Portugal
Portuguese Republic
República Portuguesa
CAPITAL: Lisbon (Lisboa)
FLAG: The national flag, adopted in 1911, consists of a green field at the hoist and a larger red field. At the juncti...
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Portugal at the Forefront: the Decriminalization of Drugs in Europe
The Conflict
In Europe of the early 2000s there is widespread belief that the United States-led "War on Drugs" has been a failure. T...
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Portugal
Portugal is located at the southwestern tip of Europe, bordering Spain in the north and east, and the Atlantic Ocean in the west and south. It has a land area of 91,640 square kilometers (35,...
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Portugal
POPULATION 10,084,245ROMAN CATHOLIC 89 percentPROTESTANT 4 percentOTHER CHRISTIAN 3 percentOTHER 1 percentNONE 3 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Portuguese Republic, located on...
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Area: 92,118 sq km (35,567 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 10,605,000Capital:
Lisbon
Chief of state:
Presidents
Jorge
Sampaio and, from March 9, Aníbal Cavaco
Silva
Head of government:
Prim...
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Portugal's parliament voted overwhelmingly to legalize abortion up until the 10th week of pregnancy, a major step in bringing this small Roman Catholic nation in line with most of its European neig...
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Militant Basque separatists may have established an operational base in Portugal from which they planned a recent bomb attack, Spain's Interior Minister said Sunday.Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, speakin...
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Police investigating the disappearance of a 4-year-old British girl searched an area of remote scrubland in southern Portugal on Friday, but said they found nothing.Officials sealed off the area af...
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Try a milho frito in Madeira, contemplate the age of exploration in Belem, stay in a king's villa, and consider the potential of empty space at an architecture event in Lisbon.These are some of the...
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A project slated to become the world's largest-producing solar power plant was inaugurated Wednesday in Portugal, though construction actually began last summer.The 11-megawatt 61 million euro ($78...
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Portugal's attorney general is opening a criminal investigation into claims that CIA flights, some of them allegedly carrying terror suspects, made stopovers in the country, the state-owned news ag...
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Paris (dpa) - Pre-tournament favourites New Zealand chalked up
more than a century of points in a 108-13 thumping of outsiders
Portugal Saturday in the rugby World Cup.
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Portugal at the Forefront: the Decriminalization of Drugs in Europe
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