High on the cliffs above the Cuanza River in Angola, the fortress of Cambambe stands as a stark monument of Portuguese colonial ambitions in Africa.

The Portuguese Empire was a major colonial power alongside the Spanish Empire, which was active from 1415 to 1999. It expanded across the globe, establishing control over large regions covering ...

Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Vol. 21, No. 4, An Age of Translation (Fall 2021), pp. 24-62 (39 pages) In the first decades of the sixteenth century, the Portuguese Crown issued a ...

Historian José Pedro Monteiro to give virtual lecture on forced labor policies in the Portuguese colonial empire ...

The researchers studied the similarity of non-native species in 1183 regions of the former British, Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish empires. The time that regions colonised by the same empire spent ...

During the decades that followed, the Ottomans became progressively more engaged in the affairs of this vast and previously unfamiliar region, eventually to the point of launching a systematic ...

Almost every area that used to be part of the Portuguese Empire is home to small ethnic groups of mixed heritage such as the Macanese in Macau, China, and the Kristang people in Singapore and ...

Some viewers might recognize the woods as the Leiria Pine Forest whose timber and sap built the ships that built the Portuguese empire.

Archaeologists have discovered a 300-year-old shipwreck with a hoard of treasure, but the fate of the 200 slaves on board remains unknown.