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Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa commonly known as Gomes da Costa (Lisbon, January 14, 1863-Lisbon, December 17, 1929), was a Portuguese army officer and politician, tenth President of the Portuguese Republic and the second of the Military dictatorship. Image File history File links Picture of Portuguese president Manuel Gomes da Costa. ... Image File history File links Picture of Portuguese president Manuel Gomes da Costa. ... District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Pedro Santana Lopes PSD Area 84. ... Jump to: navigation, search January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Pedro Santana Lopes PSD Area 84. ... Jump to: navigation, search December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Army (from French armée) can, in some countries, refer to any armed force (for example, the Peoples Liberation Army of China consists of ground force, navy and air force branches). ... Any holder of an office or of a post may bear the title officer. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... Categories: Lists of office-holders | Portugal | Presidents of Portugal ...


As a military he stood out in campaigns of pacification of the colonies in Africa and India, and also during the First World War (See: Portugal in the Great War). As a politician he was the person chosen by the right wing revolutionaries to leader the 28 May coup d'état in Braga (after the death of General Alves Roçadas that was already chosen). // Etymology World map showing Africa (geographically) The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — land of the Afri (plural, or Afer singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage, corresponding to modern-day... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... // 1914/1915 - Neutral Portugal Bosnian separatists assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June, 28, 1914. ... Braga is a city in northwestern Portugal, in the province of Minho. ...


After the success of the revolution he did't assume power at first, being the posts of President of the Republic and President of the Counsil of Ministers (Prime Minister) being trusted to José Mendes Cabeçadas, the leader of the revolution in Lisbon. Soon the revolutionaries disliked Mendes Cabeçadas' attitude (that tried an approach to the late Portuguese First Republic) and he was replaced by Gomes da Costa in both posts in a meeting in Sacavém in June 17, 1926. However his government lasted near the same time as Cabeçadas' because on July 9 of the same year a new revolution leadered by Óscar Carmona overthroned Gomes da Costa, incapable of leading with governative duties. District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Pedro Santana Lopes PSD Area 84. ... History of Portugal series Prehistoric Portugal Pre-Roman Portugal Roman Lusitania and Gallaecia Visigoths and Suevi Moorish rule and Reconquista First County of Portugal Kingdom of Galicia and Portugal Second County of Portugal Establishment of the Monarchy Consolidation of the Monarchy 1383–1385 Crisis Discoveries Portuguese Empire 1580 Crisis Iberian... -1... June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining. ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. ... António de Fragoso Carmona António de Fragoso Carmona (1869-1951) was the tenth President of Portugal, having been Minister of War in 1923 and then General Dictator (officially Prime Minister) of Portugal. ...


Carmona, already President of the Republic and of the Counsil of Ministers, sent him to exile in the Azores Islands, and made him a Marshall of the Portuguese Army. On September 1927, he returned to mainland Portugal, where he died in miserable conditions, alone and poor. Exile is a form of punishment. ... Portuguese) are an archipelago of Portuguese islands situated in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,500 km from Lisbon and about 3,900 km from the east coast of North America. ... Marshall is the name of several places in the United States of America: Marshall, Alaska Marshall, Arkansas Marshall, Illinois Marshall, Indiana Marshall, Michigan Marshall, Minnesota Marshall, Missouri Marshall, Oklahoma Marshall, North Carolina Marshall, Texas Marshall, Virginia Marshall, Wisconsin Marshall, Dane County, Wisconsin Marshall, Richland County, Wisconsin Marshall, Rusk County, Wisconsin... The Portuguese Army (Exército Português) is the ground branch of the Portuguese Armed Forces, charged, in cooperation with the other branches, of the military defense of the Portuguese Nation. ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...


See also

Preceded by:
Mendes Cabeçadas		 President of Portugal
1926		 Succeeded by:
António Óscar Carmona

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The cork: Marshal Costa Gomes and the Portuguese Revolution - Council on Foreign Relations (1129 words)
Costa Gomes was one of the most enigmatic leaders of the coup d'etat of April 25, 1974 that overthrew Europe's oldest right-wing authoritarian regime, quickly terminated Portugal's half millennial presence in Africa, and set in motion a remarkable social upheaval that lasted over 18 turbulent months.
Through all this, General Costa Gomes remained a central figure, the "cork" as he was described at the time, the man who succeeded in floating despite the multiple turning of the tides.
Costa Gomes's powers as a president in these circumstances rested only in his ability for Machiavellian maneuver and quiet persuasion, and he remained utterly committed to the central principal that Portugal must be saved at whatever cost and whatever compromise from the catastrophe of degenerating into civil war.
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