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The economic history of Portugal covers the development of the economy throughout the course of Portuguese history. It has its roots prior to nationality, when Roman occupation developed a thriving economy in Hispania , in the provinces of Lusitania and Gallaecia , as producers and exporters to the Roman Empire.
From prehistoric cultures, to its Pre-Roman civilizations (such as the Lusitanians, the Gallaeci, the Celtici, and the Cynetes, amongst others), passing through its contacts with the Phoenician-Carthaginian world, the Roman period (see Hispania, Lusitania and Gallaecia), the Germanic invasions of the Suebi, Buri (see Kingdom of the Suebi) and ...
Notwithstanding the concentration of the means of production in the hands of a small number of family-based financial-industrial groups, Portuguese business culture permitted a surprising upward mobility of university-educated individuals with middle-class backgrounds into professional management careers.
The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis.. The Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, which lasted almost two centuries, led to the establishment of the provinces of Lusitania in the south and Gallaecia in the north of what is now Portugal.
Composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal, it was the longest-lived colonial empire in European history, lasting 584 years from the conquest of Ceuta in North Africa in 1415 to the transfer of sovereignty over Macau to China in 1999.
[42] [43] Portugal is home to several world class universities and business schools that have been contributing to the creation of a number of highly renowned international managers [44] and are attracting an increasing number of foreign students. [45] Portugal has the highest emigration rate as a proportion of population in the European Union.
Cultural history of Portugal (9 C, 5 P) I. Portuguese international schools (1 C) L. Languages of Portugal (7 C, 18 P) ... Pages in category "Culture of Portugal"
History of art in Portugal (1 C) I. Iberian culture (2 C, 1 P) L. ... Pages in category "Cultural history of Portugal" The following 5 pages are in this category, out ...