José Luciano de Castro Pereira Corte Real (14 December 1834 – 9 March 1914) was a Portuguese politician, statesman, and journalist who served three times as

Prime Minister of Portugal The prime minister of Portugal (; ) is the head of government of Portugal. As head of government, the prime minister coordinates the actions of ministers, represents the Government of Portugal to the other bodies of state, is accountable to Ass ...

. He was one of the founders of the Progressist Party, of which he was the leader from the time of

Anselmo José Braamcamp Anselmo José Braamcamp de Almeida Castelo Branco (23 October 1817 – 13 November 1885) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese politician of the History of Portugal (1834–1910), Constitutional Monarchy era. He was the leader of the Historic Party ( ...

's death in 1885, onward. Castro was the head of government during the

Pink Map The Pink Map (), also known as the Rose-Coloured Map, was a map prepared in 1885 to represent the Kingdom of Portugal's claim of sovereignty over a land corridor connecting the Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique during the Scramble fo ...

crisis and the subsequent

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. The crisis was one of the factors that proved decisive in the fall of the Portuguese constitutional monarchy on 5 October 1910.

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