Portuguese Almost five centuries as a Portuguese colony came to a close with independence in 1975. Large-scale emigration by whites, economic dependence on South Africa, a severe drought, and a prolonged civil ... www.exxun.com/Mozambique/a_fg.html
Portuguese Emakhuwa 26.1%, Xichangana 11.3%, Portuguese 8.8% (official; spoken by 27% of population as a second language), Elomwe 7.6%, Cisena 6.8%, Echuwabo 5.8%, other Mozambican languages 32%, other foreign languages 0.3%, unspecified 1.3 ... www.exxun.com/Mozambique/c_pp.html
Portuguese conventional long form: Republic of Mozambique conventional short form: Mozambique local long form: Republica de Mocambique local short form: Mocambique former: Portuguese East Africa www.exxun.com/Mozambique/d_gv.html
Portuguese Papiamento 65.4% (a Spanish-Portuguese-Dutch-English dialect), English 15.9% (widely spoken), Dutch 7.3% (official), Spanish 6.1%, Creole 1.6%, other 1.9%, unspecified 1.8% (2001 census) www.exxun.com/NetherlandsAntilles/c_pp.html
Portuguese 1650 (expulsion of the Portuguese) www.exxun.com/Oman/d_gv.html
Portuguese noun: Portuguese (singular and plural) adjective: Portuguese www.exxun.com/Portugal/c_pp.html
Portuguese ... CDS/PP [Paulo PORTAS]; Green Ecologist Party (The Greens) or PEV [leadership commission elected by members]; Portuguese Communist Party or PCP [Jeronimo DE SOUSA]; Portuguese Socialist Party or PS [Jose SOCRATES Carvalho ... www.exxun.com/Portugal/d_gv.html
Portuguese Portuguese Army (Exercito Portugues), Portuguese Navy (Marinha Portuguesa; includes Marine Corps), Portuguese Air Force (Forca Aerea Portuguesa, FAP) (2008) www.exxun.com/Portugal/h_ml.html
Portuguese ... islands of Tristan da Cunha, Nightingale, Inaccessible, and Gough. Tristan da Cunha is named after its Portuguese discoverer (1506); it was garrisoned by the British in 1816 to prevent any attempt to ... www.exxun.com/SaintHelena/a_fg.html
Portuguese predominantly black; some British, Portuguese, and Lebanese www.exxun.com/SaintKittsandNevis/c_pp.html
Portuguese mestico, angolares (descendants of Angolan slaves), forros (descendants of freed slaves), servicais (contract laborers from Angola, Mozambique, and Cape Verde), tongas (children of servicais born on the islands), Europeans (primarily Portuguese) www.exxun.com/SaoTomeandPrincipe/c_pp.html
Portuguese based on Portuguese legal system and customary law; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction www.exxun.com/SaoTomeandPrincipe/d_gv.html
Portuguese ... Tamil kingdom in northern Sri Lanka. The coastal areas of the island were controlled by the Portuguese in the 16th century and by the Dutch in the 17th century. The island was ... www.exxun.com/SriLanka/a_fg.html
Portuguese German (official) 63.7%, French (official) 20.4%, Italian (official) 6.5%, Serbo-Croatian 1.5%, Albanian 1.3%, Portuguese 1.2%, Spanish 1.1%, English 1%, Romansch (official) 0.5%, other 2.8% (2000 census) note: German, French, Italian, and ... www.exxun.com/Switzerland/c_pp.html
Portuguese ... an 1859 treaty in which Portugal ceded the western portion of the island. Imperial Japan occupied Portuguese Timor from 1942 to 1945, but Portugal resumed colonial authority after the Japanese defeat in ... www.exxun.com/EastTimor/a_fg.html
Portuguese Tetum (official), Portuguese (official), Indonesian, English note: there are about 16 indigenous languages; Tetum, Galole, Mambae, and Kemak are spoken by significant numbers of people www.exxun.com/EastTimor/c_pp.html
Portuguese ... Timor-Leste local long form: Republika Demokratika Timor Lorosa'e [Tetum]; Republica Democratica de Timor-Leste [Portuguese] local short form: Timor Lorosa'e [Tetum]; Timor-Leste [Portuguese] former: East Timor, Portuguese Timor www.exxun.com/EastTimor/d_gv.html
Portuguese Spanish, Portunol, or Brazilero (Portuguese-Spanish mix on the Brazilian frontier) www.exxun.com/Uruguay/c_pp.html
Portuguese Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arab, German, African, indigenous people www.exxun.com/Venezuela/c_pp.html
Portuguese Mandarin Chinese 13.22%, Spanish 4.88%, English 4.68%, Arabic 3.12%, Hindi 2.74%, Portuguese 2.69%, Bengali 2.59%, Russian 2.2%, Japanese 1.85%, Standard German 1.44%, Wu Chinese 1.17% (2005 est.) note: percents are for "first ... www.exxun.com/World/c_pp.html
Portunol Spanish, Portunol, or Brazilero (Portuguese-Spanish mix on the Brazilian frontier) www.exxun.com/Uruguay/c_pp.html
Posavska 20 counties (zupanije, zupanija - singular) and 1 city* (grad - singular); Bjelovarsko-Bilogorska Zupanija, Brodsko-Posavska Zupanija, Dubrovacko-Neretvanska Zupanija, Istarska Zupanija, Karlovacka Zupanija, Koprivnicko-Krizevacka Zupanija, Krapinsko-Zagorska Zupanija, Licko-Senjska Zupanija ... www.exxun.com/Croatia/d_gv.html
pose ... the Afghan Government's inability to extend rule of law to all parts of the country pose challenges to future economic growth. It will probably take the remainder of the decade and ... www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/e_ec.html
pose surrounded by shoals and reefs that can pose maritime hazards www.exxun.com/AshmoreandCartierIslands/b_mp.html
pose occasional icebergs pose navigational hazard in southern reaches www.exxun.com/IndianOcean/b_mp.html
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