In 1774 Phillip joined the Portuguese Navy as a captain, serving in the War against Spain.

While with the Portuguese Navy, Phillip commanded a frigate, the Nossa Senhora do Pilar.

The San Agustin was commissioned into the Portuguese Navy as the Santo Agostinho, and command of her was given to Phillip.

The Portuguese Navy has a class of frigates named after him.

It was a way to gain for themselves some of the wealth the Spanish and Portuguese were taking from the New World before beginning their own trans-Atlantic settlement, and a way to assert naval power before a strong Royal Navy emerged.

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 ).

Units from the Portuguese Army and Navy were involved in an armed conflict with India, during the an invasion of Portuguese enclaves in India by an Indian force of 45, 000 servicemen, 8 combat ships and 42 combat aircraft.

Of the four Portuguese Navy sloops — the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque, the NRP Bartolomeu Dias, the NRP João de Lisboa and the NRP Gonçalves Zarco — which were deployed to patrol the waters off Portuguese colonies in the Far East, only one, the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque, had been deployed to Portuguese India.

Portuguese Navy ' NRP Bartolomeu Dias frigate.

* Portuguese Navy

* Vasco da Gama ( F330 ) MEKO 200 PN frigate for Portuguese Navy

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.

Meanwhile, the Dutch also lost formerly occupied Baia de Todos os Santos, Salvador de Bahia, 12 ° 48 ′ S 38 ° 38 ′ W in Brazil, 1 May 1625, under the heavy attacks of the Spanish – Portuguese Fleet, commanded by the Captain General of the Spanish Navy, since 1617, Admiral Fadrique II de Toledo Osorio y Mendoza ( Naples, Italy, May 1580 – 11 December 1634 ), 1st Marquis of Villanueva de Valdueza, and, since 17 January 1624, Knight of the Order of Santiago.

The 20, 900 French soldiers were evacuated from Portugal with all their equipment and ' personal property ' ( which was mostly looted Portuguese valuables ) by the British Navy.

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 vessels operated within the SAM include the Maritime Police patrol boats, the Lifeguard Institute lifeboats, the harbourmasters harbour boats, the National Republican Guard Coastal Control Unit surveillance boats and the Portuguese Navy naval ships.

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.

But the firm has recognized the tight dollar and the tourist's desire to visit the `` smaller, less-traveled and relatively inexpensive countries '', and is now prepared to teach modern Greek and Portuguese through recordings.

Of course, the " substrate " of Angolan culture is African, mostly Bantu, while Portuguese culture has been imported.

In this urban culture, the Portuguese heritage has become more and more dominant.

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.

Portuguese has americano, denoting both a person or thing from the Americas and a U. S. national.

The current Romance language spoken, Galego, has many words of Celtic origin and is the ancestor of the Portuguese language used mainly in Brazil and Portugal.

Once this islands were covered with savanna on the plains and arid shrubland on the mountainsides, but over 500 years of human habtitation, since colonisation by the Portuguese in the 15th century, nearly all the original vegetation has been cleared by widespread agriculture including the grazing of goats, sheep and cattle and the planting of imported crop species.

Cnidarians are classified into four main groups: the almost wholly sessile Anthozoa ( sea anemones, corals, sea pens ); swimming Scyphozoa ( jellyfish ); Cubozoa ( box jellies ); and Hydrozoa, a diverse group that includes all the freshwater cnidarians as well as many marine forms, and has both sessile members such as Hydra and colonial swimmers such as the Portuguese Man o ' War.

It was completed in 1970 and has used a black and white Portuguese pavement design since its origin in the 1930s: a geometric wave.

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.

* Portuguese has the following composite characters: à, á, â, ã, ç, é, ê, í, ó, ô, õ, ú.

Portuguese has also made use of the following composite characters: " è, ì, ò, ù, ï, ü ", but have come to be abolished during the last 5 orthographic reforms occurring between 1911 and 2011.

In Portuguese, " embaraçar " has a meaning similar to the English.

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 ".

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.

