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Portugal at AllExperts (8618 words) |
 | Portugal is a democratic republic.The four main organs of Portuguese politics are the President of the Republic, the Assembly of the Republic, the Government, and the Courts. |
 | The Communists and the Greens are in coalition as the Unitarian Democratic Coalition. |
 | Portugal developed an increasingly service-based economy and it was one of the eleven founding countries of the ⬠in 1999 and began circulating the new currency on January 1, 2002 along with eleven other EU members. |
| Portugal (5152 words) |
 | Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and east and by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south. |
 | Because Philip II of Spain was the son of a Portuguese princess, the Spanish ruler became Philip I of Portugal in 1580. |
 | Portugal was recognized as a kingdom with its own king by Leon in 1143 and by the Pope in 1179. |