It was introduced to the Americas by Spanish and Portuguese colonists.

The Annobón population, native to Angola, was introduced by the Portuguese via São Tomé.

Europeans had already come to Japan: the Portuguese had already landed in 1543 on the island of Tanegashima, where they introduced the first firearms to Japan.

The shipwrecked Ottoman Admiral Seydi Ali Reis is known to have introduced the earliest type of Matchlock which were utilized against the Portuguese during the Siege of Diu ( 1531 ).

Later, maize ( corn ) and cassava ( manioc ) would be introduced to the region via trade with the Portuguese at their ports at Luanda and Benguela.

The firearms that were introduced by the Portuguese, had allowed the establishment of firearm brigades in the army.

More recently, in the 18th century, the sweet potato was taken to New Guinea, having been introduced to the Moluccas from South America by Portuguese traders, representing the locally dominant colonial power.

Both Motoyasu's Mikawa troops and the Monto forces were using the new gunpowder weapons which the Portuguese had introduced to Japan just 20 years earlier.

Emden argued that the Zohar misquotes passages of Scripture ; misunderstands the Talmud ; contains some ritual observances which were ordained by later rabbinical authorities ; mentions The Crusades against Muslims ( who did not exist in the 2nd century ); uses the expression " esnoga ," a Portuguese term for " synagogue "; and gives a mystical explanation of the Hebrew vowel-points, which were not introduced until long after the Talmudic period.

Another theory is that the term is a phonetic reduction of " sake " the name of a Japanese beverage that was introduced to the West by Spanish and Portuguese traders.

Carnival was introduced to the Cape Verde Islands by the Portuguese who settled there bringing along Catholic festivities and traditions to the uninhabited islands.

The Carnival is unique to Goa in India, and was introduced by the Portuguese who ruled over Goa for over four centuries.

Portuguese policy in Angola was modified by certain reforms introduced at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Stogre ( 1992 ) notes that this bull, perhaps in part due to misleading information provided by the Portuguese, introduced the concept of military force, rather than peaceful evangelisation, for missionary purposes and that it applied to lands that had never previously been subject to Christian ownership, subsequently leading to the " brutal dispossession and enslavement of the indigenous population ".

The Portuguese introduced maize as a food crop and coffee as an export crop.

The Portuguese introduced Roman Catholicism to East Timor, the Latin writing system, the printing press, and formal schooling.

Two groups of people were introduced to East Timor: Portuguese men, and Topasses.

Portuguese language was introduced into church and state business, and Portuguese Asians used Malay in addition to Portuguese.

The first Timorese currency was the Portuguese Timor pataca ( introduced 1894 ), and after 1959 the Portuguese Timor escudo, linked to the Portuguese escudo, was used.

In 1574, Manikongo Álvaro I was reinstated with the help of Portuguese mercenaries.

When the Dutch displaced the Portuguese from Malacca in 1641, they brought in Muslim Bugis mercenaries from Sulawesi.

French mercenaries are thought to be the first Europeans to get to the region, but the Portuguese exploited intertribal rivalries and managed to build a stronghold on the former Caeté village in the higher hill.

At the same time, Kapuściński never revealed in his public reporting on the Angolan conflict the presence in Angola of Cuban " instructors " and the participation of units of Cuban soldiers in the armed combat on the side of the MPLA ( making only veiled references to the fact with expressions like, " the MPLA is not bereft of all support "), while at the same time expatiating on the Egyptian, Portuguese, and South African mercenaries fighting on the side of FNLA and UNITA.

Afonso I wrote a series of letters to the kings of Portugal Manuel I and João III of Portugal concerning to the behavior of the Portuguese in his country and their role in the developing slave trade, complaining of Portuguese complicity in purchasing illegally enslaved people and the connections between Afonso's men, Portuguese mercenaries in Kongo's service and the capture and sale of slaves by Portuguese.

In 1599, the Arakanese forces aided by Portuguese mercenaries, and in alliance with the rebellious Toungoo forces, sacked Pegu.

Hard-pressed by the Siamese, to repay his debts, King Sattha ( 1576 – 94 ) surrounded himself with a personal guard of Spanish and Portuguese mercenaries, and in 1593 asked the Spanish governor of the Philippines for aid.

The immediate cause of her embassy was her brother's attempt to get the Portuguese to withdraw the fortress of Ambaca that had been built on his land in 1618 by the Governor Mendes de Vasconcelos, to have some of his subjects ( semi-servile groups called kijiko ( plural ijiko ) in Kimbundu and sometimes called slaves in Portuguese ) who had been taken captive during Governor Mendes de Vasconcelos ' campaigns ( 1617 – 21 ) returned and to persuade the governor to stop the marauding of Imbangala mercenaries in Portuguese service.

