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The Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa (Houaiss Dictionary of the Portuguese Language) is a major reference dictionary for the Portuguese language, edited by Brazilian writer Antônio Houaiss. The dictionary was composed by a team of two hundred lexicographers from several countries. The project started in 1986 and was finished in 2000 ...
It is a quote of poet Augusto Casimiro, which translates from Portuguese to "In the service of the Fatherland, the effort of its People". Each side of the pedestal feature large inscription that reads: "Grande Guerra", meaning the "Great War". On the sides of the pedestal are, two large stone figures of men, bent under the main part of the ...
The League of Combatants ComTE MHTE MHIH ComB MHM (Portuguese: Liga dos Combatentes), originally established as the League of Combatants of the Great War (Portuguese: Liga dos Combatentes da Grande Guerra), is a Portuguese ex-service organisation established following the First World War.
The Portuguese Colonial War (Portuguese: Guerra Colonial), also referred to as the Portuguese Overseas War or Overseas War (Portuguese: Guerra do Ultramar) for short, was a military conflict staged during the Decolonisation of Africa that pitted the guerrilla forces of the African nationalist Liberation movements of the Guinea-Bissau, Angola ...
The Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa is a comprehensive dictionary of the Portuguese language, published in Brazil, first compiled by Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira. It is popularly known as the Dicionário Aurélio , or simply Aurélio or Aurelião ("Big Aurélio "').
Portuguese troops of the CEP were to be integrated in the BEF (British Expeditionary Force). January 7: The Independent Heavy Artillery Corps (Corpo de Artilharia Pesada Independente, CAPI) was created to respond to the French request for artillery crews. Under the Portuguese Superior Command, this unit was to operate 25 heavy artillery batteries.
The overwhelming majority of the Portuguese victims recorded in the Holocaust came from France, even though there are records of Portuguese-Belgians, Portuguese-Germans and Portuguese-Dutch. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Moreover, around 4,000 people of Portuguese-Jewish descent living in the Netherlands also died as a consequence of The Holocaust .
The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (Portuguese: Guerra de Independência da Guiné-Bissau), also known as the Bissau-Guinean War of Independence, was an armed independence conflict that took place in Portuguese Guinea from 1963 to 1974.