• Portuguese Africa may refer to: African territories of the Portuguese Empire: Portuguese Cape Verde Portuguese Congo Portuguese East Africa Portuguese...
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    The Portuguese Colonial War (Portuguese: Guerra Colonial Portuguesa), also known in Portugal as the Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former...
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    South Africa and Senegal, thanks to migrants coming from Portuguese-speaking countries. Some statistics claim that there are over 60 million Portuguese speakers...
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    the Portuguese language. In 1996, together with Portugal and Brazil, the Portuguese-speaking African countries established the Community of Portuguese Language...
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    The Portuguese Empire (Portuguese: Império Português, European Portuguese: [ĩˈpɛ.ɾju puɾ.tuˈɣeʃ]), also known as the Portuguese Overseas (Ultramar Português)...
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    established many bases along the eastern coast of Africa except for Somalia (See Ajuran-Portuguese wars). The Portuguese also captured Aden in 1513. One of the ships...
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    Portuguese Mozambique (Portuguese: Moçambique) or Portuguese East Africa (África Oriental Portuguesa) were the common terms by which Mozambique was designated...
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    should not be confused with Portuguese of Black African ancestry). The largest Portuguese African population lives in Portugal numbering over 1 million with...
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    Province of the Portugal or Portuguese West Africa (officially the State of West Africa) (from 1951–1972), then a State of the Portuguese Empire (1972–1975)...
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  • ancestry. The exact figure of how many people in South Africa are Portuguese or of Portuguese descent are not accurately known as many people who arrived...
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  • Afro-Portuguese (Afro portugueses or Lusoafricanos), African-Portuguese (Portugueses com ascendência africana), or Black Portuguese are Portuguese people...
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  • needed] South Africa largely featured two Portuguese waves of immigration, one was a constant but small flow of Portuguese from Madeira and Portugal itself,...
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  • Mozambique (former Portuguese Mozambique), see Portuguese Colonial War Namibia (former South West Africa) – against South Africa, see Namibian War of...
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    Portugal portal Language portal Portuguese literature Portuguese Africans Angolan literature Brazilian literature Gallaecian language Indo-Portuguese...
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    The Portuguese people (Portuguese: Portugueses – masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country...
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    African National Congress (ANC) operatives fighting to release South Africa from its white-led rule. Africa portal Portuguese Colonial War Portuguese...
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    (Portuguese: João II; [ʒuˈɐ̃w]; 3 March 1455 – 25 October 1495), called the Perfect Prince (Portuguese: o Príncipe Perfeito), was King of Portugal from...
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    originally produced by Portuguese explorers in Portugal's former Southern African territories and then spread to other Portuguese domains. Pilipili in Swahili...
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    Creole peoples (category African diaspora history)
    indigenous Africans first interacted with Europeans. As a result of these contacts, five major Creole types emerged in Africa: Portuguese, African American...
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    Negotiations with African independence movements began, and by the end of 1974, Portuguese troops were withdrawn from Portuguese Guinea, which became...
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    The Estado Novo (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɨʃˈtaðu ˈnovu], lit. 'New State') was the corporatist Portuguese state installed in 1933. It evolved from...
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    often applied to the Portuguese Empire, the realm's overseas colonies. The nucleus of the Portuguese state was the County of Portugal, established in the...
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    The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Portuguese: Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa; abbr. : CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Community...
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    Portuguese maritime exploration resulted in the numerous territories and maritime routes recorded by the Portuguese as a result of their intensive maritime...
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    biggest clashes between Portuguese and South African natives occurred in 1510; Francisco de Almeida, first viceroy of the Portuguese possessions in the East...
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    Afonso V (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐˈfõsu]) (15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481), known by the sobriquet the African (Portuguese: o Africano), was king...
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    wider Portuguese Overseas War, which also included the independence wars of Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. It was a guerrilla war in which the Portuguese army...
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    independence conflict that took place in Portuguese Guinea from 1963 to 1974. It was fought between Portugal and the African Party for the Independence of Guinea...
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    Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro; [poʁtuˈɡe(j)z bɾaziˈle(j)ɾu]) is the set of varieties of the Portuguese language native to Brazil...
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    1974, was a West African colony of Portugal from 1588 until 10 September 1974, when it gained independence as Guinea-Bissau. The Portuguese Crown commissioned...
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