European ancestors also include Spanish and Italian seamen who were granted land by the Portuguese Empire, followed by Portuguese settlers, exiles, and Portuguese Jews who were victims of the Inquisition.

The Portuguese Inquisition and various colonial branches followed the same pattern.

* Portuguese Inquisition

In the period after the Medieval Inquisition, it was one of three different manifestations of the wider Christian Inquisition along with the Spanish Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition.

Many Jews remained secretly Jewish, in danger of persecution by the Portuguese Inquisition.

One account of Gusmão's work suggests that the Portuguese Inquisition forbade him to continue his aeronautic investigations and persecuted him because of them, but this is probably a later invention.

In 1658 a group of Jews fleeing the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal were allowed to settle in Newport ( Jews fleeing Brazil after defending Dutch interests there against the Portuguese were denied the right to stay in then-Dutch New York until governor Peter Stuyvesant finally relented in 1655 ; seeking asylum in Spain and Portugal was not an option ).

During the period of Colonial Conquest, Portugal also established the Inquisition in the part of India, that was part of Portuguese Empire.

He strengthened relations with the Papal States by introducing the Inquisition in Portugal and the adhesion of the Portuguese clergy to the Counter-Reformation.

Originally created to punish religious deviance, the Inquisition came to have influence in almost every aspect of Portuguese society: politically, culturally and socially.

Safarditas are found particularly in the northern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, the American Southwest i. e., New Mexico, Arizona, and South Texas ( formerly part of Nuevo Santander, Spain / Mexico ), the Caribbean, and South America and this also includes Crypto-Jews that were brought into exile during the 15th century inquisition that took refuge from Southeast Asia e. g., in Northern Samar, the Philippines, as well as, Crypto-Jews found in Belmonte, Portugal and in the former Portuguese colony of Goa, India, where they were subjected to the Goa Inquisition.

Because of these excesses, the king began to believe that a Portuguese Inquisition might help control such outbreaks.

Inquisitors were agents of the Medieval Inquisition established by the Roman Catholic Church, and of the subsequent Spanish Inquisition, Portuguese Inquisition and Roman Inquisition.

* Portuguese Inquisition

During the 16th century several Crypto-Jews that faced persecution from the Inquisition and local authorities in nearby Potosí, La Paz and La Plata also moved to Santa Cruz for it was the most isolated urban settlement and because the Inquisition did not bother the Conversos there for this frontier town was meant to be a buffer to the Portuguese and Guaraní raids that threatened the mines of Peru.

All the above localities were former territories of either the Spanish or Portuguese Empires, where the Inquisition eventually followed and continued investigating Crypto-Jews who had settled there.

In the rainy season the Save is a large stream and even in the " dries " it can be navigated from its mouth by shallow draught steamers for over 150 m. Its general direction through Portuguese territory is east by north.

Its first known permanent resident was Portuguese, Fernão Lopez who had turned traitor in India and had been mutilated by order of Albuquerque, the Governor of Goa.

Its variants do differ slightly, as is the case with other pluricentric languages ( English, French, Spanish, German, Hindustani and Portuguese, among others ), but not to a degree which would justify considering them as different languages.

Its professionalization led to an overall reduction of 30, 000 men on all three branches ; the Portuguese military holds the 72nd position in the international comparison in terms of manpower.

Its English name derives from the Portuguese name for the fruit of the cashew tree, caju, which in turn derives from the indigenous Tupi name, acajú.

Its highest point is Monte Verde ( Portuguese for green mountain ) located in the northeast-central part with an altitude of.

Its Portuguese origins can be detected in the remarks in letters to Lord Lisle, from William Grett, 12 May 1534, " I have sent to your lordship a box of marmaladoo, and another unto my good lady your wife " and from Richard Lee, 14 December 1536, " He most heartily thanketh her Ladyship for her marmalado ".

Its exorbitant price during the Middle Ages — and the monopoly on the trade held by Italy — was one of the inducements which led the Portuguese to seek a sea route to India.

Its colonization started in the mid-18th century, mostly with the arrival of Portuguese colonists from the Azores Islands.

Its solid fortifications are a testament to the innumerable attacks by Spanish, French and English pirates and privateers ; the many forts that dot the barrier between land and sea are symbols of the resistance and battles that secured Portuguese independence and national interests.

Its name is a portmanteau of the Portuguese futebol de salão, which can be translated as " hall football " or " indoor football ".

Its influence made French a widely-spoken colonial European language, along with English, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch.

Its name is Portuguese for " Saint Thomas ".

Its vocabulary is based on the Romance languages French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan.

Its youth organization is the Portuguese Communist Youth, a member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth.

Its other main language constituents are Maltese and Portuguese.

Its mission is to foster relations between television networks in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries.

Its buildings are scale copies of Portuguese architectural landmarks and were completed in the 1950s.

Its name originated from São João-Saint John in Portuguese.

Its initial military operations were in the North of the country ; by the late 1960s it had established " liberated zones " in Northern Mozambique in which it, rather than the Portuguese, constituted the civil authority.

Its musicians were oppressed by government forces, both during the period of Portuguese colonization and after independence.

Its use may have expanded across continents, e. g. Portuguese chronicler Gaspar Correia ( writing in the 1550s ), claims that in 1502, the Indian prince, the Zamorin of Calicut, dispatched negotiators bearing a " white cloth tied to a stick ", " as a sign of peace ", to his enemy Vasco da Gama.

Its simple / basic form is one of the best examples of Portuguese late-medieval construction used by the nobility, comparable to the 14th century French palaces / buildings of the time.

Its folk music can be characterized by a melancholy sound, and Portuguese influences, as well as the predominance of the zambomba drum ( similar to Brazilian cuica ), which is played by pulling on a rope which is inside the drum.

Its candidate Francisco Louçã received 288, 224 votes ( 5. 31 %) in the Portuguese 2006 presidential elections.