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The Three Kings

  • 1 the Three Kings

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  • 2 City of the Three Kings

    Религия: Кёльн, (Cologne, the reputed burial place of the Magi) град Трёх Царей

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  • 3 City of the Three Kings (Cologne, the reputed burial place of the Magi)

    Религия: град Трёх Царей

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  • 4 Three Wise Men

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  • 5 king

    kiŋ
    1) (a male ruler of a nation, who inherits his position by right of birth: He became king when his father died; King Charles III.) rey
    2) (the playing-card with the picture of a king: I have two cards - the ten of spades and the king of diamonds.) rey
    3) (the most important piece in chess.) rey
    - kingly
    - kingliness
    - kingfisher
    - king-sized
    - king-size

    king n rey
    tr[kɪŋ]
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    king ['kɪŋ] n
    : rey m
    n.
    rey s.m.
    kɪŋ
    a) ( ruler) rey m
    b) (in cards, chess) rey m; ( in checkers) dama f
    [kɪŋ]
    1. N
    1) (lit, fig) rey m

    I'm the king of the castle!child language ¡soy el rey!, ¡soy el amo y señor!

    - live like a king
    2) (Chess, Cards) rey m ; (Draughts) dama f
    2.
    CPD

    king cobra Ncobra f real

    king penguin Npingüino m real

    King's Bench N(Brit) (Jur) departamento m del Tribunal Supremo

    King's Counsel N(Brit) (Jur) abogado mf (de categoría superior)

    See:
    * * *
    [kɪŋ]
    a) ( ruler) rey m
    b) (in cards, chess) rey m; ( in checkers) dama f

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  • 6 rey


    rey sustantivo masculino 1
    a) ( monarca) king;
    los Rreyes y sus hijos the royal couple and their children
    b) (en ajedrez, naipes) king
    c) ( como apelativo) pet (colloq), precious (colloq)
    2 Los Rreyes Magos the Three Wise Men, The Three Kings
    rey sustantivo masculino
    1 king
    2 (mago, genio) es el rey de rock, he's the king of rock
    3 Rel (el día de) Reyes, Epiphany o Twelfth Night o 6 January
    los Reyes Magos, the (Three) Wise Men Recuerda que el plural, kings, se refiere solo al sexo masculino. Los reyes de España, es decir, el rey y la reina, se traduce por the king and queen of Spain.
    Observa cómo se lee un nombre acompañado de un número: Elizabeth II, Elizabeth the Second; Henry VIII, Henry the Eighth. ' rey' also found in these entries: Spanish: abdicar - coronación - cuerpo - incógnito - injuria - juramentar - misma - mismo - reina - suceder - coronar - corte - cortejo - de - destronar - disponer - fiel - infante - interceder - majestad - representación - séquito - vivir English: appear - ascend - bear - court - do - entertain - exile - fit - forget - inflict - king - queen - live - stalemate

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  • 7 king

    kiŋ
    1) (a male ruler of a nation, who inherits his position by right of birth: He became king when his father died; King Charles III.) konge
    2) (the playing-card with the picture of a king: I have two cards - the ten of spades and the king of diamonds.) konge
    3) (the most important piece in chess.) konge
    - kingly
    - kingliness
    - kingfisher
    - king-sized
    - king-size
    konge
    I
    subst. \/kɪŋ\/
    1) konge (også overført), kong
    2) (i kortspill, sjakk e.l.) konge, dam (i damspill)
    3) ( botanikk) hovedrot
    fit for a king høvelig for en konge
    the king of... ( også reklame) verdens beste...
    the king of beasts dyrenes konge, løven
    the king of birds fuglenes konge
    the King of Kings kongenes konge, Kristus
    Kings ( bibelsk) Kongebøkene
    the King's English korrekt engelsk, forklaring: anerkjent språkbruk i Storbritannia (særlig i England)
    king's pawn ( sjakk) kongebonde
    Most Gracious King vår aller nådigste konge
    oil king oljemagnat
    the three Kings ( bibelsk) de tre vise menn, de hellige tre konger
    II
    verb \/kɪŋ\/
    gjøre til konge
    king it opptre som konge, spille konge herske, regjere

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  • 8 king

    king [kɪŋ]
    1 noun
    (a) (person) roi m;
    King Henry the Eighth le roi Henri VIII;
    the King of Spain/Belgium le roi d'Espagne/des Belges;
    the Three Kings les trois Mages, les Rois mages;
    figurative the king of (the) beasts le roi des animaux;
    figurative the fast-food king le roi ou le magnat de la restauration rapide;
    to live like a king vivre en grand seigneur;
    familiar I'm the king of the castle! (in children's games) c'est moi le plus fort!;
    British Law to turn King's evidence témoigner contre ses complices;
    to pay a king's ransom (for sth) payer une fortune ou un prix fou (pour qch)
    (b) (in cards, chess) roi m; (in draughts) dame f;
    the king of hearts le roi de cœur
    Bible (the book of) Kings (le livre des) Rois
    ►► Law King's Bench = en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles, l'une des trois divisions de la High Court, tribunal m de grande instance;
    Law King's Bench Division cour f d'assises (en Grande-Bretagne et au Canada);
    Zoology King Charles spaniel king-charles m inv, épagneul m du roi Charles;
    Zoology king cobra cobra m royal, hamadryade f;
    King's Counsel avocat(e) m,f de la Couronne (en Grande-Bretagne), French Canadian conseil m du roi;
    Zoology king crab limule f, crabe m des Moluques; Botany &
    Cookery King Edward (potato) (pomme f de terre) King Edward f;
    British the King's English le bon anglais;
    old-fashioned Medicine King's evil (scrofula) écrouelles fpl;
    British the King's highway la voie publique;
    King James Bible, King James Version = version anglaise de la Bible publiée en 1611, "autorisée" par le roi Jacques 1er d'Angleterre;
    Ornithology king penguin manchot m royal;
    British Zoology king prawn (grosse) crevette f;
    the King's Road = rue chic de Londres, très à la mode dans les années 60;
    king scallop grosse coquille f Saint-Jacques;
    Zoology king snake serpent-roi m;
    Ornithology king vulture condor m papa
    ✾ Film 'King and Country' Losey 'Pour l'exemple'
    ✾ Play 'King Lear' Shakespeare 'Le Roi Lear'
    ✾ Book ✾ Film 'King Solomon's Mines' Stevenson, Haggard 'Les Mines du roi Salomon'

