Portugal's culture:
Portuguese cities still retain their historical character, and many of their old buildings are still intact, and its capital (Lisbon) has not changed much since the late eighteenth century, and the natural environment has been well preserved, and there is no serious pollution, and the art of painting is considered to be tiles and glass, Known as azulejos, one of the most popular art forms in Portugal, this technique (tile and glass art) was first introduced by Morse, and was adopted by the king in 1500, after which the use of blue and white tiles by craftsmen spread throughout the country. .
The nature of Portugal:
Forests cover most of the territory of Portugal, and even today a quarter of the country is still forests, and among the common types of trees there is the cork tree, and there are many foreign plant species introduced by humans, and the number of wild animals living in Portugal has decreased due to the large number of hunting.
Portugal's animals include pigs, wild goats, deer, foxes, and Iberian rabbits. The Iberian lynx is the most endangered species of cat in the world, so Portugal and Spain work together to create an open space to allow a few hundred lynxes to roam freely, and the coasts in Portugal are a rich habitat for oysters, tuna , bonito, sardines, and many other migratory birds stop in Portugal during their journey to and from Central Europe to Africa and beyond.
Portugal's government:
Portugal is a democratic republic and has been a member of the European Union since 1986. The country has gone through many forms of government in its history. In 1143, Portugal became a separate kingdom from the rest of the Iberian Peninsula and ruled by a king until 1910, after which Portugal became a republic.
From 1910 to 1926, Portugal had 44 governments in this period, 20 military takeovers, and 12 presidents, and Portugal was ruled by the dictator (Antonio de Oliveira Salazar) until his death in 1970, and the Portuguese people did not want another dictator so they went to The street in a mass movement called the Carnation Revolution, because the revolutionaries were wearing red carnations, and Portugal became a democracy in 1976, and Portugal adopted the euro as its currency in 1999.
Portugal's history:
The Moors and Muslims coming from North Africa, settled in the Iberian Peninsula in 711, and the Moors were expelled from Iberia by Christian armies, and by the ninth century, northern Portugal was under Christian rule, and Portugal is considered one of the oldest countries in the world.
Portugal was founded in the twelfth century, and in 1487 - 1488 Bartolomeo Dias was the first European to cross the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, Ferdinand Magellan led the first voyage around the world between 1519 and 1522, and in the seventies, Portugal broke its vast overseas empire and gave independence to Angola, Mozambique, and other colonies The Azores and Madeira islands are under the control of Portugal, and the island of Macao, which was also under the control of Portugal, was returned to China in 1999.
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