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List of country name etymologies The Portuguese named the area in honour of a Ngola allied with them.

Liberia The Portuguese had named the area Costa da Pimenta, later translated as Grain Coast, because of the abundance of grains of melegueta pepper.

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    Portuguese name

    A typical Portuguese name is composed of one or two given names, and two family names. The last surname is the father's family surname; the first surname is the mother's family surname.
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    Portuguese Timor

    Portuguese Timor was the name of East Timor when it was under Portuguese control. ... Following a 1974 coup (the "Carnation Revolution"), the new government favoured a gradual decolonisation process for Portuguese territories in Asia and Africa.
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    Portuguese American

    Portuguese Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in the southwest European nation of Portugal, including the offshore island groups of the Azores and Madeira. ... See also Portuguese American neighborhoods.
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    Portuguese Brazilian

    Portuguese-Brazilian (Portuguese: luso-brasileiro) is a Portuguese born citizen with Brazilian citizenship or a Brazilian born citizen of Portuguese ancestry or citizenship. ... Due to the independence of that Portuguese overseas provinces after the 1974 democratic military coup at Lisbon known as the Carnation Revolution, a new wave of Portuguese settlers arrived in Brazil until the late 1970s as refugees.
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    Portuguese Guinea

    Portuguese Guinea (also Guinea or the Overseas Province of Guinea) was the name for what is today Guinea-Bissau from 1446 to September 10, 1974. ... However, a large tract of land that was formerly Portuguese was lost to French West Africa, including the prosperous Casamance River area, which had been a large commercial centre for the colony.
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    Portuguese Colonial War

    The Portuguese Colonial War (Portuguese: Guerra Colonial), also known as the Overseas War in Portugal (Portuguese: Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies as the War of liberation (Portuguese: Guerra de Libertação), was fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974. ... Similar scenarios would play out in other overseas Portuguese territories.
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    Portuguese East Africa

    Portuguese East Africa (also Mozambique, Portuguese Mozambique or the Overseas Province of Mozambique) is the common name by which the Portuguese Empire's territorial expansion in East Africa was known across different periods of time. Portuguese East Africa was a string of Portuguese overseas colonies and later a Portuguese overseas province along the south-east African coast, which now form the republic of Mozambique.
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    Portuguese Bend

    The Portuguese Bend region is the largest area of natural vegetation remaining on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. ... This feature makes the Portuguese Bend Landslide area a natural research laboratory for the study of island biogeography and evolutionary ecology.
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    Portuguese language

    Portuguese ( português (help·info) or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal. ... See List of Brazil state name etymologies, for some more examples.
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    Portuguese people

    The Portuguese (Portuguese: os Portugueses) are an ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the far west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. ... ... Visigoths and Suevi (including the Buri, permanently established in the early 5th century), along with, in the period of the Al-Andalus, numbers of Arabs and Berbers, Saqaliba (people of Slavic origin) and Jews who also settled in what is today Portuguese territory.

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