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cutting-carrying capacity

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1 cutting-carrying capacity
1. выносящая способность (бурового раствора)
выносящая способность (бурового раствора)
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Тематики
- нефтегазовая промышленность
EN
- cutting-carrying capacity
Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > cutting-carrying capacity
2 cutting-carrying capacity

выносящая способность( бурового раствора)

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > cutting-carrying capacity
3 cutting-carrying capacity

выносящая способность ( бурового раствора)

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выносящая способность

Англо-русский словарь нефтегазовой промышленности > cutting-carrying capacity
4 cutting-carrying capacity

Нефть: выносящая способность (бурового раствора)

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > cutting-carrying capacity
5 cutting-carrying capacity

выносящая способность (бурового раствора).

English-Russian dictionary of terms for geological exploration drilling > cutting-carrying capacity
6 current-carrying capacity

1. допустимая нагрузка током

power handling capacity — допустимая мощность

power-carrying capacity — допустимая мощность

power-handling capacity — допустимая мощность

operate at capacity — работать с полной нагрузкой

peak capacity — мощность при покрытии пика нагрузки

2. нагрузочная способность по току

capacity current — емкостный ток

dump capacity — способность отвала

binding capacity — вяжущая способность

code capacity — пропускная способность

cutting capacity — режущая способность

English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > current-carrying capacity
7 current carrying capacity

пропускная способность контакта

dump capacity — способность отвала

binding capacity — вяжущая способность

code capacity — пропускная способность

cutting capacity — режущая способность

flow capacity — пропускная способность

English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > current carrying capacity
8 capacity

1. объем, величина; вместимость

2. производительность; выработка; ( производственная) мощность; нагрузка

3. пропускная способность;

4. способность

5. электрическая ёмкость

capacity in tons per hour — производительность, т/ч

capacity of a well — productive capacity of a well

capacity of field to produce — потенциальная добыча из месторождения

productive capacity of a well — производительность скважины

productive capacity of reservoir — отдача пласта

racking capacity of derrick — ёмкость вышки (по количеству устанавливаемых за пальцем бурильных труб)

riser tensioner system capacity — грузоподъёмность системы натяжения водоотделяющей колонны

specific capacity of a well — удельная производительность скважины

water-intake capacity of a well — поглощающая способность скважины, приёмистость скважины

— absorption capacity

— actual capacity

— adhesive capacity

— adsorptive capacity

— available capacity

— basic capacity

— battery capacity

— bearing capacity

— boiler capacity

— calculated capacity

— capacity of drum

— capillary capacity

— carrying capacity

— cation exchange capacity

— compensation hook capacity

— cutting-carrying capacity

— daily capacity

— damping capacity

— delivery capacity

— deschargeable capacity

— drum capacity

— engine capacity

— fracture flow capacity

— gross capacity

— hauling capacity

— heat absorption capacity

— heat capacity

— high capacity

— high resolution capacity

— hoisting capacity

— holding capacity

— idle capacity

— injection capacity

— intake capacity

— jacking capacity

— leak off capacity

— lifting capacity

— liquid capacity

— load bearing capacity

— load-carrying capacity

— methylene blue capacity

— nominal capacity

— overload capacity

— pipe capacity

— pipeline transmission capacity

— piston load capacity

— plant capacity

— producing capacity

— production capacity

— pump capacity

— pumping capacity

— rated capacity

— refrigerating capacity

— relative capacity

— reservoir capacity

— safe working capacity

— sand capacity

— saturation capacity

— short-time capacity

— solids-carrying capacity

— specific capacity

— tank capacity

— tested capacity

— thermal capacity

— throughput capacity

— torsional capacity

— total capacity

— ultimate capacity

— useful capacity

— water capacity

— wind load capacity

— work capacity

— working capacity

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1. способность

2. пропускная способность

dead load derrick capacity — статическая грузоподъёмность башенной вышки

intake capacity of well — приёмистость скважины

safe load derrick capacity — допустимая нагрузка на башенную вышку

— casualty-producing capacity

— design capacity

— field producing capacity

— fuel capacity

— gross column capacity

— guaranteed capacity

— hook load capacity

— lift capacity

— open flow capacity

— overload capacity

— pipe capacity

— productive capacity

— racking capacity

— setback capacity

— spare capacity

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ёмкость; нефтеёмкость; мощность, производительность, вместимость, способность, пропускная способность

