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King John IV of Portugal provided a new charter, and a decree on 29 November 1644, forced them (under terrible sanctions) to serve the public, working in the day and evenings. [2] By the first half of the 18th century, little had improved. [2] There continued to be a lack of policing, resulting in leis in 1701, 1702 and 1714.
Portugal has become one of the countries in Europe with the lowest attendances of theater and the lowest rates of book reading. The traditionally bad box-office results of Portuguese cinema, compared to the amount of foreign awards the same movies get, is also pointed out as a result of this gap.
Rank Region GDP in euros € % of GDP GDP per capita In euros € As % of Portugal average 1 Greater Lisbon: 84,363,398,000 31.6% 39,942 158.0% 2
Cable News Network Portugal, also known as CNN Portugal and abbreviated as CNN PT, is a Portuguese basic cable and satellite television news channel owned by Media Capital. It was launched on 26 February 2009 as TVI 24 , the 24-hour news channel of the terrestrial network Televisão Independente .
The channel promised television series already broadcast in Portugal, as well as some new series that were exclusive to the channel at the time: The Simpsons, The X-Files, Family Guy, King of the Hill, Alien Nation, Batman, L.A. Law, The Pretender and Lou Grant. From the start, the channel would broadcast 18 hours a day, from 9am to 3am. [1]
The Federação Portuguesa de Atletismo was founded on 5 November 1921, under the name "Federação Portuguesa de Sports Atléticos". It is headquartered in Linda-a-Velha, Oeiras.
With the invasion of Portugal by Napoleon's imperial army in 1807, the Portuguese Royal Court fled to Brazil, establishing the capital of the Portuguese Monarchy and Empire in Rio de Janeiro. In 1815, the Portuguese state of Brazil was elevated to a kingdom, thus receiving the same status as the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves.
(Autonomous region of Portugal) Legal since 1983 + UN decl. sign. [68] De facto union since 2001 [79] [80] Legal since 2010 [81] Legal since 2016 [82] [83] [84] Portugal responsible for defence Bans all anti-gay discrimination. [73] Since 2011, all documents can be amended to the recognised gender [85] Melilla (Autonomous city of Spain) Legal ...