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The viceroy of India Dom João de Castro. A notable hidrographer, defended Goa and Diu. In order to secure a loan from the city hall of Goa to repair the fortress of Diu he attempted to offer the bones of his deceased son as security. Not being able to, he gave his beard instead.
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2024/02/17
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Naval battle between Dutch and Portuguese warships in the harbour of Goa in September 30 1639. By Hendrick van Anthonissen.
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2024/02/13
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"The Arrival of Vasco da Gama at Calicut", 16th century tapestry from Tournai commissioned by King Manuel of Portugal to celebrate the discovery of a sea route to India in 1498. [1836x979]
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2024/01/31
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The Portuguese attack on Ottoman Suez in 1541, led by the governor of India Dom Estevão da Gama. 16th century Portuguese sketch by João de Castro.
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2024/01/24
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"Plan of the Macau Peninsula" in 1889 by the Lisbon Geographical Society.
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2023/12/18
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The governor of India Dom Luís de Ataíde, who defended the Portuguese State of India from the combined attack of a great Asian alliance between 1570 and 1571.
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2023/10/14
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Portuguese Timor 1967 50 escudos banknote, featuring the chieftain Dom Aleixo Corte-Real, who resisted Japanese occupation during WW2 and was executed by firing squad.
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2023/10/04
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The Angola Dragoons, mounted counter insurgency unit, deployed to Angola and Mozambique (1966-1975)
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2023/09/23
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"Angola Grand Prix and Luanda City Cup, February 19 and 20 1959"
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2023/09/23
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Sea battle between French and Portuguese warships off the coast of Brazil. Engraving by Theodor de Bry, 1592.
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2023/09/10
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Cover of the book "Portuguese Expedition to Muatianvua. Practical Method to Speak the Lunda Language. 1884-1888" by Henrique Augusto Dias de Carvalho, 1890.
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2023/08/28
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Map off Luanda
Esboço da planta da cidade de S. Paulo de Loanda / Edição especial da Empreza de publicidade "Angola" Lda. - Escala 1:5000. - Loanda : Empreza de publicidade "Angola" Lda, [ca 1926]. - 1 planta : color. ; 57,50x69,70 cm, em folha de 61,50x76,70 cm
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2023/08/26
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A Portuguese nobleman in Asia riding a horse, followed by his retinue of attendants in 1596.
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2023/08/22
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Portuguese Malacca, in Malaysia, under attack by the Acehnese in 1568.
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2023/08/18
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"Uma indígena de Angola", Primeira Exposição Colonial Portuguesa, Porto, 1934
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2023/07/11
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Portuguese troops march by the flags of Portugal and Macau during the opening ceremony of the handover of Macau to China after over four centuries of colonial rule - 1999
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2023/06/28
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Portuguese soldiers guarding the governor's residence in Portuguese Timor - c. 1950s
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2023/05/28
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'Portugal Adjacent and Overseas', highly detailed map of Portugal's overseas possessions - 1961
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2023/04/13
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'Portugal kills Angolese with NATO weapons', demonstrators in Amsterdam protesting Portugal's actions in its Angola colony - 1963
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2023/03/22
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16th century Portuguese armor patterned after Samurai armor.
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2023/02/28
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Portuguese Paratrooper Combat Nurses, employed during the Portuguese Colonial War (1961-1975). Alfredo Serrano Rosa
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2023/02/08
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Portuguese scientific expedition, commanded by Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, to the Captaincies of the North and West of Brazil between 1783 and 1792.
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2023/01/24
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Angolan children sit on a toppled statue of Portuguese general and politician José Norton de Matos, Angolan Civil War - 1975
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2023/01/06
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A Portuguese mother explains gun handling to her son during the Angolan War of Independence - 1970
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2022/12/15
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The Portuguese flag is lowered in Macau as part of the handover ceremony that saw the territory given back to China after 442 years of Portuguese rule - 20 December 1999
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2022/11/28
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Painting representing the conquest of the city of Malacca, by the Portuguese army commanded by Afonso de Albuquerque, in 1511. Work from 1945/Domingos Rebelo (?)
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2022/11/15
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Map of 'Portugal, Adjacent Islands, Colonies and their geographical distribution' - c. 1920
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2022/11/13
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1517 - Portuguese fleet in Jeddah, red sea with the aim of reaching Meca to destroy Muslim Holy Places
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2022/10/04
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Portugal defeats troops of the Dutch West India Company in the Battle of Guararapes in Pernambuco, Brazil - 1649
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2022/09/29
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