In the case of Portugal, which a few weeks ago was rumored ready to walk out of the NATO Council should critics of its Angola policy prove harsh, there has been a noticeable relaxation of tension.

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.

At the same time, Angola has promoted the revival of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries ( CPLP ) as a forum for cultural exchange and expanding ties with Portugal ( its former ruler ) and Brazil ( which shares many cultural affinities with Angola ) in particular.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

The music of Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias ( Spain ) and Portugal are also considered Celtic music, the tradition being particularly strong in Brittany, where Celtic festivals large and small take place throughout the year, and in Wales, where the ancient eisteddfod tradition has been revived and flourishes.

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.

" China has been a friend of Cape Verde even before it gained independence from Portugal 30 years ago.

Couscous is also very popular in France, where it is now considered a traditional dish, and has also become popular in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.

Yet in nations or regions where traditional folk music is a badge of cultural or national identity, the loss of traditional music can be slowed ; this is held to be true, for instance in the case of Bangladesh, Hungary, India, Ireland, Scotland, Latvia, Turkey, Portugal, Brittany, and Galicia, Greece and Crete all of which retain their traditional music to some degree, in some such areas the decline of traditional music and loss of traditions has been reversed.

The history of Guinea-Bissau was dominated by Portugal from the 1450s to the 1970s ; since independence, the country has been primarily controlled by a single-party system.

Greece ( as well as the UK, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Ireland ) has large debts.

In recent few years immigration from Portugal has increased due to Portuguese poor economic situation.

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, which proclaims itself the champion of Hispanic success in higher education, has member institutions in the U. S., Puerto Rico, Latin America, Spain, and Portugal.

* Portugal has an embassy in Maputo and a Consulate-General in Beira.

* 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.

Following the line of visibility that the Wiccan Religious Confession, Celtiberian Tradition, imposed throughout the institution, this Tradition Wicca also established in Portugal has taken the first step and once applied for registration in the relevant Register, has just been registered and is therefore has become the first Confession Pagan recognized as religion in the history of Portugal ( source ).

It is not clear when and where olive trees were first domesticated: in Asia Minor in the 6th millennium ; Greece has by far the largest per capita consumption of olive oil worldwide, over 26 liters per person per year ; Spain and Italy, around 14 l ; Tunisia, Portugal, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, around 8 l. Northern Europe and North America consume far less, around 0. 7 l, but the consumption of olive oil outside its home territory has been rising steadily.

The former colonial power, Portugal, has been focusing on enhancing the capabilities of the STP Coast Guard, and agreed to provide the force with training under a two-year military co-operation agreement signed in 2004.

The Ministries of Defense of Germany, Argentina, Chile, Spain, USA, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Portugal had been chosen for deepened analysis because they had some type of identification with Brazil, as territorial extension, population, cash of the Armed Forces, amongst others.

Though a practicing Christian, he had been born into a Jewish family with origins from Portugal, and had converted at a young age.

For example the President for the second half of 2007, Portugal, was the second in a trio of states alongside Germany and Slovenia with whom Portugal had been co-operating.

Before reaching Italy however, Titus learnt that Galba had been murdered and replaced by Otho, the governor of Lusitania ( modern Portugal ).

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.

As a result, in many of the southern European countries, including Portugal, Spain and Italy, lawyers have traditionally been addressed as “ doctor ,” a practice which was transferred to many countries in South America ( as well as Macau in China ).

After traditional land routes to India had been closed by the Ottoman Turks, Portugal hoped to use the sea route pioneered by Gama to break the Venetian trading monopoly.

During the previous pontificate the Jesuits had been expelled from Portugal and from all the Bourbon courts: France, Spain, Naples, and Parma ; now the general suppression of the order was urged by the faction called the " court cardinals ", who were opposed by the diminished pro-Jesuit faction, the Zelanti (" zealous "), who were generally opposed to the encroaching secularism of the Enlightenment.

The Jesuits had been expelled from Brasil ( 1754 ), Portugal ( 1759 ), France ( 1764 ), Spain and its colonies ( 1767 ) and Parma ( 1768 ).

He canonised Elizabeth of Portugal and Andrew Corsini and issued the Papal bulls of canonisation for Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier who had been canonized by his predecessor, Gregory XV.

The Portuguese had been in the area earlier in early 16th centuries ( in search of the legendary priest-king Prester John ), and although a diplomatic mission from Portugal, led by Rodrigo de Lima, had failed to improve relations between the countries, they responded to the Ethiopian pleas for help and sent a military expedition to their fellow Christians.

Spain has been successful in managing its relations with its two European neighbours, France and Portugal.

Olivenza / Olivença had been under continuous Portuguese sovereignty since 1297 when it was occupied by the Spanish in 1801 and formally ceded by Portugal later that year by the Treaty of Badajoz.

These include Brazil, Ireland, Korea, Nicaragua, Philippines, Spain ( Old Kingdoms and present ), Portugal, and the United States of America.

