Historical dictionary of Portugal /
Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent's oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essentially unchanged since the late 14th century. The country'sunique character and 850-year histo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press,
2010.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Series: | Historical dictionaries of Europe ;
no. 73. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent's oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essentially unchanged since the late 14th century. The country'sunique character and 850-year history as an independent state present several curious paradoxes. As of 1974, when much of the remainder of the Portuguese overseas empire was decolonized, Portuguese society appeared to be the most ethnically homogeneous of the two Iberian states and of much of Europe. This, in spite of the fact that Portuguese. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook History Collection EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 396 p.). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780810870758 0810870754 |
