The 1950 census recorded 7,856,993 residents in the continental territory, and 8,441,312 with those of the four districts of Madeira and the Azores (only present population; the resident population was…
TERRITORY: MORPHOLOGY The Portuguese territory forms a sort of strongly elongated rectangle in the NS direction (approx. 550 km), while in the WE direction the average extension is 150 km….
CULTURE: LITERATURE: ROMANTICISM The early nineteenth century is marked by a series of works that lead to romanticism: Leonor de Almeida, Marquise of Alorna (1750-1839) translates Ossian, Herder and Lamartine….