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  • 9 ♦ king

    ♦ king /kɪŋ/
    n.
    1 re; monarca; sovrano: the King of England, il re d'Inghilterra; to be crowned king, essere incoronato re NOTE DI CULTURA: the King: ► monarchy
    2 (fig.) re; signore: He is the king of painters, è il re dei pittori; the king of beasts, il re degli animali; il leone; the king of birds, il re degli uccelli; l'aquila
    3 ( alle carte, negli scacchi) re: the king of hearts, il re di cuori; I've only a king ( left) in my hand, mi è rimasto soltanto un re in mano; king's bishop [knight, rook, pawn], alfiere [cavallo, torre, pedina] di re
    4 (a dama) dama
    5 (al pl.) (relig.) (il) Libro dei Re ( nella Bibbia)
    ● (leg., in GB) King's Bench Division = Queen's Bench Division ► queen □ (zool.) king cobra ( Naja hannah, Ophiophagus hannah), cobra reale □ (leg.) King's Counselcounsel □ (zool.) king crab ( Limulus polyphemus), limulo □ (stor.) the King Emperor, il re d'Inghilterra e Imperatore d'India □ King's English, la lingua inglese corretta; l'inglese puro □ (leg.) King's evidence = to turn King's evidence ► evidence □ (med., stor.) the King's evil, la scrofola □ (relig., letter.) King James Bible (o King James Version) = Authorized Version ► authorized □ (fig.) King Log, re Travicello □ (arald.) King-of-arms, re d'arme; primo araldo □ (relig.) the King of Kings, il Re dei re □ (zool.) king of the herring ( Regalecus glesne), regaleco; re delle aringhe □ ( ciclismo) king of the mountains competition, gran premio della montagna □ (leg., stor.) the King's peace, la quiete pubblica; l'ordine pubblico □ (zool.) king penguin ( Aptenotydes patagonica), pinguino reale □ (archit.) king post, monaco □ (fam.) a king's ransom, una somma enorme; un Perù □ king-size (o king-sized), (comm.) king-size; (fam.) grande, enorme: king-size bottle, bottiglia king-size □ (fig.) King Stork, un re tiranno □ (relig.) the Three Kings, i Re Magi.
    (to) king /kɪŋ/
    A v. i.
    (nella loc. to king it:) farla da padrone; spadroneggiare
    B v. t.
    (arc.) creare (q.) re.

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  • 10 Wise Men

    Wise Men npl los Reyes Magos
    n.pl.
    Reyes Magos s.m.pl.

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  • 11 Alcácer-Quivir, Battle of

    (4 August 1578)
       Known to history also as "The Battle of the Three Kings," this event helped weaken Portugal, deprive the country of a non-Castilian legitimate male heir, and led to her loss of independence. The site of the battle, known in Arabic as Alcazar-el-Kebr, is southwest of Arzila, Morocco, some 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Tangier. It was here that the Portuguese armed forces under the command of the foolhardy young king, 24-year-old Sebastião I of Aviz, were defeated and dispersed by Muslim forces under the Sharif of Morocco. More than 8,000 Portuguese died, including the king, whose body was apparently buried in Alcácer. About 15,000 of the Portuguese and their allied forces became prisoners in Morocco and few managed to escape to Portuguese forts on the coast. As a result of the disappearance of Sebastião and the defeat of an important part of the country's defense forces, Portugal was more vulnerable to Spanish power than since the late 14th century. In Morocco and in Portugal, rumors grew into legends concerning the fate of the young king. The cult and mythology of Sebastianism arose out of the initial uncertainty concerning the monarch's fate and the tragic decline and defeat of Portugal. "Sebas-tianism" featured myths that the king had survived and would return on a foggy morning to Portugal to drive out the Spanish invaders and restore Portugal to its former greatness. A vast literature in poetry, stories, novels, songs, and folklore grew around the sentiment of "Se-bastianism." Beginning in the late 16th century in Portugal, persons posing as the returned Sebastian, there to save Portugal, began to appear.

