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The '''history of Portugal''' can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day [[Portugal]] was inhabited by ''[[Homo heidelbergensis]]''.

The [[Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula]], which lasted almost two centuries, led to the establishment of the provinces of [[Lusitania]] in the south and [[Gallaecia]] in the north of what is now Portugal. Following the fall of Rome, Germanic tribes controlled the territory between the 5th and 8th centuries, including the [[Kingdom of the Suebi]] centred in Braga and the [[Visigothic Kingdom]] in the south.

The 711–716 invasion by the Islamic [[Umayyad Caliphate]] conquered the Visigoth Kingdom and founded the Islamic State of [[Al-Andalus]], gradually advancing through Iberia. In 1095, Portugal broke away from the [[Kingdom of Galicia]].  [[Afonso I of Portugal|Afonso Henriques]], son of the count [[Henry, Count of Portugal|Henry of Burgundy]], proclaimed himself king of Portugal in 1139. The [[Algarve]] (the southernmost province of Portugal) was conquered from the [[Moors]] in 1249, and in 1255 [[Lisbon]] became the capital. Portugal's land boundaries have remained almost unchanged since then. During the reign of King [[John I of Portugal|John I]], the Portuguese defeated the [[Castilians]] in a war over the throne (1385) and established a political alliance with [[Kingdom of England|England]] (by the [[Treaty of Windsor (1386)|Treaty of Windsor]] in 1386).

From the late [[Middle Ages]], in the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal ascended to the status of a [[Great power|world power]] during Europe's "[[Age of Discovery]]" as it [[Portuguese Empire|built up a vast empire]]. Signs of military decline began with the [[Battle of Alcácer Quibir]] in Morocco in 1578; this defeat led to the death of [[Sebastian, King of Portugal|King Sebastian]] and the imprisonment of much of the high nobility, which had to be ransomed at great cost. This eventually led to a small interruption in Portugal's 800-year-old independence by way of a 60-year dynastic union with Spain between 1580 and the beginning of the Portuguese Restoration War led by John IV in 1640. Spain's disastrous defeat in its attempt to conquer England in 1588 by means of the [[Invincible Armada]] was also a factor, as Portugal had to contribute ships for the invasion. Further setbacks included the destruction of much of its capital city in an [[1755 Lisbon earthquake|earthquake in 1755]], occupation during the [[Napoleonic Wars]], and the loss of its largest colony, [[Colonial Brazil|Brazil]], in 1822. From the middle of the 19th century to the late 1950s, nearly two million [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] left Portugal to live in Brazil and the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/portugal-seeks-balance-emigration-immigration |title=Portugal Seeks Balance of Emigration, Immigration |publisher=Migrationinformation.org |date=2002-08-09 |access-date=2024-12-19}}</ref>

In 1910, a revolution deposed the monarchy. A military coup in 1926 installed a dictatorship that remained until [[Carnation Revolution|another coup]] in 1974. The new government instituted sweeping [[democracy|democratic]] reforms and granted independence to all of Portugal's African colonies in 1975. Portugal is a founding member of [[NATO]], the [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] (OECD), the [[European Free Trade Association]] (EFTA), and the [[Community of Portuguese Language Countries]]. It entered the [[European Economic Community]] (now the [[European Union]]) in 1986.

== Etymology ==<!--linked-->
The word ''Portugal'' derives from the combined [[Ancient Rome|Roman]]-[[Celtic languages|Celtic]] place name [[Portus Cale]];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/portugal|title=Portugal – Origin and meaning of the name Portugal by Online Etymology Dictionary|website=Etymonline.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://agal-gz.org/faq/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=contributos-pgl:sobre_a_origem_e_significado_da_palavra_portugal.pdf|title=Origem e significado das palavras Portugal e Galiza|website=agal-gz.org}}</ref> a settlement where present-day's [[conurbation]] of [[Porto]] and [[Vila Nova de Gaia]] (or simply, Gaia) stand, along the banks of river [[Douro]] in the north of what is now Portugal.

Porto stems from the Latin word for [[port]] or harbour, {{Lang|la|portus}}, with the second element ''Cale''{{'}}s meaning and precise origin being less clear. The mainstream explanation points to an [[ethnonym]] derived from the Callaeci also known as the [[Gallaeci]] peoples, who occupied the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula.<ref name="academia.edu">{{Cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/31989410|title=Documentos danca portuguesa|first=Marcos|last=Winicius|via=www.academia.edu}}</ref> The names ''Cale'' and ''Callaici'' are the origin of today's ''[[Vila Nova de Gaia|Gaia]]'' and ''[[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]]''.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/10819665|title=Origem e significado dos nomes de Portugal e da Galiza|first=Luís|last=Magarinhos|journal=Actas do III Congreso Internacional Sobre a Cultura Celta: Os Celtas da Europa Atlántica. 15, 16 e 17 de Abril de 2011. Narón. Pp. 537–546|date=January 2011|via=www.academia.edu}}</ref><ref name="auto3">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=te1YDwAAQBAJ&q=gallaecian+druid+culture&pg=PA9|title=Europa Sun Issue 4: April 2018|first1=Carolyn|last1=Emerick|first2=Various|last2=Authors|publisher=Carolyn Emerick|via=Google Books}}</ref> Another theory proposes that ''Cale'' or ''Calle'' is a derivation of the Celtic word for 'port',<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=POGEbFpGHigC&q=celtic+cale+harbour&pg=RA1-PA270 |title=Celtic Linguistics |access-date=2010-08-22|isbn=978-0-415-20479-8|year=1706|last1=Pezron |first1=Paul |publisher=Taylor & Francis }}</ref> like the [[Irish language|Irish]] {{Lang|ga|caladh}} or [[Scottish Gaelic]] {{Lang|gd|cala}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.faclair.com/?txtSearch=Cala|title=Am Faclair Beag – Scottish Gaelic Dictionary|first=William Robertson, Michael Bauer, Edward|last=Dwelly|website=www.faclair.com|access-date=14 April 2018}}</ref> These explanations, would require the pre-Roman language of the area to have been a branch of Q-Celtic, which is not generally accepted because the region's pre-Roman language was [[Gallaecian]]. However, scholars like [[Jean Markale]] and Tranoy propose the Celtic branches all share the same origin, and placenames such as Cale, Gal, Gaia, [[Calais]], Galatia, Galicia, [[Gaelic language|Gaelic]], Gael, [[Gaul]] ({{langx|la|Gallia}}),<ref>{{IPAc-en|lang|ˈ|ɡ|æ|l|i|ə}}</ref> [[Wales]], Cornwall, [[Wallonia]] and others all stem from one linguistic root.<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=De Alarcão |first1=Jorge |title=Ainda sobre a localização dos ''populi'' do ''conventus Bracaraugustanus'' |journal=Anales de Arquelogía Cordobesa |year=1998 |pages=51–58 |url=https://helvia.uco.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10396/2852/9.3.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/originesetmigrat00peti|title=Origines et migrations des peuples de la Gaule jusqu'à l'avènement des Francs|first=Émile|last=Petitot|date=11 July 1894|publisher=Paris : J. Maisonneuve|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Cala is sometimes considered not Celtic, but from Late Latin ''calatum'' > ''calad'' > ''cala'',<ref>Alexander Macbain, ''An etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language'', Gairm Publications; 1982 (new edition), p. 66.</ref> compare Italian {{Lang|it|cala}}, French {{Lang|fr|cale}}, itself from Occitan ''cala'' "cove, small harbour" from a Pre-Indo-European root ''*kal'' / ''*cala''<ref name="CNRTL">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/cale|title=CALE : Etymologie de CALE|website=www.cnrtl.fr}}</ref> (see ''[[calanque]]''<ref name="CNRTL"/> and maybe [[Gallaecia|Galici-a]] < ''[[Callaeci]]'' or ''Calaeci''). Another theory claims it derives from the word ''Caladunum'',<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionarygreek08smitgoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionarygreek08smitgoog/page/n501 477] |quote=Cale,  name  Porto greek. |title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography |publisher=Walton and Maberly |access-date=2010-08-22|year=1856|last1=Smith |first1=Sir William }}</ref> in fact an unattested compound ''*Caladunum'', that may explain the toponym Calezun in [[Gascony]].<ref>Jacques Lacroix (preface [[Venceslas Kruta]]), [https://books.google.com/books?id=5XAqEAAAQBAJ&dq=Caladunum+%3E+Calezun&pg=PA134 ''Les Noms d'origine gauloise (NE): La Gaule des combats'', Editions Errance, 2012, p. 134]</ref>

A further explanation proposes ''Gatelo'' as having been the origin of present-day [[Braga]], [[Santiago de Compostela]], and consequently the wider regions of Northern Portugal and Galicia.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=DesAAAAAYAAJ&dq=gatelo,&pg=PA382|title= Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume 1; Volume 8|last1= Academy|first1= Royal Irish|year= 1864}}</ref> A different theory has it that ''Cala'' was the name of a Celtic goddess (drawing a comparison with the [[Gaelic languages|Gaelic]] ''[[Cailleach]]'', a supernatural hag). Some French scholars believe the name may have come from {{Lang|la|Portus Gallus}},<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MD8zAQAAMAAJ&q=portus+Gallus+etymologie+du+portugal&pg=PA441|title=Manuel géographique et statistique de l'Espagne et du Portugal ...|date=11 April 2018|publisher=Buisson|via=Google Books}}</ref> the port of the Gauls or Celts.

Around 200 BC, the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]] took the [[Iberian Peninsula]] from the Carthaginians during the [[Second Punic War]]. In the process they conquered Cale, renaming it {{Lang|la|Portus Cale}} ('Port of Cale') and incorporating it in the province of [[Gaelicia|Gaellicia]] with its capital in [[Bracara Augusta]] (modern day [[Braga]], Portugal). During the [[Middle Ages]], the region around Portus Cale became known by the [[Suebi]] and [[Visigoths]] as ''Portucale''.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}} The name ''Portucale'' changed into ''Portugale'' during the 7th and 8th centuries. By the 9th century, ''Portugale'' was used extensively to refer to the region between the rivers [[Douro]] and [[Minho River|Minho]], the Minho flowing along what would become the northern [[Portugal–Spain border]]. By the 11th and 12th centuries, ''Portugale'', ''Portugallia'', ''Portvgallo'' or ''Portvgalliae'' was already referred to as ''Portugal''.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

The 14th-century [[Middle French]] name for the country, {{Lang|frm|Portingal}}, which added an intrusive /n/ sound through the process of [[excrescence (phonology)|excrescence]], spread to [[Middle English]].<ref name="OED">"Portugal, n. and adj." OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2020, www.oed.com/view/Entry/148257. Accessed 30 July 2020.</ref> Middle English variant spellings included {{Lang|enm|Portingall}}, {{Lang|enm|Portingale}},{{NoteTag|[[Thomas Dawson (cook)|Thomas Dawson]]'s ''The Good Hus-wifes Handmaid for the Kitchen'' from 1594 includes a meatball receipt for "farts of Portingale".<ref>''[https://www.foodsofengland.info/book1594huswife.html The Good Huswives Handmaide for the Kitchin, 1594]}'' at the Foods of England project.  Accessed 30 July 2020.</ref>}} {{Lang|enm|Portyngale}} and {{Lang|enm|Portingaill}}.<ref name="OED"/><ref>Hans Kurath. "Portingāl(e" ''Middle English Dictionary''. University of Michigan Press, 1954. p. 1131.</ref> The spelling {{Lang|enm|Portyngale}} is found in Chaucer's Epilogue to [[the Nun's Priest's Tale]]. These variants survive in the ''[[Torrent of Portyngale]]'', a Middle English romance composed around 1400, and "[[Old Robin of Portingale]]", an English Child ballad. {{Lang|sco|Portingal}} and variants were also used in [[Scots language|Scots]]<ref name="OED"/> and survive in the [[Cornish language|Cornish]] name for the country, ''[[:kw:Portyngal|Portyngal]]''.

== Early history ==

The early history of Portugal is shared with the rest of the [[Iberian Peninsula]] located in southwestern Europe. The name of Portugal derives from the joined Romano-Celtic name [[Portus Cale]]. The region was [[Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula|settled]] by Pre-[[Celts]] and Celts, giving origin to peoples like the [[Gallaeci]], [[Lusitanians]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sA9TDwAAQBAJ&q=Proto+celtic+portugal&pg=PA28|title=Europa Sun Issue 2: December 2017|first1=Carolyn|last1=Emerick|first2=Various|last2=Authors|date=December 28, 2017|publisher=Carolyn Emerick|via=Google Books}}</ref> [[Celtici]] and [[Cynetes]] (also known as [[Conii]]).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTbc1GIAwcIC&q=Conii+culture+portugal&pg=PA155|title=The Celtic Encyclopedia|first=Harry|last=Mountain|date= 1998|publisher=Universal-Publishers|isbn=978-1-58112-890-1|via=Google Books}}</ref> Some coastal areas were visited by [[Phoenicians]]-[[Carthaginians]] and [[Ancient Greek]]s. It was incorporated in the [[Roman Republic]] dominions as [[Lusitania]] and part of [[Gallaecia]], after 45 BC until 298 AD.

=== Prehistory ===
{{Main|Prehistoric Iberia}}
[[File:Aroeira3.jpg|thumb|[[Aroeira 3]] skull of 400,000 year old ''[[Homo heidelbergensis]]''.<br />The oldest trace of human history in Portugal.]]

The region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by humans since circa 400,000 years ago, when [[Homo heidelbergensis]] entered the area. The oldest human fossil found in Portugal is the 400,000-year-old ''[[Aroeira 3]]'' ''H. Heidelbergensis'' skull discovered in the [[Cave of Aroeira]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://phys.org/news/2017-03-year-old-fossil-human-cranium-oldest.html|title=400,000-year-old fossil human cranium is oldest ever found in Portugal|website=phys.org|access-date=14 April 2018}}</ref> Later [[Neanderthal]]s roamed the northern Iberian peninsula and a tooth has been found at Nova da Columbeira cave in [[Estremadura Province (1936–76)|Estremadura]].<ref name="Birmp1"/> [[Homo sapiens sapiens]] arrived in Portugal around 35,000 years ago, spreading and roaming the border-less region of the northern Iberian peninsula.<ref name="Birmp1">David Birmingham (2003), p. 11</ref><ref>{{harvp|Disney|2009|p=5}}</ref> These were subsistence societies and although they did not establish prosperous settlements, they did form organized societies. Neolithic Portugal experimented with domestication of herding animals, the raising of some cereal crops and fluvial or marine fishing.<ref name=Birmp1/>

Pre-Celtic tribes inhabited Portugal leaving a cultural footprint. The [[Cynetes]] developed a written language, leaving many [[stelae]], which are mainly found in the south of Portugal. Early in the first millennium BC, waves of [[Celts]] invaded Portugal from Central Europe and inter-married with the local populations, forming [[Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula|different tribes]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=So1mDwAAQBAJ&q=different+celtic+tribes+in+Portugal&pg=PA63|title=Portugal|edition=3rd|first1=Jay|last1=Heale|first2=Angeline|last2=Koh|first3=Elizabeth|last3=Schmermund|date=2016|publisher=Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC|isbn=978-1-5026-1694-4|via=Google Books}}</ref> Another theory suggests that Celts inhabited western Iberia / Portugal well before any large Celtic migrations from [[Central Europe]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Garstk |first1=Kevin |title=Celtic from the West: Alternative Perspectives from Archaeology, Genetics, Language and Literature. Edited by Barry Cunliffe and John T. Koch. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010. 384 pages. ISBN 978-1842174104 |journal=E-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies |date=28 August 2012 |volume=9 |issue=1 |id={{ProQuest|1095733285}} |url=https://dc.uwm.edu/ekeltoi/vol9/iss1/9/ }}</ref> A number of linguists expert in ancient Celtic have presented compelling evidence that the [[Tartessian language]], once spoken in parts of SW Spain and SW Portugal, is at least proto-Celtic in structure.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historyireland.com/pre-history-archaeology/tartessian-europes-newest-and-oldest-celtic-language/|title=Tartessian, Europe's newest and oldest Celtic language|date=5 March 2013}}</ref>
[[File:Rock Art Foz Coa 01.jpg|thumb|[[Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley]]]]

The Celtic presence in Portugal is traceable, in broad outline, through archaeological and linguistic evidence. They dominated much of northern and central Portugal; but in the south, they were unable to establish their stronghold, which retained its non-Indo-European character until the Roman conquest.<ref>{{harvp|Disney|2009|p=15}}</ref> In southern Portugal, some small, semi-permanent commercial coastal settlements were also founded by Phoenician-Carthaginians.

Modern archaeology and research shows a Portuguese root to the Celts in Portugal and elsewhere.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Celtic roots lie in Spain and Portugal |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/celtic-roots-lie-spain-portugal-2174486 |access-date=11 April 2017 |website=Wales Online |last= Devine |first=Darren |date=4 May 2008 }}</ref> During that period and until the Roman invasions, the Castro culture (a variation of the [[Urnfield culture]] also known as ''Urnenfelderkultur'') was prolific in Portugal and modern Galicia.<ref>{{cite web|last=Trombetta|first=Silvana|date=29 March 2018|title=Celts and the Castro Culture in the Iberian Peninsula – issues of national identity and Proto-Celtic substratum|url=http://ppg.revistas.uema.br/index.php/brathair/article/download/1785/1305|access-date=11 July 2020|website=ppg.revistas.uema.br}}</ref><ref>Estos se establecieron en el norte de Portugal y el área de la [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]] actual, introduciendo en esta región la cultura de las urnas, una variante de las Urnenfelder que evolucionaría después en la cultura de los castros o castreña</ref> This culture, together with the surviving elements of the Atlantic megalithic culture<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|date=19 September 2019|title=Celts Part 1|url=https://peopleinhistory.co.uk/celts-part-1|website=People In History|access-date=6 July 2020|archive-date=27 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927060111/https://peopleinhistory.co.uk/celts-part-1|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the contributions that come from the more Western Mediterranean cultures, ended up in what has been called the Cultura Castreja or [[Castro Culture]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dDV-AgAAQBAJ&q=Castro+culture+celt+portugal+Cit%C3%A2nia&pg=PA209|title=The Archaeology of Celtic Art|first=D.W.|last=Harding|date= 2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-26464-3|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C3cUtvx8uwIC&q=Castro+culture+celt+portugal&pg=PA547|title=The Celtic World|first1=Miranda J.|last1=Green|first2=Miranda Jane|last2=Aldhouse-Green|date=1995|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-05764-6|via=Google Books}}</ref> This designation refers to the characteristic Celtic populations called 'dùn', 'dùin' or 'don' in [[Goidelic languages|Gaelic]] and that the Romans called castrae in their chronicles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/40149889|title=The Irish connection with Chadic and Afro-Asiatic languages|first=Lughais MacAoidh|last=Banbridge|via=www.academia.edu}}{{dead link|date=November 2020}}</ref>
[[File:Centro de Alcalar 2017 - Monumento 9 - Entrada (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Megalithic Monuments of Alcalar]], built in the 3rd millennium BC]]
[[File: Citania briteiros casa 2.jpg|thumb|Example of Castræ round houses, [[Citânia de Briteiros]]]]

Based on the Roman chronicles about the [[Callaeci]] peoples, along with the [[Lebor Gabála Érenn]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/leborgablare01macauoft|title=Lebor gabála Érenn: The book of the taking of Ireland|first=Robert Alexander Stewart|last=Macalister|publisher=Dublin : Published for the Irish texts Society by the Educational Company of Ireland|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> narrations and the interpretation of the archaeological remains throughout the northern half of Portugal and Galicia, it is possible to infer that there was a matriarchal society, with a military and religious aristocracy probably of the feudal type.
{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} The figures of maximum authority were the chieftain (chefe tribal), of military type and with authority in his Castro or clan, and the druid, mainly referring to medical and religious functions that could be common to several castros. The Celtic cosmogony remained homogeneous due to the ability of the [[druids]] to meet in councils with the druids of other areas, which ensured the transmission of knowledge and the most significant events.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}

The first documentary references to Castro society are provided by chroniclers of Roman military campaigns such as [[Strabo]], [[Herodotus]] and [[Pliny the Elder]] among others, about the social organization, and describing the inhabitants of these territories, the [[Gallaecia|Gallaeci of Northern Portugal]] as: "A group of barbarians who spend the day fighting and the night eating, drinking and dancing under the moon."

