Portuguese Empire
Global empire centered in Portugal (1415–1999)
Also known as Portuguese Overseas · Portuguese Colonial Empire · colonial history of Portugal · Portuguese colonies · Portuguese colonial empire · Portuguese colony
- Country
- Portugal(since 1910)
- , Kingdom of Portugal(1822–1910)
- , United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves(1815–1822)
- +1 more
- Area
- 10.4M km²(1815)
- Founded
- August 21, 1415
Overview
All data
86 statements · 7% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Anthem
- Hymn of the Charter(1834–1910)
- A Portuguesa(since 1910)
- Hymno Patriótico(1809–1826)
- Dissolved
- December 20, 1999 end cause: transfer of sovereignty over Macau
- Capital
- Lisbon(1415–1815)
- Rio de Janeiro(1815–1821)
- Lisbon(1821–2002)
- Official name
- Império Português
- Gregorian calendar start date
- October 15, 1582 replaces: Julian calendar
- Part of
- Iberian Union(1580–1640)
- Native label
- Império Colonial Português
- Official religion
- Catholicism(until 1911) end cause: Law of Separation of Church and State
- Geoshape
- Data:Imperio Portugués 1790.map
On other databases
17 identifiers linking Portuguese Empire across the web's reference databases
- BBC Things IDd1b95bc2-5070-4de7-9402-eadf0e58366e
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11979529k
- BNCF Thesaurus ID48331
- Freebase ID/m/01hk04
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)3160973
- IDAI.gazetteer ID2379552
- J9U entity ID987007553607605171
- Larousse IDautre-region/Empire_colonial_portugais/139350
- LEMAC IDLEMAC201227528
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh89004110
- Namuwiki ID포르투갈 제국
- OpenHistoricalMap relation ID2905985
- PM20 geo codeA33
- Quora topic IDPortuguese-Empire
- Wellcome Collection concept IDra2jsuwm
- World History Encyclopedia IDPortuguese_Empire
- Yale LUX IDplace/d790853d-66bf-46be-b17c-4b5467985aa8