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  • 1 treaty

    сущ.
    1) пол., юр. договор (юридически обязывающее, формальное соглашение между странами); соглашение
    See:
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    2) юр., эк. договор, контракт (формальное, юридически обязывающее соглашение между частными лицами или компаниями)

    You also need to decide whether to sell through private treaty or at auction. — Вам также необходимо решить, как осуществлять продажу: путем заключения частного договора или с аукциона.

    See:
    agreement 1), contract 1. 1)
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    см. agreement

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > treaty

  • 2 Treaty

    subs.
    P. and V. σπονδαί, αἱ.
    Agreement: P. and V. σύμβασις, ἡ, συνθῆκαι, αἱ, σύνθημα, τό. P. ὁμολογία, ἡ; see also Oath.
    For text of a treaty see Thuc. 5, 18.
    Make a treaty, v.: P. and V. σπένδεσθαι, V. σπονδὰς τέμνειν, Ar. and P. σπονδὰς ποιεῖσθαι.
    Make treaty with: P. and V. σπένδεσθαι (dat.).
    Renew a treaty: P. ἐπισπένδεσθαι (Thuc. 5, 22).
    In treaty, in league with, adj.: P. and V. ἔνσπονδος (gen. or dat.).
    Under treaty, by terms of treaty: P. and V. ὑπόσπονδος (Eur., Phoen. 81).
    Included in a treaty: P. ἔνσπονδος.
    Excluded from treaty: P. ἔκσπονδος.
    Contrary to treaty: P. παράσπονδος.
    Act contrary to treaty, v.: P. παρασπονδεῖν.

    Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language > Treaty

  • 3 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies

    Общая лексика: Договор о принципах деятельности государств по исследованию и использованию космического пространства, в, (also called: Outer Space Treaty, OST) Договор о принципах деятельности государств по (Договор по космосу)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies

  • 4 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (also called: Outer Space Treaty, OST)

    Общая лексика: Договор о принципах деятельности государств по (Договор по космосу)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (also called: Outer Space Treaty, OST)

  • 5 Peace treaty of 1668, Luso-Spanish

       Portugal and Spain signed the Peace Treaty of 13 February 1668 that ended the War of Restoration, which had continued since 1641. The negotiations were mediated by England, which guaranteed that the peace would be kept. By this important document, both states promised to return their respective conquests during that war, with the exception of the city of Ceuta in Morocco, which declared for Spanish sovereignty and was not returned to Portugal. Spain's signing of the treaty also signified that Portuguese independence was definitively recognized.
        See also Pedro II, king.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Peace treaty of 1668, Luso-Spanish

  • 6 Methuen Treaty

    (1703)
       Named for the English envoy to Lisbon, John Methuen, the commercial treaty that came to be known by his name was signed on 27 December 1703. This treaty followed the May 1703 treaties of alliance between Portugal, England, and the Low Countries and the Hapsburg Empire that were related to the War of Spanish Succession. The Methuen Treaty stipulated that thenceforth Portuguese wines would be favored as exports to England in the same way that English woolen imports to Portugal would have advantages. Since England was not importing French wines due to a war with France, and since English merchant-shippers in Portugal would benefit from the agreement, the Methuen Treaty was viewed as advantageous to all parties involved. With only three articles, the treaty agreed that both Portuguese wines and English woolens would be exempt from custom duties and that each nation had to ratify the treaty within two months. The Methuen Treaty became the keystone of Anglo-Portuguese commercial relations for at least the next century, but several historians have suggested that it favored England more than Portugal.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Methuen Treaty

  • 7 North Atlantic Treaty Organization

    (NATO)
       Portugal joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949, as a founding member. Besides complementing the Atlantic orientation of Portugal's foreign and defense policies, this membership also supported the country's close relationship with two leading members of NATO, Great Britain and the United States. Portugal's slight contribution to NATO in the first decades after joining was conditioned mainly by the fact that Portugal's primary concern was in defending its colonial empire, Portuguese India (1954-61) and in conducting several colonial wars in its African empire in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea- Bissau (1961-74). One contentious question during this phase of Portugal's membership was the extent to which Portugal used NATO-issued equipment to fight those wars in Africa and Asia, since several of these colonial territories were neither on the Atlantic nor in NATO's jurisdiction (Mozambique and Portuguese India).
       The perceived strategic value of Portugal's key Atlantic archipelagos, the Azores and Madeiras, constituted Portugal's primary contribution to NATO and neutralized any U.S. ambivalence about the question of Portugal's NATO membership. The usefulness of Azores' air and naval bases, especially Lajes base at Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira Island, Azores, along with bases in continental Portugal and in the Madeira Islands, trumped international criticism of Portugal's colonial action and influenced American policy toward Portugal. This remained the situation until after the Yom Kippur war, an Arab-Israeli conflict, in October 1973, when Portugal, despite the risks to her energy supplies, gave the United States permission to use Azores bases for resupplying Israel.
       The Revolution of 25 April 1974 had an impact on Portugal's relationship to NATO. Leftist forces in Portugal were now in command, and Portuguese NATO delegates did not attend highly sensitive NATO defense briefings. But by 1980, after moderate military forces had ousted the radical leftists, Portugal's NATO roles returned to the routing. One of NATO's major subordinate commands became IBERLANT (Iberian Atlantic Command), under SACLANT (Supreme Commander Atlantic), located at Norfolk, Virginia. IBERLANT is located at Oeiras, Portugal and, in 1982, the IBERLAND commander for the first time was a Portuguese Vice Admiral. That same year, Spain joined NATO and, until 1986, when Spain decided not to join NATO's integrated military structure, Portugal was anxious that Portuguese commanders not be subordinate to Spanish commanders in NATO. As a key leader of IBERLANT, along with the representative units of Great Britain and the United States, Portugal's forces remain responsible for surveillance and patrolling of the area from central Portugal to the straits of Gibraltar.
       Portugal has made symbolic if modest contributions to NATO's mission in the Balkan conflicts beginning in the late 1990s and in Afghanistan since 2001. Among Portugal's contributions has been the service of medical units in Afghanistan.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  • 8 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance

       The world's oldest diplomatic connection and alliance, an enduring arrangement between two very different nations and peoples, with important practical consequences in the domestic and foreign affairs of both Great Britain (England before 1707) and Portugal. The history of this remarkable alliance, which has had commercial and trade, political, foreign policy, cultural, and imperial aspects, can be outlined in part with a list of the main alliance treaties after the first treaty of commerce and friendship signed between the monarchs of England and Portugal in 1373. This was followed in 1386 by the Treaty of Windsor; then in 1654, 1661, 1703, the Methuen Treaty; and in 1810 and 1899 another treaty also signed at Windsor.
       Common interests in the defense of the nation and its overseas empire (in the case of Portugal, after 1415; in the case of England, after 1650) were partly based on characteristics and common enemies both countries shared. Even in the late Middle Ages, England and Portugal faced common enemies: large continental countries that threatened the interests and sovereignty of both, especially France and Spain. In this sense, the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance has always been a defensive alliance in which each ally would assist the other when necessary against its enemies. In the case of Portugal, that enemy invariably was Spain (or component states thereof, such as Castile and Leon) and sometimes France (i.e., when Napoleon's armies invaded and conquered Portugal as of late 1807). In the case of England, that foe was often France and sometimes Spain as well.
       Beginning in the late 14th century, England and Portugal forged this unusual relationship, formalized with several treaties that came into direct use during a series of dynastic, imperial, naval, and commercial conflicts between 1373 and 1961, the historic period when the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance had its most practical political significance. The relative world power and importance of each ally has varied over the centuries. During the period 1373-1580, the allies were similar in respective ranking in European affairs, and during the period 1480-1550, if anything, Portugal was a greater world power with a more important navy than England. During 1580-1810, Portugal fell to the status of a third-rank European power and, during 1810-1914, England was perhaps the premier world power. During 1914-61, England's world position slipped while Portugal made a slow recovery but remained a third- or fourth-rank power.
       The commercial elements of the alliance have always involved an exchange of goods between two seafaring, maritime peoples with different religions and political systems but complementary economies. The 1703 Methuen Treaty establ ished a trade link that endured for centuries and bore greater advantages for England than for Portugal, although Portugal derived benefits: English woolens for Portuguese wines, especially port, other agricultural produce, and fish. Since the signing of the Methuen Treaty, there has been a vigorous debate both in politics and in historical scholarship as to how much each nation benefited economically from the arrangement in which Portugal eventually became dependent upon England and the extent to which Portugal became a kind of economic colony of Britain during the period from 1703 to 1910.
       There is a vast literature on the Alliance, much of it in Portuguese and by Portuguese writers, which is one expression of the development of modern Portuguese nationalism. During the most active phase of the alliance, from 1650 to 1945, there is no doubt but that the core of the mutual interests of the allies amounted to the proposition that Portugal's independence as a nation in Iberia and the integrity of its overseas empire, the third largest among the colonial powers as of 1914, were defended by England, who in turn benefited from the use by the Royal Navy of Portugal's home and colonial ports in times of war and peace. A curious impact on Portuguese and popular usage had also come about and endured through the impact of dealings with the English allies. The idiom in Portuguese, "é para inglês ver," means literally "it is for the Englishman to see," but figuratively it really means, "it is merely for show."
       The practical defense side of the alliance was effectively dead by the end of World War II, but perhaps the most definitive indication of the end of the political significance of an alliance that still continues in other spheres occurred in December 1961, when the army of the Indian Union invaded Portugal's colonial enclaves in western India, Goa, Damão, and Diu. While both nations were now North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, their interests clashed when it came to imperial and Commonwealth conflicts and policies. Portugal asked Britain for military assistance in the use of British bases against the army of Britain's largest former colony, India. But Portugal was, in effect, refused assistance by her oldest ally. If the alliance continues into the 21st century, its essence is historical, nostalgic, commercial, and cultural.
        See also Catherine of Braganza.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Anglo-Portuguese Alliance

  • 9 annulment

    noun
    (of law, treaty, marriage, will) Annullierung, die; (of treaty also) Auflösung, die
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    noun die Annullierung
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    an·nul·ment
    [əˈnʌlmənt]
    n Annullierung f geh; of a marriage, contract also Auflösung f; of a judgement Aufhebung f
    * * *
    [ə'nʌlmənt]
    n
    Annullierung f; (of law, decree, judgement also) Aufhebung f; (of contract, marriage also) Auflösung f; (of will also) Ungültigkeitserklärung f
    * * *
    annulment [əˈnʌlmənt] s Annullierung f, Ungültigkeitserklärung f, Aufhebung f:
    annulment of marriage Nichtigkeitserklärung f der Ehe
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    noun
    (of law, treaty, marriage, will) Annullierung, die; (of treaty also) Auflösung, die
    * * *
    n.
    Aufhebung f.
    Ungültigkeitserklärung f.

