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Monforte, Portalegre
Monforte () is a municipality in the District of Portalegre in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 3,329, in an area of 420.25 km2. The present Mayor is Gonçalo Nuno Lagem, elected by the Coligação Democrática Unitária. History The human occupation of this territory began in the Neolithic period, with small communities farming and cattle raising. The Roman civilization had an important influence in these lands leaving a rich patrimonial legacy. During the Middle Ages there existed in the territory of the present council two different population nucleus, the Villa of Monforte and the Villa of Assumar. The first Letter of charter was granted in 1257, by D.Afonso III, to the Villa of Monforte. It would be it given new letter of charter on July 1, 1512, by D. Manuel I. In 1281, D. Dinis offered it to its daughter D. Isabel, as gift of its marriage. In 1455, the Villa of Monforte entered in the ownership of the territorial domain of Bragança's House, through the donatio ...
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Alentejo
Alentejo ( , , ) is a geographical, historical, and cultural region of south–central and southern Portugal. In Portuguese, its name means "beyond the Tagus" (). Alentejo includes the regions of Alto Alentejo Province, Alto Alentejo and Baixo Alentejo Province, Baixo Alentejo. It corresponds to the districts of District of Beja, Beja, District of Évora, Évora, District of Portalegre, Portalegre, and Alentejo Litoral. Its main cities are Évora, Beja, Portugal, Beja, Sines, Serpa, Estremoz, Elvas, and Portalegre, Portugal, Portalegre. It has borders with Beira Baixa Province, Beira Baixa in the north, with Spain (Andalucia and Extremadura) in the east, Algarve in the south, and the Atlantic Ocean, Ribatejo, and Estremadura Province (historical), Estremadura in the west. Alentejo is a region known for its traditional polyphonic singing groups, similar to those found in Tuscany, Corsica, and elsewhere. History In the 19th century, the comarca of the Alentejo became the Al ...
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Charter
A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the recipient admits a limited (or inferior) status within the relationship, and it is within that sense that charters were historically granted, and it is that sense which is retained in modern usage of the term. In early medieval Britain, charters transferred land from donors to recipients. The word entered the English language from the Old French ', via -4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ', via Latin ', and ultimately from Ancient Greek">Greek (', meaning "layer of papyrus"). It has come to be synonymous with a document that sets out a grant of rights or privileges. Other usages The term is used for a special case (or as an exception) of an ...
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José Carlos Malato
José Carlos Malato (born 7 March 1964) is a Portugal, Portuguese TV presenter, radio broadcaster, copywriter and college teacher. In 2018, Malato publicly came out as gay. In 2022, they came out as Non-binary gender, non-binary. Television programs hosted * ''Top+'', on RTP1 with Ana Lamy. * ''Portugal no Coração'', on RTP1, with Merche Romero, Marta Leite de Castro and Cristina Alves. * ''1 vs. 100, Um Contra Todos'', on RTP1. * ''A Herança'', on RTP1. * ''Sexta À Noite'', on RTP1. * ''PokerFace (game show), Jogo Duplo'', on RTP1. * ''Decisão Final'', on RTP1. * ''Festival da Canção'' (semi-finals), on RTP1 (since 2017). References External linksJosé Carlos Malato's Facebook
Portuguese television presenters Living people 1964 births People from Monforte, Portugal Portuguese gay entertainers Portuguese non-binary people Portuguese LGBTQ broadcasters Non-binary entertainers Non-binary gay people 21st-century Portuguese LGBTQ people LGBTQ television people {{p ...
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Integralismo Lusitano
''Integralismo Lusitano'' (English: "Lusitanian Integralism") was a Portugal, Portuguese integralism, integralist political movement founded in Coimbra in 1914 that advocated Traditionalist conservatism, traditionalism but not conservatism. It was against parliamentary system, parliamentarism but favoured decentralization, national syndicalist, national syndicalism, the Catholic Church in Portugal, Catholic Church and the Kingdom of Portugal, monarchy. Its members included an amalgam of rightists, monarchists, Catholics and nationalists. Origin Lusitanian Integralism is a variant of integralism that evolved in Portugal, the term "Lusitania" being derived from the Latin term for the southern region of what is now Portugal. The movement was created to address the threats of anticlerical liberalism, socialism, populist and revolution. The movement drew inspiration from the French royalist movement ''Action française'' and it considered an authoritarian, nationalist and corpora ...
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António Sardinha
António Sardinha (9 September 1887 in Monforte, Portalegre – 10 January 1925 in Elvas) was a Portuguese writer and leading theorist of the movement known as Integralismo Lusitano. His worldview was strongly conservative. Early politics Sardinha studied law at the University of Coimbra and graduated in 1911. Philip Rees, ''Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890'', 1990, p. 344 During his student years, he was a supporter of republicanism and briefly of anarcho-syndicalism, but by 1911 he had become a strong advocate of monarchism and Catholicism, partly because of the influence of his highly conservative mother. He was also influenced in this regard by the Spanish conservative Juan Vázquez de Mella, who was a close friend of Sardinha from the early 1900s. Integralism He helped found the Integralismo Lusitano movement in 1913, along with José Hipólito Raposo and Alberto de Monsaraz.Anna Klobucka, ''The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth'', 2000, ...
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Freguesia (Portugal)
(), usually translated as "parish" or "civil parish", is the third-level administrative subdivision of Portugal, as defined by the 1976 Constitution. It is also the designation for local government jurisdictions in the former Portuguese overseas territories of Cape Verde and Macau (until 2001). In the past, it was also an administrative division of the other Portuguese overseas territories. The civil parishes and communities in England and Wales and in the Spanish autonomous communities of Galicia and Asturias is similar to a in Portugal. The average land area of a Portuguese parish is about and an average population of about 3,386 people. The largest parish by area is Alcácer do Sal (Santa Maria do Castelo e Santiago) e Santa Susana, with a land area of , and the smallest parish by area is São Bartolomeu (Borba), with a land area of . The most populous parish is Algueirão - Mem Martins, with a population of 68,649 people and the least populous is Mosteiro, with a popula ...