Lusitania (, ) or Hispania Lusitania was an ancient Roman province including approximately all of modern Portugal south of the Douro river and part of modern Spain ( the present autonomous community of Extremadura and a small part of the province of Salamanca ).

The first area colonized by the Lusitani was probably the Douro valley and the region of Beira Alta ( present day Portugal ); in Beira, they stayed until they defeated the Celtici and other tribes, then they expanded to cover a territory that reached Estremadura before the arrival of the Romans.

* 2010 – present: " Pode ser bom, pode ser muito bom, pode ser Pepsi " ( It can be good, it can be very good, it can be Pepsi ) – Brazil and Portugal

A third battle was fought against a subsequent wave of invaders, the Milesians, from the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula ( present day Galicia and Northern Portugal ), descendants of Míl Espáine ( who are thought to represent the Goidelic Celts ).

After all of the area of the present province had been recognized by other European powers as belonging to Portugal, pacification of the tribes of the interior was completed and the traditional holders of political power were subordinated to the Portuguese.

Portugal colonized parts of South America ( mostly Brazil ), but also some failed attempts to colonize North America in present day Canada.

Having been introduced to the Azores Islands of Portugal, they are now very common there, particularly on Faial, which is known as the " blue island " due to the vast number of hydrangeas present on the island, Terceira, named the " lilac island " for hydrangeas of that colour, on Flores Island (" Island of Flowers ") and São Miguel, named the " green island " for its floral biodiversity.

A version of the song present in this sketch was made in Portugal for a " Millennium " Bank campaign.

Two documentary films are known to have been made in north-eastern Portugal where present day descendants of Marranos were interviewed about their lives.

A representation of an armillary sphere is present in the modern flag of Portugal and has been a national symbol since the reign of Manuel I.

* In English: His Royal Highness the very August and Most Serene Prince Dom Duarte Pio João Miguel Gabriel Rafael de Bragança, by succession of his August Father, His Royal Highness the Prince Dom Duarte Nuno and his cousin, of Glorious Memory, the King the Lord Dom Manuel II, the Unfortunate, and by virtue of the present interregnum, Prince Royal of Portugal, 25th Duke of Braganza, 22nd Duke of Guimarães, 24th Marquis of Vila Viçosa, 29th Count of Ourém, 26th Count of Arraiolos, 26th Count of Neiva, 26th Count of Faria and 22nd Count of Guimarães.

The present chair is Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, former U. S. Ambassador to Portugal.

In 2006, a specimen of Stegosaurus was announced from Portugal, showing that they were present in Europe as well.

With Portugal finally recognized as an independent country by his neighbours, Denis signed a border pact with Ferdinand IV of Castile ( 1297 ) which has endured to the present day.

This cession is not recognized by the present government and Portugal officially considers those territories to still be Portuguese.

The cittern family survives into the present day in the German ' waldzither ', the Corsican Cetara, Spanish Bandurria and Laúd, as well as the Portuguese guitar, the descendant of English instruments brought into Portugal in the 18th century.

The term Caucasian Iberia ( or Eastern Iberia ) is used to distinguish it from the Iberian Peninsula, where the present day countries of Spain, Portugal and Andorra are located.

At present the President is Vítor Manuel da Silva Caldeira ( of Portugal ), elected in 2007.

It was only under Augustus, however, at the end of the 1st century BC, that present north Portugal and Galicia were fully pacified and under Roman control.

Countries and territories with contingents of Scouts present included Hungary, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Irish Free State, England, Jamaica, Trinidad, Switzerland, Sweden, Armenia, the Netherlands, Poland, Finland, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Australia, New Zealand, British Guiana, Canada, Newfoundland, Ceylon, South Africa, Austria, Romania, Norway, Portugal, Siam, Spain, Haiti, Greece, France, Gibraltar, India, Philippines, United States, Bulgaria, Liechtenstein, Belgium, Syria, Denmark, Iceland, Egypt, Iran, Japan, Malta, Palestine, Rhodesia, the Duchy of Luxemburg, and Russian Emigrant Scouts.

A short list of past and present Portuguese musicians with important contributions must necessarily include the names of composers Pedro de Escobar, Manuel Cardoso, Duarte Lobo, Filipe de Magalhães, Carlos Seixas, Diogo Dias Melgás, João Domingos Bomtempo, Marcos Portugal, José Vianna da Motta, Luís de Freitas Branco, Joly Braga Santos, Fernando Lopes-Graça, António Fragoso and Emmanuel Nunes ; organists such as António Carreira or Manuel Rodrigues Coelho ; singers such as Luísa Todi, Elisabete Matos or José Carlos Xavier ; pianists such as Maria João Pires or Sequeira Costa ; cellists such as Guilhermina Suggia ;

In present times it is widely believed today that the megalithic graves of Britain, Ireland, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Denmark, northern Germany, and Poland are much earlier than the Egyptian pyramids, while the Mesoamerican pyramids are much later and securely based in a local development.

The Infanta was sent back to Spain and later married the future Joseph I of Portugal ; the present Brazilian Imperial Family descend from Philippe d ' Orléans, Louis XV as well as Mariana Victoria ;