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11 lip 2019 · The animated map below shows rise and fall of the Portuguese Empire. Today Portugal covers an area of 92,2 thousand square kilometers (35,6 thousand square miles). Still, the country remains one of the most popular languages globally (the 6th most spoken language in the world – 260 million people).
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The Second Portuguese Empire spanned 5.4 million square...
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The Portuguese Empire was the 1st Global Empire in History,...
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The Portuguese Empire [a] was a colonial empire that existed between 1415 and 1999. In conjunction with the Spanish Empire, it ushered in the European Age of Discovery. It achieved a global scale, controlling vast portions of the Americas, Africa and various islands in Asia and Oceania.
7 lut 2024 · In this gallery of seven maps, we examine the vast overseas territories of the Spanish Empire from the late 15th century to the 19th century. The empire reached its height during the Age of Exploration and included regions in the Americas, Asia, Africa , and the Pacific.
The Iberian Union is a historiographical term used to describe the personal union of the Kingdom of Portugal with the Monarchy of Spain, which in turn was itself the dynastic union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, and of their respective colonial empires, that existed between 1580 and 1640 and brought the entire Iberian Peninsula except ...
In concert with the Portuguese, the Spanish Empire laid the foundations of a truly global trade by opening up the great trans-oceanic trade routes and the exploration of unknown territories and oceans for the western knowledge.
8 paź 2024 · The map above shows just how big both the Spanish and Portuguese Empires were in 1790. This was just 1 year after the start of the French Revolution and 14 years after the declaration of Independence.
5 wrz 2020 · Having shared historical video-maps of the British, French, and Spanish Empires, and many others, the following video rounds out the collection for the major European colonial empires. It shows the changing leaders and borders of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire as it expanded around the world during the 15th through 19th centuries, ending in ...