    English-german dictionary > annulment

  • 10 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 11 peace

    pi:s
    1) ((sometimes with a) (a time of) freedom from war; (a treaty or agreement which brings about) the end or stopping of a war: Does our country want peace or war?; (also adjective) a peace treaty.) paz
    2) (freedom from disturbance; quietness: I need some peace and quiet.) paz
    •
    - peaceably
    - peaceful
    - peacefully
    - peacefulness
    - peacemaker
    - peace-offering
    - peacetime
    - at peace
    - in peace
    - make peace
    - peace of mind
    peace n paz
    tr[piːs]
    2 (tranquility) paz nombre femenino, tranquilidad nombre femenino, sosiego
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    at peace / in peace en paz
    'Rest in peace' "Descanse en paz"
    to hold one's peace guardar silencio
    to keep the peace SMALLLAW/SMALL mantener el orden
    to make one's peace with somebody hacer las paces con alguien
    to make peace (people) hacer las paces 2 (countries) firmar la paz
    Peace Corps Cuerpo de Paz
    peace movement movimiento pacifista
    peace of mind tranquilidad nombre femenino de espíritu, serenidad nombre femenino
    peace offering prenda de paz, ofrenda de paz
    peace talks negociaciones nombre femenino plural por la paz
    peace treaty tratado de paz
    peace ['pi:s] n
    1) : paz f
    peace treaty: tratado de paz
    peace and tranquillity: paz y tranquilidad
    2) order: orden m (público)
    n.
    • pacificación s.f.
    • paz s.f.
    expr.
    • hacer las paces expr.
    piːs
    1) u paz f

    in o at peace — en paz

    to be at peace with the world — estar* satisfecho de la vida

    to make peace with somebody — hacer* las paces con alguien; (before n) para la paz; <proposal, initiative, treaty> de paz; <talks, march, campaign> por la paz

    2) ( Law)

    to keep the peace — mantener* el orden

    to breach o (BrE) disturb the peace — alterar el orden público

    3) ( tranquillity) paz f
    [piːs]
    1. N
    1) paz f
    2)

    • to be at peace — euph (=dead) descansar en paz

    to be at peace with o.s. — estar en paz consigo mismo

    • we come in peace — † also hum venimos en son de paz

    • to disturb the peace — perturbar la paz; (Jur) alterar el orden público

    • he gave her no peace until she agreed — no la dejó tranquila or en paz hasta que accedió

    • to hold or keep one's peace — guardar silencio

    • to keep the peace — (gen) mantener la paz or el orden; (Jur) [citizen] respetar el orden público; [police] mantener el orden público

    • to leave sb in peace — dejar a algn tranquilo or en paz

    • to live in peace (with sb) — vivir en paz (con algn)

    • to make peace (with sb) — hacer las paces (con algn)

    • peace of mind — tranquilidad f (de espíritu)

    • anything for the sake of peace and quiet — lo que sea por un poco de tranquilidad

    • in times of peace — en tiempos de paz

    breach 1., 1), rest I, 3., 1)
    2.
    CPD [agreement, plan, settlement] de paz; [campaign, conference] por la paz

    peace accord N — acuerdo m de paz

    peace activist N — activista mf por la paz

    peace camp N — campamento m por la paz

    peace campaigner N — persona que participa en una campaña por la paz

    Peace Corps N — (US) Cuerpo m de Paz

    peace dividend N — beneficios mpl reportados por la paz

    peace envoy N — enviado(-a) m / f de paz

    peace movement N — movimiento m pacifista

    peace offering N — (fig) prenda f de paz

    peace pipe N — pipa f de la paz

    peace settlement N — acuerdo m de paz

    peace sign N — señal f de paz

    peace studies NPL — (Univ) estudios mpl de la paz

    peace talks NPL — negociaciones fpl por la paz

    peace treaty N — tratado m de paz

    * * *
    [piːs]
    1) u paz f

    in o at peace — en paz

    to be at peace with the world — estar* satisfecho de la vida

    to make peace with somebody — hacer* las paces con alguien; (before n) para la paz; <proposal, initiative, treaty> de paz; <talks, march, campaign> por la paz

    2) ( Law)

    to keep the peace — mantener* el orden

    to breach o (BrE) disturb the peace — alterar el orden público

    3) ( tranquillity) paz f

    English-spanish dictionary > peace

  • 12 NATO

    Multiple Entries: nato     ñato
    nato
    ◊ -ta adjetivo ‹artista/deportista› born ( before n)

    ñato -ta adjetivo (AmS fam) ‹ persona› snub-nosed; ‹ animal› pug-nosed
    nato,-a adjetivo born: este muchacho es un líder nato, this boy is a natural born leader
    ñato,-a adj LAm snub-nosed ' ñato' also found in these entries: Spanish: nata - ñata - nato - OTAN English: born - NATO - natural
    tr['neɪtəʊ] (Also written Nato)
    1 ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Organización nombre femenino del Tratado del Atlántico Norte; (abbreviation) OTAN nombre femenino.
    'neɪtəʊ
    noun (no art) (= North Atlantic Treaty Organization) la OTAN
    ['neɪtǝʊ]
    N ABBR = North Atlantic Treaty Organization OTAN f
    * * *
    ['neɪtəʊ]
    noun (no art) (= North Atlantic Treaty Organization) la OTAN

    English-spanish dictionary > NATO

  • 13 peace

    [pi:s]
    1) ((sometimes with a) (a time of) freedom from war; (a treaty or agreement which brings about) the end or stopping of a war: Does our country want peace or war?; ( also adjective) a peace treaty.) fred; freds-
    2) (freedom from disturbance; quietness: I need some peace and quiet.) fred; ro
    •
    - peaceably
    - peaceful
    - peacefully
    - peacefulness
    - peacemaker
    - peace-offering
    - peacetime
    - at peace
    - in peace
    - make peace
    - peace of mind
    * * *
    [pi:s]
    1) ((sometimes with a) (a time of) freedom from war; (a treaty or agreement which brings about) the end or stopping of a war: Does our country want peace or war?; ( also adjective) a peace treaty.) fred; freds-
    2) (freedom from disturbance; quietness: I need some peace and quiet.) fred; ro
    •
    - peaceably
    - peaceful
    - peacefully
    - peacefulness
    - peacemaker
    - peace-offering
    - peacetime
    - at peace
    - in peace
    - make peace
    - peace of mind

    English-Danish dictionary > peace

  • 14 peace

    noun
    1) (freedom from war) Frieden, der

    maintain/restore peace — den Frieden bewahren/wiederherstellen

    peace talks/treaty — Friedensgespräche Pl./Friedensvertrag, der

    make peace [with somebody] — [mit jemandem] Frieden schließen

    2) (freedom from civil disorder) Ruhe und Ordnung; (absence of discord) Frieden, der

    in peace [and harmony] — in [Frieden und] Eintracht

    bind somebody over to keep the peace — jemanden verwarnen, die öffentliche Ordnung zu wahren

    be at peace [with somebody/something] — [mit jemandem/etwas] in Frieden leben

    be at peace with oneself — mit sich selbst im reinen sein

    make [one's] peace [with somebody] — sich [mit jemandem] aussöhnen

    3) (tranquillity) Ruhe, die

    in peace — in Ruhe

    leave somebody in peace — jemanden in Frieden od. in Ruhe lassen

    4) (mental state) Ruhe, die

    peace of mind — Seelenfrieden, der; innere Ruhe

    I shall have no peace of mind until I know it — ich werde keine ruhige Minute haben, bis ich es weiß

    * * *
    [pi:s]
    1) ((sometimes with a) (a time of) freedom from war; (a treaty or agreement which brings about) the end or stopping of a war: Does our country want peace or war?; ( also adjective) a peace treaty.) der Frieden; Friedens-...
    2) (freedom from disturbance; quietness: I need some peace and quiet.) der Frieden
    •
    - academic.ru/54123/peaceable">peaceable
    - peaceably
    - peaceful
    - peacefully
    - peacefulness
    - peacemaker
    - peace-offering
    - peacetime
    - at peace
    - in peace
    - make peace
    - peace of mind
    * * *
    [pi:s]
    1. (no war) Frieden m
    this continent is now at \peace auf diesem Kontinent herrscht jetzt Frieden
    \peace talks Friedensgespräche pl
    lasting \peace dauerhafter Frieden
    to long for \peace sich akk nach Frieden sehnen
    to make \peace Frieden schließen
    2. (social order) Ruhe f, Frieden m
    to be arrested for disturbing the \peace wegen Ruhestörung verhaftet werden
    to disturb [or break] the \peace die Ruhe stören
    to keep the \peace den Frieden wahren
    to make one's \peace with sb sich akk mit jdm versöhnen
    he will give me no \peace until I give in er wird keine Ruhe geben, bis ich nachgebe
    \peace of mind Seelenfrieden m, innere Ruhe
    \peace and quiet Ruhe und Frieden
    to leave sb in \peace jdn in Frieden [o Ruhe] lassen
    ▪ to be at \peace in Frieden ruhen
    to be at \peace about one's situation sich akk seinem Schicksal fügen
    to be at \peace with the world mit sich dat und der Welt im Einklang sein
    4. REL
    the Prince of P\peace der Friedensfürst (Jesus Christus)
    \peace be with you Friede sei mit dir
    5.
    ▶ to hold [or keep] one's \peace ( form) ruhig [o still] sein, schweigen
    * * *
    [piːs]
    n
    1) (= freedom from war) Frieden m, Friede m (geh)

    to be at peace with sb/sth — mit jdm/etw in Frieden leben

    to be at peace with oneself/the world — mit sich (dat) selbst/mit der Welt in Frieden leben

    to make peace between... — Frieden stiften zwischen (+dat)...

    the (King's/Queen's) peace (Jur) — die öffentliche Ordnung

    to keep the peace (Jur) (demonstrator, citizen) — die öffentliche Ordnung wahren; (policeman) die öffentliche Ordnung aufrechterhalten; (fig) Frieden bewahren