There were other similar tribes, and chief among them were the [[Lusitanians]]; the core area of these people lay in inland central Portugal, while numerous other related tribes existed such as the [[Celtici|Celtici of Alentejo]], and the [[Cynetes|Cynetes or Conii of the Algarve]]. Among the tribes or sub-divisions were the [[Bracari]], [[Coelerni]], [[Equaesi]], [[Grovii]], [[Interamici]], [[Leuni]], [[Luanqui]], [[Limici]], [[Narbasi]], [[Nemetati]], [[Paesuri]], [[Quaquerni]], [[Seurbi]], [[Tamagani]], [[Tapoli]], [[Turduli]], [[Turduli Veteres]], [[Turduli Oppidani]], [[Turodi]], and [[Zoelae]]. A few small, semi-permanent, commercial coastal settlements (such as [[Tavira Municipality|Tavira]]) were also founded in the [[Algarve]] region by [[Phoenicians]]–[[Carthaginians]].

=== Ancient history ===
{{Main|Ancient Portugal}}
[[File:Iberia 300BC-en.svg|thumb|The main language areas in Iberia, c. 300 BC.]]
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File:Anta Cerqueira em Couto Esteves.JPG|Dolmen of Cerqueira, [[Sever do Vouga]]
Museu da Cultura Castreja (14926282396).jpg|Archaeological artifact from the work developed in the area of [[Citânia de Briteiros]]
23.4.14 Briteiros 109 (14012600704).jpg|Cross or ''cruzado'' in Citânia de Briteiros
File:Megalithic spirals at Almendres Cromlech.jpg|Megalithic spirals, [[cromlech]] near [[Évora]]
Museu da Cultura Castreja (14762739747).jpg|Another artifact from Citânia de Briteiros
Pedra Formosa Briteiros.jpg|A ''pedra formosa'' [[Celts|Celtic]] [[triskelion]] motifs
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Numerous [[pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula]] inhabited the territory when a [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] invasion occurred in the 3rd century BC. The [[Romanization of Hispania]] took several centuries. The Roman provinces that covered present-day Portugal were [[Lusitania]] in the south and [[Gallaecia]] in the north.

Numerous Roman sites are scattered around present-day Portugal. Some of the urban remains are quite large, such as [[Conímbriga]] and [[Miróbriga]]. Several works of engineering, such as baths, temples, bridges, roads, circuses, theatres, and layman's homes are preserved throughout the country. Coins, sarcophagi, and ceramics are also numerous.

Following the fall of Rome, the [[Kingdom of the Suebi]] and the [[Visigothic Kingdom]] controlled the territory between the 5th and 8th centuries.

== Romanization ==
{{Further|Roman conquest of Hispania|Romanization of Hispania}}
[[File:Conquista Hispania.svg|thumb|Map of Spain and Portugal showing the conquest of Hispania from 220 B.C. to 19 B.C. and provincial borders. It is based on other maps; the territorial advances and provincial borders are illustrative.]]
[[File:Portugalliaingallaeciaetlusitania.png|thumb|The Roman Provinces [[Lusitania]] and [[Gallaecia]], after the reorganization of [[Diocletian]] AD 298]]

Romanization began with the arrival of the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] army in the [[Iberian Peninsula]] in 218 BC during the [[Second Punic War]] against [[Carthage]]. The Romans sought to conquer [[Lusitania]], a territory that included all of modern Portugal south of the [[Douro]] river and Spanish [[Extremadura]], with its capital at [[Emerita Augusta]] (now [[Mérida, Spain|Mérida]]).<ref name="infopedia">{{cite web|url=http://www.infopedia.pt/$romanizacao-da-peninsula-iberica|title=Artigo de apoio Infopédia – Romanização da Península Ibérica|last=Infopédia|website=Infopédia – Dicionários Porto Editora|access-date=14 April 2018}}</ref>

Mining was the primary factor that made the Romans interested in conquering the region: one of Rome's strategic objectives was to cut off Carthaginian access to the Iberian copper, tin, gold, and silver mines. The Romans intensely exploited the [[Aljustrel]] (Vipasca) and [[Santo Domingo]] mines in the [[Iberian Pyrite Belt]] which extends to [[Seville]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portugalromano.com/category/tema-exploracao-mineira/|title=Browsing: Tema: Exploração Mineira e Metalurgia|website=www.portugalromano.com|access-date=14 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324224226/http://www.portugalromano.com/category/tema-exploracao-mineira/ |archive-date=24 March 2012 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>

While the south of what is now Portugal was relatively easily occupied by the Romans, the conquest of the north was achieved only with difficulty due to resistance from [[Serra da Estrela]] by [[Celts]] and [[Lusitanians]] led by [[Viriatus]], who managed to resist [[Roman expansion]] for years.<ref name="infopedia" /> Viriatus, a shepherd from Serra da Estrela who was expert in [[guerrilla tactics]], waged relentless war against the Romans, defeating several successive Roman generals, until he was assassinated in 140 BC by traitors bought by the Romans. Viriatus has long been hailed as the first truly heroic figure in proto-Portuguese history. Nonetheless, he was responsible for raids into the more settled Romanized parts of Southern Portugal and Lusitania that involved the victimization of the inhabitants.<ref name="infopedia" /><ref name="ReferenceB">{{harvp|Disney|2009}}</ref>

The conquest of the Iberian Peninsula was complete two centuries after the Roman arrival, when they defeated the remaining Cantabri, Astures and Gallaeci in the [[Cantabrian Wars]] in the time of Emperor [[Augustus]] (19 BC). In 74 AD, [[Vespasian]] granted [[Latin Rights]] to most municipalities of Lusitania. In 212 AD, the [[Constitutio Antoniniana]] gave [[Roman citizenship]] to all free subjects of the empire and, at the end of the century, the emperor [[Diocletian]] founded the province of [[Gallaecia]], which included modern-day [[Norte Region, Portugal|northern Portugal]], with its capital at Bracara Augusta (now [[Braga]]).<ref name="infopedia" /> As well as mining, the Romans also developed agriculture, on some of the best agricultural land in the empire. In what is now [[Alentejo]], vines and cereals were cultivated, and fishing was intensively pursued in the coastal belt of the [[Algarve]], [[Póvoa de Varzim]], [[Matosinhos]], Troia and the coast of Lisbon, for the manufacture of [[garum]] that was exported by Roman trade routes to the entire empire. Business transactions were facilitated by coinage and the construction of an extensive road network, bridges and aqueducts, such as Trajan's bridge in [[Aquae Flaviae]] (now [[Chaves Municipality, Portugal|Chaves]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portugalromano.com/|title=PortugalRomano.com|website=www.portugalromano.com|access-date=14 April 2018|archive-date=4 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104092717/http://www.portugalromano.com/|url-status=usurped}}</ref>

Roman rule brought geographical mobility to the inhabitants of Portugal and increased their interaction with the rest of the world as well as internally. Soldiers often served in different regions and eventually settled far from their birthplace, while the development of mining attracted migration into the mining areas.<ref name="ReferenceB" /> The Romans founded numerous cities, such as [[Olisipo]] (Lisbon), [[Bracara Augusta]] (Braga), [[Aeminium]] (Coimbra) and [[Pax Julia]] (Beja),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portugalromano.com/category/cidades-romanas-em-portugal/|title=PortugalRomano.com|website=www.portugalromano.com|access-date=14 April 2018|archive-date=19 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319040741/http://www.portugalromano.com/category/cidades-romanas-em-portugal/|url-status=usurped}}</ref> and left important cultural legacies in what is now Portugal. [[Vulgar Latin]] (the basis of the Portuguese language) became the dominant language of the region, and Christianity spread throughout [[Lusitania]] from the third century.

== Germanic invasions ==
[[File:Iberia 409-429.svg|thumb|The Roman province of Hispania as occupied by the barbarian peoples c. 409–429]]
[[File:Suevosevisigodosemportugal.png|thumb|Hispania c. 560: [[Suebi]] territory with its capital in [[Braga]] (blue); [[Visigothic]] territory with its capital in [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]] (olive green); [[Byzantine Empire]] territory (orange)]]
[[File:Heranca_linguistico-cultural_Sueva_Portugal-Galiza.jpg|thumb|right|Distribution of Germanic place names across the Iberian peninsula. Darker shades indicate higher concentration.]]

===The Suebi===
In 409, with the decline of the [[Roman Empire]], the [[Iberian Peninsula]] was occupied by [[Germanic tribes]] that the Romans referred to as [[barbarians]].<ref>{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UoryGn9o4x0C&pg=PP1 | title = The History of Portugal | isbn = 978-0-313-31106-2 | last1 = Anderson | first1 = James Maxwell | year = 2000| publisher = Bloomsbury Academic }}</ref> In 411, with a federation contract with [[Emperor Honorius]], many of these people settled in [[Hispania]]. An important group was made up of the [[Suebi]] and [[Vandals]] in [[Gallaecia]], who founded the [[Kingdom of the Suebi]] with its capital in [[Braga]].<ref name="auto4">{{Cite journal|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/rbph_0035-0818_1957_num_35_1_2022|title=Reconsideration of the History of the Suevi|first=Robert|last=L. Reynolds|date=11 July 1957|journal=Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire|volume=35|issue=1|pages=19–47|via=Persée|doi=10.3406/rbph.1957.2022}}</ref> They came to dominate [[Aeminium]] ([[Coimbra]]) as well, and there were [[Visigoths]] to the south.<ref name="books.google">{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=aGc2GwyvuEgC&q=KOLLER%2C%20Erwin%2C%20Hugo%20Laitenberger&pg=PR1 | title = Schwaben | isbn = 978-3-8233-5091-0 | last1 = Koller | first1 = Erwin | last2 = Laitenberger | first2 = Hugo | year = 1998| publisher = Gunter Narr Verlag }}</ref> The Suebi and the Visigoths were the Germanic tribes who had the most lasting presence in the territories corresponding to modern Portugal. As elsewhere in Western Europe, there was a decline in urban life during the [[Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Ages]].<ref>{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZYn_f1jxNDoC&pg=PA138 | title = The Rise & Fall of World Orders | isbn = 978-0-7190-4058-0 | last1 = Knutsen | first1 = Torbjörn L | year = 1999| publisher = Manchester University Press }}</ref>

Roman institutions declined in the wake of the [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] invasions with the exception of [[ecclesiastical]] organizations, which were fostered by the Suebi in the fifth century and adopted by the Visigoths afterwards. Although the Suebi and Visigoths were initially followers of [[Arianism]] and [[Priscillianism]], they adopted [[Catholicism]] from the local inhabitants. St. [[Martin of Braga]] was a particularly influential evangelist at this time.<ref name="books.google" />

The Kingdom of the Suebi<ref name="auto5">{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/37321555|title=In Tempore Sueborum. The time of the Suevi in Gallaecia (411–585 AD). Exhibition Catalogue (English)|first=Jorge |last=López Quiroga|journal=The Time of the Sueves in Gallaecia (411–585 AD). The First Medieval Kingdom of the West, Ourense.|date=January 2017|via=www.academia.edu}}</ref> was the Germanic post-Roman kingdom, established in the former Roman provinces of [[Gallaecia]]-[[Lusitania]]. 5th-century vestiges of [[Alans|Alan]] settlements were found in [[Alenquer Municipality, Portugal|Alenquer]] (from old Germanic ''Alan kerk'', ''temple of the Alans''), [[Coimbra]] and Lisbon.<ref>Milhazes, José. [http://www.rtp.pt/index.php?article=264957&visual=16&rss=0 Os antepassados caucasianos dos portugueses]&nbsp;– [[Rádio e Televisão de Portugal]] in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101100219/http://www.rtp.pt/index.php?article=264957&visual=16&rss=0 |date=1 January 2016 }}</ref>

King [[Hermeric]] made a peace treaty with the Gallaecians before passing his domains to [[Rechila]], his son. In 429, the Visigoths moved south to expel the [[Alans]] and [[Vandals]] and founded a kingdom with its capital in [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]]. In 448 Rechila died, leaving the state in expansion to [[Rechiar]]. Subsequently, this new king started to print coins under his own name, becoming the first of the Germanic kings to do so,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Edmondson |first=J.C. |date=1989 |title=Mining in the Later Roman Empire and Beyond: Continuity or Disruption? |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/abs/mining-in-the-later-roman-empire-and-beyond-continuity-or-disruption/510CD0538D329139040E036415B040D8 |journal=The Journal of Roman Studies |language=en |volume=79 |pages=84–102 |doi=10.2307/301182 |jstor=301182 |s2cid=161980467 |issn=1753-528X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and then was baptised to [[Nicene Christianity]], probably by the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Braga|Bishop Balconius]], also becoming the first of the Germanic kings to do so, even before [[Clovis I|Clovis]], [[List of Frankish kings|king of the Franks]].<ref>Thompson, E.A. "The Conversion of the Spanish Suevi to Catholicism." ''Visigothic Spain: New Approaches''. ed. [[Edward James (historian)|Edward James]]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. {{ISBN|0-19-822543-1}}, p. 79.</ref> This bellicose king, almost conquered the whole of [[Hispania]], taking many prisoners and several important cities, but failed to consolidate his conquest over the territory and didn't even come near [[Tarragona]].

After the [[assassination]] of the patrician [[Flavius Aëtius]], Rechiar attempted, yet again, to conquer the whole of the peninsula, however his ambitions were derailed by the invading [[Visigoths]] under their king and Roman ''[[Foederati|foederatus]]'' [[Theodoric II]] acting on the orders of the emperor [[Avitus]]. This led to a resounding defeat of the Suebian kingdom, with Rechiar fleeing wounded from Braga, only to be captured at [[Porto|Oporto]] and executed in December of [[456]] (d.C.). The realm was then divided, with [[Frantán|Frantan]] and [[Aioulf|Aguiulfo]] ruling simultaneously. Both reigned from 456 to 457, the year in which [[Maldras]] (457–459) reunified the kingdom. He was assassinated after a failed Roman-Visigothic conspiracy.
Although the conspiracy did not achieve its true purposes, the Suebian Kingdom was again divided between two kings:
[[Frumar]] (Frumario 459–463) and [[Remismund]] (Remismundo, son of [[Maldras]]) (459–469) who would re-reunify his father's kingdom in 463. He would be forced to adopt [[Arianism]] in 465 due to the Visigoth influence. From 470, conflict between the Suebi and Visigoths increased.

According to [[Dan Stanislawski]], the Portuguese way of life in the north, with its predominance of small rural properties, was inherited from the Suebi, unlike the south of Portugal, where large estates dominated. The Suevi are also credited with introducing the square plow to the Iberian Peninsula.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://libro.uca.edu/stanislawski/Chap9.pdf|title=The Individuality of Portugal: A Study in Historical-Political Geography|last=Stanislawski|first=Dan|publisher=University of Texas Press|year=2015|isbn=9781477305072|location=Austin, TX|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121064910fw_/https://libro.uca.edu/stanislawski/Chap9.pdf |archive-date=21 November 2023 |language=en|orig-year=1959}}</ref>

=== The Visigoths ===
[[File:Hispania 700 AD.PNG|thumb|[[Visigothic kingdom]] in Iberia from 625 to 711]]

By 500, the [[Visigothic Kingdom]] had been installed in Iberia, it was based in [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]] and advancing westwards. They became a threat to the Suebian rule.
After the death of Remismund in 469 a dark period set in, where virtually all written texts and accounts disappear. This period lasted until 550. The only thing known about this period is that [[Theodemund]] (Teodemundo) most likely ruled the Suebians.

The dark period ended with the reign of [[Chararic (Suebian king)|Karriarico]] (550–559) who reinstalled [[Catholic Church|Catholic Christianity]] in 550. He was succeeded by [[Theodemir (Suebian king)|Theodemar]] (559–570) during whose reign the [[First Council of Braga|1st Council of Braga (561)]] was held. After the death of Theodemar, [[Miro (Suebian king)|Miro]] (570–583) was his successor. During his reign, the [[Second Council of Braga|2nd Council of Braga (572)]] was held. The councils represented an advance in the organization of the territory (paroeciam suevorum (Suebian parish) and the [[Christianization]] of the pagan population (''[[De correctione rusticorum]]'') under the auspices of [[Saint Martin of Braga]] (São Martinho de Braga).<ref name="books.google.co.uk">{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qa3DReKkS_gC&q=kingdom+of+the+suebi+braga+academia&pg=PA8 |title = Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (c. 400–1140): A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature|isbn = 978-0-8132-0918-0|last1 = Kéry|first1 = Lotte|last2 = Kery|first2 = Lotte|year = 1999| publisher=CUA Press }}</ref>

The Visigothic civil war began in 577, in which Miro intervened. Later, in 583, he also organized an unsuccessful expedition to reconquer Seville. During the return from this failed campaign Miro died, thereby ending the prominence of the Suebi in Hispanic politics, and in two years the kingdom would be conquered by the Visigoths.

