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Portugal
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Portugal - República Portuguesa
A República Portuguesa fica situada no sudoeste da Europa, na zona oeste da Península Ibérica e é o país mais ocidental da Europa, delimitado a Norte e a Leste pelo reino de Espanha e a Sul e Oeste pelo Oceano Atlântico. O território de Portugal compreende ainda as Regiões Autónomas dos Açores e da Madeira, situadas no hemisfério norte do Oceano Atlântico. Durante os séculos XV e XVI, Portugal foi a maior potência económica, social e cultural do mundo, com um império que se estendia em várias colónias pelo mundo. É hoje um país economicamente próspero, social e politicamente estável e humanamente desenvolvido.
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Portugal - Portuguese Republic
The Portuguese Republic, located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula, is the westernmost country of mainland Europe. Portugal is bordered by ► Spain to the north (► Galicia) and east (► Andalusia, south east) and by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south. The Atlantic archipelagos of the ► Azores and ► Madeira are also part of Portugal.
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Portugal |
| Official name |
Portuguese Republic |
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Independent country since 1128, recognized 1143, member of the ► European Union since 1986 |
| Location |
South Europe |
| Capital |
Lisboa (Lisbon) |
| Population |
10,605,870 inhabitants |
| Area |
92,391 km² |
| Major languages |
Portuguese |
| Major religions |
Roman Catholic |
| More information |
Portugal, Geography of Portugal, History of Portugal and Politics of Portugal |
| More images |
Portugal - Portugal (Category). |
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General maps
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Map of Portugal |
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Same map in Portugese |
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Map of Portugal |
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Divisions of Portugal |
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Municipalities |
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Portugal's Exclusive Economic Zone |
History maps
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Portugal, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Portugal.
Early history
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Pre-Neanderthals |
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Palaeolithic art |
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Distribution of the Y-DNA R1 haplogroup: R1a (purple) and R1b (red). |
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Pre-historic art in Iberia |
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The Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) in the bronze age |
Pre-Roman
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Pre-Roman tribes |
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Ethnographic Iberia 200 BCE |
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Prehispanic languages and tribes |
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Prehispanic languages |
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Paleohispanic writing systems excluding proper Lusitanian |
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Possible extent of (proto-)Celtic influence 800-400 BC |
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Celts in Europe |
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Celts in Iberia (200 BC) |
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Celts in Europe |
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Celts: Hallstatt (yellow) and La Tène (green) cultures |
Roman
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Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present Iberia |
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The migrations of the Cimbri and the Teutons |
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The extent of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire;
133 BC
44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals)
AD 14 (death of Augustus)
117 (maximum extension)
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Map of the Roman republic, with provinces |
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Hispania under the Roman republic |
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Lusitania in the Roman Empire (116) |
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Astur-Cantabrian war |
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Hispania under Octavio César Augusto (29-19 a. J. C.), after the Cantabrians Wars |
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Hispania under Diocletian, 293 AC |
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Hispania under Hadrian, 125 AD |
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Roman provinces in Iberia |
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Roman Lusitania |
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The division of the Empire after the death of Theodosius I, ca.395 AD superimposed on modern borders.
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Invasions of the Roman Empire 100-500 |
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Division of the Roman Empire in 406 |
Visigoths and Suevi
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Iberian Peninsula Around 476 AC |
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Iberian Peninsula Around 560 AC |
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Iberian Peninsula Around 560 AC |
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Iberian Peninsula in 565 |
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Iberian Peninsula Around 586 AC |
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Visigoths migrations |
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Kingdom of Suvean Galicia |
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Iberian Peninsula in 700 |
Muslim Iberia and Reconquest
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Caliphate around 750 |
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Europe in 814 |
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Iberia in 1031 |
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Iberia in 1031 |
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Taifas in 1080 |
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Reconquista |
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Reconquista |
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Conquest of Andalus |
Habsburgs
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Habsburg Empire in 1547 |
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Area ruled by the Habsburg king around 1580 on a map showing modern-day state borders |
Portuguese Empire
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Empire at João III reign |
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Portuguese colonial possessions in the XVI century |
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Portuguese territory in the XVIII century |
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Territorial demarcations between the Portuguese and Spanish empire, resulting from the treaties of Tordesilhas, Saragoça and Alcáçovas (in German) |
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Portuguese posessions during the Spanish rule (1581-1640)(in blue) |
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Dutch-Portuguese War 1588-1654 |
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Portuguese possessions in India 16-18 th centuries |
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Brazilian administrative division as of 1789 |
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Portuguese Empire 1916-1974 |
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Portuguese colonies in Africa by the time of the Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1974) |
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Anachronous map of the Portuguese Empire (1415-1999) |
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Portuguese speaking countries |
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Portuguese linguistic sphere resulting from the colonization process |
Other
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Historical provinces of Portugal |
Old maps
This section holds copies of original general maps older than 70 years of this entry.
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Map of Portugal in 1561 in the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" (1570) de Abraham Ortelius |
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Portugal in 1905, Bibliothek allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens für Militäranwärter Band I, 1905 |
Maps of the Azores
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Location of Azores |
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Location of Azores with Island names |
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Map of the Azores |
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Map of the Azores (Portuguese) |
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Luís Teixeira map of the Azores (c. 1584) |
Maps of Madeira
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Location of Madeira |
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Location of Madeira |
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Map of Madeira |
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Ilhas Selvagens |
Satellite maps
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Satellite map |
Notes and references
General remarks:
- The WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Atlas of the World is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps available at Wikimedia Commons. The main page is therefore the portal to maps and cartography on Wikimedia. That page contains links to entries by country, continent and by topic as well as general notes and references.
- Every entry has an introduction section in English. If other languages are native and/or official in an entity, introductions in other languages are added in separate sections. The text of the introduction(s) is based on the content of the Wikipedia encyclopedia. For sources of the introduction see therefore the Wikipedia entries linked to. The same goes for the texts in the history sections.
- Historical maps are included in the continent, country and dependency entries.
- For Burma, see Myanmar; Great Britain and Northern Ireland, see United Kingdom; Ivory Coast, see Côte d'Ivoire; Pridnestrovie, see Transnistria; Taiwan, see China, Republic of; Timor-Leste, see East Timor.
- The status of various entities is disputed. See the content for the entities concerned.
- The maps of former countries that are more or less continued by a present-day country or had a territory included in only one or two countries are included in the atlas of the present-day country. For example the Ottoman Empire can be found in the Atlas of Turkey.
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