    3) (= tranquillity, quiet) Ruhe f

    peace of mind — innere Ruhe, Seelenfrieden

    the Peace of God — der Friede Gottes, Gottes Friede

    to get some/no peace — zur Ruhe/nicht zur Ruhe kommen

    * * *
    peace [piːs]
    A s
    1. Friede(n) m:
    at peace im Frieden, im Friedenszustand;
    the two countries are at peace zwischen den beiden Ländern herrscht Frieden;
    make peace Frieden schließen ( with mit)
    2. JUR Landfrieden m, öffentliche Sicherheit, öffentliche Ruhe und Ordnung:
    keep the peace die öffentliche Ordnung aufrechterhalten; → breach Bes Redew, disturb A
    3. fig Friede(n) m, (innere) Ruhe:
    peace of mind Seelenfrieden, innerer Friede;
    hold one’s peace sich ruhig verhalten, den Mund halten;
    leave in peace in Ruhe oder Frieden lassen;
    live in peace and quiet in Ruhe und Frieden leben;
    be at peace euph in Frieden ruhen (tot sein); → rest1 B 1
    4. Versöhnung f, Eintracht f:
    live in peace with in Frieden leben mit;
    make one’s peace with sb seinen Frieden mit jemandem machen, sich mit jemandem aus- oder versöhnen;
    make (one’s) peace with o.s. mit sich selbst ins Reine kommen
    5. friedliche Ruhe oder Stille
    B int pst!, still!, sei(d) ruhig!
    C adj Friedens…:
    peace conference (initiative, movement, offensive, offer, process, symbol, treaty, etc); → establishment 10
    * * *
    noun
    1) (freedom from war) Frieden, der

    maintain/restore peace — den Frieden bewahren/wiederherstellen

    peace talks/treaty — Friedensgespräche Pl./Friedensvertrag, der

    make peace [with somebody] — [mit jemandem] Frieden schließen

    2) (freedom from civil disorder) Ruhe und Ordnung; (absence of discord) Frieden, der

    in peace [and harmony] — in [Frieden und] Eintracht

    bind somebody over to keep the peace — jemanden verwarnen, die öffentliche Ordnung zu wahren

    be at peace [with somebody/something] — [mit jemandem/etwas] in Frieden leben

    make [one's] peace [with somebody] — sich [mit jemandem] aussöhnen

    3) (tranquillity) Ruhe, die
    4) (mental state) Ruhe, die

    peace of mind — Seelenfrieden, der; innere Ruhe

    I shall have no peace of mind until I know it — ich werde keine ruhige Minute haben, bis ich es weiß

    * * *
    n.
    Friede m.
    Frieden m.
    Ruhe nur sing. f.

    English-german dictionary > peace

  • 15 Empire, Portuguese overseas

    (1415-1975)
       Portugal was the first Western European state to establish an early modern overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean and perhaps the last colonial power to decolonize. A vast subject of complexity that is full of myth as well as debatable theories, the history of the Portuguese overseas empire involves the story of more than one empire, the question of imperial motives, the nature of Portuguese rule, and the results and consequences of empire, including the impact on subject peoples as well as on the mother country and its society, Here, only the briefest account of a few such issues can be attempted.
       There were various empires or phases of empire after the capture of the Moroccan city of Ceuta in 1415. There were at least three Portuguese empires in history: the First empire (1415-1580), the Second empire (1580-1640 and 1640-1822), and the Third empire (1822-1975).
       With regard to the second empire, the so-called Phillipine period (1580-1640), when Portugal's empire was under Spanish domination, could almost be counted as a separate era. During that period, Portugal lost important parts of its Asian holdings to England and also sections of its colonies of Brazil, Angola, and West Africa to Holland's conquests. These various empires could be characterized by the geography of where Lisbon invested its greatest efforts and resources to develop territories and ward off enemies.
       The first empire (1415-1580) had two phases. First came the African coastal phase (1415-97), when the Portuguese sought a foothold in various Moroccan cities but then explored the African coast from Morocco to past the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. While colonization and sugar farming were pursued in the Atlantic islands, as well as in the islands in the Gulf of Guinea like São Tomé and Príncipe, for the most part the Portuguese strategy was to avoid commitments to defending or peopling lands on the African continent. Rather, Lisbon sought a seaborne trade empire, in which the Portuguese could profit from exploiting trade and resources (such as gold) along the coasts and continue exploring southward to seek a sea route to Portuguese India. The second phase of the first empire (1498-1580) began with the discovery of the sea route to Asia, thanks to Vasco da Gama's first voyage in 1497-99, and the capture of strong points, ports, and trading posts in order to enforce a trade monopoly between Asia and Europe. This Asian phase produced the greatest revenues of empire Portugal had garnered, yet ended when Spain conquered Portugal and commanded her empire as of 1580.
       Portugal's second overseas empire began with Spanish domination and ran to 1822, when Brazil won her independence from Portugal. This phase was characterized largely by Brazilian dominance of imperial commitment, wealth in minerals and other raw materials from Brazil, and the loss of a significant portion of her African and Asian coastal empire to Holland and Great Britain. A sketch of Portugal's imperial losses either to native rebellions or to imperial rivals like Britain and Holland follows:
       • Morocco (North Africa) (sample only)
       Arzila—Taken in 1471; evacuated in 1550s; lost to Spain in 1580, which returned city to a sultan.
       Ceuta—Taken in 1415; lost to Spain in 1640 (loss confirmed in 1668 treaty with Spain).
       • Tangiers—Taken in 15th century; handed over to England in 1661 as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry to King Charles II.
       • West Africa
       • Fort/Castle of São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (in what is now Ghana)—Taken in 1480s; lost to Holland in 1630s.
       • Middle East
       Socotra-isle—Conquered in 1507; fort abandoned in 1511; used as water resupply stop for India fleet.
       Muscat—Conquered in 1501; lost to Persians in 1650.
       Ormuz—Taken, 1505-15 under Albuquerque; lost to England, which gave it to Persia in the 17th century.
       Aden (entry to Red Sea) — Unsuccessfully attacked by Portugal (1513-30); taken by Turks in 1538.
       • India
       • Ceylon (Sri Lanka)—Taken by 1516; lost to Dutch after 1600.
       • Bombay—Taken in 16th century; given to England in 1661 treaty as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry for Charles II.
       • East Indies
       • Moluccas—Taken by 1520; possession confirmed in 1529 Saragossa treaty with Spain; lost to Dutch after 1600; only East Timor remaining.
       After the restoration of Portuguese independence from Spain in 1640, Portugal proceeded to revive and strengthen the Anglo- Portuguese Alliance, with international aid to fight off further Spanish threats to Portugal and drive the Dutch invaders out of Brazil and Angola. While Portugal lost its foothold in West Africa at Mina to the Dutch, dominion in Angola was consolidated. The most vital part of the imperial economy was a triangular trade: slaves from West Africa and from the coasts of Congo and Angola were shipped to plantations in Brazil; raw materials (sugar, tobacco, gold, diamonds, dyes) were sent to Lisbon; Lisbon shipped Brazil colonists and hardware. Part of Portugal's War of Restoration against Spain (1640-68) and its reclaiming of Brazil and Angola from Dutch intrusions was financed by the New Christians (Jews converted to Christianity after the 1496 Manueline order of expulsion of Jews) who lived in Portugal, Holland and other low countries, France, and Brazil. If the first empire was mainly an African coastal and Asian empire, the second empire was primarily a Brazilian empire.
       Portugal's third overseas empire began upon the traumatic independence of Brazil, the keystone of the Lusitanian enterprise, in 1822. The loss of Brazil greatly weakened Portugal both as a European power and as an imperial state, for the scattered remainder of largely coastal, poor, and uncolonized territories that stretched from the bulge of West Africa to East Timor in the East Indies and Macau in south China were more of a financial liability than an asset. Only two small territories balanced their budgets occasionally or made profits: the cocoa islands of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea and tiny Macau, which lost much of its advantage as an entrepot between the West and the East when the British annexed neighboring Hong Kong in 1842. The others were largely burdens on the treasury. The African colonies were strapped by a chronic economic problem: at a time when the slave trade and then slavery were being abolished under pressures from Britain and other Western powers, the economies of Guinea- Bissau, São Tomé/Príncipe, Angola, and Mozambique were totally dependent on revenues from the slave trade and slavery. During the course of the 19th century, Lisbon began a program to reform colonial administration in a newly rejuvenated African empire, where most of the imperial efforts were expended, by means of replacing the slave trade and slavery, with legitimate economic activities.
       Portugal participated in its own early version of the "Scramble" for Africa's interior during 1850-69, but discovered that the costs of imperial expansion were too high to allow effective occupation of the hinterlands. After 1875, Portugal participated in the international "Scramble for Africa" and consolidated its holdings in west and southern Africa, despite the failure of the contra-costa (to the opposite coast) plan, which sought to link up the interiors of Angola and Mozambique with a corridor in central Africa. Portugal's expansion into what is now Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (eastern section) in 1885-90 was thwarted by its oldest ally, Britain, under pressure from interest groups in South Africa, Scotland, and England. All things considered, Portugal's colonizing resources and energies were overwhelmed by the African empire it possessed after the frontier-marking treaties of 1891-1906. Lisbon could barely administer the massive area of five African colonies, whose total area comprised about 8 percent of the area of the colossal continent. The African territories alone were many times the size of tiny Portugal and, as of 1914, Portugal was the third colonial power in terms of size of area possessed in the world.
       The politics of Portugal's empire were deceptive. Lisbon remained obsessed with the fear that rival colonial powers, especially Germany and Britain, would undermine and then dismantle her African empire. This fear endured well into World War II. In developing and keeping her potentially rich African territories (especially mineral-rich Angola and strategically located Mozambique), however, the race against time was with herself and her subject peoples. Two major problems, both chronic, prevented Portugal from effective colonization (i.e., settling) and development of her African empire: the economic weakness and underdevelopment of the mother country and the fact that the bulk of Portuguese emigration after 1822 went to Brazil, Venezuela, the United States, and France, not to the colonies. These factors made it difficult to consolidate imperial control until it was too late; that is, until local African nationalist movements had organized and taken the field in insurgency wars that began in three of the colonies during the years 1961-64.
       Portugal's belated effort to revitalize control and to develop, in the truest sense of the word, Angola and Mozambique after 1961 had to be set against contemporary events in Europe, Africa, and Asia. While Portugal held on to a backward empire, other European countries like Britain, France, and Belgium were rapidly decolonizing their empires. Portugal's failure or unwillingness to divert the large streams of emigrants to her empire after 1850 remained a constant factor in this question. Prophetic were the words of the 19th-century economist Joaquim Oliveira Martins, who wrote in 1880 that Brazil was a better colony for Portugal than Africa and that the best colony of all would have been Portugal itself. As of the day of the Revolution of 25 April 1974, which sparked the final process of decolonization of the remainder of Portugal's third overseas empire, the results of the colonization program could be seen to be modest compared to the numbers of Portuguese emigrants outside the empire. Moreover, within a year, of some 600,000 Portuguese residing permanently in Angola and Mozambique, all but a few thousand had fled to South Africa or returned to Portugal.
       In 1974 and 1975, most of the Portuguese empire was decolonized or, in the case of East Timor, invaded and annexed by a foreign power before it could consolidate its independence. Only historic Macau, scheduled for transfer to the People's Republic of China in 1999, remained nominally under Portuguese control as a kind of footnote to imperial history. If Portugal now lacked a conventional overseas empire and was occupied with the challenges of integration in the European Union (EU), Lisbon retained another sort of informal dependency that was a new kind of empire: the empire of her scattered overseas Portuguese communities from North America to South America. Their numbers were at least six times greater than that of the last settlers of the third empire.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Empire, Portuguese overseas

  • 16 break

    1. transitive verb,
    1) brechen; (so as to damage) zerbrechen; kaputtmachen (ugs.); aufschlagen [Ei zum Kochen]; zerreißen [Seil]; (fig.): (interrupt) unterbrechen; brechen [Bann, Zauber, Schweigen]

    break something in two/in pieces — etwas in zwei Teile/in Stücke brechen

    the TV/my watch is broken — der Fernseher/meine Uhr ist kaputt (ugs.)