In the Suebian Kingdom many internal struggles continued to take place. [[Eborico]] (Eurico, 583–584) was dethroned by [[Andeca]] (Audeca 584–585), who failed to prevent the Visigothic invasion led by [[Liuvigild]]. The Visigothic invasion, completed in 585, turned the once rich and fertile kingdom of the Suebi into the sixth province of the [[Visigothic Kingdom|Visigothic kingdom]].<ref>{{cite thesis |title=The development of church/state relations in the Visigothic Kingdom during the sixth century (507–601) |last= Osborne|first=Jason Matthew|date=2016 |type=PhD dissertation |publisher=University of Iowa |url=https://iro.uiowa.edu/esploro/outputs/doctoral/9983776915402771 |access-date=19 April 2023 |doi=10.17077/etd.uyuwx4w2 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
[[Leovigild]] was crowned King of Gallaecia, Hispania and [[Gallia Narbonensis]].

For the next 300 years and by the year 700, the entire Iberian Peninsula was ruled by the [[Visigoths]].<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1080/00437956.1979.11435671| title=Social Implications of Borrowing: The Visigothic Element in Hispano-Romance| year=1979| last1=Mason| first1=Patricia E.| journal=Word| volume=30| issue=3| pages=257–272| doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/rbph_0035-0818_1950_num_28_1_1867_t1_0229_0000_3|title=David (Pierre). Études historiques sur la Galice et le Portugal du VIe au XIIe siècle|first=Charles|last=Verlinden|date=11 July 1950|journal=Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire|volume=28|issue=1|pages=229–233|via=Persée}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7QNl90qnOp8C&q=visigothic+culture+portugal+academia&pg=PR11 |title = The Visigoths: Studies in Culture and Society|isbn = 90-04-11206-5|last1 = Ferreiro|first1 = Alberto|year = 1999| publisher=Brill }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Social Implications of Borrowing: The Visigothic Element in Hispano-Romance|first=Patricia E.|last=Mason|date=11 December 1979|journal=WORD|volume=30|issue=3|pages=257–272|doi=10.1080/00437956.1979.11435671|doi-access=free}}</ref> With the Visigoths settled in the newly formed kingdom, a new class emerged that had been unknown in Roman times: a [[nobility]], which played a large social and political role during the [[Middle Ages]]. It was under the [[Visigoths]] that the Church began to play an important part within the state. Since the Visigoths did not learn Latin from the local people, they had to rely on Catholic bishops to continue the Roman system of governance. The laws established during the Visigothic monarchy were thus made by councils of bishops, and the [[clergy]] started to emerge as a high-ranking class.

Under the Visigoths, Gallaecia was a well-defined space governed by a doge of its own. Doges at this time were related to the monarchy and acted as princes in all matters. Both 'governors' [[Wamba (king)|Wamba]] and [[Wittiza]] (Vitiza) acted as doge (they would later become kings in Toledo). These two became known as the 'vitizians', who headquartered in the northwest and called on the Arab invaders from the South to be their allies in the struggle for power in 711. King [[Roderic]] (Rodrigo) was killed while opposing this invasion, thus becoming the last Visigothic king of Iberia. From the various Germanic groups who settled in western Iberia, the [[Suebi]] left the strongest lasting cultural legacy in what is today Portugal, Galicia and western fringes of Asturias.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fim do Império Romano e Chegada dos Suevos|url=http://www.notapositiva.com/pt/trbestbs/historia/10_fim_imper_romano.htm|website=notapositiva.com|access-date=12 March 2016|language=pt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223112452/http://www.notapositiva.com/pt/trbestbs/historia/10_fim_imper_romano.htm|archive-date=23 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Suevos|url=http://www.infoescola.com/povos-germanicos/suevos/|website=infoescola.com|access-date=12 March 2016|language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Head |first1=Brian F. |last2=Semënova-Head |first2=Larisa |title=Vestígios da presença sueva no noroeste da península ibérica: na etnologia, na arqueologia e na língua |trans-title=Traces of the Sueva presence in the northwest of the Iberian peninsula: in ethnology, archeology and language |language=pt |journal=Revista Diacrítica |date=2013 |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=257–277 |url=http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0807-89672013000200016 }}</ref>
According to Dan Stanislawski, the Portuguese way of living in regions North of the Tagus is mostly inherited from the Suebi, in which small farms prevail, distinct from the large properties of Southern Portugal.
Bracara Augusta, the modern city of [[Braga]] and former capital of [[Gallaecia]], became the capital of the Suebi.<ref name="books.google.co.uk"/> Apart from cultural and some linguistic traces, the Suebians left the highest Germanic genetic contribution of the Iberian Peninsula in Portugal and Galicia.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hay |first1=Maciamo |title=Genetic history of the Spaniards and the Portuguese |url=https://www.eupedia.com/genetics/spain_portugal_dna.shtml |website=Eupedia }}</ref>{{self-published inline|date=November 2020}} [[Paulus Orosius|Orosius]], at that time resident in Hispania, shows a rather pacific initial settlement, the newcomers working their lands<ref>"the barbarians, detesting their swords, turn them into ploughs", ''Historiarum Adversum Paganos'', VII, 41, 6.</ref> or serving as bodyguards of the locals.<ref>"anyone wanting to leave or to depart, uses these barbarians as mercenaries, servers or defenders", ''Historiarum Adversum Paganos'', VII, 41, 4.</ref>
Another Germanic group that accompanied the Suebi and settled in Gallaecia were the [[Buri (Germanic tribe)|Buri]]. They settled in the region between the rivers ''[[Cávado River|Cávado]]'' and ''Homem'', in the area known as [[Terras de Bouro]] (Lands of the Buri).<ref>Domingos Maria da Silva, ''Os Búrios'', Terras de Bouro, Câmara Municipal de Terras de Bouro, 2006. (in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]])</ref>

== Al-Andalus (711–868) ==
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[[File:Map Iberian Peninsula 750-en.svg|thumb|[[Al-Andalus|Al-Andalus Province]] of [[Ummayad caliphate]] in 750.]]

During the caliphate of the Umayyad Caliph [[Al-Walid I]], commander [[Tariq ibn-Ziyad]] led a small force that landed at [[Gibraltar]] on 30 April 711, ostensibly to intervene in a [[Visigoths|Visigothic]] civil war. After a decisive victory over King [[Roderic]] at the [[Battle of Guadalete]] on 19 July 711, Tariq ibn-Ziyad, joined by the Arab governor [[Musa ibn Nusayr]] of [[Ifriqiya]], brought most of the Visigothic kingdom under Muslim occupation in a seven-year campaign. The Visigothic resistance to this invasion was ineffective, though sieges were required to sack a couple of cities. This is in part because the ruling Visigoth population is estimated at a mere 1 to 2% of the total population.<ref>{{cite web |title=Características generales del poblamiento y la arqueología funeraria visigoda de Hispania |work=Espacio, Tiempo y Forma, S. I, Prehist. y Arqueol., t. 2 |year=1989 |first=Gisela |last=Ripoll López |pages=389–418 |quote=En resumen se puede considerar que el pueblo visigodo{{snd}}sin diferenciar la población civil de la militar{{snd}} representó de un uno a un dos por ciento sobre la totalidad de la población de Hispania. |url=http://e-spacio.uned.es/fez/eserv.php?pid=bibliuned:ETFSerie1-71E2565C-354B-7D1E-4C3F-27B8664C1938&dsID=PDF |format=PDF |access-date=2017-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100812072505/http://e-spacio.uned.es/fez/eserv.php?pid=bibliuned:ETFSerie1-71E2565C-354B-7D1E-4C3F-27B8664C1938&dsID=PDF |archive-date=2010-08-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On one hand this isolation is said to have been 'a reasonably strong and effective instrument of government'; on the other, it was highly 'centralised to the extent that the defeat of the royal army left the entire land open to the invaders.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kennedy|first=Hugh|title=Muslim Spain and Portugal: A political history of al-Andalus|year=1996|publisher=Longman|pages=1–14}}</ref> The resulting [[power vacuum]], which may have indeed caught Tariq completely by surprise, would have aided the Muslim conquest immensely. Indeed, it may have been equally welcome to the Hispano-Roman peasants who{{snd}}as D.W. Lomax claims{{snd}}were disillusioned by the prominent legal, linguistic and social divide between them and the 'barbaric' and 'decadent' Visigoth royalty.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lomax|first=D.W.|title=The Reconquest of Spain|year=1978|publisher=Longman|pages=15–16}}</ref>

The Visigothic territories included what is today Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Gibraltar, and the southwestern part of France known in ancient times as [[Septimania]]. The invading Moors wanted to conquer and convert all of Europe to Islam, so they crossed the [[Pyrenees]] to use Visigothic [[Septimania]] as a base of operations. Muslims called their conquests in Iberia '[[al-Andalus]]' and in what was to become Portugal, they mainly consisted of the old Roman province of [[Lusitania]] (the central and southern regions of the country), while [[Gallaecia]] (the northern regions) remained unsubdued. Until the Berber revolt in the 730s, al-Andalus was treated as a dependency of Umayyad North Africa. Subsequently, links were strained until the caliphate was overthrown in the late 740s.<ref>{{harvp|Disney|2009|pp=53–54}}</ref> The [[Medieval]] [[Muslim]] [[Moors]], who conquered and destroyed the Christian Visigothic kingdom in the [[Iberian Peninsula]], were a mix of [[Berber people|Berbers]] from [[North Africa]] and [[Arab]]s from the [[Middle East]].

[[File:Califato de Córdoba - 1000-en.svg|thumb|Most of Portugal and Spain as [[Caliphate of Córdoba]] circa 929 to 1031.]]
By 714 [[Évora]], [[Santarém, Portugal|Santarém]] and [[Coimbra]] had been conquered, and two years later [[Lisbon]] was in Muslim control. By 718 most of today's Portuguese territory was under Umayyad rule. The Umayyads [[Battle of Tours|eventually stopped in Poitiers]] but [[Timeline of Muslim presence in Iberia|Muslim rule in Iberia]] would last until 1492 with the fall of the [[Granada|Kingdom of Granada]]. For the next several centuries, much of the Iberian Peninsula remained under Umayyad rule. Much of the populace was allowed to remain Christian, and many of the lesser feudal rulers worked out deals where they would submit to Umayyad rule in order to remain in power. They would pay a [[jizya]] tax, kill or turn over rebels, and in return receive support from the central government. But some regions, including Lisbon, [[Gharb Al-Andalus]], and the rest of what would become Portugal, rebelled, succeeded in freeing themselves by the early 10th century
[[File:Taifas2.gif|thumb|Caliphate disintegrated into small [[Taifas]] kingdoms in 1031.]]
[[File:Igreja Matriz de Mértola.jpg|thumb|[[Mértola]]'s [[List of former mosques in Portugal|former mosque]] was transformed into a church in 1238.]]

== Reconquista ==
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[[File:Estatua de Don Pelayo en Covadonga, Asturias.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Monument of Pelagius at Covadonga where he won the [[Battle of Covadonga]] and initiated the Christian [[Reconquista]] of [[Iberia]] from the Islamic [[Moors]].]]

In 718 AD, a Visigothic noble named [[Pelagius of Asturias|Pelagius]] was elected leader by the ousted [[Visigoth]] nobles. Pelagius called for the remnant of the Christian Visigothic armies to rebel against the Moors and re-group in the unconquered northern [[Asturias|Asturian]] highlands, better known today as the [[Cantabrian Mountains]], a mountain region in modern northwestern [[Spain]] adjacent to the [[Bay of Biscay]].<ref name="V. Livermore, 1969 pp. 32-33">{{harvp|Livermore|1969|pp=32–33}}</ref> He planned to use the Cantabrian Mountain range as a place of refuge and protection from the invaders and as a springboard to reconquer lands from the Moors. After defeating the Moors in the [[Battle of Covadonga]] in 722 AD, Pelagius was proclaimed king to found the Christian [[Kingdom of Asturias]] and start the war of reconquest known in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] (and [[Spanish language|Spanish]]) as the ''[[Reconquista]]''.<ref name="V. Livermore, 1969 pp. 32-33"/>

Currently, historians and archaeologists generally agree that northern Portugal between the Minho and the Douro rivers kept a significant share of its population, a social and political Christian area that until the late 9th century had no acting state powers. However, in the late 9th century, the region became part of a complex of powers, the [[Kingdom of Galicia|Galician]]-[[Kingdom of Asturias|Asturian]], [[Kingdom of Leon|Leonese]] and [[County of Portugal|Portuguese]] power structures.<ref name="earlyportugal">{{cite web | title= O Norte de Portugal ente os séculos VIII e X: balanço e perspectivas de investigação | url= http://pt.scribd.com/doc/47457052/O-Norte-de-Portugal-ente-os-seculos-VIII-e-X-balanco-e-perspectivas-de-investigacao-Luis-Fontes-Unidade-de-Arqueologia-da-Universidade-do-Minho | access-date=April 19, 2013 | publisher = Archaeology Unit of the Minho University | author= Fontes, Luís|language=pt}}</ref>

The coastal regions in the North were also attacked by [[Normans|Norman]] and [[Viking]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Oliveira |first1=Leandro Vilar |title=A presença viking na Península Ibérica: Os Vikings em Portugal e Galiza (Hélio Pires) |trans-title=The Viking presence in the Iberian Peninsula: The Vikings in Portugal and Galicia (Hélio Pires) |language=pt |journal=Scandia |date=2018 |volume=1 |pages=249–255 |url=https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/scandia/article/view/43168 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Marques |first1=André Evangelista |last2=Barroca |first2=Mário |last3=Amaral |first3=Luís Carlos |chapter=As incursões vikings no Norte de Portugal |hdl=10216/120557 |title=Mil Anos da Incursão Normanda ao Castelo de Vermoim |year=2018 |isbn=978-989-8351-97-5 |pages=143–184 }}</ref> raiders mainly from 844. The last great invasion, through the [[Minho (river)]], ended with the defeat of [[Olaf II Haraldsson]] in 1014 against the Galician nobility who also stopped further advances into the County of Portugal.

=== Creation of the County of Portugal ===
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At the end of the 9th century, a small minor county based in the area of [[Portus Cale]] was established by [[Vímara Peres]] on the orders of King [[Alfonso III of Asturias|Alfonso III]] of León, Galicia and Asturias. After annexing the County of Portugal into one of the several counties that made up its realms, King Alfonso III named Vímara Peres as its first count. Since the rule of Count [[Diogo Fernandes (count)|Diogo Fernandes]], the county increased in size and importance and, from the 10th century onward, with Count [[Gonçalo Mendes]] as ''Magnus Dux Portucalensium'' (Grand Duke of the Portuguese), the Portuguese counts started using the title of duke, indicating even larger importance and territory. The region became known simultaneously as ''Portucale'', ''Portugale'', and ''Portugalia''{{snd}}the [[County of Portugal]].<ref>{{harvp|Ribeiro|Hermano|2004}}</ref> The Kingdom of Asturias was later divided as a result of dynastic disputes; the northern region of Portugal became part of the [[Kingdom of Galicia]] and later part of the [[Kingdom of León]].

Suebi-Visigothic arts and architecture, in particular sculpture, had shown a natural continuity with the Roman period. With the Reconquista, new artistic trends took hold, with Galician-Asturian influences more visible than the Leonese. The Portuguese group was characterized by a general return to classicism. The county courts of [[Viseu]] and [[Coimbra]] played a very important role in this process. Mozarabic architecture was found in the south, in Lisbon and beyond, while in the Christian realms Galician-Portuguese and Asturian architecture prevailed.<ref name="earlyportugal" />

As a vassal of the Kingdom of León, Portugal grew in power and territory and occasionally gained ''de facto'' independence during weak Leonese reigns; Count [[Menendo González|Mendo Gonçalves]] even became regent of the Kingdom of Leon between 999 and 1008. In 1070, the Portuguese Count [[Nuno Mendes (count)|Nuno Mendes]] desired the Portuguese title and fought the [[Battle of Pedroso]] on 18 February 1071 with [[Garcia II of Galicia]], who gained the Galician title, which included Portugal, after the 1065 partition of the Leonese realms. The battle resulted in Nuno Mendes' death and the declaration of Garcia as [[King of Portugal]], the first person to claim this title.<ref>{{harvp|Ribeiro|Hermano|2004|p=44}}</ref> Garcia styled himself as "King of Portugal and Galicia" (''Garcia Rex Portugallie et Galleciae''). Garcia's brothers, [[Sancho II of Castile]] and [[Alfonso VI of Leon]], united and annexed Garcia's kingdom in 1071 as well. They agreed to split it among themselves; however, Sancho was killed by a noble the next year. Alfonso took Castile for himself and Garcia recovered his kingdom of Portugal and Galicia. In 1073, Alfonso VI gathered all power, and beginning in 1077, styled himself ''Imperator totius Hispaniæ'' (Emperor of All Hispania). When the emperor died, the Crown was left to his daughter [[Urraca of León|Urraca]], while his illegitimate daughter [[Teresa of León, Countess of Portugal|Teresa]] inherited the [[County of Portugal]]; in 1095, Portugal broke away from the [[Kingdom of Galicia]]. Its territories, consisting largely of mountains, moorland and forests, were bounded on the north by the Minho River, and on the south by the [[Mondego River]].

=== Foundation of the Kingdom of Portugal ===
{{main|History of Portugal (1139–1279)}}
At the end of the 11th century, the [[Duchy of Burgundy|Burgundian]] knight [[Henry, count of Portugal|Henry]] became count of Portugal and defended its independence by merging the [[County of Portugal]] and the [[County of Coimbra]]. His efforts were assisted by a civil war that raged between [[Kingdom of León|León]] and [[Kingdom of Castile|Castile]] and distracted his enemies. Henry's son [[Afonso I of Portugal|Afonso Henriques]] took control of the county upon his death. The city of Braga, the unofficial Catholic centre of the Iberian Peninsula, faced new competition from other regions. Lords of the cities of [[Coimbra]] and [[Porto]] fought with [[Braga]]'s clergy and demanded the independence of the reconstituted county.

Portugal traces its national origin to 24 June 1128, the date of the [[Battle of São Mamede]]. Afonso proclaimed himself ''Prince of Portugal'' after this battle and in 1139, he assumed the title ''King of Portugal''. In 1143, the Kingdom of León recognised him as King of Portugal by the [[Treaty of Zamora]]. In 1179, the papal bull [[Manifestis Probatum]] of [[Pope Alexander III]] officially recognised Afonso I as king. After the [[Battle of São Mamede]], the first capital of Portugal was [[Guimarães]], from which the first king ruled. Later, when Portugal was already officially independent, he ruled from Coimbra.

=== Affirmation of Portugal ===
{{Main|Portugal in the Middle Ages}}
The [[Algarve]], the southernmost region of Portugal, was finally conquered from the [[Moors]] in 1249, and in 1255 the capital shifted to [[Lisbon]].<ref>{{harvp|Livermore|1969|p=76}}</ref> Spain finally completed its ''Reconquista'' [[Granada War|until 1492]], almost 250 years later.<ref>{{harvp|Hallett|1970|pp=47–48}}</ref> Portugal's land boundaries have been notably stable for the rest of the country's history. The border with Spain has remained almost unchanged since the 13th century. The [[Treaty of Windsor (1386)]] created an alliance between Portugal and [[Kingdom of England|England]] that remains in effect to this day. Since early times, fishing and overseas commerce have been the main economic activities.

