of Portugal
* Mestiços, or mixed-blood, descendants of Portuguese colonists and African slaves brought to the islands during the early years of settlement from Benin, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Angola ( these people also are known as filhos da terra or " children of the land ");

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The flag of the Company of Guinea | Guinea Company, a Portuguese company that traded in several commodities and slaves around the Guinea coast from the 15th century.
Among those in the picture are Monarchy of Belgium | King Albert II of Belgium | Albert II of the Belgians, U. S. President George W. Bush, President of the French Republic | French President Jacques Chirac, President of the Philippines | Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of Estonia | Estonian President Arnold Rüütel, and President of Portugal | Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio.
Portuguese discoveries | Portuguese expeditions 1415 – 1542: arrival places and dates ; Portuguese spice trade routes in the Indian Ocean ( blue ); territories of the Portuguese empire under King John III of Portugal | King John III rule ( green )
Panel of glazed tiles by Jorge Colaço ( 1922 ) depicting an episode from the battle of Aljubarrota ( 1385 ) between the Portuguese and Crown of Castile | Castilian armies.
Portuguese colonies et posts under the reign of Jean III of Portugal | Jean III 16th century
In 1660, the Portuguese Empire | Portuguese in Mombasa surrendered to a joint Somali people | Somali-Oman i force.
The Red Dragon ( 1595 ) | Red Dragon fought the Portuguese at the Battle of Swally in 1612, and made several voyages to the East Indies.
Portuguese discoveries and explorations: first arrival places and dates ; main Portuguese spice trade routes in the Indian Ocean ( blue ); territories of the Portuguese empire under King John III of Portugal | King John III rule ( 1521-1557 ) ( green ).

Portuguese and cistern
Others are an open water cistern by the Portuguese for harvesting rain water, and a 76-foot deep well sank by the Arabs, but whose water was too salty to be used for anything but washing.

Portuguese and El
The Portuguese retained control until 1778, when the island, adjacent islets, and commercial rights to the mainland between the Niger and Ogooué Rivers were ceded to Spain in exchange of South America ´ s territory Sacramento ( Treaty of El Pardo ).
In the Portuguese version of El Chavo del Ocho, Don Ramón ( Seu Madruga ) suggests that they do as the TV series of Pede Mais Um ( Ask For Another One ).
William Houghton's Judas Maccabaeus, performed in about 1601 but now lost, is thought to have been the first drama on the theme ; however, the earliest surviving literary work is El Macabeo ( Naples, 1638 ), a Castilian epic by the Portuguese Marrano Miguel de Silveyra.
Australia's take on the show, Aussie Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, premiered on Network Ten in February 2005 but was cancelled after three episodes ; a Spanish version named El equipo G aired on Antena 3 for only a few weeks ; the German equivalent, RTL 2's Schwul macht cool (" Gay makes you cool ") was canceled after six episodes ; Queer, Cinq Experts dans le Vent was shown in France on TF1 for eight episodes in 2004 ; and Esquadrão G, a Portuguese version of the show, was cancelled in Portugal after the end of the first season.
In Brazil, where the beloved character / actor ( as the show itself ) is culted by the 80's and 90's generation as a vintage masterpiece, he was known as Seu Madruga instead ( literally: Mr. Dawn, for Madruga is short for Madrugada ( dawn ), following the Portuguese dubbing for El Chavo del Ocho, which, in that country, is called simply Chaves.
At Ksar El Kebir ( Field of the Three Kings ) the Portuguese were routed by Ahmed Mohammed of Fez, and Sebastian was almost certainly killed in battle or subsequently executed.
The Portuguese retained control until 1778, when the island, adjacent islets, and commercial rights to the mainland between the Niger and Ogoue Rivers were ceded to Spain in exchange for territory on the American continent ( Treaty of El Pardo, between Queen Maria I of Portugal and King Charles III of Spain ).
It was discovered in 1542 by Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, and eventually became part of the Rancho El Conejo land grant by the Spanish government ( in Spanish conejo means " rabbit ", and refers to the rabbits common to the region, specifically the Desert Cottontail and Brush Rabbit species ).
Another etymological claim suggests Portuguese origin, with the name borrowed from a city and fort of Mazagão in Morocco ( now El Jadida ) established by Portuguese in the beginning of the 16th century who totally evacuated to Brazil in 1769.
In the southern portions of the region, there were also large and diverse non-Hispanic populations: The Highland Park, Arroyo Seco and El Sereno sections facing South Pasadena was known for a large Black community, as there are many African Americans including the former " Calle de Los Negroes " or the Chinese quarter ; Boyle Heights was heavily Armenian, Serbian, Jewish, Portuguese and Japanese ; Lincoln Heights was heavily Italian ; and finally the 1930s-era Okies colony of Mount Washington and Monte Sereno where many poor white farmers and American Indians settled, it is also where the Southwest Museum of the American Indian is located in the neighborhood where thousands of Native Americans were resettled by the BIA Urban Indians relocation program in the 1950s.
The rivalry with Portugal, however, was not entirely economic: from 1580, after the battle of Ksar El Kebir, the Portuguese crown had been joined to that of Spain in an " Iberian Union " under Philip II of Spain.
He is the current Presiding Minister of the Philippines-based Christian organization Members Church of God International, colloquially known through its radio and television program Ang Dating Daan ( The Old Path, Portuguese: O Caminho Antigo, Spanish: El Camino Antiguo ).
One of their most important achievements was defeating the Portuguese at the Battle of Ksar El Kebir and defending the country against the Ottomans.
Alcantara, Alcântara ( Portuguese ), Alcántara ( Spanish ), Alcàntara, Alcàntera, El-Qantarah and ( El ) Kantara are all transliterations of the Arabic word al qantara ( القنطرة ), meaning " the bridge ".
The patronymic for Diego is Díaz in Castillian ( used for example by Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid ) and Dias in Portuguese.
Morro Rock was first charted in 1542 by Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, who called it El Morro, because of the similarity to the Moors and their head-wraps.
The city was founded in 1471, as a small fortress which still exists to this day, by Moorish exiles from Spain led by Moulay Ali Ben Moussa Ben Rached El Alami to fight the Portuguese invasions of northern Morocco.
El Fahtni was arrested in Portugal in the summer of 2004, during the European Football Championship, on suspicion of planning an attack on then Portuguese prime minister José Manuel Durão Barroso, but was released for insufficient evidence.
Then came Los Ultimos Heroes, which was released in Portuguese as Os Ultimos Herois, and No Me Corten El Pelo.
It is also available in Spanish as " El Telón ", in German as " Der Vorhang ", in Italian as " Il Sipario " ( Adelphi, 2004 ), in Portuguese as " A Cortina " in Polish as " Zasłona ", in Greek as " Ο πέπλος " ( O peplos ) in Hungarian as " A függöny ", in Croatian as " Zavjesa ", in Icelandic as Tjöldin ( JPV, 2006 ) and in Romanian as " Cortina ".
He had an influence in Portuguese palace life, was one of the most prominent astrologers in Portugal, and influenced many astrologers including the ones that made great prophecies about King Sebastian's life that would take him to the Battle of Ksar El Kebir where he died leading Portugal to a dynastic crisis.
However, " porto " is the Portuguese word for " port ," but its article is " O " instead of " El ," which leads one to believe the origin of the name El Porto could have come from both Spanish and Portuguese influences.

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