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  • 12 king

    s rei, monarca | JOC rei, dama
    The Three Kings els tres reis d'orient

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  • 13 last

    ̈ɪlɑ:st I
    1. прил.
    1) превосх. от late
    1.
    2) а) последний to come in last ≈ приходить последним (на скачках) She was the last to finish. ≈ Она закончила последней We refer to your letter of( the) 15th May last. ≈ Мы ссылаемся на Ваше письмо от 15 мая текущего года. last but one Syn: final
    3) завершающий, заключительный, окончательный There is no last answer to the problem. ≈ Для этой проблемы еще не найдено окончательного решения. Syn: conclusive
    4) а) прошлый, недавний last century ≈ прошлый век;
    в прошлом веке б) самый современный the last word in technologyпоследнее слово в технике Syn: latest
    5) а) крайний, чрезвычайный Syn: supreme, ultimate б) каждый, отдельный( используется в качестве усиления) every last piece of food ≈ каждый божий кусок еды Syn: distinct, separate
    6) а) занимающий самое низкое положениекакой-либо иерархии) Syn: worst
    1. б) самый неподходящий, нежелательный You are the last person I might agree to marry. ≈ Ты последний человек, за которого я соглашусь выйти замуж. ∙ on one's last legs разг. ≈ при последнем издыхании;
    в полном изнеможении last but not least last rites
    2. нареч.
    1) превосх. от late
    2.
    2) а) после всех at lastв конце концов at long last ≈ в конце концов to come in last ≈ приходить последним (на скачках) She was the last to finish. ≈ Она закончила последней б) на последнем месте, в конце ( при перечислении и т. п.)
    3) в последний раз
    4) в заключение Last, let's consider a philosophical aspect of this problem. ≈ И в заключение давайте обсудим философский аспект этой проблемы. Syn: in conclusion
    3. сущ.
    1) что-л. последнее по времени when my last was born ≈ когда родился мой младший (сын) the last
    2) а) конец the last of summer ≈ конец лета to hold on to the last ≈ держаться до конца to breathe one's lastиспустить последнее дыхание see the last of smb./smth. at last б) заключительная часть чего-л., итог Syn: conclusion в) разг. разрыв в отношениях( с кем-л.) I shall be thankful to see the last of you! ≈ Я буду очень благодарен тебе, если мы никогда больше не увидимся. II
    1. гл.
    1) продолжаться, тянуться, длиться( for;
    from;
    to, until) The meeting lasted from one to three. ≈ Встреча продолжалась с часу до трех. The examination lasted two hours. ≈ Экзамен шел два часа. This winter seems to last for ever. ≈ Кажется, эта зима не кончится никогда. Syn: continue, endure, go on
    2) а) сохраняться;
    выдерживатьздоровье, силе) ;
    носитьсяткани, обуви и т. п.) б) редк. длиться (о жизни человека) в) хватать, быть достаточным (тж. last out) (на какой-то промежуток времени) Those shoes didn't last (me) for a month, and I'm going to take them back to the shop ≈ Этих ботинок не хватило мне и на месяц, пойду отнесу их обратно в магазин.
    2. сущ.
    1) редк. длительность, продолжительность the last of 50 years ≈ продолжительностью полвека Syn: continuance, duration
    2) выдержка;
    выносливость Syn: endurance, staying power III
    1. сущ. колодка (для изготовления обуви;
    делается из металла или пластика) to measure smb.'s foot by one's own last ≈ мерить кого-л. на свой аршин to stick to one's last ≈ заниматься своим делом, не вмешиваться в чужие дела
    2. гл. натягивать на колодку;
    придавать форму колодки (материалу, из которого делается верх обуви) IV сущ. ласт (мера, различная для разного груза: 10 квартеров зерна, 12 мешков шерсти, 12 дюжин кож, 24 бочонка пороха и т. п.;
    как мера веса составляет ок. 4000 англ. фунтов) последний, последнее - the * Stuart Kings последний король династии Стюартов - the /this/ * последний из упомянутых - as we said in our * как мы указывали в нашем последнем письме - her * ее младьший (ребенок) остаток - the * of wine остатки вина - these are the * of our apples вот все что осталось от наших яблок конец - the * of конец (года, месяца, недели и т. п.) - to see the * of smb., smth. видеть кого-л., что-л. в последний раз - we have seen the * of him мы его больше не увидим конец, смерть;
    последний час - to be faithful to the * быть верным до последнего часа /до гроба/ - he remained impenitent to the * он не раскаялся до самого конца /до последнего вздоха/ шутка, выдумка, каламбур, оставленные под конец > at * наконец > at (the) long * в конце концов > till the * до конца > to hold on to the * держаться до конца > to fight to the * сражаться до конца > we shall never hear the * of it этому никогда не будет конца > to breathe one's * испустить последний вздох, умереть последний - the * page of book последняя страница книги - the * carriage of a train последний вагон поезда последний (по времени) - * but one предпоследний - * but two третий с конца - the * day of the year последний день в году - to see smb. fo the * time видеть кого-л. в последний раз - in the * 2 years за последние два года единственный, последний - * crust /resource/ единственный оставшийся источник существования - to give one's * shilling отдать последний шиллинг последний, предсмертный - * rites /sacrament/ (церковное) соборование прошлый - * year прошлый год;
    в прошлом году - the week before * позапрошлая неделя - * night прошлая ночь;
    прошлой ночью;
    вчера вечером - * night I slept badly прошлой ночью я плохо спал - * night we got home late вчера вечером мы вернулись домой поздно - * March март этого года (если это говорится в апреле-декабре) ;
    март прошлого года (если это говорится в январе-феврале) - in the * chapter в предидущей главе самый новый, самый последний, самый свежий - the * news we received самое последнее полученое нами сообщение - the * thing in motor cars самая последняя /новейшая/ модель автомобиля самый неподходящий, самый нежелательный;
    неожиданный - the * person to be accused человек, которого никак нельзя обвинить - the * man we wanted to see человек, которого мы меньше всего хотели бы видеть - he is the * man to consult in such matters он самый неподходящий человек для совета по такому делу - that's the * thing I would have expected этого я никак не ожидал - she is the * person to help от нее меньше всего можно ожидать помощи крайний, чрезвычайный - of the * importance чрезвычайно важный > * but not least последний, но тем не менее важный;
    последний, но не самый худший > the * day светопреставление, конец света > the * great change смерть > on one's * legs при последнем дыхании, в полном изнеможении > to be on its * legs быть шатким /ветхим/;