In 1383, [[John I of Castile]], husband of [[Beatrice of Portugal]] and son-in-law of [[Ferdinand I of Portugal]], claimed the throne of Portugal. A faction of petty noblemen and commoners, led by John of Aviz (later King [[John I of Portugal]]) and commanded by General [[Nuno Álvares Pereira]] defeated the Castilians in the [[Battle of Aljubarrota]]. With this battle, the [[House of Aviz]] became the ruling house of Portugal.

The new ruling dynasty would proceed to push Portugal to the limelight of European politics and culture, creating and sponsoring works of literature, like the ''Crónicas d'el Rei D. João I'' by [[Fernão Lopes]], the first riding and hunting manual ''[[Bem cavalgar|Livro da ensinança de bem cavalgar toda sela]]'' and ''[[Leal Conselheiro|O Leal Conselheiro]]'' both by [[Edward, King of Portugal|King Edward of Portugal]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Duarte |first=King of Portugal |title=The book of horsemanship |date=2016 |others=Jeffrey L. Forgeng |isbn=978-1-78204-628-8 |location=Woodbridge |oclc=961824873}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Carvalho |first=Mário Santiago de |date=12 September 2014 |title=Uma modernidade perdida: da melancolia à alegria racional na antropologia do homem superior, segundo D. Duarte |url=https://digitalis.uc.pt/en/artigo/uma_modernidade_perdida_da_melancolia_%C3%A0_alegria_racional_na_antropologia_do_homem_superior |journal=Revista Filosófica de Coimbra |volume=22 |issue=43 |page=190 |doi=10.14195/0872-0851_43_7 |doi-broken-date=12 July 2025 |issn=0872-0851 |url-access=subscription |doi-access=free }}{{Dead link|date=May 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Duarte |first=King of Portugal |title=Leal conselheiro |date=1999 |publisher=Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda |others=Maria Helena Lopes de Castro |isbn=972-27-0940-2 |location=[Lisboa] |oclc=43397222}}</ref> and the Portuguese translations of [[Cicero|Cicero's]] ''[[De Officiis|De Oficiis]]'' and [[Seneca the Younger|Seneca's]] ''[[De Beneficiis]]'' by the well traveled [[Peter, Duke of Coimbra|Prince Peter of Coimbra]], as well as his magnum opus ''Tratado da Vertuosa Benfeytoria''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Calafate |first=Pedro |title=História do pensamento filosófico português |publisher=Editorial Caminho |year=1999 |isbn=9789722113878 |editor-last=Calafate |editor-first=Pedro |volume=II |pages=412–444 |chapter=A Geração de Avis: O infante D. Pedro}}</ref> In an effort of solidification and centralization of royal power the monarchs of this dynasty also ordered the compilation, organization and publication of the first three compilations of laws in Portugal: the ''Ordenações d'el Rei D. Duarte'',<ref>{{Cite book |title=Ordenações del Rei Dom Duarte |publisher=Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian |year=1988 |isbn=972-31-0279-X |editor-last=de Albuquerque |editor-first=Martim |location=Lisboa |editor-last2=Borges Nunes |editor-first2=Eduardo}}</ref> which was never enforced; the ''[[Ordenações Afonsinas]],'' whose application and enforcement was not uniform across the realm; and the [[Manueline Ordinances|''Ordenações Manuelinas'']], which took advantage of the [[printing press]] to reach every corner of the kingdom. The Avis Dynasty also sponsored works of architecture like the ''Mosteiro da Batalha'' (literally, the [[Batalha Monastery|Monastery of the Battle]]) and led to the creation of the [[Manueline|manueline style of architecture]] in the 16th century.

== Naval exploration and Portuguese Empire (15th–16th centuries) ==
{{Main|History of Portugal (1415–1578)|Portuguese Empire}}

[[File:Portuguese discoveries and explorationsV2en.png|thumb|Portuguese discoveries and explorations: first arrival places and dates; main Portuguese [[spice trade]] routes in the [[Indian Ocean]] (blue); territories of the [[Portuguese Empire]] under [[King John III of Portugal|King John III]] rule (1521–1557) (green). The [[Theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia|disputed discovery of Australia]] is not shown.]]

During the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal became a leading European power that ranked with England, France and Spain in terms of economic, political and cultural influence. Though not dominant in European affairs, Portugal did have an extensive colonial trading empire throughout the world backed by a powerful [[thalassocracy]]. Portugal was a pioneer in, and major beneficiary of, the [[Atlantic slave trade]], leading to nearly four centuries of [[Slavery in Portugal]]. 

The beginnings of the [[Portuguese Empire]] can be traced to 25 July 1415, when the Portuguese [[wikt:armada#Portuguese|Armada]] set sail for the rich [[Islamic]] trading center of [[Ceuta]] in [[North Africa]]. The Armada was accompanied by King [[John I of Portugal|John I]], his sons Prince [[Duarte of Portugal|Duarte]] (a future king), Prince [[Peter, Duke of Coimbra|Pedro]], and Prince [[Henry the Navigator]], and the legendary Portuguese hero [[Nuno Álvares Pereira]].<ref>{{harvp|Livermore|1969|pp=106–107}}</ref> On 21 August 1415, [[Conquest of Ceuta|Ceuta was conquered by Portugal]], and the long-lived Portuguese Empire was founded.<ref name="Livermore_108">{{harvp|Livermore|1969|p=108}}</ref>

The conquest of Ceuta was facilitated by a major civil war that had been engaging the Muslims of the [[Maghreb]] (North Africa) since 1411.<ref name="Livermore_108" /> This civil war prevented a re-capture of Ceuta from the Portuguese, when the king of [[Granada]] [[Muhammed IX, Sultan of Granada|Muhammed IX]], the Left-Handed, laid siege to Ceuta and attempted to coordinate forces in Morocco and attract aid and assistance for the effort from Tunis.<ref name="Livermore_109">{{harvp|Livermore|1969|p=109}}</ref> The Muslim attempt to retake Ceuta was ultimately unsuccessful and Ceuta remained the first part of the new Portuguese Empire.<ref name="Livermore_109" /> Further steps were taken that soon expanded the Portuguese Empire much further.

In 1418, two of Prince [[Henry the Navigator]]'s captains, [[João Gonçalves Zarco]] and [[Tristão Vaz Teixeira]], were driven by a storm to an island that they called [[Porto Santo island|Porto Santo]] ("Holy Port") in gratitude for their rescue from the shipwreck. In 1419, [[João Gonçalves Zarco]] disembarked on the [[Madeira Island|Island of Madeira]]. Uninhabited Madeira was colonized by the Portuguese in 1420.<ref name="Livermore_109" />

Between 1427 and 1431, most of the [[Azores Islands|Azores]] were discovered and these uninhabited islands were colonized by the Portuguese in 1445. Portuguese expeditions may have attempted to colonize the [[Canary Islands#Castilian conquest|Canary Islands]] as early as 1336, but the [[Crown of Castile]] objected to any Portuguese claim to them. Castile began its own conquest of the Canaries in 1402. Castile expelled the last Portuguese from the Canary islands in 1459, and they eventually became part of the Spanish Empire.<ref>{{harvp|Hallett|1970|p=249}}</ref>

In 1434, [[Gil Eanes]] passed [[Cape Bojador]], south of [[Morocco]]. The trip marked the beginning of the Portuguese exploration of Africa. Before this event, very little was known in Europe about what lay beyond the cape. At the end of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th, those who tried to venture there became lost, which gave birth to legends of [[sea monster]]s. Some setbacks occurred: in 1436 the [[Canary Islands#Castilian conquest|Canaries]] were officially recognized as Castilian by the pope{{snd}}earlier they had been recognized as Portuguese; in 1438, the Portuguese were defeated in a military expedition to [[History of Tangier|Tangier]].

These setbacks did not deter the Portuguese from pursuing their exploratory efforts. In 1448, on the small island of [[Arguim]] off the coast of [[Mauritania]], an important castle was built to function as a ''[[Factory (trading post)|feitoria]]'', or trading post, for commerce with inland Africa. Some years before, the first African [[gold]] was brought to Portugal that circumvented the Arab caravans that crossed the Sahara. Some time later, the [[caravel]]s explored the [[Gulf of Guinea]], which led to the discovery of several uninhabited islands: [[Cape Verde]], [[São Tomé Island|São Tomé]], [[Principe Island|Príncipe]] and [[Annobón]].<ref>{{harvp|Hallett|1970|p=248}}</ref>

On 13 November 1460, Prince Henry the Navigator died.<ref name="Hallett_164">{{harvp|Hallett|1970|p=164}}</ref> He had been the leading patron of maritime exploration by Portugal and immediately following his death, exploration lapsed. Henry's patronage had shown that profits could be made from the trade that followed the discovery of new lands. Accordingly, when exploration commenced again, private merchants led the way in attempting to stretch trade routes further down the African coast.<ref name="Hallett_164" />

In the 1470s, Portuguese trading ships reached the [[Portuguese Gold Coast|Gold Coast]].<ref name="Hallett_164" /> In 1471, the Portuguese captured Tangier, after years of attempts. Eleven years later, the fortress of [[São Jorge da Mina]] in the town of [[Elmina]] on the Gold Coast in the Gulf of Guinea was built. [[Christopher Columbus]] set sail aboard the fleet of ships taking materials and building crews to Elmina in December 1481. In 1483, [[Diogo Cão]] reached and explored the [[Congo River]].

=== Discovery of the sea route to India and the Treaty of Tordesillas ===
[[File:Vascodagama.JPG|thumb|left|upright|Vasco da Gama landing in [[Kerala, India]]]]
In 1484, Portugal officially rejected Columbus' idea of reaching India from the west, because it was seen as unfeasible. Some historians have claimed that the Portuguese had already performed fairly accurate calculations concerning the size of the world and therefore knew that sailing west to reach the Indies would require a far longer journey than navigating to the east. However, this continues to be debated. Thus began a long-lasting dispute that eventually resulted in the signing of the [[Treaty of Tordesillas]] with Castile in 1494. The treaty divided the (largely undiscovered) [[New World]] equally between the Portuguese and the Castilians, along a north–south [[prime meridian|meridian line]] 370 leagues (1770&nbsp;km/1100 miles) west of the [[Cape Verde]] islands, with all lands to the east belonging to Portugal and all lands to the west to Castile.

[[File:Brazil 16thc map.jpg|thumb|upright|Map of Brazil issued by [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[explorer]]s in 1519]]
With the expedition beyond the [[Cape of Good Hope]] by [[Bartolomeu Dias]] in 1487,<ref>{{harvp|Livermore|1969|p=129}}</ref> the richness of India was now accessible. Indeed, the cape takes its name from the promise of rich trade with the east. Between 1498 and 1501, [[Pero de Barcelos]] and [[João Fernandes Lavrador]] explored North America. At the same time, [[Pero da Covilhã]] reached [[Ethiopia]] by land. [[Vasco da Gama]] sailed for India and arrived at [[History of Kozhikode|Calicut]] on 20 May 1498, returning in glory to Portugal the next year.<ref name="Hallett_164" /> The [[Monastery of Jerónimos]] was built, dedicated to the discovery of the route to India.

In 1492, after the [[expulsion of Jews from Spain]], many sought refuge in Portugal, which allowed their entry for a high ransom, with the condition they leave by April 1493. In 1495, King [[Manuel I of Portugal]], aiming to strengthen ties with Spain, agreed to expel the Jews as part of his marriage negotiations with [[Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal|Isabella of Aragon]].<ref name=":19">{{Citation |last1=Tov Assis |first1=Yom |title=The Iberian Peninsula |date=2018 |work=The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 6: The Middle Ages: The Christian World |volume=6 |pages=181–185 |editor-last=Chazan |editor-first=Robert |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-judaism/iberian-peninsula/D4BEF2FAC43F82A59F4606185FAD6925 |access-date=2025-09-28 |series=The Cambridge History of Judaism |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-51724-9 |last2=Meyerson |first2=Mark}}</ref> Having preferred that the Jews remain due to their wealth and skills, he ultimately decided on [[Forced conversion|forced conversions]] after most Jews chose exile.<ref name=":19" /> In March 1497, he ordered the abduction of Jewish children under 14 to be raised by Christian families. By October 1497, most adult Jews were forcibly baptized in Lisbon.<ref name=":19" /> Some Jews chose suicide, while others fled to North Africa, with those outside Lisbon also baptized by force in other cities.<ref name=":19" /> Despite knowing the conversions were insincere, Manuel hoped the Jews would eventually become true Christians. Nevertheless, Many Jews remained [[Crypto-Jew|secretly Jewish]], in danger of persecution by the [[Portuguese Inquisition]].<ref name=":19" /> In 1506, 3,000 [[New Christians]] were massacred in Lisbon.<ref>Rebecca Weiner, [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Portugal.html The Virtual Jewish History Tour Portugal]</ref>

In early 1500, [[Pedro Álvares Cabral]] set sail from Cape Verde with 13 ships and crews and nobles such as [[Nicolau Coelho]]; the explorer [[Bartolomeu Dias]] and his brother Diogo; [[Duarte Pacheco Pereira]] (author of the ''Esmeraldo''); nine chaplains; and some 1,200 men.<ref name="Livermore_138_139">{{harvp|Livermore|1969|pp=138–139}}</ref> From Cape Verde, they sailed southwest across the Atlantic. On 22 April 1500, they caught sight of land in the distance.<ref name="Livermore_138_139" /> They disembarked and claimed this new land for Portugal. This was the coast of what later became the Portuguese colony of [[Colonial Brazil|Brazil]].<ref name="Livermore_138_139" />

The real goal of the expedition was to open sea trade to the empires of the east. Trade with the east had effectively been cut off since the [[Conquest of Constantinople]] in 1453. Accordingly, Cabral turned away from exploring the coast of the new land of Brazil and sailed southeast, back across the Atlantic and around the Cape of Good Hope. Cabral reached [[Sofala]] on the east coast of Africa in July 1500.<ref name="Livermore_138_139" /> In 1505, a Portuguese fort was established here and the land around the fort later formed the [[Portuguese Mozambique|Portuguese colony of Mozambique]].<ref>{{harvp|Hallett|1970|p=217}}</ref>

Cabral's fleet then sailed east and landed in [[Calicut]] in India in September 1500.<ref>{{harvp|Livermore|1969|p=139}}</ref> Here they traded for pepper and opened European sea trade with the empires of the east. No longer would the Muslim [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] occupation of [[Constantinople]] form a barrier between Europe and the east. Ten years later, in 1510, [[Afonso de Albuquerque]], after attempting and failing to capture and occupy [[Zamorin]]'s Calicut militarily, conquered [[Goa]] on the west coast of India.<ref>[[Percival Spear]], India: A Modern History (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1961) pp. 162–163.</ref>

[[João da Nova]] discovered [[Ascension Island]] in 1501 and [[Saint Helena]] in 1502; [[Tristão da Cunha]] was the first to sight the archipelago still known by his name in 1506. In 1505, [[Francisco de Almeida]] was engaged to improve Portuguese trade with the far east. Accordingly, he sailed to East Africa. Several small Islamic states along the coast of [[Mozambique]]{{snd}}[[Kilwa (district)|Kilwa]], [[Brava, Cape Verde|Brava]] and [[Mombasa]]{{snd}}were destroyed or became subjects or allies of Portugal.<ref name="Livermore_140">{{harvp|Livermore|1969|p=140}}</ref> Almeida then sailed on to [[Kingdom of Cochin|Cochin]], made peace with the ruler and built a stone fort there.<ref name="Livermore_140" />

[[File:Portuguese arrival in Japan.jpg|thumb|The arrival of the Portuguese in Japan, the first Europeans to reach it, initiating the ''[[Nanban trade|Nanban]]'' ("southern barbarian") period of active commercial and cultural exchange between Japan and the West.]]

==== Portuguese Empire ====
{{Further|Portuguese Empire}}

By the 16th century, the two million people who lived in the original Portuguese lands ruled a vast empire with many millions of inhabitants in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. From 1514, the Portuguese had reached China and Japan. In the [[Indian Ocean]] and [[Arabian Sea]], one of Cabral's ships discovered [[Madagascar]] (1501), which was partly explored by [[Tristão da Cunha]] (1507); [[Mauritius]] was discovered in 1507, [[Socotra]] occupied in 1506, and in the same year, [[Lourenço de Almeida]] visited [[Ceylon]].

In the [[Red Sea]], [[Massawa]] was the most northerly point frequented by the Portuguese until 1541, when a fleet under [[Estêvão da Gama (16th century)|Estevão da Gama]] penetrated as far as [[Suez]]. [[Hormuz Island|Hormuz]], in the [[Persian Gulf]], was seized by [[Afonso de Albuquerque]] in 1515, who also entered into diplomatic relations with [[Iran|Persia]]. In 1521, a force under [[António Correia (admiral)|Antonio Correia]] conquered [[Bahrain]] and ushered in a period of almost 80 years of Portuguese rule of the Persian Gulf archipelago<ref>Juan Cole, ''Sacred Space and Holy War'', IB Tauris, 2007 p. 37</ref>
[[File:Ferdinand Magellan.jpg|thumb|Ferdinand Magellan ([[Fernão de Magalhães]])]]
On the Asiatic mainland, the first trading stations were established by [[Pedro Álvares Cabral]] at Cochin and Calicut (1501). More important were the conquests of [[Portuguese conquest of Goa|Goa]] (1510) and [[Capture of Malacca (1511)|Malacca]] (1511) by [[Afonso de Albuquerque]], and the acquisition of [[Diu, India|Diu]] (1535) by [[Martim Afonso de Sousa]]. East of Malacca, Albuquerque sent [[Duarte Fernandes]] as envoy to Siam (now [[Thailand]]) in 1511 and dispatched to the Moluccas two expeditions (1512, 1514), which founded the Portuguese dominion in [[Maritime Southeast Asia]].<ref>{{harvp|Livermore|1969|p=142}}</ref> The Portuguese established their base in the [[Maluku Islands|Spice Islands]] on the island of [[Ambon Island|Ambon]].<ref>{{harvp|Brown|2003|p=33}}</ref> [[Fernão Pires de Andrade]] visited [[Guangzhou|Canton]] in 1517 and opened up trade with China, where, in 1557, the Portuguese were permitted to occupy [[Portuguese Macau|Macau]]. Japan, accidentally reached by three Portuguese traders in 1542, soon attracted large numbers of merchants and missionaries. In 1522, one of the ships in the expedition that [[Ferdinand Magellan]] organized in the Spanish service completed the first [[circumnavigation]] of the globe.