    2) (fracture) sich (Dat.) brechen; (pierce) verletzen [Haut]

    he broke his leg — er hat sich (Dat.) das Bein gebrochen

    break one's/somebody's back — (fig.) sich/jemanden kaputtmachen (ugs.)

    break the back of something — (fig.) bei etwas das Schwerste hinter sich bringen

    3) (violate) brechen [Vertrag, Versprechen]; verletzen, verstoßen gegen [Regel, Tradition]; nicht einhalten [Verabredung]; überschreiten [Grenze]
    4) (destroy) zerstören, ruinieren [Freundschaft, Ehe]
    5) (surpass) brechen [Rekord]
    6) (abscond from)

    break jail — [aus dem Gefängnis] ausbrechen

    7) (weaken) brechen, beugen [Stolz]; zusammenbrechen lassen [Streik]

    break somebody — (crush) jemanden fertig machen (ugs.)

    break the habit — es sich (Dat.) abgewöhnen; see also academic.ru/44727/make">make 1. 15)

    8) (cushion) auffangen [Schlag, jemandes Fall]
    9) (make bankrupt) ruinieren

    break the bank — die Bank sprengen

    it won't break the bank — (fig. coll.) es kostet kein Vermögen

    10) (reveal)

    break the news that... — melden, dass...

    11) (solve) entschlüsseln, entziffern [Kode, Geheimschrift]

    break service/somebody's service — den Aufschlag des Gegners/jemandes Aufschlag durchbrechen. See also broken 2.

    2. intransitive verb,
    broke, broken
    1) kaputtgehen (ugs.); entzweigehen; [Faden, Seil:] [zer]reißen; [Glas, Tasse, Teller:] zerbrechen; [Eis:] brechen

    break in two/in pieces — entzweibrechen

    2) (crack) [Fenster-, Glasscheibe:] zerspringen
    3) (sever links)

    break with somebody/something — mit jemandem/etwas brechen

    4)

    break into — einbrechen in (+ Akk.) [Haus]; aufbrechen [Safe]

    break into a trot/run — etc. zu traben/laufen usw. anfangen

    break out of prison — etc. aus dem Gefängnis usw. ausbrechen

    5)

    break free or loose [from somebody/somebody's grip] — sich [von jemandem/aus jemandes Griff] losreißen

    break free/loose [from prison] — [aus dem Gefängnis] ausbrechen

    6) [Welle:] sich brechen (on/against an + Dat.)
    7) [Wetter:] umschlagen
    8) [Wolkendecke:] aufreißen
    9) [Tag:] anbrechen
    10) [Sturm:] losbrechen
    11)

    somebody's voice is breaking — jemand kommt in den Stimmbruch; (with emotion) jemandem bricht die Stimme

    12) (have interval)

    break for coffee/lunch — [eine] Kaffee-/Mittagspause machen

    13) (become public) bekannt werden
    3. noun
    1) Bruch, der; (of rope) Reißen, das

    break [of service] — (Tennis) Break, der od. das

    a break with somebody/something — ein Bruch mit jemandem/etwas

    break of day — Tagesanbruch, der

    2) (gap) Lücke, die; (Electr.): (in circuit) Unterbrechung, die
    3) (sudden dash)

    they made a sudden break [for it] — sie stürmten plötzlich davon

    4) (interruption) Unterbrechung, die
    5) (pause, holiday) Pause, die

    take or have a break — [eine] Pause machen

    6) (coll.): (fair chance, piece of luck) Chance, die
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    [breik] 1. past tense - broke; verb
    1) (to divide into two or more parts (by force).) brechen
    2) ((usually with off/away) to separate (a part) from the whole (by force).) abbrechen
    3) (to make or become unusable.) vernichten
    4) (to go against, or not act according to (the law etc): He broke his appointment at the last minute.) brechen
    5) (to do better than (a sporting etc record).) (einen Rekord etc.) brechen
    6) (to interrupt: She broke her journey in London.) abbrechen
    7) (to put an end to: He broke the silence.) brechen
    8) (to make or become known: They gently broke the news of his death to his wife.) beibringen
    9) ((of a boy's voice) to fall in pitch.) brechen
    10) (to soften the effect of (a fall, the force of the wind etc).) brechen
    11) (to begin: The storm broke before they reached shelter.) losbrechen
    2. noun
    1) (a pause: a break in the conversation.) die Pause
    2) (a change: a break in the weather.) der Umschwung
    3) (an opening.) die Lücke
    4) (a chance or piece of (good or bad) luck: This is your big break.) der Durchbruch
    •
    3. noun
    ((usually in plural) something likely to break.) der zerbrechliche Gegenstand
    - breakage
    - breaker
    - breakdown
    - break-in
    - breakneck
    - breakout
    - breakthrough
    - breakwater
    - break away
    - break down
    - break into
    - break in
    - break loose
    - break off
    - break out
    - break out in
    - break the ice
    - break up
    - make a break for it
    * * *
    [breɪk]
    I. NOUN
    1. (fracture) Bruch m; (in glass, pottery) Sprung m; (in rock, wood) Riss m; MED Bruch m
    2. (gap) Lücke f; (in rock) Spalt m; (in line) Unterbrechung f
    3. (escape) Ausbruch m
    to make a \break ausbrechen
    4. (interruption) Unterbrechung f, Pause f; esp BRIT SCH (during classes) Pause f; (holiday) Ferien pl
    coffee/lunch \break Kaffee-/Mittagspause f
    Easter/Christmas \break Oster-/Weihnachtsferien pl
    commercial \break TV, RADIO Werbung f
    to have [or take] a \break eine Pause machen
    we decided to have a short \break in Paris wir beschlossen, einen Kurzurlaub in Paris zu verbringen
    to need a \break from sth eine Pause von etw dat brauchen
    \break of day Tagesanbruch m
    a \break in the weather ( liter) ein Wetterumschwung m
    6. (divergence) Bruch m
    a \break with family tradition ein Bruch mit der Familientradition
    7. (end of relationship) Abbruch m
    to make a clean/complete \break einen sauberen/endgültigen Schlussstrich ziehen
    to make the \break [from sb/sth] die Beziehung [zu jdm/etw] abbrechen
    8. (opportunity) Chance f, Gelegenheit f
    she got her main \break as an actress in a Spielberg film sie hatte ihre größte Chance als Schauspielerin in einem Spielbergfilm
    9. SPORT (in tennis)
    \break [of serve] Break m o nt; (in snooker, billiards) Anstoß m
    10. COMM ( fam: sharp fall) plötzlicher und starker Einbruch von Preisen und Kursen
    11. COMPUT
    \break key Pause-Taste f
    12.
    ▶ give me a \break! ( fam: knock it off!) hör auf [damit]!; (give me a chance) gib mir eine Chance!
    <broke, broken>
    1. (shatter)
    ▪ to \break sth etw zerbrechen; (in two pieces) etw entzweibrechen; (force open) etw aufbrechen; (damage) etw kaputt machen fam; (fracture) etw brechen
    we heard the sound of \breaking glass wir hörten das Geräusch von zerberstendem Glas
    to \break an alibi ( fig) ein Alibi entkräften
    to \break one's arm sich dat den Arm brechen
    to \break one's back [or AM ass] ( fig fam) sich akk abrackern [o abstrampeln] fam
    to \break sb's back ( fig) jdm das Kreuz brechen fig
    to \break a bottle/a glass eine Flasche/ein Glas zerbrechen
    to \break an egg ein Ei aufschlagen
    to \break sb's heart ( fig) jdm das Herz brechen geh
    to \break a nail/tooth sich dat einen Nagel/Zahn abbrechen
    to \break sb's nose jdm die Nase brechen
    to \break sth into smithereens etw in [tausend] Stücke schlagen
    to \break the sonic [or sound] barrier die Schallmauer durchbrechen
    to \break a window ein Fenster einschlagen
    2. (momentarily interrupt)
    ▪ to \break sth etw unterbrechen
    I need something to \break the monotony of my typing job ich brauche etwas, das etwas Abwechslung in meine eintönige Schreibarbeit bringt
    to \break sb's fall jds Fall abfangen
    to \break a circuit ELEC einen Stromkreis unterbrechen
    to \break step [or stride] aus dem Gleichschritt kommen; MIL aus dem Schritt fallen
    ▪ to \break sth etw zerstören
    to \break the back of sth BRIT, AUS das Schlimmste einer S. gen hinter sich akk bringen
    we can \break the back of this work today if we really try wenn wir uns ernsthaft bemühen, können wir diese Arbeit heute zum größten Teil erledigen
    to \break camp das Lager abbrechen
    to \break a deadlock einen toten Punkt überwinden, etw wieder in Gang bringen
    to \break a habit eine Gewohnheit aufgeben
    to \break sb of a habit jdm eine Angewohnheit abgewöhnen
    to \break an impasse [or a stalemate] aus einer Sackgasse herauskommen
    to \break a romantic mood eine romantische Stimmung kaputt machen fam
    to \break the peace/a record/the silence den Frieden/einen Rekord/das Schweigen brechen
    to \break a spell einen Bann brechen
    to \break sb's spirit jdn mutlos machen
    to \break a strike einen Streik brechen
    to \break the suspense [or tension] die Spannung lösen
    to \break a tie in Führung gehen, einen Führungstreffer erzielen
    ▪ to \break sb TENNIS jdm das Aufschlagspiel abnehmen
    ▪ to \break sth etw brechen
    to \break an agreement eine Vereinbarung verletzen
    to \break a date eine Verabredung nicht einhalten
    to \break a/the law ein/das Gesetz übertreten
    to \break a treaty gegen einen Vertrag verstoßen
    to \break one's word sein Wort brechen
    6. (forcefully end)
    ▪ to \break sth etw durchbrechen
    to \break sb's hold sich akk aus jds Griff befreien
    to \break a cipher/a code eine Geheimschrift/einen Code entschlüsseln
    ▪ to \break sth etw bekanntgeben; JOURN etw veröffentlichen
    ▪ to \break sth to sb jdm etw mitteilen [o sagen]
    \break it to me gently! ( hum) bring's mir schonend bei!
    how will we ever \break it to her? wie sollen wir es ihr nur sagen?
    to \break the news to sb jdm die Nachricht beibringen
    ▪ to \break sth etw auseinanderreißen
    to \break bread REL das [heilige] Abendmahl empfangen
    to \break bread [with sb] ( dated liter) [mit jdm] das Brot brechen veraltet [o sein Brot teilen]
    to \break a collection [or set] eine Sammlung auseinanderreißen
    10. (make change for)
    to \break a note [or AM bill] einen Geldschein wechseln [o fam kleinmachen
    11. (crush spirit)
    ▪ to \break sb jdn brechen [o fam kleinkriegen]
    her spirit had been broken by the regime in the home das in dem Heim herrschende System hatte sie seelisch gebrochen
    ▪ to \break an animal (tame) ein Tier zähmen; (train) ein Tier abrichten
    to \break sb's will jds Willen brechen
    12. (leave)
    to \break cover MIL aus der Deckung hervorbrechen; (from hiding place) aus dem Versteck herauskommen
    to \break formation MIL aus der Aufstellung heraustreten
    to \break rank MIL aus dem Glied treten
    to \break rank[s] ( fig) die eigenen Reihen verraten
    to \break ship sich akk beim Landgang absetzen
    13. (open up)
    to \break ground den ersten Spatenstich machen
    to \break fresh [or new] ground ( fig) Neuland [o neue Gebiete] erschließen
    14.
    ▶ to \break the bank ( hum) die Bank sprengen
    ▶ to \break the ice ( fam) das Eis brechen
    ▶ \break a leg! ( fam) Hals- und Beinbruch! fam
    ▶ you can't make an omelette without \breaking eggs ( saying) wo gehobelt wird, da fallen Späne prov
    ▶ to \break the mould innovativ sein
    ▶ sticks and stones may \break my bones [but names will never hurt me] ( saying) Beschimpfungen können mir nichts anhaben
    ▶ to \break wind einen fahrenlassen fam
    <broke, broken>
    1. (shatter) zerbrechen; (stop working) kaputtgehen fam; (fall apart) auseinanderbrechen
    2. (interrupt) Pause machen
    shall we \break [off] for lunch? machen wir Mittagspause?
    3. wave sich akk brechen
    a wave broke over the boat eine Welle brach über dem Boot zusammen
    her voice was \breaking with emotion vor Rührung versagte ihr die Stimme
    the boy's voice is \breaking der Junge ist [gerade] im Stimmbruch
    5. METEO weather umschlagen; dawn, day anbrechen; storm losbrechen
    6. (collapse under strain) zusammenbrechen
    7. (become public) news, scandal bekannt werden, publikwerden, ans Licht kommen
    8. (in billiards, snooker) anstoßen
    9. BOXING sich akk trennen
    10. (move out of formation) clouds aufreißen; crowd sich akk teilen; MIL, SPORT sich akk auflösen
    11. MED [auf]platzen
    the waters have broken die Fruchtblase ist geplatzt
    12.
    ▶ to \break even kostendeckend arbeiten
    ▶ to \break free ausbrechen, sich akk befreien
    ▶ to \break loose sich akk losreißen
    ▶ it's make or \break! es geht um alles oder nichts!
    * * *
    [breɪk] vb: pret broke, ptp broken
    1. NOUN
    1) = fracture in bone, pipe Bruch m; (GRAM, TYP = word break) (Silben)trennung f

