Portuguese Empire

global empire centered in Portugal (1415–1999)

thumb|right|Hernán Cortés led the [[Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire and expanded the Spanish Empire in the Americas]] thumb|right|Afonso de Albuquerque expanded the [[Portuguese Empire across the Indian Ocean]]

treaty dividing territory between Portugal and Spain

1961–1974 armed conflicts in Africa between Portugal and independence movements

historic international commerce

Portuguese possession in South America (1500-1808)

war (1602–1663) between the Dutch and Portuguese colonial empires

aspect of history

Portuguese voyages of exploration

thumb|right|Map of Honnavar Taluk Honnavar is a town in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India.

Lusotropicalism () is a term and "quasi-theory" developed by Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre to describe the distinctive character of Portuguese imperialism overseas, proposing that the Portuguese were better colonizers than other European nations.

thumb|right|300px|Roman Italy, the metropole of the [[Roman Empire. Roman provinces are marked in pink.]]

1622 Anglo-Persian force taking over the Portuguese garrison at Hormuz Island

purported rationale or justification for European colonialism

thumb|300px|Américo Ferreira dos Santos Silva receives the cardinal's red hat from King Luís I, in 1879 The Padroado (, "patronage") was an arrangement between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Portugal and later the Portuguese Republic, through a series of concordats by which the Holy See delegated the administration of the local churches and granted some theocratic privileges to Portuguese monarchs.

castle in Hormuz, Iranian national heritage site

former colonial order of Portugal

designation used by Portuguese colonies

architectural style

Degredado is the traditional Portuguese term for an exiled convict, especially between the 15th and 18th centuries.

The Cartaz (plural cartazes, in Portuguese) was a naval trade license or pass issued by the Portuguese Empire in the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century (circa 1502–1750). Its name derives from the Portuguese term cartas, meaning letters. The British navicert system of 1939–45 shared similarities with it.

Baroque movement as it manifested itself in Brazil

Portuguese master map used during the Age of Exploration

first European power to begin a colonial empire

thumb|United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves and its colonies, 1800. Pluricontinentalism () was a geopolitical concept framing Portugal as a transcontinental country and a unitary nation-state made up of both continental Portugal and its overseas provinces. Tracing its roots to as early as the 14th century, pluricontinentalism was later promoted under the Estado Novo regime as a last attempt to justify retaining its remaining colonies. It presented Portugal not as a colonial empire but as a single nation-state spanning multiple continents, giving rise to the term.

1554 trade agreement between Portugal and China

1443–1503 Portuguese colonial commercial institution

Basrur / Basroor is a village in Kundapura taluk in Udupi district of Karnataka. Historically Basrur was also called Barcelor, Barcelore, Barcalor, Basnur, Bares, Abu-Sarur and Barsellor.

economic pact between colonizing nations and their colonies

Assimilado or assimilada (if female), literally "assimilated", was a status assigned from the 1910s to the 1960s to those African subjects of the colonial Portuguese Empire who had reached a level of "civilization", according to Portuguese legal standards, that theoretically qualified them for full rights as Portuguese citizens. Portuguese colonizers claimed the goal of their assimilation practices to be the "close union of races of different degrees of civilization that help and support each other loyally"; however, this notion of a "close union" differed from its practical application in the

aspect of history (1640–1777)