* * *

1) способность

2) пропускная способность

3) производственная мощность ( бурового станка)

4) производительность ( компрессора)

5) пропускная способность

6) грузоподъёмность

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capacity for oil — нефтеёмкость

- capacity of drilling mud to hold cuttings in suspension
- capacity of drum
- capacity of field to produce
- capacity of oil reservoir
- capacity of well
- absorption capacity of oil sand
- aggregate capacity
- air capacity of gasmeter
- annual total capacity
- API safe load derrick capacity
- base exchange capacity
- carrying capacity
- carrying capacity of drum
- casualty-producing capacity
- cementing capacity
- compensation hook capacity
- cracking capacity
- crude-charging capacity
- cutting-carrying capacity
- daily capacity
- daily crude capacity
- damping capacity
- dead-load derrick capacity
- delivery capacity
- derrick load capacity
- design capacity
- discharge capacity
- dischargeable capacity of gasholder
- drill capacity
- drilling capacity
- drum capacity
- effective derrick load capacity
- field producing capacity
- filter capacity
- fluid intake capacity
- formation flow capacity
- fracture flow capacity
- free capacity
- free-air delivery capacity
- fuel capacity
- fuel tank capacity
- gage holding capacity of bit
- gas capacity
- gas pipeline volume capacity
- gross column capacity
- guaranteed capacity
- hoisting capacity
- hook load capacity
- hourly capacity
- injection capacity
- installed capacity
- intake capacity
- jacking capacity
- leak-off capacity
- lift capacity
- lifting capacity
- liquid capacity
- load capacity
- load-carrying capacity
- load-carrying capacity of drilling bit
- nominal capacity
- oil capacity
- oil-bearing capacity
- oil-refining capacity
- oil-saturation capacity
- oil-storage tank capacity
- open flow capacity
- overload capacity
- peak daily capacity
- pipe capacity
- pipeline capacity
- pipeline transmission capacity
- producing capacity
- production capacity
- productive capacity
- productive capacity of reservoir
- productive capacity of well
- pump capacity
- pumping capacity
- racking capacity of derrick
- rated capacity
- rated capacity of flowmeter
- rated derrick load capacity
- reeling capacity of drum
- released capacity
- reservoir capacity
- reservoir reserve capacity
- riser tensioner system capacity
- rock moisture capacity
- safe load derrick capacity
- safe working capacity
- safe working load capacity of derrick
- sand capacity
- sedimentation capacity
- setback capacity
- solids-carrying capacity
- sorptive capacity of rocks
- spare capacity
- specific capacity of well
- stacking capacity of derrick
- storage capacity
- supply capacity
- tank capacity
- tensile load capacity of casing string
- tested capacity
- throughput capacity
- torsional capacity
- total capacity
- total tankage capacity
- ultimate capacity
- useful capacity
- varying capacity
- volumetric capacity
- water capacity of cement slurry
- water-intake capacity of well
- weight capacity
- weight-supporting capacity
- well production capacity
- wind load capacity
- working capacity
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• величина

• дебит

• мощность оборудования или технологического комплекса

• мощность производственная мощность

• подача

• производительность

• производственная мощность

Англо-русский словарь нефтегазовой промышленности > capacity
9 capacity

1) паспортная мощность; допустимая нагрузка; производительность; выработка

2) подача ( насоса)

3) пропускная способность, расход

4) ёмкость (напр. водохранилища, кузова)

