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INTRODUCTION TO PORTUGAL

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July 31st 2015
Once a major world power, the Portugal of today is a land of sea, sun, and “saudade”, a unique word meaning a sort of bitter-sweet nostalgia mixed with resignation -- a memory of, a longing for, and a pride in the lost glories of the past, with a touch of hope for the future. Even now, through its world-wide former empire, Portuguese is still one of the most widely spoken European languages. I ... read more

Europe » Portugal

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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more