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Judite Mendes De Abreu
Maria Judite Pinto Mendes de Abreu (1916–2007) was one of the first five Portuguese women to be elected as a mayor of a municipality. She served as mayor of Coimbra from 1976 to 1979 and as president of the municipal assembly of the same city from 1983 to 1986. An opponent of the '' Estado Novo'' dictatorship, she was a supporter of General Norton de Matos in the 1949 national election and a member of women's and other organizations that campaigned against the government. After the overthrow of the ''Estado Novo'' by the 1974 Carnation Revolution, she was active in the court that judged crimes committed by the dictatorship. Among other honours, she was awarded the Portuguese Order of Liberty. Early life and education Abreu was born on 16 February 1916, in the parish of São Julião, in Figueira da Foz in the Coimbra District. Daughter of Maurício Augusto Águas Pinto, an industrial trader, and Guilhermina Andrade Pinto, she was born into a wealthy family that opposed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Figueira Da Foz
Figueira da Foz (), also known as Figueira for short, is a city and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. Practically at the midpoint of the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic coast, it is located at the mouth of the Mondego River, west of Coimbra and sheltered by hills (Serra da Boa Viagem), sharing about the same latitude with Philadelphia, Baku and Beijing. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 62,125, in an area of . The city of Figueira da Foz proper has a population of 46,600. It is the second largest city in the district of Coimbra. It is a coastal city with several beaches, summer and seaport facilities on the Atlantic Ocean coast. As a tourism city, it plays an important part in the centre of the country. A zone of legal gambling, one can find in Figueira one of the biggest casinos of the Iberian Peninsula – the Casino Figueira. History According to the legend, the place's name is due to a fig tree, which stood at the quay of Salmanha, where the fish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Party (Portugal)
The Socialist Party ( pt, Partido Socialista, , PS) is a social-democratic political party in Portugal. It was founded on 19 April 1973 in the German city of Bad Münstereifel by militants from the Portuguese Socialist Action ( pt, Acção Socialista Portuguesa). The PS is a member of the Socialist International, Progressive Alliance and Party of European Socialists, and has nine members in the European Parliament within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats group during the 9th European Parliament. It is the governing party of Portugal since the 2022 legislative election. A party of the centre-left, the PS is one of the two major parties in Portuguese politics, its rival being the Social Democratic Party (PSD), a centre-right, conservative party. The leader of the PS is António Costa, the current Prime Minister of Portugal. The party won 120 of 230 seats in the Portuguese parliament following the January 2022 election, enough to form a majority government. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Activists
Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine cnidarian that resembles an 18th-century armed sailing ship ** Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also * * ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' * "A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal * Lusofonia * Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and a portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusita ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Feminists
Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine cnidarian that resembles an 18th-century armed sailing ship ** Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also * * ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' * "A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal * Lusofonia * Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and a portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusita ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 Births
Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Empire, British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * January 9 – WWI: Gallipoli Campaign: The last British troops are evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevails over a joint British and French operation to capture Constantinople. * January 10 – WWI: Erzurum Offensive: Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire. * January 12 – The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, part of the British Empire, is established in present-day Tuvalu and Kiribati. * January 13 – WWI: Battle of Wadi (1916), Battle of Wadi: Ottoman Empire forces defeat the British, during the Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq. * January 29 – WWI: Paris is bombed by German Empire, German zeppelins. * January 31 – WWI: An attack is planned on Verdun, France. February * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
António Ramalho Eanes
António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes, GColL GCL GColTE CavA GCB RVC (; born 25 January 1935) is a Portuguese general and politician who was the 16th president of Portugal from 1976 to 1986. Background Born at Alcains, Castelo Branco, he is the son of Manuel dos Santos Eanes, a general contractor, and wife Maria do Rosário Ramalho. Political career After a long military career in the Portuguese Colonial Wars, he was stationed in Portuguese Angola when the 25 April revolution of 1974 took place. He joined the Movimento das Forças Armadas (MFA or Armed Forces Movement) and after returning to Portugal, he was made president of RTP (Portuguese public television). He ordered the military operations against the pro-communist radical faction of the MFA on 25 November 1975, an event known as the 25 de Novembro, ending that year's "hot summer" (''Verão quente''). In 1976 he was elected President of Portugal. At the end of 1980 he was re-elected, serving until February 1986. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odete Isabel