5) рабочий объём цилиндра

6) способность

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capacity in bales — грузовместимость для киповых, штучных грузов

capacity in grane — грузовместимость для насыпных, зерновых грузов

capacity per hour — производительность в час

to come up to full capacity — выходить на проектную мощность

- capacity of accumulator
- capacity of a storage battery - capacity of boiler - capacity of cell - capacity of crane - capacity of driven pile - capacity of floating dock - capacity of heat - capacity of heat transmission - capacity of highway - capacity of reaction - capacity of road - capacity of saturation - capacity of stream - capacity of tyre - capacity of unit - capacity of vehicle - absorbing capacity - absorption capacity - active reservoir capacity - active storage capacity - actual reservoir capacity - adhesive capacity - adsorptive capacity - aggregate capacity - air-conditioner capacity - annual capacity - apparent contaminant capacity - atmospheric moisture capacity - available capacity - basic capacity - bearing capacity of beam - blotting capacity - blower capacity - body capacity - boiler full power capacity - boiler overload capacity - bucket capacity - bunker capacity - burner capacity - burning capacity - carrying capacity - carrying capacity of crane - carrying capacity of pipe - colloidal capacity of bituminous substances - contaminant capacity - continuous capacity - conveyance capacity - conveying capacity - cubic capacity - cutting capacity - cylinder capacity - damage capacity - damping capacity - deformation capacity - delivery capacity - dependable capacity - designed capacity - dipper capacity - discharge capacity - dissolving capacity - driving capacity - earning capacity - effective capacity - elevating capacity - emergency capacity - extra-load bearing capacity - fan capacity - filter capacity - freight capacity - fuel capacity - generator capacity - gross capacity - guaranteed capacity - hauling capacity - heap capacity - heat capacity - heating capacity - high capacity - holding capacity - hourly capacity - hydraulic reservoir charge capacity - idle capacity - inactive storage capacity - infiltration capacity - information capacity - intake capacity - inverted capacity - labour capacity - lateral capacity of pile - lifting capacity of crane - lime-binding capacity - load-carrying capacity - maximum capacity - net capacity - output capacity - overhead door capacity per day - overload capacity - parking capacity - payload capacity - petrol capacity - pigment binding capacity - pile capacity - pipe capacity - posted capacity - productive capacity - pump capacity - pylon capacity - rated capacity - rated crane capacity - rated pumping capacity - refrigerating capacity - reserve capacity - road capacity - runway capacity - sand-carrying capacity of lime - solids take-up capacity - spare capacity - specific capacity - specific heat capacity - strain capacity - subsoil bearing capacity - supporting capacity - tank capacity - tested capacity - total cooling capacity - tractive capacity - traffic capacity - throughput capacity - ultimate capacity - ultimate working capacity - useful capacity - water capacity - wearing capacity - weight-carrying capacity - working capacity
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1.   производительность

2.   грузоподъёмность

3.   вместимость

4.   мощность

5.   способность ( материала)

6.   электрическая ёмкость

7.   подача (напр. насоса)

8.   расход, пропускная способность

9.   объём жидкости в сосуде, заполненном на 75 мм ниже переливного отверстия или верхнего края ( в сантехнике)

10. транспортирующая способность ( водного потока при переносе наносов)

