Economy Economy overview: Portugal has a developing capitalist economy with a share of GDP per capita that is two thirds of that of the four major Western European powers. In…
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….