Christopher Columbus in Madeira
By the end of the fifteenth century ,75 years after the discovery ,Madeira had become an agro industrial hub of sugar production. In 1493 at the peak of production there …
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EARLY PORTUGUESE SETTLERS IN THE CAPE
The presence of the Portuguese Community in the Cape region is fairly recent taking in consideration that the Portuguese navigators were the first to discover the Cape. There are various …
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The largest collections of early Madeira wine found in the US
Madeira wine dating from 1796 and 1820s found in a sealed compartment in the wine cellar of the Liberty Hall Museum in New Jersey will be auctioned in December at …
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The story of“Botafogo”
In the first half of the 16th century Portugal did not have a large army, but had a Navy, with large vessels of the type that we would today call …
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Dom Pedro “The Wandering Prince”
The poet Luis de Camoes called the sons of the King D.João I the “illustrious Generation”, to pay tribute to the influence that they had in the Portuguese history. They …
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