The actual attacks were carried by members of the Spanish Policía Nacional or, most frequently, by Portuguese or French mercenaries.

This definition also embraces the descendants of the Indians from the old Portuguese colonies of both the Coromandel and Malabar Coasts, who joined the East India Company as mercenaries and brought their families with them.

Its members were a few native Brazilians ( then almost all banned from serving ), Portuguese who chose to join the cause ( and hence were naturalized Brazilian ) and foreigners from various countries engaged as mercenaries.

Fearful of the consequences of sending combat ships manned mostly by Portuguese forces against the Lusitania, the committee recruited mercenaries, indigenous if slaves.

During the Independence process, the Army was initially composed of Brazilians, Portuguese and foreign mercenaries.

Most of its commanders, were mercenaries and Portuguese officers loyal to Dom Pedro.

" Colonel Tony Callan ," as Georgiou was now styling himself-the surname having come from the popular hardbitten espionage and action series Callan, starring Edward Woodward as a hired gun for the Crown-led a small FNLA military group composed of mostly Portuguese and Greek Cypriot mercenaries with the odd Irishman, Lyndon Sheehan, thrown in.

By early 1752, Peguan forces, aided by French-supplied firearms and Dutch and Portuguese mercenaries, had reached the gates of Ava.

Besides mercenaries and adventurers who had offered their services since the arrival of the Portuguese in the 16th century, a few Europeans served as ladies-in-waiting to the last queen Supayalat in Mandalay, a missionary established a school attended by Mindon's several sons including the last king Thibaw, and an Armenian had served as a king's minister at Amarapura.

Though the Dutch West India Company fielded a larger, better equipped force, they suffered morale problems as most of their army was made up of mercenaries from Europe ( primarily Germany ) who felt no real passion for the war in Brazil, as opposed to the Natives and Portuguese settlers who considered Brazil to be their home and were fighting for a patriotic cause.

Hong Kong interests loudly protest limiting their exports to Britain, while Spanish and Portuguese textiles pour into British market unrestrictedly.

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

Some Chaosium products have been translated into French, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Spanish and Italian, and were available in France from Jeux Descartes, in Germany from Pegasus Press, in Spain from Joc Internacional and La factoría de ideas and in Italy from Stratelibri and Grifo Edizioni.

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 belongs to the so-called plane chart model, where observed latitudes and magnetic directions are plotted directly into the plane, with a constant scale, as if the Earth were a plane ( Portuguese National Archives of Torre do Tombo, Lisbon ).

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

Some Portuguese scholars believe that Garcia's supposed Christian name, " Diego ", was a misnomer or a misreading that came into use towards the end of the 16th century.

When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese ( see Nanban period ), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the Emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the Shogun to secular European rulers, e. g. the Holy Roman Emperor.

He led an extensive mission into Asia, mainly in the Portuguese Empire of the time.

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.

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.

In 1970, Portuguese forces, from neighboring Portuguese Guinea, staged Operation Green Sea, a raid into Guinea with the support of exiled Guinean opposition forces.

After the abolition of slavery in the Portuguese overseas territories in the 1830s, the slave trade definitely went into serious decline.

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

Both the Portuguese Empire and Spanish Empire quickly grew into the first global political and economic systems with territories spread around the world.

In 1520, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain, found a sea route into the Pacific Ocean.

In 1605, armed Dutch merchants captured the Portuguese fort at Amboyna in the Moluccas, which was developed into the first secure base of the company.

Late Middle Japanese has the first loanwords from European languages – now-common words borrowed into Japanese in this period include pan (" bread ") and tabako (" tobacco ", now " cigarette "), both from Portuguese.

He also has collaborated with other scholars to produce comparisons of Judaism and Christianity, as in The Bible and Us: A Priest and A Rabbi Read Scripture Together ( New York 1990 ; translated into Spanish and Portuguese ).

The two best-known examples are The Way of Torah: An Introduction to Judaism ( Belmont 2003 ); and Judaism: An Introduction ( London and New York 2002 ; translated into Portuguese and Japanese ).

At the Portuguese Grand Prix at Monsanto Park, Brabham was chasing race leader Moss when a backmarker moved over on him and launched the Cooper into the air.

The construction of Fort Jesus in Mombasa in 1593 was meant to solidify Portuguese hegemony in the region, but their influence was clipped by the English, Dutch and Omani Arab incursions into the region during the 17th century.

For central government purposes, Portuguese municipalities are grouped into districts ( distritos ).