    ... he said with a break in his voice —... sagte er mit stockender Stimme

    2) = gap Lücke f; (in rock) Spalte f, Riss m; (in drawn line) Unterbrechung f

    row upon row of houses without a break — Häuserzeile auf Häuserzeile, ohne Lücke or lückenlos

    3) = pause ALSO BRIT SCH Pause f; (in journey) Pause f, Unterbrechung f

    without a break — ohne Unterbrechung or Pause, ununterbrochen

    give me a break! ( inf, expressing annoyance ) — nun mach mal halblang! (inf)

    4) = end of relations Bruch m
    5) = change Abwechslung f
    6) = respite Erholung f
    7) = holiday Urlaub m

    I'm looking forward to a good break — ich freue mich auf einen schönen Urlaub

    8)
    9) = escape inf Ausbruch m
    10) = opportunity inf

    to have a good/bad break — Glück or Schwein (inf) nt/Pech nt haben

    11) BILLIARDS Break nt or m, Serie f
    2. TRANSITIVE VERB
    1) in pieces = fracture bone sich (dat) brechen; stick zerbrechen; (= smash) kaputt schlagen, kaputt machen; glass, cup zerbrechen; window einschlagen; egg aufbrechen

    to break one's leg — sich (dat) das Bein brechen

    2) = make unusable toy, chair kaputt machen
    3) = violate promise, treaty, vow brechen; law, rule, commandment verletzen; appointment nicht einhalten
    4) = interrupt journey, silence, fast unterbrechen; spell brechen; monotony, routine unterbrechen, auflockern

    to break a habit — mit einer Gewohnheit brechen, sich (dat) etw abgewöhnen

    5) = penetrate skin ritzen; surface, shell durchbrechen

    his skin is bruised but not broken —

    to break surface ( submarine fig ) —, fig ) auftauchen

    6) = surpass record brechen; sound barrier durchbrechen
    7) = open up → ground
    8) = tame horse zureiten; person brechen
    9) = destroy person kleinkriegen (inf), mürbemachen; resistance, strike brechen; code entziffern; (TENNIS) serve durchbrechen

    his spirit was broken by the spell in solitary confinement —

    37p, well that won't exactly break the bank — 37 Pence, na, davon gehe ich/gehen wir noch nicht bankrott

    10) = soften fall dämpfen, abfangen
    11) = get out of jail, one's bonds ausbrechen aus
    12) = disclose news mitteilen
    3. INTRANSITIVE VERB
    1) in pieces = snap twig, bone brechen; (rope) zerreißen; (= smash, window) kaputtgehen; (cup, glass) zerbrechen
    2) = become useless watch, toy, chair kaputtgehen
    3)

    = become detached to break from sth — von etw abbrechen

    4) = pause (eine) Pause machen, unterbrechen
    5) = change weather, luck umschlagen
    6) = disperse clouds aufreißen; (crowd) sich teilen
    7) = give way health leiden, Schaden nehmen; (stamina) gebrochen werden; under interrogation etc zusammenbrechen
    8) wave sich brechen
    9) day, dawn anbrechen; (suddenly storm) losbrechen
    10) voice with emotion brechen
    11) = become known story, news, scandal bekannt werden, an den Tag or ans Licht kommen
    12) = escape from jail ausbrechen (from aus) → loose
    13)

    company to break even — seine (Un)kosten decken

    15)

