The Ming Court was also influenced by reports of misbehaviour of Portuguese elsewhere in China, and by the deposed Sultan of Malacca seeking Chinese assistance to drive the Portuguese out of Malacca.

The Federal Supreme Court has established that treaties are subject to constitutional review and enjoy the same hierarchical position as ordinary legislation ( leis ordinárias, or " ordinary laws ", in Portuguese ).

* November 29 – The Portuguese Queen Maria I and the Court embark at Lisbon bound for Brazil.

The Court, like most Imperial Courts, was considered a reflection of the ruler at its center and Elizabeth was said to be “ the laziest, most extravagant and most amorous of sovereigns .” Elizabeth was intelligent but lacked the discipline and early education necessary to flourish as an intellectual ; she found the reading of secular literature to be “ injurious to health .” She kind and warm-hearted for the emotions sake alone, once going so far as to offer to finance the reconstruction of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake destroyed the Portuguese city despite having and wanting no diplomatic relationship with the nation.

In order not to lose its sovereignty, the Portuguese Court moved the capital from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, which was the Portuguese Empire's capital between 1808 and 1821 and rose the relevance of Brazil within the Portuguese Empire's framework.

King John VI of Portugal took his fleet and transferred the Portuguese Court to Brazil with a Royal Navy escort.

* Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil

One of his productions to the Portuguese Court was a huge solid silver bath tub lost in the great 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

Subsequently, the Portuguese Court when referring to the new Ilhas das Flores () began to identify Corvo as Ilha de Santa Iria (), but other nautical charts continued to refer to this island as Ilhéu das Flores (), Ilha da Estátua (), Ilha do Farol () or Ilha de São Tomás ().

In the early 19th century, when the Portuguese Royal Court had to flee to Brazil to escape the invading Napoleonic troops, a theatre modelled on the São Carlos was built in Rio de Janeiro.

Those communities were centered around Baçaim, modern Vasai, which was then called the “ Northern Court of Portuguese India ” ( in opposition to the " Southern Court " at Goa ).

The transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil generated military concern.

* The High Court of Justice in Kaunda Road, close to Victoria Gardens, is a building that combines Islamic and Portuguese elements, designed by British architect J. H. Sinclair.

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When Portuguese influence was in decline, the Dutch in 1602 made their mark when the viceroy of Fujian Province reported to the Court in Beijing that the ‘ Hong Mao ’ ( Red heads ), had attempted to establish a base.

Corte-Real, sometimes Corte Real, is a surname of Portuguese origin, which means literally " Royal Court ".

The exiled Portuguese Government in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, whereto the Portuguese Royal Family had transferred the Court, realised the necessity of appointing a commander-in-chief capable of training, equipping and disciplining the demoralised Portuguese Army.

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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.

The neighbouring kingdom considered that the newly acquired lands of the Algarve should be Castilian, not Portuguese, which led to a series of wars between the two kingdoms.

" The Moors invaded and then held it until the 11th century, after which it became popular with Portuguese royalty.

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 idea of being " born again in Christ " inspired some common European forenames: French René / Renée ( also used in the Netherlands ), Dutch Renaat / Renate, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Renato / Renata, Latin Renatus / Renata, which all mean " reborn ", " born again ".

India uses common law except in the state of Goa which retains the Portuguese civil code.

The exception to this rule is in the state of Goa, where a Portuguese uniform civil code is in place, in which all religions have a common law regarding marriages, divorces and adoption.

Portuguese colonists used to create large sugarcane farms called engenhos, farms which extensively used enslaved workers.

Mozambique is an exception-although English is widely spoken there, it is a former Portuguese colony which joined the Commonwealth in 1996.

The Commonwealth of Nations — formerly the British Commonwealth — is a voluntary association of 54 independent sovereign states, most of which are former British colonies, or dependencies of these colonies with three exceptions, Mozambique ( which was a Portuguese possession ), Rwanda ( which was a Belgian mandate ) and Cameroon ( which is a union of a French mandate and a British mandate ) plus the United Kingdom itself.

Italian " avere " and " essere " as auxiliaries for forming compound tenses are used similarly to French " avoir " and " être ", Spanish only retains " haber " and has done away with " ser " in forming compound tenses, which are no longer used in either Spanish or Portuguese.

* 1703 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.

Since King Valdemar II of Denmark was married to the Portuguese princess, Berengária of Portugal, it is not unthinkable that the origin of the story, if not the flag, was the Spanish tale or a similar tale, which again might have been inspired by an even older legend.