== 1580 succession crisis, Iberian Union and decline of the Empire ==
{{Main|Portuguese succession crisis of 1580|War of the Portuguese Succession|Iberian Union}}

On 4 August 1578, while fighting in Morocco, young [[Sebastian, King of Portugal|King Sebastian]] died in the [[Battle of Alcácer Quibir]] without an heir.<ref>{{harvp|Livermore|1969|pp=157–158}}</ref> The late king's elderly great-uncle, Cardinal [[Henry, King of Portugal|Henry]], then became king.<ref>{{harvp|Livermore|1969|p=158}}</ref> Henry I died a mere two years later, on 31 January 1580.<ref>{{harvp|Livermore|1969|p=161}}</ref><ref>De Baena Parada, Juan. Epítome de la vida, y hechos de don Sebastián Dezimo Sexto Rey de Portugal. 1692. pp. 113/120.</ref> The death of the latter, without any appointed heirs, led to the [[Portuguese succession crisis of 1580]].<ref>Marqués de Pidal. Marqués de Miraflores. Salvá, Miguel. Colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de España. Academia de la Historia. Tomo XL. Madrid. 1862. p. 230.</ref> Portugal was worried about the maintenance of its independence and sought help to find a new king.
[[File:Anton der Unechte, König von Portugal (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library).png|thumb|250x250px|[[António, Prior of Crato]]]]
One of the claimants to the throne, [[António, Prior of Crato]], a bastard son of [[Infante Louis, Duke of Beja]], and only grandson through the male line of king Manuel I of Portugal, lacked support from the clergy and most of the nobility, but was acclaimed as king in Santarém and in some other towns in June 1580.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztTaanw3B2UC&pg=PA120|title=Castro|first=António|last=Ferreira|date=14 April 1987|publisher=UC Biblioteca Geral 1|access-date=14 April 2018|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7nVIBhrRb9AC&pg=PA90|title=The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, Its Empire, and Beyond, 1540–1750|first=Dauril|last=Alden|date=1996|publisher=Stanford University Press|access-date=14 April 2018|via=Google Books|isbn=9780804722711}}</ref>
[[File:Detail of a portrait of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo by Antonio Moro.jpeg|thumb|[[Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba]]]]
[[Philip II of Spain]], through his mother [[Isabella of Portugal]], also a grandson of Manuel I, claimed the Portuguese throne and did not recognize António as king of Portugal. The king appointed [[Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba]], as captain general of his army.<ref>Disposition of Philip II about giving the duke the control of the army, op. cit., [https://archive.org/details/coleccindedocu32madruoft vol. XXXII], pp. 7–9.</ref> The duke was 73 years old and ill at the time,<ref>Ruth MacKay, ''The Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal'', (University of Chicago Press, 2012), 49.</ref> but Fernando mustered his forces, estimated at 20,000 men,<ref>Ruth MacKay, ''The Baker Who Pretended to Be King of Portugal'', 50.</ref> in Badajoz, and in June 1580 crossed the Spanish-Portuguese border and moved towards [[Lisbon]].

The Duke of Alba met little resistance and in July set up his forces at [[Cascais]], west of Lisbon. By mid-August, the Duke was only 10 kilometers from the city. West of the small brook [[Alcântara, Lisbon|Alcântara]], the Spanish encountered a Portuguese force on the eastern side of it, commanded by António, and his lieutenant [[Francisco de Portugal, 3rd Count of Vimioso]]. In late August, the Duke of Alba defeated António's force, a ragtag army assembled in a hurry and composed mainly of local peasants, and freed slaves at the [[Battle of Alcântara (1580)|Battle of Alcântara]].<ref>Tony Jaques, ''Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A–E, 2007'' p. 25</ref> This battle ended in a decisive victory for the Spanish army, both on land and sea. Two days later, the Duke of Alba captured Lisbon, and on 25 March 1581, Philip II of Spain was crowned [[King of Portugal]] in [[Tomar]] as Philip I. This cleared the way for Philip to create an [[Iberian Union]] spanning all of Iberia under the Spanish crown.<ref>[[J. H. Elliott|John Huxtable Elliott]], ''España en Europa. Estudios de historia comparada. Escritos seleccionados'', Universitat de València, 2002, pp. 79–80.</ref>

Philip rewarded the Duke of Alba with the titles of 1st [[Viceroy of Portugal]] on 18 July 1580 and [[Constable of Portugal]] in 1581. With these titles, the Duke of Alba represented the Spanish monarch in Portugal and was second in hierarchy only after King Philip in Portugal. He held both titles until his death in 1582.<ref>Belda Plans, Juan. Grandes personajes el Siglo de Oro español. Palabra. 2013. p. 29.</ref> The Portuguese and [[Spanish Empire]]s came under a single rule, but resistance to Spanish rule in Portugal did not come to an end. The Prior of Crato held out in the [[Azores]] until 1583, and he continued to seek to recover the throne actively until his death in 1595. Impostors claimed to be King Sebastian in 1584, 1585, 1595 and 1598. "[[Sebastianism]]", the myth that the young king will return to Portugal on a foggy day, has prevailed until modern times.

=== Decline of the Portuguese Empire under the Philippine Dynasty ===
[[File:Batalha dos Guararapes (ex-voto).jpg|thumb|250px|The [[First Battle of Guararapes|Battle of Guararapes]]]]

After the 16th century, Portugal gradually saw its wealth and influence decrease. Portugal was officially an autonomous state, but in actuality, the country was in a [[personal union]] with the Spanish crown from 1580 to 1640.<ref>{{harvp|Livermore|1969|pp=163–172}}</ref> The ''Council of Portugal'' remained independent inasmuch as it was one of the key administrative units of the Castilian monarchy, legally on equal terms with the [[Council of the Indies]].<ref>{{harvp|Elliott|2002|p=274}}</ref> The joining of the two crowns deprived Portugal of a separate foreign policy, and the enemies of Spain became the enemies of Portugal. England had been an ally of Portugal since the Treaty of Windsor in 1386, but [[Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)|war between Spain and England]] led to a deterioration of the relations with Portugal's oldest ally and the [[Capture of Ormuz (1622)|loss of Hormuz]] in 1622. From 1595 to 1663, the [[Dutch–Portuguese War]] led to invasions of many countries in Asia and competition for commercial interests in Japan, Africa and South America. In 1624, the Dutch seized [[Salvador, Bahia|Salvador]], the capital of Brazil;<ref name="Livermore_170">{{harvp|Livermore|1969|p=170}}</ref> in 1630, they seized Pernambuco in northern Brazil.<ref name="Livermore_170" /> A treaty of 1654 returned Pernambuco to Portuguese control, however.<ref>{{harvp|Livermore|1969|p=184}}</ref> Both the English and the Dutch continued to aspire to dominate both the Atlantic slave trade and the spice trade with the Far East.

The Dutch intrusion into Brazil was long-lasting and troublesome to Portugal. The Dutch captured the entire coast except that of Bahia and much of the interior of the [[Northeast Region, Brazil|contemporary Northeastern Brazilian states]] of [[Bahia]], [[Sergipe]], [[Alagoas]], [[Pernambuco]], [[Paraíba]], [[Rio Grande do Norte]] and [[Ceará]], while Dutch privateers sacked Portuguese ships in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Beginning with a major Spanish–Portuguese military operation in 1625, this trend was reversed, and it laid the foundations for the recovery of remaining Dutch-controlled areas. The other smaller, less developed areas were recovered in stages and relieved of Dutch piracy in the next two decades by local resistance and Portuguese expeditions. After the dissolution of the Iberian Union in 1640, Portugal would re-establish its authority over some lost territories of the [[Portuguese Empire]].

== Portuguese Restoration War (1640–1668) ==
{{Main|Portuguese Restoration War}}
[[File:Portrait of John, Duke of Braganza c. 1630 (The Royal Castle in Warsaw).png|thumb|John IV of Portugal]]
At home, there was peace under the first two Spanish kings, [[Philip II of Spain|Philip II]] and [[Philip III of Spain|Philip III]]. They maintained Portugal's status, gave positions to Portuguese nobles in the Spanish [[Noble court|courts]], and Portugal maintained an independent law, currency and government. It was proposed to move the Spanish capital to [[Lisbon]]. Later, [[Philip IV of Spain|Philip IV]] tried to make Portugal a Spanish province, and Portuguese nobles lost power.

Because of this, as well as the general strain on the finances of the Spanish throne as a result of the [[Thirty Years' War]], the [[Duke of Braganza]], one of the native noblemen and a descendant of King Manuel I, was proclaimed King of Portugal as [[John IV of Portugal|John IV]] on 1 December 1640, and a war of independence against Spain was launched. The governors of [[History of Ceuta|Ceuta]] did not accept the new king; rather, they maintained their allegiance to Philip IV and Spain. The Portuguese Restoration War ended the sixty-year period of the [[Iberian Union]] under the [[House of Habsburg]]. This was the beginning of the [[House of Braganza]], which reigned in Portugal until 1910.

King John IV's eldest son came to reign as [[Afonso VI of Portugal|Afonso VI]], however his physical and mental disabilities left him overpowered by [[Luís de Vasconcelos e Sousa, 3rd Count of Castelo Melhor]]. In a palace coup organized by the King's wife, [[Maria Francisca of Savoy]], and his brother, [[Peter II of Portugal|Pedro, Duke of Beja]], King Afonso VI was declared mentally incompetent and exiled first to the Azores, and then to the [[Sintra National Palace|Royal Palace of Sintra]], outside Lisbon. After Afonso's death, Pedro came to the throne as King Pedro II. Pedro's reign saw the consolidation of national independence, imperial expansion, and investment in domestic production.

Pedro II's son, [[John V of Portugal|John V]], saw a reign characterized by the influx of gold into the coffers of the royal treasury, supplied largely by the [[royal fifth]] (a tax on precious metals), that was received from the [[Portuguese empire|Portuguese colonies]] of [[State of Brazil|Brazil]] and [[State of Maranhão (colonial)|Maranhão]]. Disregarding traditional Portuguese institutions of governance, John V acted as an absolute monarch, nearly depleting the country's tax revenues on ambitious architectural works, most notably [[Mafra National Palace|Mafra Palace]], and on commissions and additions for his sizeable art and literary collections.

Owing to his craving for international diplomatic recognition, John also spent large sums on the embassies he sent to the courts of Europe, the most famous being those he sent to [[Paris]] in 1715 and [[Rome]] in 1716.

Official estimates&nbsp;– and most estimates made so far&nbsp;– place the number of Portuguese migrants to [[Colonial Brazil]] during the gold rush of the 18th century at 600,000.<ref name="ibge">{{cite web|url=http://www.ibge.gov.br/ibgeteen/povoamento/portugueses.html |title=IBGE teen |publisher=Ibge.gov.br |access-date=11 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125045233/http://www.ibge.gov.br/ibgeteen/povoamento/portugueses.html |archive-date=25 January 2012 }}</ref> This represented one of the largest movements of European populations to their colonies in the Americas during colonial times. From 1709, [[John V of Portugal|John V]] prohibited emigration, since Portugal had lost a sizable proportion of its population. Brazil was elevated to a vice-kingdom.

== Pombaline era ==
{{Main|History of Portugal (1640–1777)|Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal}}

[[File:O marques de pombal, conde de Oeiras.jpg|thumb|[[Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal|Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis of Pombal, Count of Oeiras]]|left|248x248px]]
In 1738, Sebastião de Melo, the talented son of a Lisbon squire, began a diplomatic career as the Portuguese [[Ambassador]] in [[London]] and later in [[Vienna]]. The Queen regent of Portugal, [[Maria Anna of Austria]], was fond of De Melo; and after his first wife died, she arranged the widowed de Melo's second marriage to the daughter of the Austrian field marshal [[Leopold Josef, Count von Daun]]. King [[John V of Portugal]] however, was not pleased and recalled Melo to Portugal in 1749. John V died the following year, and his son Joseph I of Portugal was crowned. In contrast to his father, Joseph I was fond of de Melo, and with the Maria Anna's approval, he appointed Melo as [[Minister of Foreign Affairs]]. As the king's confidence in de Melo increased, he entrusted him with more control of the state.

By 1755, Sebastião de Melo was made [[prime-minister]]. Impressed by British economic success he had witnessed while ambassador, he successfully implemented similar economic policies in Portugal. He abolished slavery in Portugal and in the Portuguese colonies in India; reorganized the army and the navy; restructured the [[University of Coimbra]]; and ended discrimination against different Christian sects in Portugal.

[[File:1755 Lisbon earthquake.jpg|thumb|This 1755 copper engraving shows the ruins of [[Lisbon]] in flames and a [[tsunami]] overwhelming the ships in the harbor.]]
But Sebastião de Melo's greatest reforms were economic and financial, with the creation of several companies and [[guilds]] to regulate every [[commerce|commercial]] activity. He demarcated the region for production of [[port wine|port]] to ensure the wine's quality, and this was the first attempt to control wine quality and production in Europe. He ruled with a strong hand by imposing strict law on all classes of Portuguese society, from the high nobility to the poorest working class, along with a widespread review of the country's tax system. These reforms gained him enemies in the upper classes, especially among the high nobility, who despised him as a social upstart.

Disaster fell upon Portugal in the morning of 1 November 1755, when [[1755 Lisbon earthquake|Lisbon was struck by a violent earthquake]] with an estimated [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]] magnitude of 9. The city was razed to the ground by the earthquake and the subsequent [[tsunami]] and fires. De Melo survived by a stroke of luck and immediately embarked on rebuilding the city, with his famous quote: "What now? We bury the dead and feed the living."

Despite the natural disaster, Lisbon's population suffered no epidemics and within less than one year the city was being rebuilt. The new Lisbon downtown was designed to resist subsequent [[earthquakes]]. [[Architectural]] [[Scale model|models]] were built for tests, and the effects of an earthquake were [[simulated]] by marching troops around the models. The buildings and big squares of the Pombaline Downtown of Lisbon still remain as one of Lisbon's tourist attractions: they represent the world's first [[Earthquake-resistant structures]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Carsado|first1=Rafeala|last2=Lopes|first2=Mario|last3=Bento|first3=Rita|date=August 2004|title=Earthquake Resistant Structures of Portuguese Old 'Pombalino' Buildings|url=http://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/13_918.pdf|journal=13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering}}</ref> Sebastião de Melo also made an important contribution to the study of [[seismology]] by designing an inquiry that was sent to every parish in the country.

Following the earthquake, [[Joseph I of Portugal|Joseph I]] gave his prime minister even more power, and Sebastião de Melo became a powerful, progressive dictator. As his power grew, his enemies increased in number, and bitter disputes with the high nobility became frequent. In 1758, [[Joseph I of Portugal|Joseph I]] was wounded in an attempted assassination. The [[Távora affair|Távora family]] and the Duke of [[Aveiro, Portugal|Aveiro]] were implicated and executed after a quick trial. The [[Society of Jesus|Jesuits]] were expelled from the country and their assets confiscated by the crown. Sebastião de Melo showed no mercy and prosecuted every person involved, even women and children. This was the final stroke that broke the power of the aristocracy and ensured the victory of the minister against his enemies. Based upon his swift resolve, Joseph I made his loyal minister Count of [[Oeiras Municipality, Portugal|Oeiras]] in 1759.

Following the Távora affair, the new Count of Oeiras knew no opposition. Made "Marquis of Pombal" in 1770, he effectively ruled Portugal until Joseph I's death in 1779. However, historians also argue that Pombal's "enlightenment" and economic progress, while far-reaching, was primarily a mechanism for enhancing autocracy at the expense of individual liberty and an apparatus for crushing opposition, suppressing criticism, furthering [[colonial exploitation]], intensifying book censorship and consolidating personal control and profit.<ref>Kenneth Maxwell, ''Pombal, Paradox of the Enlightenment'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 83, 91–108, 160–162.</ref>

The new ruler, Queen [[Maria I of Portugal]], disliked the Marquis (See ''[[Távora affair]]''), and forbade him from coming within 20 miles of her, thus curtailing his influence.

=== Portuguese-led invasion of Spain in 1707 ===
{{Main|War of the Spanish Succession}}

In 1707, as part of the War of the Spanish Succession, a joint Portuguese, Dutch, and [[United Kingdom|British]] army, led by the Marquis of Minas, [[António Luís de Sousa, 2nd Marquis of Minas|António Luís de Sousa]], conquered Madrid and acclaimed the [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|Archduke Charles of Austria]] as King Charles III of Spain. Along the route to Madrid, the army led by the Marquis of Minas was successful in conquering [[Ciudad Rodrigo]] and [[Salamanca]]. Later in the following year, Madrid was reconquered by Spanish troops loyal to the Bourbons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arqnet.pt/portal/pessoais/castelobramco_comentarios.html|title=O Portal da História – Memórias: António do Couto Castelo Branco em 1707|website=www.arqnet.pt|access-date=14 April 2018}}</ref>

=== ''The Ghost War'' ===
{{Main|Spanish invasion of Portugal (1762)}}
In 1762, [[Kingdom of France|France]] and [[Spanish Empire|Spain]] tried to urge Portugal to join the [[Bourbon Family Compact]] by claiming that [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] had become too powerful due to its successes in the [[Seven Years' War]]. Joseph refused to accept and maintained that his 1704 alliance with Britain was no threat.

In spring 1762, Spanish and French troops invaded Portugal from the north as far as the [[Douro]], while a second column sponsored the [[Siege of Almeida (1762)|Siege of Almeida]], captured the city, and threatened to advance on Lisbon. The arrival of a force of British troops helped the Portuguese army commanded by the [[William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe|Count of Lippe]] by blocking the Franco-Spanish advance and driving them back across the border following the [[Battle of Valencia de Alcántara]]. At the [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris]] in 1763, Spain agreed to hand Almeida back to Portugal.

== Crises of the nineteenth century ==
=== Napoleonic era ===
{{Main|History of Portugal (1777–1834)|United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves}}
With the [[Invasion of Portugal (1807)|invasions by Napoleon]], Portugal began a decline that lasted until the 20th century, it was hastened by the [[independence of Brazil]] in 1822, the country's largest colonial possession.