    ball to break to the right/left — nach rechts/links wegspringen

    16) = let go (BOXING ETC) sich trennen
    17) = end relations brechen
    4. PHRASAL VERBS
    * * *
    break1 [breık]
    A s
    1. (Ab-, Zer-, Durch-, Entzwei)Brechen n, Bruch m
    2. Bruch (-stelle f) m, Durchbruch m, Riss m, Spalt m, Bresche f, Öffnung f, Zwischenraum m, Lücke f (auch fig)
    3. fig Bruch m (from, with mit; between zwischen dat):
    she made a break from her family sie brach mit ihrer Familie; → clean A 15
    4. (Wald)Lichtung f
    5. a) Pause f (Br auch SCHULE), Unterbrechung f ( auch ELEK):
    before (after) the break SPORT vor (nach) der Pause, vor (nach) dem Seitenwechsel;
    without a break ununterbrochen;
    have ( oder take) a break (eine) Pause machen;
    take a break for a cigarette eine Zigarettenpause machen
    b) RADIO, TV Werbeunterbrechung f:
    we’ll be back again right after the break gleich nach der Werbung geht es weiter
    c) Kurzurlaub m:
    have ( oder take) a weekend break übers Wochenende verreisen
    6. fig, auch LIT Zäsur f, Einschnitt m
    7. Ausbruch m (eines Gefangenen), Fluchtversuch m:
    make a break for it ( oder for freedom) das Weite suchen, flüchten;
    they made a break for the door sie stürzten zur Tür
    8. (plötzlicher) Wechsel, Umschwung m:
    break in the weather Wetterumschlag m;
    at break of day bei Tagesanbruch
    9. SPORT Konter m
    10. WIRTSCH Preis-, Kurssturz m, Kurseinbruch m
    11. MUS
    a) Registerwechsel m
    b) Jazz: Break m/n (kurzes Zwischensolo)
    12. MUS
    a) Versagen n (im Ton)
    b) Versager m (Ton)
    13. Richtungswechsel m
    14. Billard:
    a) Serie f
    b) Abweichen n (des Balles)
    15. Boxen: Trennkommando n
    16. Pferderennen: Start m
    17. umg
    a) a bad break Pech n;
    a lucky break Dusel m, Schwein n (beide umg)
    b) (faire) Chance f:
    18. auch break of serve (Tennis) Break m/n (Spielgewinn bei gegnerischem Aufschlag):
    he had a break er schaffte ein(en) Break, ihm gelang ein Break
    B v/t prät broke [brəʊk], obs brake [breık], pperf broken [ˈbrəʊkən]
    1. ab-, auf-, durchbrechen, (er-, zer)brechen:
    break open eine Tür etc aufbrechen;
    break one’s arm sich den Arm brechen;
    break sb’s head jemandem den Schädel einschlagen;
    break a glass ein Glas zerbrechen;
    break jail aus dem Gefängnis ausbrechen;
    break a leg, John! umg besonders THEAT Hals- und Beinbruch!;
    break a record fig einen Rekord brechen;
    break a seal ein Siegel erbrechen;
    break sb’s service, break sb (Tennis) jemandem den Aufschlag abnehmen, jemanden breaken;
    he broke service (Tennis) er schaffte ein(en) Break, ihm gelang ein Break; → ass2, back1 A 1, balls A, heart Bes Redew, neck A 2
    2. zerreißen, -schlagen, -trümmern, kaputt machen umg
    3. PHYS Licht, Strahlen, weitS. Wellen, Wind brechen, einen Stoß oder Fall abfangen, dämpfen, auch fig abschwächen
    4. ab-, unterbrechen, trennen, aufheben, sprengen:
    a) auseinandergehen,
    b) sich wegstehlen;
    break a journey eine Reise unterbrechen;
    break one’s silence sein Schweigen brechen;
    a cry broke the silence ein Schrei zerriss die Stille;
    a) einen Satz (z. B. Gläser durch Zerbrechen eines einzelnen Teiles) unvollständig machen,
    b) einen Satz (z. B. Briefmarken) auseinanderreißen;
    break a siege eine Belagerung aufheben; → blockade A 1, camp1 A 1, fast3 B 1, ice1 A 1
    5. ELEK
    b) ab-, ausschalten
    6. aufgeben, ablegen:
    break a custom mit einer Tradition oder Gewohnheit brechen;
    break sb of sth jemandem etwas abgewöhnen; → habit 1
    7. a) eine Speise, eine Ware, einen Geldschein anbrechen: → bottle1 A 1, bread Bes Redew
    b) einen Geldschein kleinmachen umg (wechseln)
    8. fig jemandes Macht, Willen etc brechen, jemanden zerbrechen, jemandem das Rückgrat brechen:
    break sb’s resistance jemandes Widerstand brechen;
    break sb’s spirits jemandes Lebensmut brechen
    9. a) Tiere zähmen, abrichten, ein Pferd zureiten, einfahren, auch jemanden gewöhnen (to an akk):
    break a horse to harness (to rein) ein Pferd einfahren (zureiten)
    b) ein Auto etc einfahren, neue Schuhe einlaufen, austreten
    c) jemanden einarbeiten, anlernen
    10. das Gesetz, einen Vertrag, sein Versprechen etc brechen, eine Regel verletzen, eine Vorschrift übertreten, verstoßen gegen, ein Tempolimit überschreiten:
    rules are made to be broken Vorschriften sind dazu da, um übertreten zu werden
    11. fig vernichten, (auch finanziell) ruinieren oder zugrunde richten, eine Ehe etc zerrütten:
    break a will JUR ein Testament (durch gerichtliches Verfahren) aufheben; → bank1 A 3
    12. MIL
    a) entlassen
    b) degradieren
    13. eröffnen, kundtun:
    break the bad news gently to sb jemandem die schlechte Nachricht schonend beibringen
    14. US umg eine Unternehmung starten
    15. HIST foltern, auf der oder die Folter strecken: → wheel A 6
    16. a) einen Code etc knacken umg, entschlüsseln
    b) einen Fall lösen, aufklären
    17. break (the) ground AGR ein Brachfeld umbrechen, -pflügen; → ground1 A 1
    18. MUS
    a) einen Akkord brechen
    b) Notenwerte zerlegen
    C v/i
    1. brechen:
    a) in ein Haus etc einbrechen,
    b) allg und fig eindringen oder einbrechen in (akk):
    c) etwas unterbrechen, hineinplatzen in (akk),
    d) fig ausbrechen in (akk):
    e) → B 7 a;
    break through eine Absperrung etc durchbrechen;
    break with mit jemandem, einer Tradition etc brechen; → loose A 1
    2. (zer)brechen, zerspringen, -reißen, (-)platzen, entzweigehen, kaputtgehen umg:
    the rope broke das Seil riss;
    break open aufspringen, -platzen
    3. unterbrochen werden
    4. (plötzlich) auftauchen (Fisch, U-Boot)
    5. sich (zer)teilen (Wolken)
    6. zersprengt werden, in Unordnung geraten, weichen (Truppen), sich auflösen (Heer)
    7. MED aufbrechen, -gehen (Abszess), aufplatzen (Zyste), platzen, aufspringen (Haut)
    8. fig brechen (Herz, Widerstand etc)
    9. nachlassen, abnehmen, gebrochen oder zerrüttet werden, verfallen (Geist oder Gesundheit), (auch seelisch) zusammenbrechen
    10. umschlagen, mutieren (Stimme):
    a) er befand sich im Stimmbruch, er mutierte,
    b) ihm brach die Stimme ( with vor Rührung etc)
    11. SPORT die Gangart wechseln (Pferd)
    12. Tennis: breaken
    13. sich brechen, branden (Wellen)
    14. brechen (Eis)
    15. umschlagen (Wetter)
    16. anbrechen (Tag)
    17. los-, ausbrechen ( over über dat):
    the storm broke der Sturm brach los
    18. eröffnet werden, bekannt gegeben werden (Nachricht)
    19. WIRTSCH plötzlich im Preis oder Kurs fallen (Ware, Wertpapier)
    20. WIRTSCH ruiniert werden, Bankrott machen oder bankrottgehen, fallieren
    21. Boxen: sich trennen:
    break! break!
    22. rennen, hasten:
    break for cover hastig in Deckung gehen
    23. Pferderennen: starten
    24. eine Pause machen:
    break for lunch (eine) Mittagspause machen
    25. besonders US umg sich entwickeln:
    break2 [breık] s
    1. Break m/n (Art Kremser mit zwei Längssitzen)
    * * *
    1. transitive verb,
    1) brechen; (so as to damage) zerbrechen; kaputtmachen (ugs.); aufschlagen [Ei zum Kochen]; zerreißen [Seil]; (fig.): (interrupt) unterbrechen; brechen [Bann, Zauber, Schweigen]

    break something in two/in pieces — etwas in zwei Teile/in Stücke brechen

    the TV/my watch is broken — der Fernseher/meine Uhr ist kaputt (ugs.)

    2) (fracture) sich (Dat.) brechen; (pierce) verletzen [Haut]

    he broke his leg — er hat sich (Dat.) das Bein gebrochen

    break one's/somebody's back — (fig.) sich/jemanden kaputtmachen (ugs.)

    break the back of something — (fig.) bei etwas das Schwerste hinter sich bringen

    3) (violate) brechen [Vertrag, Versprechen]; verletzen, verstoßen gegen [Regel, Tradition]; nicht einhalten [Verabredung]; überschreiten [Grenze]
    4) (destroy) zerstören, ruinieren [Freundschaft, Ehe]
    5) (surpass) brechen [Rekord]

    break jail — [aus dem Gefängnis] ausbrechen

    7) (weaken) brechen, beugen [Stolz]; zusammenbrechen lassen [Streik]

    break somebody — (crush) jemanden fertig machen (ugs.)

    break the habit — es sich (Dat.) abgewöhnen; see also make 1. 15)

    8) (cushion) auffangen [Schlag, jemandes Fall]
    9) (make bankrupt) ruinieren

    it won't break the bank — (fig. coll.) es kostet kein Vermögen

    break the news that... — melden, dass...

    11) (solve) entschlüsseln, entziffern [Kode, Geheimschrift]

    break service/somebody's service — den Aufschlag des Gegners/jemandes Aufschlag durchbrechen. See also broken 2.

    2. intransitive verb,
    broke, broken
    1) kaputtgehen (ugs.); entzweigehen; [Faden, Seil:] [zer]reißen; [Glas, Tasse, Teller:] zerbrechen; [Eis:] brechen

    break in two/in pieces — entzweibrechen

    2) (crack) [Fenster-, Glasscheibe:] zerspringen

    break with somebody/something — mit jemandem/etwas brechen

    4)

    break into — einbrechen in (+ Akk.) [Haus]; aufbrechen [Safe]

    break into a trot/run — etc. zu traben/laufen usw. anfangen

    break out of prison — etc. aus dem Gefängnis usw. ausbrechen

    5)

    break free or loose [from somebody/somebody's grip] — sich [von jemandem/aus jemandes Griff] losreißen

    break free/loose [from prison] — [aus dem Gefängnis] ausbrechen

    6) [Welle:] sich brechen (on/against an + Dat.)
    7) [Wetter:] umschlagen
    8) [Wolkendecke:] aufreißen
    9) [Tag:] anbrechen
    10) [Sturm:] losbrechen
    11)

    somebody's voice is breaking — jemand kommt in den Stimmbruch; (with emotion) jemandem bricht die Stimme

    break for coffee/lunch — [eine] Kaffee-/Mittagspause machen

    13) (become public) bekannt werden
    3. noun
    1) Bruch, der; (of rope) Reißen, das

    break [of service] — (Tennis) Break, der od. das

    a break with somebody/something — ein Bruch mit jemandem/etwas

    break of day — Tagesanbruch, der

    2) (gap) Lücke, die; (Electr.): (in circuit) Unterbrechung, die

    they made a sudden break [for it] — sie stürmten plötzlich davon

    4) (interruption) Unterbrechung, die
    5) (pause, holiday) Pause, die

    take or have a break — [eine] Pause machen

    6) (coll.): (fair chance, piece of luck) Chance, die
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    (printing) n.
    Absatz -¨e (Buchdruck) m. n.
    Arbeitspause f.
    Bruch ¨-e m.
    Lücke -n f.
    Pause -n (Schule) f.
    Pause -n (Sport) f.
    Pause -n f.
    Rast -en f.
    Umbruch -¨e (von Gefäß) m.
    Unterbrechung f. (up) with someone expr.
    jemandem die Freundschaft aufkündigen ausdr. v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: broke, broken)
    = abbrechen v.
    aufheben v.
    stoppen v.
    unterbrechen v.
    zersplittern v.