at full capacity — при полной производительности
- capacity of stream
- absolute traffic capacity
- absorbent capacity
- actual capacity
- actual carrying capacity
- adequate load-carrying capacity
- aerodrome handling capacity
- air capacity
- air carrying capacity
- airport capacity
- allowable bearing capacity
- apparent specific heat capacity
- average annual working capacity
- bearing capacity
- boiler capacity
- bucket capacity
- carrying capacity
- carrying capacity of a line
- channel capacity
- cooling capacity
- covering capacity
- damping capacity
- deformation capacity
- dehumidifying capacity
- delivery capacity
- design capacity
- digging capacity of power shovels
- discharge capacity
- dust holding capacity
- energy-absorption capacity
- erecting equipment capacity
- exchange capacity
- exchange capacity of ion exchanger
- fabricating capacity
- fabricating plant capacity
- fan capacity
- field capacity
- filter capacity
- flood absorption capacity
- gate capacity
- gross storage capacity
- hauling capacity
- heat capacity
- heating capacity
- heat storage capacity
- highway traffic capacity
- hoisting capacity
- holding capacity
- hourly capacity
- humidification capacity
- hydroscopic capacity
- idle capacity
- intersection capacity
- inverted capacity
- ion-exchange capacity
- labor capacity
- lane capacity
- lateral capacity of pile
- lifting capacity
- loading capacity
- load capacity
- load-carrying capacity
- moisture capacity
- nominal capacity
- oxidation capacity
- oxygenating capacity
- parking capacity
- pile load capacity
- pile capacity
- pipe capacity
- possible capacity
- posted capacity
- practical runway capacity
- production capacity
- radiating capacity
- rated capacity
- rated capacity of jack
- rated pumping capacity
- refrigerating capacity
- regulating capacity
- regulation carrying capacity
- reservoir capacity
- rotation capacity
- runway capacity
- saturation runway capacity
- seating capacity
- sediment-carrying capacity
- skin resistance capacity
- slewing capacity
- solids take-up capacity
- specific heat capacity
- steam-generating capacity
- storage capacity
- strain capacity
- strength-developing capacity
- subsoil bearing capacity
- suction capacity
- sustaining capacity
- tank capacity
- taxiway capacity
- terminal capacity
- thermal capacity
- thermal capacity of building
- throughput capacity
- total cooling capacity
- total storage capacity
- track capacity
- traffic capacity
- truck capacity
- ultimate bearing capacity
- ultimate carrying capacity of pile
- ultimate point capacity
- ultimate pullout capacity
- ultimate runway capacity
- ultimate static pile point capacity
- useful capacity
- visual airport weather runway departure capacity
- visual airport weather runway capacity
- volumetric heat capacity
- water-carrying capacity
- waterholding capacity
- waterproofing capacity
- water-retaining capacity
- wearing capacity
- wear capacity
- well capacity
- working capacity