In 1966, the Portuguese created an experimental horse platoon, to operate against the guerrillas in the high grass region of the Eastern Angola, in which each soldier was armed with a G3 assault rifle to combat on foot and with an automatic pistol to fire on horseback.

The regiment was established in 1808 by the Prince Regent and future king of Portugal, John VI, with the duty of protecting the Portuguese royal family, which had sought refuge in Brazil during the Napoleonic wars.

The Portuguese Army still maintains two units which are descended from former regiments of dragoons.

That was one ( perhaps the main ) reason that a new name was devised for its successor currency, euro, which was felt not to favour any single language .. One other factor that maybe also influenced the decision not to use the name ecu for the actual EURO, was that in some European languages, as Portuguese, it also means " ass "

Then, due to displeasure at what he considered un-Christian life and manners on the part of the Portuguese which impeded missionary work, he travelled from the South into East Asia.

Their first attempt to reach the port of Massawa failed due to the actions of Lopo Soares de Albergaria, governor of Portuguese India, which got no closer than the Dahlak Archipelago and was aborted with the death of the Portuguese ambassador, old Duarte Galvão at Kamaran.

A Portuguese / English double false friend is for example the English word " ordinary " ( which has the roughly the same meaning as " normal " or " regular ") in Portuguese means " vulgar ".

He agreed and was joined by a Somali fleet, which began attacking Portuguese colonies in Southeast Africa.

In 1913, the Portuguese and Dutch formally agreed to split the island between them.

Von Hatzfeldt intervened to insist on German participation in the negotiations, which resulted in the 30 August Anglo-German Convention, which agreed to the partition of the Portuguese Empire in event of its bankruptcy, encouraging Chamberlain to hope for a more general Anglo-German agreement.

Although John I of Castile could call himself king of Portugal, the Spanish and Portuguese parties agreed not to unite the kingdoms of Castile and Portugal, and therefore, Leonor, widow of King Ferdinand, would remain regent of the government of Portugal till Beatrice had a son who reached fourteen years of age, who would assume the title and office of King of Portugal, and his parents ' claim cease.

To ensure compliance with the treaty, on 21 May a group of Castilian knights and prelates of the kingdom swore an oath to depose their king if the Castilian king dishonoured the commitments agreed in the treaty, and a corresponding group of Portuguese knights and prelates vowed to do the same if the king of Portugal broke the treaty with Castile, among them the Master of Aviz.

Furthermore, Spain entered into negotiations with the Portuguese court and on 13 February 1668 agreed the Peace of Lisbon.

Despite initial reluctance to concede men, John of Gaunt finally agreed to levy troops to reinforce the Portuguese army.

After the colony fell to the Portuguese, Villegagnon finally agreed to give up his claims to France Antarctique after receiving 30, 000 écus from the Portuguese Crown.

Portuguese administration protested and it was agreed not to take any actions that might endanger a friendly solution to the dispute.

The Portuguese agreed to the marriage and sent messengers on 2 February to receive the Duke of Burgundy's formal response, which was signed on 5 May and received by the Portuguese on 4 June.

Once the expeditionary forces landed, the Portuguese Governor agreed to all demands made by the British.

On 11 July 2008, Manchester United agreed to release Queiroz from his contract, and he was appointed manager for the Portuguese national team.

On 11 July 2008, it was announced that Queiroz was leaving Manchester United, having agreed to a four-year contract to become the head coach of the Portuguese national football team.

As part of the production deal, Globo agreed to embargo distribution of the original Portuguese version for five years.

With the beginning of the 1990s, the Portuguese Football Federation and the Portuguese League for Professional Football agreed to create a new professional competition between the First Division and the Second Division.

Disponível na www: < URL: http :// www. infopedia. pt /$ movimento-das-forcas-armadas -( mfa )>.</ ref > The revolutionary Portuguese government removed the remaining elements of its colonial forces and agreed to a quick handover of power to the nationalist African movements.

Holden Roberto, Agostinho Neto, and Jonas Savimbi met in Bukavu, Zaire in July and agreed to negotiate with the Portuguese as one political entity, but afterwards the fight broke out again.

The three party leaders met again in Mombasa, Kenya on 5 January 1975 and agreed to stop fighting each other, further outlining constitutional negotiations with the Portuguese.

It is generally agreed that Saramaccan's Portuguese influence is because the language's creators lived on plantations with Portuguese masters, and possibly slaves speaking a Portuguese creole that the masters had brought with them while migrating to Suriname from Brazil.