State and city leaders are gathering across southern New England to celebrate Portuguese heritage.

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whose daring voyages at the turn of the 16th century laid the foundations for the Portuguese Empire. From navigating treacherous waters to forging vital trade routes with India, da Gama's exploits ...

In later years, defense of the Portuguese colonies became the central and permanent object; and today Portugal regards the ancient alliance as primarily useful in case aggression should threaten her ...

The coins became an important source of information about the trade and economy of the Portuguese Empire, with inscriptions and designs instrumental in dating the shipwreck to the early 1530s.

In 1533, Leonor Caldeira, a Jewish woman who had been forced to convert to Christianity, moved from Lisbon, the Portuguese Empire’s capital, to Cochin in South India, hoping to escape the ...