Англо-русский строительный словарь > capacity
10 capacity

1) способность

2) (функциональные) возможности

3) производительность

4) пропускная способность

5) грузоподъёмность

6) вместимость, ёмкость; литраж; объём, кубатура

7) мощность

8) выработка, выход продукции

9) (электрическая) ёмкость

10) ёмкостное сопротивление

11) вчт. (информационная) ёмкость, объём

12) вчт. разрядность

•

capacity per unit of length — погонная ёмкость

-
absorbent capacity
-
absorbing capacity
-
accumulator capacity
-
active storage capacity
-
adhesive capacity
-
adsorption capacity
-
aerodrome handling capacity
-
air cleaner capacity
-
air tank capacity
-
air-cooler capacity
-
aircraft capacity
-
ampere-hour capacity
-
anion-exchange capacity
-
apparent contaminant capacity
-
average freight car capacity
-
bale capacity
-
bar capacity
-
barrier layer capacity
-
base-load generating capacity
-
basic capacity
-
battery capacity
-
battery discharge capacity
-
bearing capacity
-
binding capacity
-
bit capacity
-
blotting capacity
-
body cubic capacity
-
boiler capacity
-
breaking capacity
-
brine heat capacity
-
bucket capacity
-
bucking shear capacity
-
buffer capacity
-
buffer storage capacity
-
cable off-load breaking capacity
-
cable-charging breaking capacity
-
caking capacity
-
calorific capacity
-
capacitor capacity
-
capillary capacity
-
capillary moisture capacity
-
carrying capacity
-
cation-exchange capacity
-
cellulose-decomposing capacity
-
cementing capacity
-
channel capacity
-
channel-storage capacity
-
charging capacity
-
chucking capacity
-
circuit capacity
-
climbing capacity
-
coal-fired generating capacity
-
coke-burning capacity
-
coking capacity
-
cold-storage capacity
-
combining capacity
-
compartment capacity
-
condensing unit capacity
-
conservation storage capacity
-
container capacity
-
contaminant capacity
-
conveyance capacity
-
conveyor capacity
-
cooling capacity
-
cooling system capacity
-
cooling-down capacity
-
correcting capacity
-
cracking capacity
-
cross-country capacity
-
crosscut capacity
-
crude-charging capacity
-
crush-loaded capacity
-
cryosorption capacity
-
cubic capacity
-
current-carrying capacity
-
current capacity
-
cushioning capacity
-
cutting capacity
-
cylinder capacity
-
daily crude capacity
-
damping capacity
-
dead load derrick capacity
-
deadweight capacity
-
deck load capacity
-
delivery capacity
-
design capacity
-
dicharge capacity
-
dipper capacity
-
dirt-holding capacity
-
dirt capacity
-
dischargeable gasholder capacity
-
display capacity
-
display character capacity
-
dissolving capacity
-
diversion capacity
-
draft gear capacity
-
drainage capacity
-
dry bulk cargo capacity
-
effective capacity
-
effective storage capacity
-
energy capacity
-
environmental capacity
-
evaporative capacity
-
exceed capacity
-
excess capacity
-
exchange capacity
-
exclusive flood-control storage capacity
-
face capacity
-
fatigue capacity
-
field moisture capacity
-
field producing capacity
-
film capacity
-
film loading capacity
-
film pulling capacity
-
filter capacity
-
filtering capacity
-
firm capacity
-
flood-control storage capacity
-
flotation capacity
-
foaming capacity
-
forest site capacity
-
forest capacity
-
formatted capacity
-
freezing capacity
-
fuel capacity
-
fuel tank capacity
-
full capacity
-
furnace capacity
-
gas capacity
-
general cargo capacity
-
generating capacity
-
grain capacity
-
gross column capacity
-
gross margin capacity
-
hardening capacity
-
harmonic capacity
-
hauling capacity
-
H-cycle capacity
-
heaped capacity
-
heat absorption capacity
-
heat capacity
-
heat exchange capacity
-
heat storage capacity
-
heating capacity
-
hoisting capacity
-
hold capacity
-
holding capacity
-
hook load capacity
-
hydropower-plant capacity
-
idle capacity
-
inactive storage capacity
-
induced surcharge storage capacity
-
inductive capacity
-
information capacity
-
input capacity
-
installed capacity
-
installed generator capacity
-
installed nuclear capacity