    еле-еле держаться > this firm is on its * legs эта фирма находится на грани банкротства после всех - who came * ? кто пришел последним - he spoke * он говорил последним в последний раз - when did you see him * ? когда вы в последний раз видели его - whеn did you get a * letter from him? когда вы в последний раз получили письмо от него на последнем месте (в конце при перечислении и т. п.) выдержка, выносливость продолжаться, длиться - war *ed four years война длилась четыре года - as long as my life *s пока я жив - the frost has *ed a month морозы стояли /держались/ целый месяц - will they marriage *? прочен ли /не развалится ли/ их брак выдерживать, оставаться в живых - he can't * till morning он не доживет до утра - certain flowers * but a day некоторые цветы живут только один день сохраняться (в хорошем состоянии) ;
    носиться (о ткани и т. п.) - good woolen cloth *s long хорошая шерстяная ткань носится долго - this suit has *ed well этому костюму сносу нет выдерживать (о здоровье, силах) - his strength *ed to the end of the journey силы не изменяли ему до конца путешествия быть достаточным, хватать (тж. * out) - how many days will our food *? на сколько дней нам хватит продуктов? - to have enough tobacco to * for a month иметь запас табака на месяц - you must make your money * till you get home постарайся растянуть деньги до приезда домой - our supply of coal will hardly * (out) the winter нашего запаса угля с трудом хватит на зиму колодка (сапожная) > to stick to one's * заниматься своим делом и не вмешиваться в то, чего не понимаешь;
    всяк сверчок знай свой шесток натягивать на колодку ласт (мера, различная для разного товара: 80 бушелей зерна, 12 мешков шерсти, 24 бочонка пороха и т. п.) (морское) (устаревшее) единица грузоподьемности (2т) ~ (что-л.) последнее по времени;
    as I said in my last как я сообщал в последнем письме at ~ наконец;
    at long last в конце концов;
    to the last до конца at ~ наконец;
    at long last в конце концов;
    to the last до конца to breathe one's ~ испустить последний вздох, умереть ~ после всех;
    he came last он пришел последним ~ самый неподходящий, нежелательный;
    he is the last person I want to see его я меньше всего хотел бы видеть ~ сохраняться;
    выдерживать (о здоровье, силе) ;
    носиться (о ткани, обуви и т. п.) ;
    he will not last till morning он не доживет до утра to hold on to the ~ держаться до конца;
    I shall never hear the last of it это никогда не кончится to hold on to the ~ держаться до конца;
    I shall never hear the last of it это никогда не кончится ~ хватать, быть достаточным (тж. last out) ;
    it will last (out) the winter этого хватит на зиму;
    this money will last me three weeks мне хватит этих денег на три недели last быть достаточным ~ в последний раз;
    when did you see him last? когда вы его видели в последний раз? ~ выдержка;
    выносливость ~ длиться ~ колодка (сапожная) ;
    to measure (smb.'s) foot by one's own last = мерить (кого-л.) на свой аршин;
    to stick to one's last заниматься своим делом, не вмешиваться в чужие дела ~ конец;
    the last of амер. конец (года, месяца и т. п.) ~ крайний, чрезвычайный;
    of the last importance чрезвычайной важности ~ ласт (мера, различная для разного груза: 10 квартеров зерна, 12 мешков шерсти, 12 дюжин кож, 24 бочонка пороха и т. п.;
    как весовая единица - ок. 4000 англ. фунтов) ~ на последнем месте, в конце (при перечислении и т. п.) ~ натягивать на колодку ~ окончательный ~ превосх. ст. от late ~ после всех;
    he came last он пришел последним ~ (что-л.) последнее по времени;
    as I said in my last как я сообщал в последнем письме ~ последний ~ последний ~ продолжаться, длиться ~ продолжаться ~ прошлый ~ прошлый;
    last year прошлый год;
    в прошлом году ~ самый неподходящий, нежелательный;
    he is the last person I want to see его я меньше всего хотел бы видеть ~ самый новый ~ самый современный;
    the last word in science последнее слово в науке;
    the last thing in hats самая модная шляпа ~ сохраняться ~ сохраняться;
    выдерживать (о здоровье, силе) ;
    носиться (о ткани, обуви и т. п.) ;
    he will not last till morning он не доживет до утра ~ хватать, быть достаточным (тж. last out) ;
    it will last (out) the winter этого хватит на зиму;
    this money will last me three weeks мне хватит этих денег на три недели ~ but not least не самый худший;
    last but one предпоследний ~ but not least хотя и последний, но не менее важный ~ конец;
    the last of амер. конец (года, месяца и т. п.) ~ самый современный;
    the last word in science последнее слово в науке;
    the last thing in hats самая модная шляпа ~ самый современный;
    the last word in science последнее слово в науке;
    the last thing in hats самая модная шляпа ~ прошлый;
    last year прошлый год;
    в прошлом году year: last ~ в прошлом году last ~ последний год last ~ прошлый год ~ превосх. ст. от late late: late бывший ~ недавний, последний;
    of late years за последние годы;
    my late illness моя недавняя болезнь ~ недавний ~ недавно, за последнее время (тж. of late) ~ a (later, latter;
    latest, last) поздний;
    запоздалый;
    I was late (for breakfast) я опоздал (к завтраку) ~ поздний ~ adv (later;
    latest, last) поздно;
    to sit late засидеться;
    ложиться поздно;
    I arrived late for the train я опоздал на поезд;
    better late than never лучше поздно, чем никогда ~ последний ~ прежний, бывший;
    a late developer ребенок с запоздалым развитием ~ прежний ~ умерший, покойный;
    the late president покойный (редк. бывший) президент ~ колодка (сапожная) ;
    to measure (smb.'s) foot by one's own last = мерить (кого-л.) на свой аршин;
    to stick to one's last заниматься своим делом, не вмешиваться в чужие дела ~ крайний, чрезвычайный;
    of the last importance чрезвычайной важности on one's ~ legs разг. при последнем издыхании;
    в полном изнеможении to see the ~ (of smb., smth.) видеть (кого-л., что-л.) в последний раз to see the ~ (of smb., smth.) покончить( с кем-л., чем-л.) ~ колодка (сапожная) ;
    to measure (smb.'s) foot by one's own last = мерить (кого-л.) на свой аршин;
    to stick to one's last заниматься своим делом, не вмешиваться в чужие дела ~ хватать, быть достаточным (тж. last out) ;
    it will last (out) the winter этого хватит на зиму;
    this money will last me three weeks мне хватит этих денег на три недели at ~ наконец;
    at long last в конце концов;
    to the last до конца ~ в последний раз;
    when did you see him last? когда вы его видели в последний раз? when my ~ was born когда родился мой младший (сын)

