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A brief History of Portuguese Literature (6565 words) |
 | Francisco de Morais (Portugal, 15##): "Palmeirim de Inglaterra" (1567) |
| Ab¡lio-Adriano de Campos Monteiro (Portugal, 1876): "As Duas Paixoes de Sabino Arruda" (1929) |
| Joao Aguiar (Portugal, 1943): "A Hora de Sertorio" (1994) |
| Portugal FAMOUS PORTUGUESE (270 words) |
| Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães, 1480?–1521) led a Spanish expedition, the survivors of which were the first to sail around the world, although Magellan himself was killed after reaching the Philippines. |
| Afonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515) was foremost among the builders of Portugal's Far Eastern empire. |
| The main political leaders of the late 1970s and early 1980s were the Socialist Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares (b.1924), prime minister in 1976–78 and 1983–85 and became president in 1986 and was reelected in 1991; Francisco Sá Carneiro (1934–80), a leader of the Social Democratic Party and prime minister in 1979–80. |
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