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Portugal
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Country Profile: East Timor 
 Profile of the "first new nation of the [21st] century," which was founded on May 20, 2002, and which previously had been governed by Indonesia and Portugal. Includes demographic facts, historical overview, timeline of key events, and information about leaders and media. Site also includes links to related news stories, and video of some news stories. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1508119.stm Topics: Country Studies by Continent, History By Place, Regions of the World, Regions of the World Last updated Sep 8, 2009 Country Profile: Portugal
Profile of Portugal, including demographic facts, historical overview, timeline of key events back to 1908, and information about Portuguese leaders and media. Site also includes links to related news stories and audio of the national anthem. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/994099.stm Topics: Country Studies by Continent, History By Place, Regions of the World, Regions of the World Last updated Sep 8, 2009 Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries
This companion to a 2007 exhibit at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution traces Portuguese sea voyages in the 16th and 17th centuries through images of paintings, prints, and objects. Topics include the role of Portugal in Europe during the "Age of Discovery," and Portuguese voyages to Africa, China, and around the Indian Ocean. The exhibition may also be explored using Google Earth technology. http://www.asia.si.edu/EncompassingtheGlobe/ Topics: History By Place Last updated Sep 5, 2007 The European Voyages of Exploration: The Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
This multimedia tutorial focuses on Spain and Portugal's explorations and conquests in Asia, Africa, the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and the Americas. The economic, political, and cultural circumstances that contributed to exploration, short histories of the two countries, maps, discussions of collateral issues (e.g., slavery, navigation, religion), and an article about Columbus are included. Produced by The Applied History Research Group at the University of Calgary. http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/ Topics: Black Resources, History, History By Place, Labor Last updated Jul 5, 2004 PhiloBiblon
This site is "a project to construct a bio-bibliographical database of early texts produced in the Iberian Peninsula." It catalogs "the primary sources, both manuscript and printed." Search three separate bibliographies for texts in Spanish, Portuguese or Galician, and Catalan. (As of May 2009, files for supplemental material were not available.) From the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/PhiloBiblon/phhm.html Topics: History By Place Last updated May 11, 2009 Portugal
Part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook series "describing and analyzing [Portugal's] political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors." Research completed January 1993. From the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/pttoc.html Topics: Country Studies by Continent, Government, Government, History By Place, Regions of the World, Regions of the World Last updated Oct 26, 2004 Portugal Info
This Portugal travel site features information about recreational activities, accommodations (including the famed historic pousadas), surveys of Portuguese food and wines, and numerous photographs of regions of the country. Searchable, but some results are in Portuguese. From a Portuguese travel information company. http://www.portugal-info.net/ Topics: History By Place, Photograph Collections, Travel Sites by Continent Last updated Oct 26, 2004 Southwest Jewish Archives
"Dedicated to collecting and recording the dramatic history of pioneer Jews in the Desert Southwest, covering Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas," including the Crypto-Jews who trace "their family histories back to Spain and Portugal." Features materials on Jewish pioneers, railroad builders, ranchers, and merchants; synagogues and religious objects; Crypto-Jews; finding aids for the archive's collections; and transcripts of over 20 oral histories. Includes photographs. From the University of Arizona. http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/bloom/ Topics: History, History By Place, Judaism, Nonfiction by Genre, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Dec 24, 2004 |
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