    English-german dictionary > break

  • 17 test

    test
    1. noun
    1) (a set of questions or exercises intended to find out a person's ability, knowledge etc; a short examination: an arithmetic/driving test.) prueba, examen, test
    2) (something done to find out whether a thing is good, strong, efficient etc: a blood test.) prueba, examen, test; análisis (de sangre)
    3) (an event, situation etc that shows how good or bad something is: a test of his courage.) prueba
    4) (a way to find out if something exists or is present: a test for radioactivity.) ensayo, prueba
    5) (a test match.) partido internacional

    2. verb
    (to carry out a test or tests on (someone or something): The students were tested on their French; They tested the new aircraft.) probar, examinar; hacer un análisis
    - test pilot
    - test-tube
    test1 n examen / prueba
    test2 vb testar / probar / comprobar

    test sustantivo masculino (pl
    ◊ tests) test;
    un examen tipo test a multiple-choice exam
    test sustantivo masculino test
    test de calidad, quality test ' test' also found in these entries: Spanish: alcoholemia - análisis - control - ensayar - ensayo - evaluación - examen - graduar - lección - negativa - negativo - positiva - positivo - probar - probeta - prueba - psicotécnica - psicotécnico - suficiencia - testar - verificación - admisión - bebé - citología - comprobación - convivencia - dar - ejercicio - interrogación - Papanicolau - piloto - resistencia - seguro - sondeo - tentar - verificar English: accurately - acid test - aptitude test - attest - blood test - breath test - detest - driving test - ease - polygraph - protest - protester - review - score - smear test - test - test case - test drive - test pilot - test run - test-tube baby - testament - testicle - testify - testimonial - testimony - worried - answer - blood - blow - Breathalyzer - dope - driving - endurance - fail - full - go - grade - graduated - litmus - means - multiple - Pap smear - pass - pilot - positive - quiz - remote - screen - set
    tr[test]
    1 (trial) prueba
    2 SMALLEDUCATION/SMALL (gen) examen nombre masculino, prueba; (multiple choice) test nombre masculino
    3 SMALLMEDICINE/SMALL análisis nombre masculino
    1 (gen) probar
    2 (patience, loyalty) poner a prueba
    3 SMALLEDUCATION/SMALL hacerle una prueba a
    4 SMALLMEDICINE/SMALL analizar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to stand the test of time resistir el paso del tiempo
    to take a car for a test drive probar un coche en carretera
    test flight vuelo de prueba
    test match partido internacional
    test pilot piloto de pruebas
    test tube probeta
    test ['tɛst] vt
    : examinar, evaluar
    test vi
    : hacer pruebas
    test n
    : prueba f, examen m, test m
    to put to the test: poner a prueba
    n.
    • ensayo s.m.
    • examen s.m.
    • piedra de toque s.f.
    • probatura s.f.
    • prueba s.f.
    • tanteo s.m.
    • test s.m.
    v.
    • ensayar v.
    • examinar v.
    • experimentar v.
    • probar v.
    • tantear v.
    • verificar v.
    test
    I
    1)
    a) ( Educ) prueba f; ( multiple-choice type) test m

    to do o take a test — hacer* una prueba/un test

    to give o set somebody a test — hacerle* or ponerle* a alguien una prueba/un test

    b) (of machine, drug) prueba f

    to put something to the test — poner* algo a prueba

    to stand the test of time — resistir el paso del tiempo; (before n) <run, flight> experimental, de prueba

    c) (analysis, investigation)

    blood/urine test — análisis m de sangre/orina

    to have an eye/a hearing test — hacerse* un examen de la vista/del oído

    2) ( Sport) partido m internacional

    II
    1.
    a) \<\<student/class\>\> examinar, hacerle* una prueba a; \<\<knowledge/skill\>\> evaluar*
    b) test (out) \<\<product/vehicle/weapon\>\> probar*, poner* a prueba

    these cosmetics have not been tested on animals — no se han utilizado animales en las pruebas de laboratorio de estos cosméticos

    c) \<\<friendship/endurance\>\> poner* a prueba
    d) \<\<blood/urine\>\> analizar*; \<\<sight/hearing/reflexes\>\> examinar; \<\<hypothesis\>\> comprobar*

    to test somebody for something: she was tested for AIDS se le hizo un análisis para determinar si tenía el sida; to test something FOR something: the eggs were tested for salmonella — los huevos fueron analizados para determinar si estaban infectados de salmonela


    2.
    vi ( carry out a test) hacer* pruebas; ( Med) hacer* análisis

    just testing! — (hum) era sólo para ver qué decías

    [test]
    1. N
    1) (Scol, Univ) examen m ; (multiple-choice) test m ; (esp for job) prueba f

    • to do a test — (Scol, Univ) hacer un examen; (multiple choice) hacer un test; (for job) hacer una prueba

    • to fail a test — (Scol, Univ) suspender un examen; (multiple choice) suspender un test; (for job) no pasar una prueba

    • to give sb a test (in sth) — examinar a algn (de algo), poner a algn un examen (de algo)

    • an oral test — un examen oral

    • to pass a test — (Scol, Univ) aprobar un examen; (multiple choice) aprobar un test; (for job) pasar una prueba

    • to take a test — (Scol, Univ) hacer un examen; (multiple choice) hacer un test; (for job) hacer una prueba

    • a written test — un examen oral/escrito

    aptitude, intelligence
    2) (Aut) (also: driving test) examen m de conducir

    • to fail one's test — suspender el examen de conducir

    • to pass one's test — aprobar el examen de conducir

    • to take one's test — hacer el examen de conducir

    3) (Med) [of organs, functioning] prueba f ; [of sample, substance] análisis m inv

    • AIDS test — prueba f del sida

    • blood test — análisis m inv de sangre

    • eye test — revisión f de la vista

    • it was sent to the laboratory for tests — lo mandaron al laboratorio para que lo analizaran

    • hearing test — revisión f del oído

    • medical test — examen m médico

    • pregnancy test — prueba f del embarazo

    • urine test — análisis m inv de orina

    breath, fitness, litmus, smear
    4) (=trial) [of aircraft, new product, drug] prueba f

    • nuclear test — prueba f nuclear

    • they want to ban cosmetics tests on animals — quieren prohibir las pruebas de cosméticos en animales

    flight I, 1., 1), screen 3.
    5) (fig) prueba f

    holidays are a major test of any relationship — irse de vacaciones es una de las pruebas más difíciles a la que se somete cualquier relación

    • to put sth to the test — poner or someter algo a prueba

    • to stand the test of time — resistir el paso del tiempo

    acid, endurance
    6) (Cricket, Rugby) (also: test match) partido m internacional
    2. VT
    1) [+ student, pupil] examinar; [+ candidate] (for job) hacer una prueba a; [+ knowledge] evaluar; [+ understanding] poner a prueba

    • to test sb on sth — (Scol, Univ) examinar a algn de algo; (esp for job) hacer una prueba de algo a algn; (for revision) hacer preguntas de algo a algn (para repasar)

    can you test me on my French/spelling? — ¿me haces preguntas de francés/ortografía?

    2) (Med) [+ blood, urine, sample] analizar

    • to have one's eyes tested — hacerse una revisión de la vista

    • to test sb/sth for sth, to test sb for AIDS — hacer la prueba del SIDA a algn

    to test sb for drugs — (gen) realizar pruebas a algn para comprobar si ha consumido drogas; [+ athlete, sportsperson] realizar el control antidoping a algn

    3) (=conduct trials on) [+ aircraft, weapon, new product, drug] probar

    • all our products are tested for quality — probamos la calidad de todos nuestros productos

    • to test sth on sth/sb — probar algo con or en algo/algn

    4) (=check) probar
    - test the waters
    5) (fig) (=put to the test) [+ person, courage] poner a prueba
    3.
    VI (=conduct a test)

    testing, testing... — (Telec) probando, probando...

    • it is a method used to test for allergies — es un método utilizado en pruebas de alergia

    • just testing! — hum ¡por si acaso pregunto!

    • to test negative/ positive (for sth) — dar negativo/positivo (en la prueba de algo)

    4.
    CPD

    (nuclear) test ban N — prohibición f de pruebas nucleares

    test ban treaty N — (also: nuclear test ban treaty) tratado m de prohibición de pruebas nucleares

    test bed N — banco m de pruebas

    test card N — (TV) carta f de ajuste

    test case N — (Jur) juicio m que sienta jurisprudencia

    test cricket N — críquet m a nivel internacional

    test data NPL — resultados mpl de prueba

    test drive N — (by potential buyer) prueba f en carretera; (by mechanic, technician) prueba f de rodaje

    test-drive

    test flight N — vuelo m de prueba, vuelo m de ensayo

    test marketing N — pruebas de un producto nuevo en el mercado

    test marketing has already shown the product to be a great success — las pruebas realizadas en el mercado ya han mostrado que el producto tiene un éxito tremendo

    test match N — (Cricket, Rugby) partido m internacional

    test paper N — (Scol, Univ) examen m ; (multiple-choice) test m ; (Chem) papel m reactivo

    test pattern N (US) (TV) — = test card

    test piece N — (Mus) pieza f elegida para un certamen de piano

    test pilot N — piloto mf de pruebas

    test run N — (lit) vuelta f de prueba, prueba f ; (fig) puesta f a prueba

    test tube N — probeta f, tubo m de ensayo

    test tube baby N — bebé mf probeta

    * * *
    [test]
    I
    1)
    a) ( Educ) prueba f; ( multiple-choice type) test m

    to do o take a test — hacer* una prueba/un test

    to give o set somebody a test — hacerle* or ponerle* a alguien una prueba/un test

    b) (of machine, drug) prueba f

    to put something to the test — poner* algo a prueba

    to stand the test of time — resistir el paso del tiempo; (before n) <run, flight> experimental, de prueba

    c) (analysis, investigation)

    blood/urine test — análisis m de sangre/orina

    to have an eye/a hearing test — hacerse* un examen de la vista/del oído

    2) ( Sport) partido m internacional

    II
    1.
    a) \<\<student/class\>\> examinar, hacerle* una prueba a; \<\<knowledge/skill\>\> evaluar*
    b) test (out) \<\<product/vehicle/weapon\>\> probar*, poner* a prueba

    these cosmetics have not been tested on animals — no se han utilizado animales en las pruebas de laboratorio de estos cosméticos

    c) \<\<friendship/endurance\>\> poner* a prueba
    d) \<\<blood/urine\>\> analizar*; \<\<sight/hearing/reflexes\>\> examinar; \<\<hypothesis\>\> comprobar*

    to test somebody for something: she was tested for AIDS se le hizo un análisis para determinar si tenía el sida; to test something FOR something: the eggs were tested for salmonella — los huevos fueron analizados para determinar si estaban infectados de salmonela