In 1807, Portugal refused [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]'s demand to accede to the [[Continental System]] of embargo against the United Kingdom; a French invasion under [[Jean-Andoche Junot|General Junot]] followed, and Lisbon was captured on 8 December 1807. British intervention in the [[Peninsular War]] helped in maintaining Portuguese independence. During the war, [[João VI of Portugal]], the [[prince regent]], transferred his court, including [[Maria I of Portugal|Maria I]], to the [[Colonial Brazil|Portuguese territory of Brazil]], and established [[Rio de Janeiro]] as the capital of the [[Portuguese Empire]].  This episode is known as the [[Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil]]. The last French troops were expelled in 1812. The war cost Portugal the town of [[Olivenza|Olivença]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Ertl|first=Alan W.|title=Toward an Understanding of Europe: A Political Economic Precis of Continental Integration|year=2008|publisher=Dissertation.com|isbn=978-1-59942-983-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X9PGRaZt-zcC&q=province+Oliven%C3%A7a+peninsular+war&pg=PA303|page=303}}</ref> now governed by Spain. In 1815, Brazil was declared a Kingdom and the Kingdom of Portugal was united with it, forming a pluricontinental state, the [[United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves]].
[[File:Portuguese Constitution of 1826.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.9|The frontispiece of the 1826 Portuguese Constitution featuring King-Emperor [[Pedro I of Brazil|Pedro IV]] and his daughter Queen [[Maria II of Portugal|Maria II]]]]

As a result of the change in its status and arrival of the Portuguese royal family, Brazilian administrative, civic, [[Economic history of Brazil#The economy at independence, 1822|economical]], military, [[History of education in Brazil|educational]], and [[Brazilian science and technology#History|scientific]] apparatus were expanded and highly modernized. By 1815 the situation in Europe had cooled down sufficiently that João VI would have been able to return safely to Lisbon. However, the King of Portugal remained in Brazil until the [[Liberal Revolution of 1820]], which started in [[Porto]], demanded his return to Lisbon in 1821.

Thus he returned to Portugal but left his son Pedro in charge of Brazil. When the Portuguese Government attempted the following year to return the Kingdom of Brazil to subordinate status, his son Pedro, with the overwhelming support of the Brazilian elites, declared Brazil's independence from Portugal. [[Cisplatina]] (today's sovereign state of Uruguay), in the south, was one of the last additions to the territory of Brazil under Portuguese rule.

Brazilian independence was recognized in 1825, whereby Emperor Pedro I granted to his father the titular honour of ''Emperor of Brazil''. John VI's death in 1826 caused serious questions in his succession. Though Pedro was his heir, and reigned briefly as [[Pedro I of Brazil|Pedro IV]], his status as a Brazilian monarch was seen as an impediment to holding the Portuguese throne by both nations. Pedro abdicated in favour of his daughter, [[Maria II of Portugal|Maria II]]. However, Pedro's brother, [[Miguel I of Portugal|Infante Miguel]], claimed the throne in protest. After a proposal for Miguel and Maria to marry failed, Miguel seized power as King Miguel I, in 1828. In order to defend his daughter's rights to the throne, Pedro launched the [[Liberal Wars]] to reinstall his daughter and establish a constitutional monarchy in Portugal. The war ended in 1834, with Miguel's defeat, the promulgation of a constitution, and the reinstatement of Queen Maria II.

After 1815, the Portuguese expanded their trading ports along the African coast, moving inland to take control of Angola and Mozambique. The slave trade was abolished in 1836, in part because many foreign slave ships were flying the Portuguese flag. In [[Portuguese India]], trade flourished in the colony of [[History of Goa|Goa]], with its subsidiary colonies of [[Portuguese Macau|Macau]], near Hong Kong on the China coast, and [[Portuguese Timor|Timor]], north of Australia. The Portuguese successfully introduced Catholicism and the Portuguese language into their colonies, while most settlers continued to head to Brazil.<ref>{{harvp|Livermore|1969|pp=299–306}}</ref><ref>Gervase Clarence-Smith, ''The Third Portuguese Empire, 1825–1975: A Study in Economic Imperialism'' (1985)</ref>

=== Constitutional monarchy ===
{{Main|History of Portugal (1834–1910)}}
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Queen Maria II (Mary II) and King [[Ferdinand II of Portugal|Ferdinand II]]'s son, King [[Pedro V]] (Peter V) modernized the country during his short reign (1853–1861). Under his reign, roads, telegraphs, and railways were constructed and improvements in public health advanced. His popularity increased when, during the [[cholera]] outbreak of 1853–1856, he visited hospitals handing out gifts and comforting the sick. Pedro's reign was short, as he died of cholera in 1861, after a series of deaths in the royal family, including his two brothers [[Infante Fernando of Portugal|Infante Fernando]] and [[Infante João, Duke of Beja]], and his wife, [[Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen]]. Pedro not having children, his brother, [[Luís I of Portugal]] (Louis I) ascended the throne and continued his modernization.

At the height of European colonialism in the 19th century, Portugal had already lost its territory in South America and all but a few bases in Asia. [[Luanda]], [[Benguela]], [[Bissau]], [[Maputo|Lourenço Marques]], [[Porto Amboim]] and the [[Island of Mozambique]] were among the oldest Portuguese-founded port cities in its African territories. During this phase, Portuguese colonialism focused on expanding its outposts in Africa into nation-sized territories to compete with other European powers there.

With the [[Berlin Conference (1884)|Conference of Berlin]] of 1884, Portuguese territories in Africa had their borders formally established on request of Portugal in order to protect the centuries-long Portuguese interests in the continent from rivalries enticed by the [[Scramble for Africa]]. Portuguese towns and cities in Africa like [[Nova Lisboa]], [[Lubango|Sá da Bandeira]], [[Kuito|Silva Porto]], [[Malanje]], [[Tete, Mozambique|Tete]], [[Vila Junqueiro]], [[Vila Pery]] and [[Vila Cabral]] were founded or redeveloped inland during this period and beyond. New coastal towns like [[Beira, Mozambique|Beira]], [[Namibe|Moçâmedes]], [[Lobito]], [[João Belo]], [[Nacala]] and [[Porto Amélia]] were also founded. Even before the turn of the 20th century, railway tracks as the [[Benguela railway]] in Angola, and the [[Beira railway]] in Mozambique, started to be built to link coastal areas and selected inland regions.

On 11 January 1890, the [[Government of the United Kingdom|British government]] delivered [[1890 British Ultimatum|an ultimatum]] to Portugal, demanding the withdrawal of Portuguese forces from the area between Portugal's colonies of [[Portuguese Mozambique|Mozambique]] and [[Portuguese Angola|Angola]]. The area had been claimed by Portugal as part of its colonialist [[Pink Map]] project, but Britain disputed these claims, mostly due to [[Cecil Rhodes]]' aspirations to create a [[Cape to Cairo Railway]], which was intended to link all British colonies via a single railway. The government of Portugal quietly accepted the ultimatum and withdrew their forces from the disputed area, leading to a widespread backlash among the Portuguese public, who viewed acceptance of the British demands as a humiliation.<ref>João Ferreira Duarte, [http://www.erudit.org/revue/TTR/2000/v13/n1/037395ar.pdf The Politics of Non-Translation: A Case Study in Anglo-Portuguese Relations]</ref> It is considered directly responsible for the [[31 January 1891 revolt]], an attempted Republican coup that took place in Porto.<ref name="AR">{{cite web |title=A Revolta Republicana de 31 de janeiro de 1891 |url=https://www.parlamento.pt/Parlamento/Paginas/revolta-republicana-31-janeiro-1891.aspx |website=Assembleia da República |access-date=17 November 2023}}</ref>

The Portuguese territories in Africa were [[Portuguese Cape Verde|Cape Verde]], [[Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe|São Tomé and Príncipe]], [[Portuguese Guinea]], [[Angola (Portugal)|Angola]], and [[Mozambique (Portugal)|Mozambique]]. The tiny fortress of [[São João Baptista de Ajudá]] on the coast of [[Dahomey]], was also under Portuguese rule. In addition, Portugal still ruled the Asian territories of [[Portuguese India]], [[Portuguese Timor]] and [[Portuguese Macau]].

On 1 February 1908, King Dom [[Carlos I of Portugal]] and his [[heir apparent]] and his eldest son, [[Luis Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal|Prince Royal Dom Luís Filipe]], [[Duke of Braganza]], [[Lisbon Regicide|were assassinated in Lisbon]] in the [[Terreiro do Paço]] by two Portuguese republican activist revolutionaries, [[Alfredo Luís da Costa]] and [[Manuel Buíça]]. Under his rule, Portugal had been declared [[bankrupt]]&nbsp;twice – first on 14 June 1892, and then again on 10 May 1902&nbsp;– causing social turmoil, economic disturbances, angry protests, revolts and criticism of the monarchy. His second and youngest son, [[Manuel II of Portugal]], became the new king, but was eventually overthrown by the [[5 October 1910 revolution|5 October 1910 Portuguese republican revolution]], which abolished the monarchy and installed a [[republic]]an government in Portugal, causing him and his royal family to flee into [[exile]] in London, England.

== The First Republic (1910–1926) ==
{{Main|First Portuguese Republic}}

The First Republic has, over the course of the recent past, been neglected by many historians in favor of the ''[[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Estado Novo]]''. As a result, it is difficult to attempt a global synthesis of the republican period in view of the important gaps that still persist in our knowledge of its political history. As far as the [[5 October 1910 Revolution]] is concerned, a number of valuable studies have been made,<ref>Wheeler, 1972</ref> first among which ranks Vasco Pulido Valente's polemical thesis. This historian posited the [[Jacobin]] and urban nature of the revolution carried out by the [[Portuguese Republican Party]] (PRP) and claimed that the PRP had turned the republican regime into a de facto dictatorship.<ref>Pulido Valente, 1982</ref> This vision clashes with an older interpretation of the First Republic as a progressive and increasingly democratic regime that presented a clear contrast to [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]'s ensuing dictatorship.<ref>Oliveira Marques, 1991</ref>

=== Religion ===
The First Republic was intensely anti-clerical. It was secularist and followed the liberal tradition of disestablishing the powerful role that the Catholic Church once held. Historian Stanley Payne points out, "The majority of Republicans took the position that Catholicism was the number one enemy of individualistic middle-class radicalism and must be completely broken as a source of influence in Portugal."<ref>Payne, ''A history of Spain and Portugal'' (1973) 2: 559</ref> Under the leadership of [[Afonso Costa]], the justice minister, the revolution immediately targeted the Catholic Church: churches were plundered, convents were attacked and clergy were harassed. Scarcely had the provisional government been installed when it began devoting its entire attention to an anti-religious policy, in spite of the disastrous economic situation. On 10 October{{snd}}five days after the inauguration of the Republic{{snd}}the new government decreed that all convents, monasteries and religious orders were to be suppressed. All residents of religious institutions were expelled and their goods confiscated. The Jesuits were forced to forfeit their Portuguese citizenship.

A series of anti-Catholic laws and decrees followed each other in rapid succession. On 3 November, a law legalizing divorce was passed and then there were laws to recognize the legitimacy of children born outside wedlock, authorize cremation, secularize cemeteries, suppress religious teaching in the schools and prohibit the wearing of the cassock. In addition, the ringing of church bells to signal times of worship was subjected to certain restraints, and the public celebration of religious feasts was suppressed. The government also interfered in the running of seminaries, reserving the right to appoint professors and determine curricula. This whole series of laws authored by [[Afonso Costa]] culminated in the law of Separation of Church and State, which was passed on 20 April 1911.

=== Constitution ===
A republican constitution was approved in 1911, inaugurating a parliamentary regime with reduced presidential powers and two chambers of parliament.<ref>Miranda, 2001</ref> The Republic provoked important fractures within Portuguese society, notably among the essentially monarchist rural population, in the trade unions, and in the Church. Even the PRP had to endure the secession of its more moderate elements, who formed conservative republican parties like the [[Evolutionist Party]] and the [[União Republicana|Republican Union]]. In spite of these splits, the PRP, led by [[Afonso Costa]], preserved its dominance, largely due to a brand of clientelist politics inherited from the monarchy.<ref name="Lopes, 1994">Lopes, 1994</ref> In view of these tactics, a number of opposition forces were forced to resort to violence in order to enjoy the fruits of power. There are few recent studies of this period of the Republic's existence, known as the 'old' Republic. Nevertheless, an essay by Vasco Pulido Valente should be consulted (1997a), as should the attempt to establish the political, social, and economic context made by M. Villaverde Cabral (1988).

The PRP viewed the outbreak of the [[World War I|First World War]] as a unique opportunity to achieve a number of goals: putting an end to the twin threats of a Spanish invasion of Portugal and of foreign occupation of the African colonies and, at the internal level, creating a national consensus around the regime and even around the party.<ref>Teixeira, 1996a</ref> These domestic objectives were not met, since participation in the conflict was not the subject of a national consensus and since it did not therefore serve to mobilise the population. Quite the opposite occurred: existing lines of political and ideological fracture were deepened by [[Portugal during World War I|Portugal's intervention in the First World War]].<ref>Ribeiro de Meneses, 2000</ref> The lack of consensus around Portugal's intervention in turn made possible the appearance of two dictatorships, led by General [[Pimenta de Castro]] (January–May 1915) and [[Sidónio Pais]] (December 1917 – December 1918).

''{{ill|Sidonismo|pt}}'', also known as ''Dezembrismo'' ("Decemberism"), aroused a strong interest among historians, largely as a result of the elements of modernity that it contained.<ref>José Brandão, 1990</ref><ref>Ramalho, 1998</ref><ref>Ribeiro de Meneses, 1998</ref><ref>Armando Silva, 1999</ref><ref>Samara, 2003</ref><ref>Santos, 2003</ref> António José Telo has made clear the way in which this regime predated some of the political solutions invented by the [[totalitarian]] and [[fascist]] dictatorships of the 1920s and 1930s.<ref>Teixeira, 2000, pp. 11–24</ref> Sidónio Pais undertook the rescue of traditional values, notably the ''Pátria'' ("Homeland"), and attempted to rule in a charismatic fashion.

A move was made to abolish traditional political parties and to alter the existing mode of national representation in parliament (which, it was claimed, exacerbated divisions within the ''Pátria'') through the creation of a [[corporative]] [[Senate]], the founding of a single-party (the [[Partido Nacional Republicano|National Republican Party]]), and the attribution of a mobilising function to the leader. The state carved out an economically interventionist role for itself while, at the same time, repressing [[working-class movements]] and leftist republicans. Sidónio Pais also attempted to restore public order and to overcome some of the rifts of the recent past, making the republic more acceptable to [[monarchists]] and [[Catholics]].

=== Political instability ===
[[File:Os soldados do Rei.png|thumb|Monarchist counter-revolutionary soldiers holding the [[Flag of Portugal|flag of the monarchy]] after the capture of [[Porto]] in 1919.]]
The vacuum of power created by Sidónio Pais's murder<ref>Medina, 1994</ref> on 14 December 1918 led the country to a brief civil war. The monarchy's restoration was proclaimed in the north of Portugal (known as the [[Monarchy of the North]]) on 19 January 1919, and four days later a monarchist insurrection broke out in [[Lisbon]]. A republican coalition government, led by [[José Relvas]], coordinated the struggle against the monarchists by loyal army units and armed civilians. After a series of clashes the monarchists were definitively chased from [[Porto|Oporto]] on 13 February 1919. This military victory allowed the PRP to return to government and to emerge triumphant from the elections held later that year, having won the usual absolute majority.

It was during this restoration of the 'old' republic that an attempted reform was carried out in order to provide the regime with greater stability. In August 1919 a conservative president was elected&nbsp;– [[António José de Almeida]] (whose Evolutionist party had come together in wartime with the PRP to form a flawed, because incomplete, Sacred Union)&nbsp;– and his office was given the power to dissolve parliament. Relations with the [[Holy See]], restored by Sidónio Pais, were preserved. The president used his new power to resolve a crisis of government in May 1921, naming a [[Republican Liberal Party (Portugal)|Liberal]] government (the Liberal party being the result of the postwar fusion of Evolutionists and Unionists) to prepare the forthcoming elections.

These were held on 10 July 1921, with victory going, as was usually the case, to the party in power. However, Liberal government did not last long. On 19 October a military ''pronunciamento'' was carried out during which&nbsp;– and apparently against the wishes of the coup's leaders&nbsp;– a number of prominent conservative figures, including [[List of Prime Ministers of Portugal|Prime Minister]] [[António Granjo]], were assassinated. This event, known as the '[[Bloody Night (Lisbon, 1921)|night of blood]]'<ref>Brandão, 1991</ref> left a deep wound among political elites and public opinion. There could be no greater demonstration of the essential fragility of the Republic's institutions and proof that the regime was democratic in name only, since it did not even admit the possibility of the rotation in power characteristic of the elitist regimes of the nineteenth century.

