Its main industries are
agriculture,
dairy farming,
livestock,
fishing, and
tourism, which has become a major service activity in the region. In the 20th century and to some extent into the 21st, they have served as a waypoint for refueling aircraft flying between Europe and North America. The government of the Azores employs a large percentage of the population directly or indirectly in the service and tertiary sectors. The largest city of the Azores is
Ponta Delgada. The culture, dialect, cuisine, and traditions of the Azorean islands vary considerably, because these remote islands were settled sporadically over a span of two centuries. (Full article...)
From October 1810,
Marshal Masséna's French Army of Portugal had been tied down in an increasingly hopeless stand-off against
Wellington's Allied forces, safely entrenched in and behind the
Lines of Torres Vedras. Acting on
Napoleon's orders, in early 1811
Marshal Soult led a French expedition from
Andalusia into Extremadura in a bid to draw Allied forces away from the Lines and ease Masséna's plight. Napoleon's information was outdated and Soult's intervention came too late; starving and understrength, Masséna's army was already withdrawing to Spain. Soult was able to capture the strategically important fortress at Badajoz on the border between Spain and Portugal from the Spanish, but was forced to return to Andalusia following
Marshal Victor's defeat in March at the
Battle of Barrosa. However, Soult left Badajoz strongly garrisoned. In April, following news of Masséna's complete withdrawal from Portugal, Wellington sent a powerful
Anglo-Portuguese corps commanded by
Sir William Beresford to retake the border town. The Allies drove most of the French from the surrounding area and began the
siege of Badajoz. (Full article...)
Image 4Map of Spain and Portugal showing the conquest of Hispania from 220 B.C. to 19 B.C. and provincial borders. It is based on other maps; the territorial advances and provincial borders are illustrative. (from History of Portugal)
Image 22The frontispiece of the 1826 Portuguese Constitution featuring King-Emperor
Pedro IV and his daughter Queen
Maria II (from History of Portugal)
Image 29The arrival of the Portuguese in Japan, the first Europeans to reach it, initiating the Nanban ("southern barbarian") period of active commercial and cultural exchange between Japan and the West. (from History of Portugal)
Image 30This 1755 copper engraving shows the ruins of
Lisbon in flames and a
tsunami overwhelming the ships in the harbor. (from History of Portugal)
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António de Jesus (died
c. 1722) was a
Portuguese figure who flourished in late 17th and early 18th century
Safavid Iran. Originally an
Augustinianfriar and
missionary, he converted to
Shia Islam during the early reign of
Shah (King)
Sultan Husayn (
r. 1694–1722) and took the name Aliqoli Jadid-ol-Eslam. He subsequently became an
apologist of Shi'ism as well as a major
polemicist against Christianity, Sufism, Judaism, Sunnism, philosophers and
antinomians. In addition, after conversion, he served as an official interpreter (also known as a
dragoman) at the royal court in
Isfahan. Aliqoli Jadid-ol-Eslam was one of the late 17th century converts in Iran who "helped reaffirm the
Majlesi brand of conservatism". (Full article...)
He has been one of the
revolving door cases at the EU, which received the most media attention because only two months after the cooling off period, Barroso accepted a position as "senior adviser " and "non-executive chairman" of
Goldman Sachs International. and became subject of an ethics inquiry. (Full article...)
...that the reign of John III of Portugal was characterized by both the height of the Portuguese Empire political and mercantile power followed by the beginning of its decline?
...that the Democratic Party was a Portuguese political party closely associated with the history of the
Portuguese First Republic, being the main political force in power from 1910 to 1926.
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