The name Portugal comes from the Roman name Portus Cale.
24th June, 1128: Afonso Henriques officially declared Portugal‘s independence when he proclaimed himself king of Portugal on 25 July 1139
1249: Afonso Henriques and his successors, aided by military monastic orders, pushed southward to drive out the Moors. In 1249, this Reconquista ended with the capture of the Algarve region on the southern coast, giving Portugal its present day borders.
1415: Portugal’s first overseas colonies conquest was Ceuta, a prosperous Islamic trade centre in North Africa. After that, followed the first discoveries in the Atlantic: Madeira and the Azores, which led to the first colonization movement.
1910: Portuguese monarchy and its last King,Manuel II, were deposed by a revolution.
1926: Driven by chaos and economic problems,aright-wing dictatorship was established, the Estado Novo ruled by António de Oliveira Salazar.
April 1974: Bloodless left-wing military coup in Lisbon,known as the Carnation Revolution, leading the way for a modern democracy.
1940-1960: Portugal was a founding member of NATO, OECD and EFTA
1986: Portugal joined the European Union.
Portugal has an administrative structure of 308 municipalities
(Portuguese singular/plural: concelho/concelhos), which are subdivided into more than4,000 parishes (freguesia/freguesias). Municipalities are grouped for administrative purposes into superior units. For continental Portugal the municipalities are gathered in 18 Districts, while the Islands have a Regional Government directly above them.
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