A new round of elections on 29 January 1922 inaugurated a fresh period of stability: the PRP once again emerged from the contest with an absolute majority. Discontent with this situation had not, however, disappeared. Numerous accusations of corruption, and the manifest failure to resolve pressing social concerns wore down the more visible PRP leaders while making the opposition's attacks more deadly. At the same time, moreover, all political parties suffered from growing internal factionalism, especially the PRP itself. The party system was fractured and discredited.<ref name="Lopes, 1994" /><ref>João Silva, 1997</ref>

This is clearly shown by the fact that regular PRP victories at the ballot box did not lead to stable government. Between 1910 and 1926, there were forty-five governments. The opposition of [[List of Presidents of Portugal|presidents]] to single-party governments, internal dissent within the PRP, the party's almost non-existent internal discipline, and its desire to group together and lead all republican forces made any government's task practically impossible. Many different formulas were attempted, including single-party governments, coalitions, and presidential executives, but none succeeded. Force was clearly the sole means open to the opposition if the PRP wanted to enjoy the fruits of power.<ref>Schwartzman, 1989</ref><ref name="Pinto, 2000">Pinto, 2000</ref>

=== Evaluation of the republican experiment ===
Historians have emphasized the failure and collapse of the republican dream by the 1920s. Sardica summarizes the consensus of historians:
:within a few years, large parts of the key economic forces, intellectuals, opinion-makers and middle classes changed from left to right, trading the unfulfilled utopia of a developing and civic republicanism for notions of "order," "stability" and "security". For many who had helped, supported or simply cheered the Republic in 1910, hoping that the new political situation would repair the monarchy's flaws (government instability, financial crisis, economic backwardness and civic anomie), the conclusion to be drawn, in the 1920s, was that the remedy for national maladies called for much more than the simple removal of the king....The First Republic collapsed and died as a result of the confrontation between raised hopes and meager deeds.<ref>José Miguel Sardica, "The Memory of the Portuguese First Republic throughout the Twentieth Century" (2011) ''E-Journal of Portuguese History'' (Summer 2011) 9#1 pp 1–27. [https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue17/pdf/v9n1a04.pdf online]</ref>

Sardica, however, also points out the permanent impact of the republican experiment:
:Despite its overall failure, the First Republic endowed twentieth-century Portugal with an insurpassable and enduring legacy{{snd}}a renewed civil law, the basis for an educational revolution, the principle of separation between State and Church, the overseas empire (only brought to an end in 1975), and a strong symbolic culture whose materializations (the national flag, the national anthem and the naming of streets) nobody has dared to alter and which still define the present-day collective identity of the Portuguese. The Republic's prime legacy was indeed that of memory.<ref>José Miguel Sardica, "The Memory of the Portuguese First Republic throughout the Twentieth Century" (2011)</ref>

=== 28 May 1926 coup d'état ===

{{Main|28 May 1926 coup d'état}}

[[File:Desfile de tropas 28 de Maio 1926.jpg|thumb|[[Gomes da Costa]] and his troops march victorious into Lisbon on 6 June 1926.]]
By the mid-1920s the domestic and international scenes began to favour another authoritarian solution, wherein a strengthened executive might restore political and social order. Since the opposition's constitutional route to power was blocked by the various means deployed by the PRP to protect itself, it turned to the army for support. The political awareness of the armed forces had grown during the war, and many of their leaders had not forgiven the PRP for sending them to a war they did not want to fight.<ref name="Ferreira, 1992a">Ferreira, 1992a</ref>

They seemed to represent, to conservative forces, the last bastion of 'order' against the 'chaos' that was taking over the country. Links were established between conservative figures and military officers, who added their own political and corporative demands to the already complex equation. The [[28 May 1926 coup d'état]] enjoyed the support of most army units and even of most political parties. As had been the case in December 1917, the population of Lisbon did not rise to defend the Republic, leaving it at the mercy of the army.<ref name="Ferreira, 1992a" />

There are few global and up-to-date studies of this turbulent third phase of the Republic's existence.<ref>Marques, 1973</ref><ref>Telo, 1980</ref><ref>Telo, 1984</ref> Nevertheless, much has been written about the crisis and fall of the regime and the 28 May movement.<ref name="Pinto, 2000" /><ref>Cruz, 1986</ref><ref>Cabral, 1993</ref><ref>Rosas, 1997</ref><ref>Martins, 1998</ref><ref>Afonso, 2001</ref> The First Republic continues to be the subject of an intense debate. A historiographical balance sheet by Armando Malheiro da Silva (2000) identifies three main interpretations. For some historians the First Republic was a progressive and increasingly democratic regime. For others it was essentially a prolongation of the liberal and elitist regimes of the 19th century. A third group chooses to highlight the regime's revolutionary, Jacobin and dictatorial nature.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}

== Estado Novo (1933–1974) ==
{{Main|Estado Novo (Portugal)}}

=== Salazar dictatorship ===
[[File:Portuguese colonial war blank map.svg|thumb|upright|Portuguese colonies in Africa by the time of the Colonial War.]]Political chaos, several strikes, harsh relations with the Church, and considerable economic problems aggravated by a disastrous [[Portugal in the Great War|military intervention in the First World War]] led to the military [[28 May 1926 coup d'état]]. This coup installed the "Second Republic", which started as the ''[[Ditadura Nacional]]'' (National Dictatorship) and became the ''[[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Estado Novo]]'' (New State) in 1933, led by economist [[António de Oliveira Salazar]]. He transformed Portugal into a sort of [[Fascist]] regime that evolved into a single-party [[Fascist corporatism|corporative]] regime. Portugal, although neutral, informally aided the Nationalists in the [[Spanish Civil War]] (1936–39).

Salazar's policy after the war was to provide a certain level of [[liberalization]] in politics, in terms of organized opposition with more [[freedom of the press]]. Opposition parties were tolerated to an extent, but they were also controlled, limited, and manipulated, with the result that they split into factions and never formed a united opposition.<ref>Dawn L. Raby, "Controlled, Limited and Manipulated Opposition Under a Dictatorial Regime: Portugal, 1945–9," ''European History Quarterly'' (1989) 19#1 pp. 63–84. {{doi|10.1177/026569148901900103}}</ref>

=== World War II ===
Portugal was [[Diplomatic history of World War II|officially neutral in World War II]], but in practice Salazar collaborated with the British and sold them rubber and tungsten.<ref>William Gervase Clarence-Smith, "The Portuguese Empire and the 'Battle for Rubber' in the Second World War," ''Portuguese Studies Review'' (2011), 19#1 pp. 177–196</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Cashing Out The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945–1948 {{!}} WorldCat.org |oclc=1401059993 |language=fr}}</ref> In late 1943, he allowed the Allies to establish air bases in the Azores to fight German U-boats. Moreover, Salazar helped Spain avoid German control. However, as tungsten was a major product of Portugal, it was also sold to Germany until June 1944, when the threat of a German attack on Portugal was minimal.<ref>Douglas L. Wheeler, "The Price of Neutrality: Portugal, the Wolfram Question, and World War II," ''Luso-Brazilian Review'' (1986) 23#1 pp. 107–127 and 23#2 pp. 97–111</ref> Salazar worked to regain control of [[East Timor]] after the Japanese had seized it.<ref>Sonny B. Davis, "Salazar, Timor, and Portuguese Neutrality in World War II," ''Portuguese Studies Review'' (2005) 13#1 pp. 449–476.</ref> Also, he admitted several thousand Jewish refugees during the war.{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}} Lisbon, maintaining air connections with Britain and the U.S., became a hotbed of spies of several war parties and served as the base for the International Red Cross in its distribution of relief supplies to POWs.

=== Colonies ===
{{More citations needed section|date=March 2021}} 
In 1961, the Portuguese army was involved in armed action in its colony in Goa against an Indian invasion (see [[Operation Vijay (1961)|Operation Vijay]]). The operations resulted in a Portuguese defeat and the loss of the colonies in [[India]]. Independence movements also became active in [[Portuguese Angola]], [[Portuguese Mozambique]] and [[Portuguese Guinea]]; the [[Portuguese Colonial War]] started. Some 122,000 Africans died in the conflict.<ref>Clodfelter 2017: 561</ref> Portugal, during this period, was never an outcast, and was a founding member of the [[North Atlantic Treaty Organization]] (NATO), the [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] (OECD) and the [[European Free Trade Association]] (EFTA).

After the death of Salazar in 1970, his replacement by [[Marcelo Caetano]] offered a certain hope that the regime would open up, the ''primavera marcelista'' (Marcelist spring). However the colonial wars in Africa continued, [[political prisoner]]s remained incarcerated, freedom of association was not restored, [[censorship]] was only slightly eased and the [[election]]s remained tightly controlled.

The regime retained its characteristic traits: censorship, corporateness, with a market economy dominated by a handful of economical groups, continuous surveillance and intimidation of several sectors of society through the use of a political police and techniques instilling fear (such as arbitrary imprisonment, systematic political persecution and even assassination of anti-regime insurgents).

== The Third Republic (1974–present) ==
{{Main|Processo Revolucionário Em Curso|Third Portuguese Republic}}
The [[Carnation Revolution]] of April 25, 1974, an effectively bloodless left-wing military coup, installed the "Third Republic" and implemented broad democratic reforms.

=== Third Portuguese Republic ===
The ''[[Processo Revolucionário Em Curso]]'' (''Ongoing Revolutionary Process'') was the tumultuous period during the [[Portuguese transition to democracy]]. It started after a failed right-wing coup d'état on March 11, 1975, and ended after a [[Coup of 25 November 1975|failed left-wing coup d'état on November 25, 1975]]. This period was marked by political turmoil, violence, and instability, and the nationalization of industries. Portugal was polarized between the conservative north, with its many independent small farmers, and the radical south, where communists helped peasants seize control of large estates. Finally, in the [[1976 Portuguese legislative election|1976 legislative election]], the [[Socialist Party (Portugal)|Socialist Party]] came in first in elections and its leader [[Mário Soares]] formed Portugal's first democratically elected government in nearly a half century.<ref>{{cite book|author=Tony Judt|title=Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=10oPnprPjcgC&pg=PA515|year=2006|publisher=Penguin Books|pages=513–515|isbn=9780143037750}}</ref>

The [[Social Democratic Party (Portugal)|Social Democratic Party]] and its center-right allies under Prime Minister [[Aníbal Cavaco Silva]] gained control of parliament in 1987 and 1991 while the Socialist Party and its allies succeeded in the 1991 presidential election to retain the presidency for its popular leader Mario Soares.<ref name="Goldey1992">{{cite journal |last1=Goldey |first1=David B. |title=The Portuguese elections of 1987 and 1991 and the presidential election of 1991 |journal=Electoral Studies |date=June 1992 |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=171–176 |doi=10.1016/0261-3794(92)90039-9 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

=== Violent decolonisation ===
In 1975, Portugal granted independence to its [[Portuguese Empire|Overseas Provinces]] (''Províncias Ultramarinas'' in Portuguese) in Africa ([[Portuguese Mozambique]], [[Portuguese Angola]], [[Portuguese Guinea]], [[Portuguese Cape Verde]] and [[Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe]]). Nearly 1 million Portuguese or persons of Portuguese descent left these former colonies as refugees.<ref>[http://countrystudies.us/portugal/48.htm Portugal – Emigration], Eric Solsten, ed. Portugal: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1993.</ref> In 1975 [[Indonesia]] invaded and annexed the Portuguese province of [[Portuguese Timor]] ([[Timor-Leste]]) in Asia before independence could be granted. The massive exodus of the Portuguese military and citizens from Angola and Mozambique, would prompt an era of chaos and severe destruction in those territories after independence from Portugal in 1975. From May 1974 to the end of the 1970s, over a million Portuguese citizens from Portugal's African territories (mostly from Portuguese Angola and Mozambique) left those territories as destitute refugees&nbsp;– the ''retornados''.<ref name="Flight from Angola">[http://www.economist.com/world/mideast-africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=12079340 Flight from Angola], [[The Economist]] (August 16, 1975).</ref><ref name="Dismantling the Portuguese Empire">[https://web.archive.org/web/20090113204408/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913229-1,00.html Dismantling the Portuguese Empire], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' (Monday, July 7, 1975).</ref>

The newly independent countries were ravaged by brutal civil wars in the following decades{{snd}}the [[Angolan Civil War]] (1975–2002) and [[Mozambican Civil War]] (1977–1992){{snd}}responsible for millions of deaths and refugees. The Asian dependency of [[Portuguese Macau|Macau]], after an agreement in 1986, was returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1999. Portugal applied international pressure to secure East Timor's independence from Indonesia, as East Timor was still legally a Portuguese dependency, and recognized as such by the [[United Nations]]. After a referendum in 1999, [[East Timor]] voted for independence, which Portugal recognized in 2002.
[[File:Revolução dos Cravos.jpg|thumb|Portuguese rejoice during the 1975 Carnation Revolution.]]
With the 1975–1976 independence of its colonies (apart from Macau), the 560-year-old [[Portuguese Empire]] effectively ended. Simultaneously, 15 years of war effort also came to an end; many Portuguese returned from the colonies (the ''retornados'') and came to comprise a [[Demographics of Portugal#Vital statistics since 1900|sizeable proportion of the population]]: approximately 580,000 of Portugal's 9.8 million citizens in 1981.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6i_LwP-YW0oC&q=retornados+population+of+portugal&pg=PA86
|quote=Thus among the 580,000 Portuguese enumerated in the 1981 census who had lived in the African colonies prior to 1975, 60 percent had been born in Portugal.
|title=Europe's Invisible Migrants
|author=Andrea L. Smith
|date=2002
|publisher=Amsterdam University Press
| isbn=978-9053565711
}}</ref> This opened new paths for the country's future just as others closed. In 1986, Portugal entered the [[European Economic Community]] and left the [[European Free Trade Association]] which had been founded by Portugal and its partners in 1960. The country joined the euro in 1999. The Portuguese Empire ended ''de facto'' in 1999 when Macau was returned to China, and ''de jure'' in 2002 when [[East Timor]] became independent.

===Socio-economic evolution===
Economic development was one of the major objectives of the Carnation Revolution and it was widely perceived that the new democracy would have the same unfortunate fate of the previous democratic regimes in Portugal ([[History of Portugal (1834–1910)|Constitutional Monarchy]] and [[Portuguese First Republic|First Republic]]) if, like them, it failed to provide economic development and decent standards of living to its citizens.<ref name="Oliveira">{{cite web |url=https://expresso.pt/blogues/opiniao_daniel_oliveira_antes_pelo_contrario/25-de-abril-4-d-de-desenvolvimento-onde-tudo-se-joga=f866925 |title=25 de abril (4): "D" de desenvolvimento, onde tudo se joga. |last=Oliveira |first=Daniel |date=25 April 2014 |publisher=Expresso |access-date=27 February 2019 |language=pt |trans-title=April 25 (4): The "D" of development, where all is at stake}}</ref> Relative to Western Europe, Portugal remained stagnant (and thus poor and underdeveloped) for most of the ''[[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Estado Novo]]'' regime (particularly in the first 30 years), but the modernization of the economy and development of the country still started in the last years of the regime, with a period of strong growth from 1961 to 1973. However, the gap between Portugal and most of Western Europe was still abysmal by the mid-1970s. Overall, the Third Republic gave continuity to the growth started in the 1960s and was marked by a major socio-economic development (particularly until the early 2000s).<ref name="Silva Lopes">{{cite web |url=https://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/economia/politica/detalhe/25_abril_portugal_desenvolveu_se_ate_2000_depois_foi_uma_desgraca_diz_silva_lopes |title=25 Abril: Portugal desenvolveu-se até 2000, depois foi "uma desgraça", diz Silva Lopes |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=25 March 2014 |website=Jornal de Negócios |access-date=27 February 2019 |language=pt |trans-title=April 25: Portugal developed until 2000, after that "it was a disgrace", says Silva Lopes}}</ref> [[GDP per capita]] rose from 50% of [[European Economic Community|EC]]-12 average in 1970<ref name="Maddison GDP year 1970">{{cite web |url=https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/data/mpd_2013-01.xlsx |title=Maddison Project Database, version 2013 |last1=Bolt |first1=J. |last2= van Zanden |first2=J.L.|date=2014 |website=Maddison Project Database |access-date=27 February 2019 |quote=In 1970 (cell A197), Portugal had a GDP per capita of $5,473 (in 1990 US dollars) (cell Q197) while EU-12 countries had a GDP per capita of $10,853 (in 1990 US dollars) (cell N197). Thus, Portuguese GDP per capita was 50.4% of EU-12 average.}}</ref> to 70% in 2000,<ref name="Maddison GDP year 1970" /><ref name="Silva Lopes" /> which nonetheless represented an approach to the Western European standards of living without precedents in the previous centuries. Concurrent with the economic development, the Third Republic also witnessed major improvements in health, education, infrastructure, housing and welfare.<ref name="Economico">{{cite web |url=https://jornaleconomico.sapo.pt/noticias/25-de-abril-o-que-significou-o-d-de-desenvolvimento-149199 |title=25 de abril: o que significou o "D" de desenvolvimento |last1=Sarmento |first1=António |last2=Santos Ferreira |first2=Ricardo |date=25 April 2017 |publisher=O Jornal Económico |access-date=27 February 2019 |language=pt |trans-title=April 25, what meant the "D" of development }}</ref><ref name="Oliveira" /> However, as of 2019, Portugal still has not converged with the most advanced economies of Central and Northern Europe, as the economy has been stagnant since the early 2000s.

The Portuguese economy declined in the centuries following the end of the [[Portuguese discoveries|Age of Discoveries]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Palma |first1=Nuno |last2=Reis |first2=Jaime |date=September 2016 |title=From convergence to divergence: Portuguese demography and economic growth, 1500–1850 |url=http://www.ggdc.net/publications/memorandum/gd161.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019104829/http://www.ggdc.net/publications/memorandum/gd161.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 19, 2016 |journal=GGDC Research Memorandum |volume=161 |page=10 |access-date=27 February 2019 }}</ref> and neither the [[History of Portugal (1834–1910)|Constitutional Monarchy]] (1834–1910) nor the [[Portuguese First Republic|First Republic]] (1910–1926) were able to put the country in the path to [[Industrial Revolution|industrialization]] and development. While [[António de Oliveira Salazar]] managed to discipline the Portuguese [[public finances]] in the 1930s, the first three decades of the ''[[Estado Novo (Portugal)|Estado Novo]]'' regime were also marked by a relative stagnation and underdevelopment. While Western world enjoyed [[Post–World War II economic expansion|strong economic growth]], Portugal remained behind.<ref>{{cite book |last=Odekon |first=Mehmet |date=2006 |title=Encyclopedia of World Poverty |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f6o5DQAAQBAJ&q=Portugal+poverty+estado+novo&pg=PA837 |publisher=Sage Publications |pages=837–838 |volume=I |isbn= 9781412918077}}</ref> As such, by 1960 the Portuguese GDP per capita was only 38% of the EC-12 average,<ref name="Country Studies">{{cite web|title=Portugal - Economic Growth and Change|url=http://countrystudies.us/portugal/64.htm|publisher=Library of Congress Country Studies|access-date=27 February 2019}} {{PD-notice}}</ref> and Portugal was one of the most backward countries in Europe.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sutcliffe |first=Anthony |date=2014 |title=An Economic and Social History of Western Europe since 1945 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x1mPBAAAQBAJ&q=editions:yCwwn_OLmMYC |publisher=Routledge |page=96 |isbn= 9781317892199}}</ref> However, things started to change in the late ''Estado Novo'': starting in the early 1960s, Portugal entered in a period of robust economic growth and structural modernization, owing to a liberalization of the economy and the rise of a new elite (which was developmental, technocratic and politically liberal).<ref name="sedes.pt">{{in lang|pt}} [http://www.sedes.pt/conteudo.aspx?args=1,2 Fundação da SEDES&nbsp;– As primeiras motivações] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725024904/http://www.sedes.pt/conteudo.aspx?args=1%2C2 |date=2014-07-25 }}, "Nos anos 60 e até 1973 teve lugar, provavelmente, o mais rápido período de crescimento económico da nossa História, traduzido na industrialização, na expansão do turismo, no comércio com a EFTA, no desenvolvimento dos sectores financeiros, investimento estrangeiro e grandes projectos de infra-estruturas. Em consequência, os indicadores de rendimentos e consumo acompanham essa evolução, reforçados ainda pelas remessas de emigrantes.", [[SEDES]]</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Durán Muñoz |first1=Rafael |date=1997 |title=A crise económica e as transições para a democracia: Espanha e Portugal em perspectiva comparada |url=http://analisesocial.ics.ul.pt/documentos/1221841159M9vPU5fq4Rd84RA6.pdf |journal=Análise Social |volume=32 |issue=141 |pages=369–401 |access-date=27 February 2019|language=pt |trans-title=The economic crisis and the transitions to democracy: Spain and Portugal under compared perspective}}</ref> As an expression of such economic opening, in 1960 Portugal was one of the [[EFTA]] founding member states. Such remarkable growth period allowed the Portuguese GDP per capita to reach 56% of the EC-12 average by 1973.<ref name="Country Studies" />

