''O Comércio do Porto'' (lit. ''Porto Trade'') was a

Portuguese 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 ** Portu ...

daily

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. First appearing in

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

under the title ''O Commercio'' in 1854, the newspaper folded in 2005 after more than 150 years of continuous publication. At the time of its closure, it was the second-oldest newspaper published in Portugal after '' O Açoriano Oriental''. In the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution in 1974, circulation of ''O Comércio do Porto'' reached 120,000 copies before declining during the 1990s, prompting its sale to Spanish media company

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in 2001. It was published in its later years as a regional newspaper only. The last edition was printed on 30 July 2005. In 2008 an agreement was made between Prensa Ibérica and the city authorities of

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, allowing physical copies of ''O Comércio do Porto'' and a collection of several thousand photographs and engravings published in the newspaper over its history to be displayed at the city's Municipal Archive. Its last director was António Matos.

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''O Comércio do Porto'' online
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