Historical Dictionary of Portugal

Historical Dictionary of Portugal
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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Portugal written by Douglas L. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portugal remains one of the least known of West European states. The dictionary fills the knowledge gap with hundreds of entries and the most extensive multilingual bibliography of any English-language book in print on Portugal. Among topics covered are biographies, institutions, customs, trends, socio-economic conditions, emigration, tourist and historic sites and buildings, and Portugal's 500-year old colonial empire--the first established, the last to be decolonized.


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