-
intake capacity of well
-
interrupting capacity
-
ion-exchange capacity
-
irrigation capacity
-
joint use storage capacity
-
lading capacity
-
latent heat capacity
-
leak capacity
-
lifeboat capacity
-
lift capacity
-
lifting capacity
-
limiting cycling capacity
-
line capacity
-
line carrying capacity
-
line off-load breaking capacity
-
line-charging breaking capacity
-
liquefaction capacity
-
liquid capacity
-
liquid cargo capacity
-
live storage capacity
-
load capacity of a lubricant
-
load drum lifting capacity
-
load-carrying capacity
-
lumber load capacity
-
magnetic capacity
-
making capacity
-
marginal load capacity
-
membrane-exchange capacity
-
memory capacity
-
mine capacity
-
minimum stable capacity
-
moisture capacity
-
moisture-holding capacity
-
music power-handling capacity
-
nameplate capacity
-
net capacity
-
nominal capacity
-
off-highway truck capacity
-
oil-refining capacity
-
open flow capacity
-
operating capacity
-
output capacity
-
overload capacity
-
paper stock water-retention capacity
-
passenger capacity
-
payload capacity
-
peaking capacity
-
peak capacity
-
percolating capacity
-
pile capacity
-
pipe capacity
-
pipeline input capacity
-
pipeline transmission capacity
-
plant capacity
-
potential capacity
-
power line capacity
-
power system connected capacity
-
power system installed capacity
-
power transmission capacity
-
primary cell capacity
-
production capacity
-
productive capacity
-
pulp swelling capacity
-
pump capacity
-
pumped-storage capacity
-
pumping capacity
-
racking capacity
-
railway tonnage capacity
-
rain capacity
-
rated capacity
-
rated discharge capacity
-
reclaiming capacity
-
reducing capacity
-
refill capacity
-
refrigerant heat capacity
-
refrigerated cargo capacity
-
refrigerating capacity
-
register capacity
-
reserve capacity
-
reservoir fluid capacity
-
reservoir reserve capacity
-
resin-exchange capacity
-
resolving capacity
-
retired capacity
-
roadway capacity
-
road capacity
-
rope capacity
-
rotary static load capacity
-
runway capacity
-
rupturing capacity
-
safe load derrick capacity
-
sealing capacity
-
seating capacity
-
secondary side heat capacity
-
sedimentation capacity
-
self-hardening capacity
-
self-purification capacity
-
sensible refrigerating capacity
-
service brake capacity
-
setback capacity
-
sewing capacity
-
shaft capacity
-
shell capacity
-
shock-absorbing capacity
-
shoot-forming capacity
-
short-circuit making capacity
-
short-time capacity
-
single chamber capacity
-
soil intake capacity
-
spare capacities
-
specific capacity
-
specific heat capacity
-
specific inductive capacity
-
spool capacity
-
spreading capacity
-
standby capacity
-
static load capacity
-
station capacity
-
steam capacity
-
steelmaking capacity
-
stockpiling capacity
-
storage capacity
-
strain capacity
-
struck capacity
-
supporting capacity of film
-
surcharge storage capacity
-
surface loading capacity
-
surplus capacity
-
swelling capacity
-
swing capacity
-
switching capacity
-
tank capacity
-
terminal capacity
-
thermal capacity
-
thermal storage capacity
-
throughput capacity
-
tire capacity
-
tool storage capacity
-
torque capacity
-
torque-carrying capacity
-
total moisture capacity
-
total storage capacity
-
total tankage capacity
-
track capacity
-
traffic capacity
-
traffic-carrying capacity
-
transmission capacity
-
transmission line capacity
-
transportation capacity
-
treatment capacity
-
truck capacity
-
turbine capacity
-
ultimate bearing capacity
-
underdeck capacity
-
unformatted capacity
-
unit capacity
-
usable storage capacity
-
useful capacity
-
utilized capacity
-
vacuum-degassing capacity
-
volumetric capacity
-
volumetric heat capacity
-
water absorption capacity
-
water capacity
-
water storage capacity
-
water-holding capacity
-
watt-hour capacity
-
wearing capacity
-
weft insertion capacity
-
weight-carrying capacity
-
wing bearing capacity
-
wiring capacity
-
word capacity
-
working capacity
-
zero-error capacity