    2.
    vi ( carry out a test) hacer* pruebas; ( Med) hacer* análisis

    just testing! — (hum) era sólo para ver qué decías

    English-spanish dictionary > test

  • 18 tratado

    Del verbo tratar: ( conjugate tratar) \ \
    tratado es: \ \
    el participio
    Multiple Entries: tratado     tratar
    tratado sustantivo masculino 1 (Der, Pol) treaty; 2 ( libro) treatise
    tratar ( conjugate tratar) verbo intransitivo 1 ( intentar) to try; tratadoé de que no vuelva a suceder I'll try to make sure it doesn't happen again 2 [obra/libro/película] tratado de algo to be about sth; tratado sobre algo to deal with sth; 3 (tener contacto, relaciones) tratado con algn to deal with sb; verbo transitivo 1 ‹persona/animal/instrumento› to treat; 2 ( frecuentar): 3 ‹tema/asunto› to discuss, to deal with 4
    a) (Med) to treat
    b) ‹sustancia/metal› to treat
    tratarse verbo pronominal 1 tratadose con algn ( ser amigo de) to be friendly with sb; ( alternar) to socialize o mix with sb; 2 (+ compl) ( recípr): 3 (Med) to have o undergo treatment 4
    ◊ tratarse de (en 3a pers)
    ◊ ¿de qué se trata? what's it about?
    ◊ se trata de participar, no de ganar it's a question of taking part, not of winning;
    solo porque se trata de ti just because it's you
    tratado sustantivo masculino
    1 (ensayo, libro) treatise
    2 (acuerdo, pacto) treaty
    tratar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (portarse) to treat
    2 (cuidar) to look after, care: trátame el libro bien, look after my book
    3 (dirigirse a una persona) address: nos tratamos de tú, we call each other "tú" o we're on first name terms
    4 (considerar, llamar) me trató de tonto, he called me stupid
    5 (someter a un proceso) to treat
    6 (someter a tratamiento médico) to treat: le tienen que tratar la artritis, they have to treat his arthritis
    7 (tener relación social) la he tratado muy poco, I don't know her very well
    8 (considerar, discutir) to deal with: no hemos tratado la cuestión, we haven't discussed that subject
    II verbo intransitivo 1 tratar de, (un libro, una película) to be about: ¿de qué trata?, what is it about?
    2 (intentar) to try [de, to]
    3 Com tratar en, to trade in o with 4 tratar con, (negociar) to negotiate with ' tratado' also found in these entries: Spanish: firma - marcar - OTAN - ratificar - suscribir - tratar - concluir - redacción - redactar - violar English: claim - confirm - confirmation - discourse - final - NATO - peace - stir - treatise - treaty - ultimately - deal - hard - tract

    English-spanish dictionary > tratado

  • 19 Section II. Concluding and Transitional Provisions

    1. The Constitution of the Russian Federation shall come into force from the moment of its official publication according to the results of a nationwide referendum.
    The day of the nationwide referendum of December 12, 1993 shall be considered to be the day of adopting the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Simultaneously The Constitution of Russia (Fundamental Law) of the Russian Federation – Russia, adopted on April 12, 1978 with all amendments and changes, shall become invalid. In case of non-compliance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation of the provisions of the Federal treaty – the Treaty on the Division of Subjects of Jurisdiction and Powers Between the Federal Bodies of State Power of the Russian Federation and the Bodies of Authority of the Sovereign Republics within the Russian Federation, the Treaty on the Division of Subjects of Jurisdiction and Powers Between the Federal Bodies of State Power of the Russian Federation and the Bodies of Authority of the Territories, Regions, Cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg of the Russian Federation, the Treaty on the Division of Subjects of Jurisdiction and Powers Between the Federal Bodies of State Power of the Russian Federation and the Bodies of Authority of the Autonomous Region, and Autonomous Areas within the Russian Federation, and also other treaties concluded between the federal bodies of state authority of the Russian Federation and bodies of state authority of the subjects of the Russian Federation, treaties between the bodies of state authority of the subjects of the Russian Federation, the provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation shall be applicable. 2. The laws and other legal acts acting in the territory of the Russian Federation before the given Constitution comes into force shall be applied in that part which does not contradict the Constitution of the Russian Federation. 3. The President of the Russian Federation, elected according to The Constitution of Russia (Fundamental Law) of the Russian Federation – Russia, since the given Constitution comes into force, since carry out the powers fixed in it until the term of office for which he was elected expires. 4. The Council of Ministers (Government) of the Russian Federation from the moment when the given Constitution comes into force shall acquire the rights, obligations and responsibilities of the Government of the Russian Federation fixed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and since then shall be called the Government of the Russian Federation. 5. The courts of the Russian Federation shall administer justice according to their powers fixed by the given Constitution. After the Constitution comes into force, the judges of all the courts of the Russian Federation shall retain their powers until the term they were elected for expires. Vacant positions shall be filled in according to the rules fixed by the given Constitution. 6. Until the adoption and coming into force of the federal law establishing the rules for considering cases by a court of jury, the existing rules of court examination of corresponding cases shall be preserved. Until the criminal procedure legislation of the Russian Federation is brought into conformity with the provisions of the present Constitution, the previous rules for arrest, detention and keeping in custody of people suspected of committing crime shall be preserved. 7. The Council of the Federation of the first convocation and the State Duma of the first convocation shall be elected for a period of two years. 8. The Council of the Federation shall meet in its first sitting on the thirtieth day after its election. The first sitting of the Council of the Federation shall be opened by the President of the Russian Federation. 9. A deputy of the State Duma of the first convocation may be simultaneously a member of the Government of the Russian Federation. The provisions of the present Constitution on the immunity of deputies in that part which concerns the actions (inaction) connected with fulfillment of office duties shall not extend to the deputies of the State Duma, members of the Government of the Russian Federation. The deputies of the Council of the Federation of the first convocation shall exercise their powers on a non-permanent basis. __________ <На русском языке см. [ref dict="The Constitution of Russia (Russian)"]Раздел II. Заключительные и переходные положения[/ref]> <На немецком языке см. [ref dict="The Constitution of Russia (German)"]Abschnitt II. Die Schluss- und Uebergangsbestimmungen[/ref]> <На французском языке см. [ref dict="The Constitution of Russia (French)"]Titre II. Les Dispositions finales et transitoires[/ref]>

    The Constitution of Russia. English-Russian dictionary > Section II. Concluding and Transitional Provisions

  • 20 Foreign policy

       The guiding principle of Portuguese foreign policy since the founding of the monarchy in the 12th century has been the maintenance of Portugal's status first as an independent kingdom and, later, as a sovereign nation-state. For the first 800 years of its existence, Portuguese foreign policy and diplomacy sought to maintain the independence of the Portuguese monarchy, especially in relationship to the larger and more powerful Spanish monarchy. During this period, the Anglo- Portuguese Alliance, which began with a treaty of commerce and friendship signed between the kings of Portugal and England in 1386 (the Treaty of Windsor) and continued with the Methuen Treaty in 1703, sought to use England ( Great Britain after 1707) as a counterweight to its landward neighbor, Spain.
       As three invasions of Portugal by Napoleon's armies during the first decade of the 19th century proved, however, Spain was not the only threat to Portugal's independence and security. Portugal's ally, Britain, provided a counterweight also to a threatening France on more than one occasion between 1790 and 1830. During the 19th century, Portugal's foreign policy became largely subordinate to that of her oldest ally, Britain, and standard Portuguese histories describe Portugal's situation as that of a "protectorate" of Britain. In two key aspects during this time of international weakness and internal turmoil, Portugal's foreign policy was under great pressure from her ally, world power Britain: responses to European conflicts and to the situation of Portugal's scattered, largely impoverished overseas empire. Portugal's efforts to retain massive, resource-rich Brazil in her empire failed by 1822, when Brazil declared its independence. Britain's policy of favoring greater trade and commerce opportunities in an autonomous Brazil was at odds with Portugal's desperate efforts to hold Brazil.
       Following the loss of Brazil and a renewed interest in empire in tropical Africa, Portugal sought to regain a more independent initiative in her foreign policy and, especially after 1875, overseas imperial questions dominated foreign policy concerns. From this juncture, through the first Republic (1910-26) and during the Estado Novo, a primary purpose of Portuguese foreign policy was to maintain Portuguese India, Macau, and its colonies in Africa: Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea- Bissau. Under the direction of the dictator, Antônio de Oliveira Salazar, further efforts were made to reclaim a measure of independence of foreign policy, despite the tradition of British dominance. Salazar recognized the importance of an Atlantic orientation of the country's foreign policy. As Herbert Pell, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1937-41), observed in a June 1939 report to the U.S. Department of State, Portugal's leaders understood that Portugal must side with "that nation which dominates the Atlantic."
       During the 1930s, greater efforts were made in Lisbon in economic, financial, and foreign policy initiatives to assert a greater measure of flexibility in her dependence on ally Britain. German economic interests made inroads in an economy whose infrastructure in transportation, communication, and commerce had long been dominated by British commerce and investors. Portugal's foreign policy during World War II was challenged as both Allied and Axis powers tested the viability of Portugal's official policy of neutrality, qualified by a customary bow to the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance. Antônio de Oliveira Salazar, who served as minister of foreign affairs, as well as prime minister, during 1936-45, sought to sell his version of neutrality to both sides in the war and to do so in a way that would benefit Portugal's still weak economy and finance. Portugal's status as a neutral was keenly tested in several cases, including Portugal's agreeing to lease military bases to Britain and the United States in the Azores Islands and in the wolfram (tungsten ore) question. Portugal's foreign policy experienced severe pressures from the Allies in both cases, and Salazar made it clear to his British and American counterparts that Portugal sought to claim the right to make independent choices in policy, despite Portugal's military and economic weakness. In tense diplomatic negotiations with the Allies over Portugal's wolfram exports to Germany as of 1944, Salazar grew disheartened and briefly considered resigning over the wolfram question. Foreign policy pressure on this question diminished quickly on 6 June 1944, as Salazar decreed that wolfram mining, sales, and exports to both sides would cease for the remainder of the war. After the United States joined the Allies in the war and pursued an Atlantic strategy, Portugal discovered that her relationship with the dominant ally in the emerging United Nations was changing and that the U.S. would replace Britain as the key Atlantic ally during succeeding decades. Beginning in 1943-44, and continuing to 1949, when Portugal became, with the United States, a founding member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Luso-American relations assumed center stage in her foreign policy.
       During the Cold War, Portuguese foreign policy was aligned with that of the United States and its allies in Western Europe. After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, the focus of Portuguese foreign policy shifted away from defending and maintaining the African colonies toward integration with Europe. Since Portugal became a member of the European Economic Community in 1986, and this evolved into the European Union (EU), all Portuguese governments have sought to align Portugal's foreign policy with that of the EU in general and to be more independent of the United States. Since 1986, Portugal's bilateral commercial and diplomatic relations with Britain, France, and Spain have strengthened, especially those with Spain, which are more open and mutually beneficial than at any other time in history.
       Within the EU, Portugal has sought to play a role in the promotion of democracy and human rights, while maintaining its security ties to NATO. Currently, a Portuguese politician, José Manuel Durão Barroso, is president of the Commission of the EU, and Portugal has held the six-month rotating presidency of the EU three times, in 1992, 2000, and 2007.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Foreign policy

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