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > last

  • 14 match

    I 1. noun
    1) (equal) Ebenbürtige, der/die

    be no match for somebodysich mit jemandem nicht messen können

    find or meet one's match — (be defeated) seinen Meister finden

    2) (somebody/something similar or appropriate)

    be a [good etc.] match for something — [gut usw.] zu etwas passen

    3) (Sport) Spiel, das; (Football, Tennis, etc. also) Match, das; (Boxing) Kampf, der; (Athletics) Wettkampf, der
    4) (marriage) Heirat, die
    2. transitive verb

    match somebody at chess/in originality — es mit jemandem im Schach/an Originalität (Dat.) aufnehmen [können]

    2) (pit)

    match somebody with or against somebody — jemanden jemandem gegenüberstellen

    3)

    be well matched[Mann u. Frau:] gut zusammenpassen; [Spieler, Mannschaften:] sich (Dat.) ebenbürtig sein

    4) (harmonize with) passen zu
    3. intransitive verb
    (correspond) zusammenpassen

    with a scarf etc. to match — mit [dazu] passendem Schal usw

    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/89023/match_up">match up
    II noun
    (for lighting) Streichholz, das; Zündholz, das (südd., österr.)
    * * *
    [mæ ] I noun
    (a short piece of wood or other material tipped with a substance that catches fire when rubbed against a rough or specially-prepared surface: He struck a match.) das Streichholz
    II 1. noun
    1) (a contest or game: a football/rugby/chess match.) der Wettkampf
    2) (a thing that is similar to or the same as another in some way(s) eg in colour or pattern: These trousers are not an exact match for my jacket.) das Passende
    3) (a person who is able to equal another: She has finally met her match at arguing.) der/die/das Ebenbürtige
    4) (a marriage or an act of marrying: She hoped to arrange a match for her daughter.) die Heirat
    2. verb
    1) (to be equal or similar to something or someone in some way eg in colour or pattern: That dress matches her red hair.) passen zu
    2) (to set (two things, people etc) to compete: He matched his skill against the champion's.) ausspielen
    - matched
    - matchless
    - matchmaker
    * * *
    match1
    <pl -es>
    [mætʃ]
    n Streichholz nt, Zündholz nt SCHWEIZ
    a box of \matches eine Schachtel Streichhölzer
    to put a \match to sth etw anzünden
    to strike a \match ein Streichholz anzünden
    match2
    [mætʃ]
    I. n
    <pl -es>
    1. SPORT Spiel nt ( against gegen + akk, with mit + dat); CHESS Partie f ( against gegen + akk, with mit + dat)
    a \match with [or against] sb ein Spiel mit jdm [o gegen jdn]
    boxing \match Boxkampf m
    cricket \match Kricketmatch nt
    football \match Fußballspiel nt
    to lose/win a \match ein Spiel verlieren/gewinnen
    to play in a \match mitspielen
    tennis \match Tennismatch nt, Tennisspiel nt
    2. usu sing (complement)
    the new tablecloth is a perfect \match for the carpet die neue Tischdecke passt ideal zum Teppich
    to be a good \match gut zusammenpassen
    3. (one of pair) Gegenstück nt
    4. usu sing (equal) ebenbürtiger Gegner/ebenbürtige Gegnerin ( for für + akk)
    a good \match ein ebenbürtiger Gegner/eine ebenbürtige Gegnerin
    to meet one's \match (meet equal) einen ebenbürtigen Gegner/eine ebenbürtige Gegnerin finden; (lose) seinen Meister finden
    to be more than a \match for sb/sth jdm/etw [haushoch] überlegen sein
    to be no \match for sb/sth sich akk mit jdm/etw nicht messen können, jdm/etw nicht gewachsen sein
    5. (marriage) Ehe f; (couple) Paar nt; (person) Partie f
    theirs is a \match made in heaven sie sind wie für einander geschaffen
    they are a perfect \match die beiden sind ein Traumpaar
    to be a good \match for sb eine gute Partie für jdn sein
    to make a good \match (be good prospect) eine gute Partie sein; (find good partner) eine gute Partie machen
    6. COMPUT (search result) Treffer m
    7.
    to have a shouting [or BRIT slanging] \match sich akk gegenseitig anschreien pej [o lautstark streiten
    II. vi (harmonize) zusammenpassen; (make pair) zusammengehören
    a dress with accessories to \match ein Kleid mit dazu passenden Accessoires
    III. vt
    to \match sth zu etw dat passen
    does this shirt \match these trousers? passt das Hemd zu der Hose?
    to \match sth [with [or to] sth] etw [auf etw akk] abstimmen
    I'm trying to \match the wallpaper with the curtains ich versuche eine Tapete zu finden, die zu den Gardinen passt
    I'm trying to \match the names on the list with the faces on the photograph ich versuche die Namen auf dieser Liste den Gesichtern auf dem Foto zuzuordnen
    our aim is to \match the applicant to the job unser Ziel ist es, den passenden Kandidaten für diese Stelle zu finden
    to \match colours [or AM colors] Farben aufeinander abstimmen
    to \match sb/sth jdm/etw gleichkommen
    you can't \match Jones & Son for quality was die Qualität angeht, ist Jones & Son unerreicht
    it would be difficult to \match the service this airline provides es wäre schwierig, dem [hervorragenden] Service dieser Fluggesellschaft Konkurrenz zu machen
    4. usu passive (in contest)
    to be \matched against sb gegen jdn antreten
    to \match sth etw dat entsprechen, zu etw dat passen
    he \matches the description the victim gave us die Beschreibung des Opfers trifft auf ihn zu
    6. (compare)
    to \match sth [against sth] etw [mit etw dat] vergleichen, etw [an etw dat] messen
    7. ELEC
    to \match sth [with [or to] sth] impedances etw [mit etw dat] abgleichen
    to \match sth [with [or to] sth] etw [mit etw dat] vergleichen
    * * *
    I [mtʃ]
    n
    Streichholz nt, Zündholz nt II
    1. n
    1)

    (= sb/sth similar, suitable etc) to be or make a good match — gut zusammenpassen

    2)

    he's a match for anybodyer kann es mit jedem aufnehmen

    A was more than a match for B — A war B weit überlegen

    3) (= marriage) Heirat f

    who thought up this match?wer hat die beiden zusammengebracht?

    4) (SPORT) (general) Wettkampf m; (= team game) Spiel nt; (TENNIS) Match nt, Partie f; (BOXING, FENCING) Kampf m; (= quiz) Wettkampf m, Wettbewerb m

    we must have another match some time —

    that's match (Tennis) — Match!, damit ist das Match entschieden

    2. vt
    1) (= pair off) (einander) anpassen
    2) (= equal) gleichkommen (+dat) (in an +dat)

    nobody can match him in argumentniemand kann so gut argumentieren wie er

    a quality that has never been matched since — eine Qualität, die bislang unerreicht ist or noch ihresgleichen sucht

    I can't match him in chess —

    that sort of easy self-confidence which is not matched by any great degree of intelligence — jene Selbstsicherheit, die nicht mit der entsprechenden Intelligenz gepaart ist

    match that if you can!das soll erst mal einer nachmachen, das macht so leicht keiner nach!

    this climate/whisky can't be matched anywhere in the world — so ein Klima/so einen Whisky gibt es nicht noch einmal

    3) (= correspond to) entsprechen (+dat)

    match case (Comput) — Groß-/Kleinschreibung beachten

    4) (clothes, colours) passen zu

    she matched the carpet with a nice rug —

    can you match this fabric? — haben Sie etwas, das zu diesem Stoff passt?

    to match textures and fabrics so that... — Strukturen und Stoffe so aufeinander abstimmen, dass...