Odete Isabel (born 1940) is a Portuguese former pharmacist and politician, who is also a leading freemason. She was a founder member of the ''Associação Portuguesa de Farmacêuticos Hospitalares'' (Portuguese Association of Hospital Pharmacists - APFH) and its president from 1993 to 2002. In 1976 she was one of the first five women, known as "The Magnificent Five", to be elected as mayors of Portuguese municipalities. Isabel was Grand Master of the ''Grande Loja Feminina de Portugal'' masonic lodge, between 2010 and 2012 and re-appointed to the position in October 2021. Early life and education Maria Odete Isabel was born on 14 July 1940, in Montouro in the parish of Covões, in the municipality of Cantanhede, in Portugal's Coimbra District. When she was very young, her parents moved to Mealhada in the Aveiro District where they worked as fish traders. When she was twelve her parents sent her to be a boarder at a convent school. In 1964 Isabel completed a degree in pharmacy a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lurdes Breu
Maria de Lurdes Breu (born 1940) was one of five women in Portugal known as "The Magnificent Five", who were the first women to serve as municipal mayors in the country, after elections in December 1976. She became mayor of Estarreja in the Aveiro District, being re-elected on four occasions and serving until the beginning of 1993. Early life Breu was born in Cantanhede, Portugal, Cantanhede in the Coimbra District in 1940. She became a teacher and among her activities were trips to Mozambique and South Africa, having in the latter coordinated the introduction of basic education at the Association of the Portuguese Community of Pretoria (ACPP). Political career Following the Carnation Revolution in April 1974, which overthrew the ''Estado Novo (Portugal), Estado Novo'' dictatorship, Breu became active in her local teachers' union and joined the centre-right Social Democratic Party (Portugal), Social Democratic Party (PSD). At the time, politics was very much regarded in Portugal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francelina Chambel
Maria Francelina dos Santos Chambel (born 1934) was one of the first five female mayors of municipalities in Portugal, taking up her position as mayor of Sardoal in the Santarém District in early January 1977 and remaining in that position until 1993. Early life Chambel was born on 4 August 1934 in Miranda do Corvo in the Coimbra District of Portugal. At the age of six her family moved to the Portuguese capital of Lisbon where she would later obtain a managerial position in the Social Security office. In Lisbon, she met and married José Chambel Dionísio, who came from Sardoal. They had four children. Political career Following the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974, which overthrew the '' Estado Novo'' dictatorship, women had the opportunity to stand for election. Although she was still working in Lisbon, her husband and his father felt that her managerial experience would make her an ideal mayor, and nominated her for the election. She had no expectation of winning a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alda Santos Victor
Alda Soares de Melo Cardoso dos Santos Victor (born 1921 or 1922) was one of the so-called "Magnificent Five" Portuguese women who were elected in December 1976 as municipal mayors in the first election for mayors in Portugal after the April 1974 Carnation Revolution. She was re-elected on two further occasions. Early life Victor was born in Aveiro in 1921 or 1922. She married a magistrate in 1940 and travelled around the country, accompanying him on his various postings for 14 years before moving to the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. The couple had one daughter. Political career At the time of the 1976 municipal elections, she received a delegation from the centre-right CDS – People's Party from Vagos, a municipality in the Aveiro District, who asked her to consider running for election as mayor. Their preference was apparently for her husband, who came from the village of Soza in the municipality, but as he had had connections with the '' Estado Novo'' regime that had been ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PIDE
The International and State Defense Police ( pt, Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado; PIDE) was a Portuguese security agency that existed during the '' Estado Novo'' regime of António de Oliveira Salazar. Formally, the main roles of the PIDE were the border, immigration and emigration control and internal and external State security. Over time, it came to be known for its secret police activities. The agency that would later become the PIDE was established by the Decree-Law 22992 of August 1933, as the State Surveillance and Defense Police (Polícia de Vigilância e Defesa do Estado) or PVDE. It resulted from the merger of two former agencies, the Portuguese International Police and the Political and Social Defense Police. PVDE was founded by Captain Agostinho Lourenço, who in 1956 would become the President of Interpol. The PVDE was transformed into the PIDE in 1945. PIDE was itself transformed into the Directorate-General of Security or DGS in 1968. After the 25 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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