Angola, at the presidency of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries ( CPLP ) since 2010, has since March 21, 2011, a military mission in Guinea-Bissau ( MISSANG ) to assist the reform in sector of defence and security.

While the soft value of ⟨ g ⟩ varies in different Romance languages ( in French and Portuguese, in Catalan, in Italian and Romanian, and in Castilian Spanish, and in other dialects of Spanish ), in all except Romanian and Italian, soft ⟨ g ⟩ has the same pronunciation as the ⟨ j ⟩.

Since then, the series has also been dubbed into Tagalog, French, Italian, German, Arabic, Spanish, Indonesian, Malay and Portuguese.

Garlic was long frowned upon for causing halitosis, so has never played a large role in traditional German cuisine, but has risen in popularity in recent decades due to the influence of French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, and Turkish cuisines.

Portuguese has for now two official written standards, respectively Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese, but in a short term it will have a unified orthography.

Alaric II ( Gothic: Alareiks II ), also known as Alarik, Alarich, and Alarico in Spanish and Portuguese or Alaricus in Latin ( d. 507 ) succeeded his father Euric as king of the Visigoths in Toulouse on December 28, 484.

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.

It is also similar to the use of quotation marks in many other languages ( including Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Dutch and German ).

* Baltic Sea is used in English ; in the Baltic languages Latvian ( Baltijas jūra ) and Lithuanian ( Baltijos jūra ); in Latin ( Mare Balticum ) and the Romance languages French ( Mer Baltique ), Italian ( Mar Baltico ), Portuguese ( Mar Báltico ), Romanian ( Marea Baltică ) and Spanish ( Mar Báltico ); in Greek ( Βαλτική Θάλασσα ); in Albanian ( Deti Balltik ); in the Slavic languages Polish ( Morze Bałtyckie or Bałtyk ), Czech ( Baltské moře or Balt ), Croatian ( Baltičko more ), Slovenian ( Baltsko morje ), Bulgarian ( Baltijsko More ( Балтийско море ), Kashubian ( Bôłt ), Macedonian ( Балтичко Море / Baltičko More ), Ukrainian ( Балтійське море (" Baltijs ' ke More "), Belarusian ( Балтыйскае мора (" Baltyjskaje Mora "), Russian ( Балтийское море (" Baltiyskoye Morye ") and Serbian ( Балтичко море / Baltičko more ); in the Hungarian language ( Balti-tenger ); and also in Basque ( Itsaso Baltikoa )

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 ".

Lesser migrations of Scandinavians, Portuguese, Greeks, Italians, Spanish, Polish, Scots, English, Jews, Russians and Irish immigrants also contributed to this ethnic mix.

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.

This usage was also retained in Latin and the languages derived from Latin ( e. g. French église, Italian chiesa, Spanish iglesia, Portuguese igreja, etc.

Several Portuguese explorers / cartographers have also documented various parts of the Maritimes, namely Diogo Homem.

The Italian word denaro, the Spanish word dinero, the Portuguese word dinheiro, the Slovene word and the Catalan word diner, all meaning money, are also derived from Latin denarius.

Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre ( French ), Danza de la Muerte ( Spanish ), Dansa de la Mort ( Catalan ), Danza Macabra ( Italian ), Dança da Morte ( Portuguese ), Totentanz ( German ), Dodendans ( Dutch ), Surmatants ( Estonian ), is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all.

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 "

From August until March 1542 he remained in Mozambique, having reached Goa, then capital of Portuguese India's on 6 May 1542, and also visiting Vasai.

Officials made efforts to see that the films were also shown in theaters throughout the U. S. They were translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese for use by other countries.

Similarly, the repression the authoritarian single-party regime he led imposed on the population and severe food shortages also left marks and, despite having always denied, Luís Cabral was accused of being responsible for the death of a large number of black Guinea-Bissauan soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against the PAIGC guerrillas during the Portuguese Colonial War.

These works also left Europe and were imported to those parts of Latin America controlled by the Spanish and Portuguese empires and the parts of North America controlled by the British and French empires.