    5)

    (= pit) he decided to match his team against or with the champions — er beschloss, seine Mannschaft gegen die Meister antreten zu lassen

    3. vi
    zusammenpassen
    * * *
    match1 [mætʃ]
    A s
    1. (der, die, das) Gleiche oder Ebenbürtige:
    a) seinesgleichen,
    b) sein Ebenbild,
    c) jemand, der es mit ihm aufnehmen kann,
    d) seine Lebensgefährtin;
    find ( oder meet) one’s match seinen Meister finden ( in sb in jemandem);
    be a (no) match for sb jemandem (nicht) gewachsen sein;
    be no match for sb auch gegen jemanden nicht ankommen, es nicht mit jemandem aufnehmen können, sich nicht mit jemandem messen können;
    be more than a match for sb jemandem überlegen sein
    2. (dazu) passende Sache oder Person, Gegenstück n:
    I can’t find a match for this carpet ich finde nichts, was zu diesem Teppich passt
    3. (zusammenpassendes) Paar, Gespann n (auch fig):
    they are an excellent match sie passen ausgezeichnet zueinander oder zusammen
    4. WIRTSCH Artikel m gleicher Qualität
    5. SPORT (Fußball- etc) Spiel n, (Tennis) Match n, (Box- etc) Kampf m:
    the match for third place das Spiel um den dritten Platz
    6. a) Heirat f:
    make a match eine Ehe stiften;
    b) (gute etc) Partie:
    make a good match eine gute Partie machen
    B v/t
    1. a) jemanden passend verheiraten (to, with mit)
    b) Tiere paaren
    2. einer Person oder Sache etwas Gleiches gegenüberstellen, jemanden oder etwas vergleichen ( with mit):
    match one’s skill with sich messen mit;
    match one’s strength against sb(’s) seine Kräfte mit jemandem messen
    3. jemanden ausspielen ( against gegen)
    4. passend machen, anpassen (to, with an akk)
    5. jemandem oder einer Sache (auch farblich etc) entsprechen, passen zu:
    the carpet does not match the wallpaper der Teppich passt nicht zur Tapete;
    a shirt to match his suit ein zu seinem Anzug passendes Hemd; well-matched 2
    6. zusammenfügen
    7. etwas Gleiches oder Passendes auswählen oder finden zu:
    can you match this velvet for me? haben Sie etwas Passendes zu diesem Samt(stoff)?
    8. ELEK angleichen, anpassen
    9. (for, in) jemandem ebenbürtig oder gewachsen sein (in dat), es mit jemandem oder einer Sache aufnehmen können (in dat), einer Sache gleichkommen:
    no one can match her in cooking niemand kann so gut kochen wie sie;
    match that if you can mach das erst einmal nach, wenn du kannst!;
    … can’t be matched … ist oder sind unerreicht oder nicht zu überbieten;
    the teams are well matched die Mannschaften sind gleich stark
    10. US umg
    a) eine Münze hochwerfen
    b) mit jemandem knobeln
    C v/i
    1. obs sich verheiraten ( with mit)
    2. zusammenpassen, übereinstimmen ( beide:
    with mit), entsprechen (to dat):
    the carpet and the wallpaper don’t match der Teppich und die Tapete passen nicht zusammen;
    she bought a brown coat and gloves to match sie kaufte einen braunen Mantel und dazu passende Handschuhe;
    he had nothing to match er hatte dem nichts entgegenzusetzen;
    match up to sb’s expectations jemandes Erwartungen entsprechen
    match2 [mætʃ] s
    1. Zünd-, Streichholz n
    2. Zündschnur f
    3. HIST
    a) Zündstock m
    b) Lunte f
    * * *
    I 1. noun
    1) (equal) Ebenbürtige, der/die

    find or meet one's match — (be defeated) seinen Meister finden

    2) (somebody/something similar or appropriate)

    be a [good etc.] match for something — [gut usw.] zu etwas passen

    3) (Sport) Spiel, das; (Football, Tennis, etc. also) Match, das; (Boxing) Kampf, der; (Athletics) Wettkampf, der
    4) (marriage) Heirat, die
    2. transitive verb

    match somebody at chess/in originality — es mit jemandem im Schach/an Originalität (Dat.) aufnehmen [können]

    match somebody with or against somebody — jemanden jemandem gegenüberstellen

    3)

    be well matched[Mann u. Frau:] gut zusammenpassen; [Spieler, Mannschaften:] sich (Dat.) ebenbürtig sein

    4) (harmonize with) passen zu
    3. intransitive verb
    (correspond) zusammenpassen

    with a scarf etc. to match — mit [dazu] passendem Schal usw

    Phrasal Verbs:
    II noun
    (for lighting) Streichholz, das; Zündholz, das (südd., österr.)
    * * *
    n.
    (§ pl.: matches)
    = Gegenstück n.
    Kampf ¨-e (Sport) m.
    Spiel -e n.
    Streichholz n.
    Wachsstreichholz n.
    Wettkampf m.
    Zündholz -¨er n.
    dazu passende Person f.
    dazu passende Sache f. v.
    gleichkommen v.
    sich messen mit v.
    übereinstimmen (Muster) v.
    übereinstimmen v.

    English-german dictionary > match

  • 15 bear

    I [bɛə] гл.; прош. вр. bore; прич. прош. вр. born, borne
    1) носить, нести; переносить

    three kings bearing gifts — три царя, несущих дары

    She was bearing a tray of brimming glasses. — Она несла поднос, уставленный наполненными до краёв бокалами.

    The spores are borne on the wind. — Эти споры разносятся ветром.

    Syn:
    carry 1.
    2) книжн.
    а) нести на себе, иметь (знаки, признаки, следы)

    to bear the signature — иметь подпись, быть подписанным

    to bear resemblance — быть похожим, иметь сходство

    This letter bears no date. — На этом письме нет даты.

    The town still bears the scars of the bombings during the war. — Город по-прежнему полон следов военных бомбардировок.

    б) носить (имя, титул)

    They bore the title Count of Nassau. — Они носили титул графов Нассау.

    в) питать, испытывать ( чувство)

    He bore her no malice. — Он не питал к ней никакой злобы.

    Syn:
    г) держать ( в голове); удерживать ( в памяти)

    I'll bear the idea in mind. — Я это учту.

    Bear in mind that the price does not include flights. — Учтите также, что цена не включает авиаперелёт.

    3) касаться, иметь отношение (к кому-л. / чему-л.)

    The title of the essay bore little relation to the contents. — Название этого очерка мало вязалось с его содержанием.

    4) ( bear (up)on) (отрицательно) сказываться на (ком-л. / чём-л.)

    The rise in the cost of living bears hard on old people living on fixed incomes. — Рост прожиточного минимума особенно тяжело сказывается на пенсионерах как на людях, имеющих твёрдый, фиксированный доход.

    5) = bear up выдерживать нагрузку; нести груз, тяжесть; поддерживать, подпирать

    This plank will not bear your weight. — Эта доска не выдержит вашего веса.