In the early 1970s, the government of [[Marcelo Caetano]] paved some foundations for a [[welfare state]] (which actually was only built after the April 25, 1974, revolution), with reforms in health (Gonçalves Ferreira reform) and education ([[:pt:José Veiga Simão|Veiga Simão]] reform). However, the new wealth acquired from the 1960–73 growth was unevenly distributed, and the 1960s were also marked by mass emigration.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/portugal-seeks-balance-emigration-immigration |title=Portugal Seeks Balance of Emigration, Immigration |last=Malheiro |first=Jorge |date=1 December 2002 |publisher=Migration Policy Institute |access-date=27 February 2002 }}</ref> The April 25, 1974, revolution happened when this growth period was fading, owing to the [[1973 oil crisis]]. However, the political turmoil following the [[25 de Abril|April 25, 1974, coup]] (mainly from [[Processo Revolucionário Em Curso|March to November 1975]]) definitively led to the end of such economic growth period. Portugal lost suddenly and chaotically its African possessions and from May 1974 to the end of the 1970s, over a million Portuguese citizens from Portugal's African territories (mostly from Portuguese Angola and Mozambique) left those territories and arrived at metropolitan Portugal as destitute refugees&nbsp;– the ''retornados''.<ref name="Flight from Angola" /><ref name="Dismantling the Portuguese Empire" />[[File:Lisboa - Expo98 - Vista Geral.jpg|thumb|The neighborhood of [[Parque das Nações]], in Lisbon, where was held the [[Expo 98|1998 World Exposition]], is a symbol of the economic modernization and development of Portugal in the late 20th century.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ps.pt/index.php/2018/05/18/a-expo-foi-um-grande-momento-de-auto-estima-para-o-pais/ |title=A Expo foi um grande momento de auto-estima para o país. São raros |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=18 May 2018 |website=[[Socialist Party (Portugal)|Partido Socialista]] |access-date=28 February 2019 |language=pt |trans-title=Expo [98] was a major moment of self-esteem for the country. They are rare}}</ref>]]The first 10 years of the Third Republic, in the context of the [[Portuguese transition to democracy|transition to democracy]], were years of economic troubles, during which Portugal received two [[International Monetary Fund|IMF]]-monitored bailouts (from 1977–1979 and from 1983–1985). However, despite an overall crisis from 1973 to 1985, there were some years of very high economic growth, and reforms were enacted that allowed to improve standards of living and level of development, such as the construction of a true Social Security scheme, [[Healthcare in Portugal|universal health coverage]] and the continuation of the process of [[Education in Portugal#History|increasing access to education]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://expresso.pt/blogues/opiniao_daniel_oliveira_antes_pelo_contrario/2018-02-07-Do-Estado-Novo-ao-euro-sempre-na-periferia#gs.OaPPi5tY |title=Do Estado Novo ao euro, sempre na periferia |last=Oliveira |first=Daniel |date=7 February 2018 |publisher=Expresso |access-date=27 February 2019 }}</ref> In 1985 Portugal left the second IMF bailout and in 1986 the country entered the [[European Economic Community]] (and left the [[EFTA]]). Strong economic growth resumed. The growth of many of Portugal's main exporting companies<ref>{{cite journal |last=Nunes |first=Ana Bela |date=2015 |title=The Portuguese economy in the 1980s: structural change and short-term upheavals |url=https://ghes.rc.iseg.ulisboa.pt/wp/wp552015.pdf |journal=GHES Working Papers |volume=55 |page=8 |access-date=27 February 2019 |archive-date=28 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228192043/https://ghes.rc.iseg.ulisboa.pt/wp/wp552015.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the European Union's [[structural and cohesion funds]] were leading forces in a new period of robust economic growth and socio-economic development which would last (though with a short crisis around [[Early 1990s recession|1992–1994]]) to the early 2000s. In 1991, GDP per capita surpassed the 1973 level<ref name="Country Studies" /> (relative to EEC) and by 2000 it had achieved 70% of the EU-12 average, which nonetheless constituted an approach to the Western European [[standards of living]] without precedents in the centuries before.<ref name="Maddison GDP year 2000">{{cite web |url=https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/data/mpd_2013-01.xlsx |title=Maddison Project Database, version 2013 |last1=Bolt |first1=J. |last2= van Zanden |first2=J.L.|date=2014 |website=Maddison Project Database |access-date=16 April 2018 |quote=In 2000 (cell A222), Portugal had a GDP per capita of $13,922 (in 1990 US dollars) (cell Q222) while EU-12 countries had a GDP per capita of $20,131 (in 1990 US dollars) (cell N222). Thus, Portuguese GDP per capita was 69.2% of EU-12 average.}}</ref> However, the [[economy of Portugal|economy]] has been stagnant since the early 2000s (around the accession to [[Euro]]) and was hit hard by the effects of the [[Great Recession]]: public debt (historically below or in average to that of Europe<ref name="Oliveira" /> and Germany<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=ds22a34krhq5p_#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=gd_pc_gdp&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country_group&idim=country_group:eu&idim=country:pt:de&ifdim=country_group&hl=pt_PT&dl=pt_PT&ind=false |title=Dívida Pública em Percentagem do PIB |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2018 |website=Google Public Data |access-date=28 February 2019 }}</ref>) shot up from 68% of GDP in 2007 to 126% in 2012,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pordata.pt/en/Portugal/General+Government+gross+debt+as+percentage+of+GDP-2786 |title=General Government: gross debt as % of GDP |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2019 |website=Pordata |access-date=28 February 2019 |archive-date=28 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228192841/https://www.pordata.pt/en/Portugal/General+Government+gross+debt+as+percentage+of+GDP-2786 |url-status=dead }}</ref> which was one of the factors that led to a 78-billion-euro [[Economic Adjustment Programme for Portugal|IMF/EU-monitored bailout from 2011 to 2014]]. Economic growth has resumed in the mid-2010s.

Some indicators can be provided to illustrate the major socio-economic development Portugal endured in the Third Republic. Portuguese GDP per capita was at 54% of the average of Northern and Central European countries in 1975<ref name="Maddison GDP year 1975">{{cite web |url=https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/data/mpd_2013-01.xlsx |title=Maddison Project Database, version 2013 |last1=Bolt |first1=J. |last2= van Zanden |first2=J.L.|date=2014 |website=Maddison Project Database |access-date=27 February 2019 |quote=In 1975 (cell A197), Portugal had a GDP per capita of $6,517 (in 1990 US dollars) (cell Q197) while EU-12 countries had a GDP per capita of $12,158 (in 1990 US dollars) (cell N197). Thus, Portuguese GDP per capita was 53.6% of EU-12 average.}}</ref> (up from 38% in 1960,<ref name="Country Studies"/> owing to the remarkable growth in the 1960s and early 1970s) more or less the same level it was 10 years later (owing to the crisis), from when it rose from 55% in 1985<ref name="Maddison GDP year 1985">{{cite web |url=https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/data/mpd_2013-01.xlsx |title=Maddison Project Database, version 2013 |last1=Bolt |first1=J. |last2= van Zanden |first2=J.L.|date=2014 |website=Maddison Project Database |access-date=27 February 2019 |quote=In 1985 (cell A207), Portugal had a GDP per capita of $8,306 (in 1990 US dollars) (cell Q207) while EU-12 countries had a GDP per capita of $14,9960 (in 1990 US dollars) (cell N207). Thus, Portuguese GDP per capita was 55.3% of EU-12 average.}}</ref> to a virtually unprecedented 70% in 2000.<ref name="Maddison GDP year 2000"/><ref name="Silva Lopes"/> In 1970, there were 94 physicians by 100,000 inhabitants, while in 1990 there were 281, and in 2011 there were 405.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pordata.pt/Portugal/M%C3%A9dicos+e+outro+pessoal+de+sa%C3%BAde+por+100+mil+habitantes-639 |title=Médicos e outro pessoal de saúde por 100 mil habitantes |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2019 |website=Pordata |access-date=27 February 2019 |language=pt |trans-title=Physicians and other health personnel per 100 thousand inhabitants |archive-date=28 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228192824/https://www.pordata.pt/Portugal/M%C3%A9dicos+e+outro+pessoal+de+sa%C3%BAde+por+100+mil+habitantes-639 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Oliveira"/> In 1970, [[infant mortality rate]] in Portugal was 55.5 per 1,000 live births (in France it was 18.2).<ref name="Infant mortality rate">{{cite web |url=https://www.pordata.pt/en/DB/Europe/Search+Environment/Table |title=Infant mortality rate |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2019 |website=Pordata |access-date=27 February 2019 |archive-date=18 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160218065711/https://www.pordata.pt/en/DB/Europe/Search+Environment/Table |url-status=dead }}</ref> Infant mortality rate declined to 10.9 in 1990 and 2.5 in 2010 (by which time, it was one of lowest in the world).<ref name="Infant mortality rate"/> In 1970, only 37% of [[Childbirth|deliveries]] were held in official health facilities, while by 1985 such number had risen to 96% and by 2000 it was close to 100%.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pordata.pt/Portugal/Partos+em+estabelecimentos+de+sa%C3%BAde+(percentagem)-606 |title=Partos em estabelecimentos de saúde (%) |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2019 |website=Pordata |access-date=27 February 2019 |language=pt |trans-title=Deliveries at health facilities (%) |archive-date=28 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228192937/https://www.pordata.pt/Portugal/Partos+em+estabelecimentos+de+sa%C3%BAde+(percentagem)-606 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Oliveira"/><ref name=Economico/> According to a political analyst, "almost all health data transport Portugal from the Third World to the First in two decades".<ref name="Oliveira"/> In 1970, only 3.8% of teenagers were enrolled in high school; such number rose to 28% in 1990, 59% in 2000 and 71% in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pordata.pt/Portugal/Taxa+real+de+escolariza%C3%A7%C3%A3o-987 |title=Taxa real de escolarização |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2019 |website=Pordata |access-date=27 February 2019 |language=pt |trans-title=Percent of youth enrolled in school |archive-date=28 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228192821/https://www.pordata.pt/Portugal/Taxa%20real%20de%20escolariza%C3%A7%C3%A3o-987 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[illiteracy rate]] was 26% in 1970 (by comparison, in Spain it was 9%s<ref name="Oliveira"/>) and declined to 11% in 1990 and 5% in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pordata.pt/Portugal/Taxa+de+analfabetismo+segundo+os+Censos+total+e+por+sexo-2517 |title=Taxa de analfabetismo segundo os Censos: total e por sexo |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2015 |website=Pordata |access-date=27 February 2019 |language=pt |trans-title=Illiteracy rate according to the Census: total and by sex }}</ref> In housing, major improvements happened: in 1970 only 47% of households had piped [[water supply]] and 68% had access to electricity.<ref name="Oliveira"/> Historical data shows that in 1991, 86% of households had piped water supply and 98% had access to electricity.<ref name="Oliveira"/>

By 2021, Portugal had the 4th lowest [[Lists of countries by GDP per capita|GDP per capita]] ([[Purchasing power parity|PPP]]) of the eurozone.<ref>{{Cite web |last=SAPO |title=Bernardo Blanco: Portugal é o "4.º país da Zona Euro com menor poder de compra" |url=https://poligrafo.sapo.pt/fact-check/bernardo-blanco-portugal-e-o-4-o-pais-da-zona-euro-com-menor-poder-de-compra |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=Polígrafo |language=pt}}</ref>

== See also ==
{{Portal|Portugal}}
*[[Economic history of Portugal]]
*[[History of Portugal (711–1112)]]
*[[List of Portuguese Cortes]]
*[[List of Portuguese monarchs]]
*[[Kings of Portugal family tree]]
*[[List of prime ministers of Portugal]]
*[[Monuments of Portugal]]
*[[Presidents of Portugal]]
*[[Timeline of Portuguese history]]
*[[Historic villages of Portugal]]
* Cities:
** Braga [[History of Braga|history]] and [[Timeline of Braga|timeline]]
** Coimbra [[History of Coimbra|history]] and [[Timeline of Coimbra|timeline]]
** Funchal (Madeira) [[History of Funchal|history]] and [[Timeline of Funchal|timeline]]
** Lisbon [[History of Lisbon|history]] and [[Timeline of Lisbon|timeline]]
** Porto [[Porto#History|history]] and [[Timeline of Porto|timeline]]
** Setúbal [[Setúbal#History|history]] and [[Timeline of Setúbal|timeline]]

== Notes ==
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==References==
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=== Bibliography ===
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== Further reading ==
* Anderson, James Maxwell (2000). ''The History of Portugal'' [https://www.questia.com/library/1905585/the-history-of-portugal online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104142150/https://www.questia.com/library/1905585/the-history-of-portugal |date=2016-11-04 }}
* [[David Birmingham|Birmingham, David]]. ''A Concise History of Portugal'' (Cambridge, 1993) [https://archive.org/details/concisehistoryof00birm online free]
* Correia, Sílvia & Helena Pinto Janeiro. "War Culture in the First World War: on the Portuguese Participation," ''E-Journal of Portuguese history'' (2013) 11#2 [https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/Winter13.html Five articles on Portugal in the First World War]
* [[Michael Derrick|Derrick, Michael]]. ''The Portugal of Salazar'' (1939) [https://archive.org/details/portugalofsalaza011716mbp online free]
* Figueiredo, Antonio de. ''Portugal: Fifty Years of Dictatorship'' (Harmondsworth Penguin, 1976).
* Grissom, James. (2012) ''Portugal – A Brief History'' [https://www.amazon.com/Portugal-A-Brief-History-ebook/dp/B008CAFG1S/ excerpt and text search]
* Hatton, Barry. ''The Portuguese: A Modern History'' (Interlink Books, 2017).
* Kay, Hugh. ''Salazar and Modern Portugal'' (Hawthorn Books, 1970)
* Machado, Diamantino P. ''The Structure of Portuguese Society: The Failure of Fascism'' (1991), political history 1918–1974 [https://www.questia.com/read/24428093/the-structure-of-portuguese-society-the-failure-of online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105145432/https://www.questia.com/read/24428093/the-structure-of-portuguese-society-the-failure-of |date=2019-01-05 }}
* [[Kenneth Maxwell|Maxwell, Kenneth]]. ''Pombal, Paradox of the Enlightenment'' (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
* Oliveira Marques, A.H. de. ''History of Portugal: Vol. 1: from Lusitania to empire; Vol. 2: from empire to corporate state'' (1972). [https://archive.org/details/historyofportuga00anto online free]
* Nowell, Charles E. ''A History of Portugal'' (1952) [https://www.questia.com/read/89102811/a-history-of-portugal online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104204548/https://www.questia.com/read/89102811/a-history-of-portugal |date=2016-11-04 }}
* [[Stanley G. Payne|Payne, Stanley G.]] ''A History of Spain and Portugal'' (2 vol 1973) [http://libro.uca.edu/payne2/index.htm full text online vol 2 after 1700]; standard scholarly history; chapter 23

=== Empire ===
* [[C. R. Boxer|Boxer, Charles R.]] '' The Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1415–1825'' (1969)
* Clarence-Smith, William Gervase. ''The Third Portuguese Empire, 1825–1975: A Study in Economic Imperialism'' (1985)
* Crowley, Roger. ''Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire'' (2015) [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/books/review/conquerors-how-portugal-forged-the-first-global-empire-by-roger-crowley.html?emc=edit_bk_20160115&nl=bookreview&nlid=8258846&ref=headline online review]
* Disney, A.R. ''A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, Vol. 2: From Beginnings to 1807: the Portuguese empire'' (2009) [https://www.amazon.com/History-Portugal-Portuguese-Empire-Vol/dp/0521738229/ excerpt and text search]
* Elbl, Martin Malcolm. ''Portuguese Tangier (1471–1662): Colonial Urban Fabric as Cross-Cultural Skeleton'' (Baywolf Press, 2013) [https://books.google.com/books?id=AeTBAgAAQBAJ excerpt and text search]
* Newitt, Malyn. ''The First Portuguese Colonial Empire'' (University of Exeter Press, 1986) [https://www.questia.com/read/118932264/the-first-portuguese-colonial-empire online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105200910/https://www.questia.com/read/118932264/the-first-portuguese-colonial-empire |date=2019-01-05 }}
* Paquette, Gabriel. ''Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Luso-Brazilian World, c. 1770–1850'' (Cambridge University Press, 2013). 466 pp. [https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=42511 online review]
* Rodrigues, Jorge Nascimiento, and [[Tessaleno Devezas]]. ''Pioneers of Globalization – Why the Portuguese Surprised the World'', Osprey Publishing. {{ISBN|978-989-615-056-3}}
* [[A. J. R. Russell-Wood|Russell-Wood, A.J.R.]] ''The Portuguese Empire 1415–1808'' (Manchester, 1992)

=== Historiography ===
* Barros, Maria Filomena Lopes de. “Ethno-Religious Minorities”, in ''The Historiography of Medieval Portugal (c. 1950-2010)'' (Instituto de Estudos Medievais, 2011).
* Boxer, Charles R. "Some Notes on Portuguese Historiography 1930–1950." ''History'' 39.135/136 (1954): 1–13 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/24402793 online].
* Campos Matos, Sérgio. "History of Historiography and National Memory in Portugal," ''History Compass'' (Oct 2012) 10#10 pp 765–777
* de Carvalho Homem, Armando Luís. "A. H. de Oliveira Marques (1933–2007): Historiography and Citizenship," ''E-Journal of Portuguese History'' (Winter 2007) 5#2 pp 1–9
* Fernandes, Paulo Jorge, Filipe Ribeiro De Meneses, and Manuel Baiôa. "The political history of nineteenth century Portugal." ''e-journal of Portuguese History'' 1.1 (2003): 1-13 [http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/11493/1/FRDM_Nineteenth_2003.pdf online].
* Ferreira, Roquinaldo. "Taking Stock: Portuguese Imperial Historiography Twelve years after the e-JPH Debate." ''E-Journal of Portuguese History'' (June 2016), Vol. 14 Issue 1, pp 54–70 [https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue27/pdf/v14n1a04.pdf online]
* Lains, Pedro. "The Internationalization of Portuguese Historiography: the View from Economic History." ''E-Journal of Portuguese History'' 1.2 (2003): 10+ [https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/2778102.pdf online].
* Romeiras, Francisco Malta. "Jesuit Historiography in Modern Portugal." ''Journal of Jesuit Studies'' 2 (2015): 77–99.
* Sardica, José Miguel. "The Memory of the Portuguese First Republic throughout the Twentieth Century," ''E-Journal of Portuguese History'' (Summer 2011) 9#1 pp 1–27. [https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue17/pdf/v9n1a04.pdf online]
* [[Sanjay Subrahmanyam|Subrahmanyam, Sanjay]]. "The 'Kaffirs of Europe': A comment on Portugal and the historiography of European expansion in Asia." ''Studies in History'' 9.1 (1993): 131–146.

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