Then, in the early fifteenth century, this unlikely springboard for Western expansion suddenly began to accumulate an empire of its own, eventually extending more than halfway around the globe. The ...
Pelúcia, Alexandra 2022. La privanza de un rey inesperado: las primeras expresiones de favoritismo de D Manuel I de Portugal. Librosdelacorte.es, p. 174.
From the gigantic Persian empire, to the expansive British Empire, which dominated most of the world during the middle and ...
It was the largest empire by land area ever at that point in history. The Portuguese Empire reached 4 million square miles at its height in 1815, before losing Brazil and most of the rest in the ...
The book is based on two decades of research into abolition, universal freedom and justice. In it, I explore the role played ...
The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...
The marigold façade of the Pousada Convento in Tavira, a town on Portugal's southern coast ... It chronicles the region's history as a Muslim stronghold until the mid-13th century.