    The four pillars bear the arch. — Четыре колонны поддерживают арку.

    Do you think that the floor will bear up under the weight of the new machinery? — Вы думаете, пол выдержит вес новых станков?

    6) нести (расходы, ответственность)

    to bear the losses — нести потери, терпеть убытки

    No on likes to bear the responsibility for such decisions. — Никому не понравится нести ответственность за такие решения.

    7) = bear up выносить, выдерживать ( испытания)

    He couldn't bear the pain. — Он не мог выдержать боли.

    He couldn't bear the humiliation. — Он не мог пережить этого унижения.

    Alice bore up well under the news of her husband's death. — Элис стойко перенесла известие о смерти мужа.

    Syn:

    I can't bear him. — Я его не выношу.

    This bears no comparison. — Это не выдерживает сравнения.

    His story does not bear scrutiny. — При внимательном рассмотрении его история вызовет вопросы.

    Syn:
    9) ( bear with) относиться терпеливо к (чему-л.); мириться с (чем-л.)

    You must bear with his bad temper; he has recently been ill. — Вы должны терпеливо относиться к его плохому настроению, он недавно болел.

    Bear with me while I try to remember exactly what he said. — Потерпите минутку, я попытаюсь точно вспомнить, что он сказал.

    Syn:
    put up with, stand
    10) опираться (на что-л.); нажимать, давить
    Syn:
    press I 2.
    11)
    а) простираться (куда-л.); находиться (где-л.)
    б) двигаться (в каком-л. направлении)

    Bear right when the road divides. — У развилки возьмите направо.

    to bear testimony / witness — свидетельствовать, показывать

    Syn:
    14) книжн. распространять; передавать ( информацию)

    I will bear your message. — Я передам вашу информацию.

    15) прич. прош. вр. born рождать, производить на свет

    born in 1914 — рождённый в 1914 году, 1914-го года рождения

    She is unable to bear. — Она не может иметь детей.

    These apple trees are not going to bear. — Эти яблони не будут плодоносить.

    Syn:
    yield 2.
    17) ( bear oneself) вести себя, держаться

    She bore herself with dignity. — Она держалась с достоинством.

    Syn:
    - bear down
    - bear off
    - bear out
    - bear up
    ••
    - bear arms
    - bear company
    - bear comparison
    - bear a hand
    - bear hard on smb.
    - bear a part
    - be borne in
    - bring to bear
    II [bɛə] 1. сущ. - grizzly bear
    - polar bear
    2) = teddy bear плюшевый медвежонок ( детская игрушка)
    3) неуклюжий, грубый человек

    to play the bear — вести себя невежливо, грубо

    4) эк. биржевой спекулянт, играющий на понижение, "медведь"
    5) тех. дыропробивной пресс, медведка
    6) метал. козёл
    7) амер.; разг. полицейский
    8) ( the Bear) разг. Россия

    When he allowed himself to be flown back to Moscow he was consciously putting his head in the Bear's mouth. — Позволив увезти себя обратно в Москву, он сознательно клал голову в пасть русского медведя.

    ••

    are you there with your bears? — опять вы здесь?; опять вы делаете то же самое?

    to take a bear by the tooth — без нужды подвергать себя опасности, лезть на рожон

    had it been a bear it would have bitten you — вы ошиблись, обознались; (оказалось) не так страшно, как вы думали

    - Great Bear 2. гл.; эк. III [bɛə] сущ.; диал.

    Англо-русский современный словарь > bear

  • 16 give way

    1) отступать, давать дорогу; расступиться, раздвинуться, пропустить

    The crowd gave way, and one by one the prisoners were thrust in. (U. Sinclair, ‘Jimmie Higgins’, ch. VI) — Толпа расступилась, и арестованных поодиночке впихнули в машину.

    2) (to smb. или smth.) уступать, идти на уступки кому-л. или чему-л., сдавать свои позиции; уступать место чему-л., сменяться чем-л.

    In the beginning he had been watched with anxiety, perhaps even with misgiving. But soon this gave way to open admiration. (A. J. Cronin, ‘A Thing of Beauty’, part II, ch. XIV) — Сначала за его работой наблюдали с опасением, почти с тревогой. Но вскоре тревога сменилась открытым восхищением.

    ‘I've heard rumors of the story - what really happened?’ she asked, the woman in her giving way to the reporter. (S. Heym, ‘The Crusaders’, book I, ch. 2) — - Я слышала об этой истории. Расскажите, как было дело. - В Карен заговорило не любопытство женщины, а профессиональный интерес.

    Sir H: "I am not giving way, so the hon. member need not get ants in his pants. I have only two minutes and he took too long anyway." (‘Parliamentary Debates’, ‘House of Commons’) — Сэр Г: "Я не собираюсь уступать место другому оратору. Почтенный джентльмен может не трепыхаться. В моем распоряжении только две минуты, а он проговорил больше положенного времени."

    The Government must not give way to political blackmail from the arms kings. (‘Daily Worker’) — Правительство не должно идти на уступки торговцам оружием, прибегающим к политическому шантажу.

    3) отказать, испортиться, сломаться; сдать (о здоровье, нервах); помутиться ( о рассудке); подкоситься ( о ногах)

    Something gave way in him, and words came welling up... (J. Galsworthy, ‘Caravan’, ‘Salvation of a Forsyte’) — Что-то прорвалось в нем, и слова посыпались одно за другим...

    The uproar was appalling, perilous to the ear-drums; one feared there was too much sound for the room to hold - that the walls must give way or the ceiling crack. (U. Sinclair, ‘The Jungle’, ch. III) — Шум стоял невообразимый: казалось, что лопнут барабанные перепонки, что зал не вместит в себя все эти звуки и обвалятся стены или обрушится потолок.

    Something seemed to give way in his heart; it really felt to him as though something were breaking, and he felt strangely weak. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Of Human Bondage’, ch. 75) — Что-то неладное творилось у него с сердцем: ему казалось, что оно действительно рвется на части, и он чувствовал непривычную слабость.

    Her words startled him; his composure began to give way... (A. J. Cronin, ‘Three Loves’, book II, ch. 29) — Слова матери встревожили Питера. Спокойствие изменило ему...

    He moved forward and his legs gave way and he fell awkwardly and completely on his side, his arms and head flinging themselves loosely at will. (J. Aldridge, ‘The Diplomat’, ch. 16) — Он сделал движение вперед, ноги у него разъехались, и он, неуклюже взмахнув руками, боком грохнулся на лед.