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Arraiolos
Arraiolos (), officially the Town of Arraiolos (), is a town and municipality in the Évora District of Portugal. As of 2021, the municipality had a population of 6,606 people and covered an area of . The town itself was home to 3,133 residents in the same year. The current Mayor is Silvia Pinto, elected by the Unitary Democratic Coalition. The town is famous for its castle and its embroidered wool rugs and carpets. Arraiolos rugs have been made since at least the 16th century. In October 2003, Jorge Sampaio, the then President of Portugal, invited the Presidents of Finland, Germany, as well as of soon-to-be EU members Hungary, Latvia and Poland to Arraiolos in order to discuss the consequences of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and plans for a Constitution for Europe. Subsequent meetings of non-executive presidents of European Union member states have been dubbed '' Arraiolos meetings''. History Origins and Roman era Archaeological evidence suggests that the area ...
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Afonso V Of Portugal
Afonso V (; 15 January 1432 – 28 August 1481), known by the sobriquet the African (), was King of Portugal from 1438 until his death in 1481, with a brief interruption in 1477. His sobriquet refers to his military conquests in Northern Africa. He later became embroiled in the War of the Castilian Succession but lost and instead accepted Portuguese hegemony in the Atlantic south of the Canary Islands in exchange. Early life Born in Sintra on 15 January 1432, Afonso was the second son of King Edward of Portugal by his wife Eleanor of Aragon. Following the death of his older brother, Infante João (1429–1433), Afonso acceded to the position of heir apparent and was made the first Prince of Portugal by his father, who sought to emulate the English court's custom of a dynastic title that distinguished the heir apparent from the other children of the monarch. He was only six years old when he succeeded his father in 1438. During his minority, Afonso was placed under the regen ...
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Bragança (Portugal)
Bragança may refer to: People * Jaime Celestino Dias Bragança, a Portuguese footballer Politics and History * House of Bragança - A Portuguese Royal House * Duke of Bragança - A Portuguese noble, and later royal, title * Bragança - One of the member constituencies of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. Places Brazil * Bragança, Pará, a municipality in the State of Pará * Bragança Paulista, São Paulo, a municipality in the State of São Paulo Portugal * Bragança, Portugal, a city and municipality in the north-eastern district of Bragança * Bragança District, a historical district in the Norte region of Portugal Sports * G.D. Bragança, association football club based in Bragança Municipality See also * Braganza (other) Braganza may refer to: * Bragança, a city in northeast Portugal sometimes called Braganza in English * Francis Braganza (1922-2011), an Indian Jesuit priest, bishop of Baroda (Vadodara) * House of Bragan ...
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Dinis Of Portugal
Denis (, ; 9 October 1261 – 7 January 1325), called the Farmer King (''Rei Lavrador'') and the Poet King (''Rei Poeta''), was King of Portugal from 1279 until his death in 1325. Dinis was the eldest son of Afonso III of Portugal by his second wife, Beatrice of Castile, and grandson of Afonso II of Portugal, Denis succeeded his father in 1279. He was married to Elizabeth of Aragon, who was later canonised as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Denis ruled Portugal for over 46 years. He worked to reorganise his country's economy and gave an impetus to Portuguese agriculture. He ordered the planting of a large pine forest (that still exists today) near Leiria to prevent the soil degradation that threatened the region and to serve as a source of raw materials for the construction of the royal ships. He was also known for his poetry, which constitutes an important contribution to the development of Portuguese as a literary language. Reign In 1290, Denis began to pursue the sy ...
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Manuel I Of Portugal
Manuel I (; 31 May 146913 December 1521), known as the Fortunate (), was King of Portugal from 1495 to 1521. A member of the House of Aviz, Manuel was Duke of Beja and Viseu prior to succeeding his cousin, John II of Portugal, as monarch. Manuel ruled over a period of intensive expansion of the Portuguese Empire owing to the numerous Portuguese discoveries made during his reign. His sponsorship of Vasco da Gama led to the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India in 1498, resulting in the creation of the Portuguese India Armadas, which guaranteed Portugal's monopoly on the spice trade. Manuel began the Portuguese colonization of the Americas and Portuguese India, and oversaw the establishment of a vast trade empire across Africa and Asia. Manuel established the Casa da Índia, a royal institution that managed Portugal's monopolies and its imperial expansion. He financed numerous famed Portuguese navigators, including Pedro Álvares Cabral (who discovered Brazil), ...
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Afonso III Of Portugal
Afonso IIIrare English alternatives: ''Alphonzo'' or ''Alphonse'', or ''Affonso'' (Archaic Portuguese), ''Alfonso'' or ''Alphonso'' (Portuguese-Galician languages, Portuguese-Galician) or ''Alphonsus'' (Latin). (; 5 May 121016 February 1279), called the Boulonnais (Portuguese language, Port. ''o Bolonhês''), was List of Portuguese monarchs, King of Portugal and the first to use the title ''King of Portugal and the Kingdom of Algarve, Algarve'', from 1249. He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and his wife, Urraca of Castile, Queen of Portugal, Urraca of Castile; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal, who died on 4 January 1248. Early life Afonso was born in Coimbra. As the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal, he was not expected to inherit the throne, which was destined to go to his elder brother Sancho II of Portugal, Sancho. He lived mostly in France, where he married Countess Matilda II of Boulogne in 1238, thereby becoming count of Boulogne ...
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