Portuguese Empire Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Portuguese Empire
Arms and the Heroes, who fromLisbon's shore,Through Seas where sail was never spread before,Beyond whereCeylonlifts her spicy breast,And waves her woods above the watery waste,With prowess more than human forced their wayTo the fair kingdoms of the rising day:What wars they waged, what seas, what dangers past,What glorious empire crowned their toils at last. —opening stanza ofOs Lusíadas(The Lusiads) by Luís de Camões, 1572 During the reconquest of theIberian peninsula, the Christian troops followed the Muslims further across the Mediterranean. In 1415, the Portuguese captured the Moorish port ofCeuta, marking the start of the Portuguese Empire. The Portuguese were pioneers in the Age of Exploration, discoveringVolta do Mar(lit. "turn of the sea"), a system of ocean currents and prevailing
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