    ...we have to do with one whose mind has given way under continued strain. (I. Murdoch, ‘The Black Prince’, ‘Postscript by Rachel’) —...перед нами человек, чей рассудок не выдержал длительного напряжения.

    4) (to smth.) давать волю чему-л., поддаваться, предаваться (какому-л. чувству); потерять самообладание, контроль

    Rebecca gave way to some very sincere and touching regrets that a piece of marvellous good fortune should have been so near her, and she actually obliged to decline it. (W. Thackeray, ‘Vanity Fair’, ch. XV) — Ребекка предавалась весьма искренним и трогательным сожалениям по поводу того, что удача была так близко, а между тем она была вынуждена отказаться от нее.

    Here the dame was... inclined to give way to a passion of tears. (W. Scott, ‘The Fortunes of Nigel’, ch. XXXVI) — В эту минуту дама... готова была залиться горькими слезами.

    Margery: "Oh! What shall we do?" Dorothy: "Don't give way, Marge. It's not certain yet." (W. S. Maugham, ‘The Bread-Winner’, sc. 1) — Марджери: "Боже! Что с нами будет?" Дороти: "Держи себя в руках, Мардж. Пока еще ничего не известно."

    Left alone in her strange abode Jennie gave way to her saddened feelings. (Th. Dreiser, ‘Jennie Gerhardt’, ch. X) — Оставшись одна в новом, чужом месте, Дженни дала волю своему горю.

    5) налечь на вёсла, прибавить ходу

    And the next moment he and the captain had dropped aboard of us, and we had showed off and given way. (R. L. Stevenson, ‘Treasure Island’, ch. XVI) — Грей и капитан быстро прыгнули в шлюпку, мы отчалили и налегли на весла.

    6) ком. понизиться в цене ( об акциях на фондовой бирже)

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  • 17 Cortes

       Under the Portuguese monarchy, an assembly of the three estates (clergy, nobility, commoners) of the kingdom. While historians debate its historical origins, its earliest form as an assembly that was more than a royal council was present before 1211. At first only clerical and noble groups were represented, and later representatives from the towns. Its business was to discuss fiscal matters (taxes), and it was convened by the Portuguese monarch. The Cortes's powers and functions varied, but its golden age of prestige coincided with the 14th and 15th centuries. As the monarchy acquired more independent wealth from the overseas expansion and empire, it depended less on the Cortes for revenue. Under King João III, as the monarchy garnered greater power and control, the Cortes was seldom consulted, and the king was asked to call the Cortes to meet at least every 10 years. While it met during the 17th century, it did not meet at all during the reigns of the absolutist kings João V (1689-1750) and José I (1750-77). The last Cortes met in 1828, in order to acclaim King Miguel I (1828-64) as an absolutist monarch. Later, under the subsequent constitutional monarchy (1834-1910), the Cortes came to be elective and was given different names: Congress, National Assembly, Assembly of the Republic.
        See also Filipe I, king; Legislatures.

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  • 18 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.

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  • 19 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.

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    6) (a short letter: I'll drop him a line.) et par linier
    7) (a series or group of persons which come one after the other especially in the same family: a line of kings.) linie; slægt; række
    8) (a track or direction: He pointed out the line of the new road; a new line of research.) rute; retning
    9) (the railway or a single track of the railway: Passengers must cross the line by the bridge only.) jernbanelinie; jernbanespor
    10) (a continuous system (especially of pipes, electrical or telephone cables etc) connecting one place with another: a pipeline; a line of communication; All (telephone) lines are engaged.) pipeline; rør; -linie
    11) (a row of written or printed words: The letter contained only three lines; a poem of sixteen lines.) linie
    12) (a regular service of ships, aircraft etc: a shipping line.) rute
    13) (a group or class (of goods for sale) or a field of activity, interest etc: This has been a very popular new line; Computers are not really my line.) linie; branche
    14) (an arrangement of troops, especially when ready to fight: fighting in the front line.) linie; -linie
    2. verb
    1) (to form lines along: Crowds lined the pavement to see the Queen.) stå langs med
    2) (to mark with lines.) markere med linier
    - linear - linesman
    - hard lines!
    - in line for
    - in
    - out of line with
    - line up
    - read between the lines
    II verb
    1) (to cover on the inside: She lined the box with newspaper.) fore; beklæde
    2) (to put a lining in: She lined the dress with silk.) fore
    * * *
    I 1. noun
    1) ((a piece of) thread, cord, rope etc: She hung the washing on the line; a fishing-rod and line.) snor; line
    2) (a long, narrow mark, streak or stripe: She drew straight lines across the page; a dotted/wavy line.) streg; linie
    3) (outline or shape especially relating to length or direction: The ship had very graceful lines; A dancer uses a mirror to improve his line.) linie
    4) (a groove on the skin; a wrinkle.) rynke
    5) (a row or group of objects or persons arranged side by side or one behind the other: The children stood in a line; a line of trees.) række
    6) (a short letter: I'll drop him a line.) et par linier
    7) (a series or group of persons which come one after the other especially in the same family: a line of kings.) linie; slægt; række
    8) (a track or direction: He pointed out the line of the new road; a new line of research.) rute; retning
    9) (the railway or a single track of the railway: Passengers must cross the line by the bridge only.) jernbanelinie; jernbanespor
    10) (a continuous system (especially of pipes, electrical or telephone cables etc) connecting one place with another: a pipeline; a line of communication; All (telephone) lines are engaged.) pipeline; rør; -linie
    11) (a row of written or printed words: The letter contained only three lines; a poem of sixteen lines.) linie
    12) (a regular service of ships, aircraft etc: a shipping line.) rute
    13) (a group or class (of goods for sale) or a field of activity, interest etc: This has been a very popular new line; Computers are not really my line.) linie; branche
    14) (an arrangement of troops, especially when ready to fight: fighting in the front line.) linie; -linie
    2. verb
    1) (to form lines along: Crowds lined the pavement to see the Queen.) stå langs med
    2) (to mark with lines.) markere med linier
    - linear - linesman
    - hard lines!
    - in line for
    - in
    - out of line with
    - line up
    - read between the lines
    II verb
    1) (to cover on the inside: She lined the box with newspaper.) fore; beklæde
    2) (to put a lining in: She lined the dress with silk.) fore

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