Англо-русский словарь технических терминов > capacity
11 capacity

1) основная характеристика (напр. станка)

2) ёмкость, вместимость; объём

3) мощность; производительность; пропускная способность

4) наибольшие размеры, габаритные размеры

5) эл. ёмкость

6) информационная ёмкость (ЗУ)

7) допустимый диапазон чисел (устройства, аппарата); разрядность

8) способность; возможность

9) нагрузка, допустимая нагрузка

10) грузоподъёмность

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- 3D sculpturing capacity
- absorbing capacity
- absorption capacity
- absorptive capacity
- adhesive capacity
- adsorptive capacity
- aggregate capacity
- ATC capacity
- available capacity
- bar capacity
- bar stock capacity
- bearing capacity
- between centers capacity
- boring capacity
- breaking capacity
- broaching capacity
- bumped capacity
- capacity of planer
- capacity of press
- capacity of pump
- capacity of stroke
- card capacity
- carrying capacity
- centerhole capacity
- channel capacity
- chip-carrying capacity
- chip-receiving capacity
- chuck capacity
- chucking capacity
- collet capacity
- component capacity
- component weight capacity
- contact closing capacity
- contact interrupting capacity
- container capacity
- conveying capacity
- craft capacity
- crane capacity
- cube capacity
- current-making capacity
- cutting capacity
- cyclic capacity
- cylinder capacity
- daily capacity
- damping capacity
- deliverable capacity
- diameter capacity
- dirt-holding capacity
- distributed capacity
- drilling capacity
- elevating capacity
- emissive capacity
- flexible machining capacity
- front/back drilling capacity
- governing capacity
- grinding capacity
- gripper capacity
- gross capacity
- handling capacity
- hardening capacity
- heat capacity
- heat storage capacity
- heating capacity
- heat-transfer capacity
- heat-transmission capacity
- hoisting capacity
- horsepower capacity
- hourly capacity
- idle capacity
- information capacity
- intelligent capacity
- jaw capacity
- lifting capacity
- limiting breaking capacity
- limiting cycling capacity
- limiting making capacity
- live centers capacity
- load bearing capacity
- load capacity
- load carrying capacity
- machine capacity
- magazine capacity
- making capacity
- making-and-breaking capacity
- manufacturing capacity
- manufacturing-cell capacity
- maximum part-size capacity
- metal-removing capacity
- milling capacity
- net capacity
- net load capacity
- oil pump capacity
- opening capacity
- operating capacity
- optional magazine capacity
- overbed capacity
- overload capacity
- pallet capacity
- pallet-weight capacity
- payload capacity
- peak pulling capacity
- pipe capacity
- power capacity
- power transmission capacity
- production capacity
- productive capacity
- program capacity
- pulling capacity
- pump capacity per revolution
- pump capacity
- punching capacity
- radial capacity
- radiating capacity
- rated capacity
- rated load capacity
- reading capacity
- reserve capacity
- residual capacity
- running capacity
- shock-absorbing capacity
- spare capacity
- specific capacity
- specific thermal capacity
- specific thermal heat capacity
- static capacity
- step chuck capacity
- stock removal capacity
- storage capacity
- surface capacity
- surface load capacity
- swing overbed capacity
- table capacity
- table load capacity
- tank capacity
- tapping capacity
- theoretical capacity
- thermal capacity
- thermal heat capacity
- through capacity
- throughput capacity
- thru-hole capacity
- thrust capacity
- tool slot capacity
- tool storage capacity
- tooling capacity
- torque capacity
- total tool capacity
- transient overload capacity
- travel capacity
- turning capacity
- turret capacity
- ultimate capacity
- unit capacity
- usable capacity
- useful capacity
- volumetric capacity
- wearing capacity
- weight capacity
- weight handling capacity
- work size capacity
- work space capacity
- working capacity
- working load capacity
- workpiece capacity
- workpiece-carrying capacity

English-Russian dictionary of mechanical engineering and automation > capacity
12 capacity

ёмкость; вместимость; вместительность; рабочий объём; производительность; мощность; нагрузка; пропускная способность; расход

- capacity factor
- capacity indicator - capacity in grain - capacity of accumulator - capacity of body - capacity of heat transmission - capacity of highway - capacity of road - capacity of tyre - capacity of vehicle - capacity operations - capacity plan - capacity rating - work at - bale capacity
- bearing capacity

- burning capacity
- cargo capacity - carrying capacity - climbing capacity - cutting capacity - cylinder capacity - dipper capacity - discharge capacity - engine of 300 H.P. capacity - fuel capacity - grain capacity - hauling capacity - lifting capacity - litre capacity - measure of capacity - load capacity - load-carrying capacity - petrol capacity - pump capacity - rated capacity - road capacity - seating capacity - spare capacity - stroke capacity - surplus capacity - tyre capacity - under-employed capacity

Англо-русский словарь по машиностроению > capacity
13 capacity

вместимость, объём, ёмкость, производительность; пропускная способность; выход; выработка; эффект; грузоподъёмность; мощность номинальная, максимально допустимая мощность; предельные габаритные размеры; электрическая ёмкость; способность; свойство, качество, состояние; величина работы

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- absorbing capacity

- absorption capacity
- adhesive capacity
- available capacity
- basic capacity
- bearing capacity
- bucket capacity
- calorific capacity
- cargo capacity
- carring capacity
- carring capacity of pillar
- carring capacity of pipe
- charge capacity
- climbing capacity
- coking capacity
- combining capacity
- computed capacity
- cubic capacity
- cutting capacity
- daily capacity
- dipper capacity
- discharge capacity
- designed capacity
- dielectric capacity
- draw-bar capacity
- drilling capacity
- dry capacity
- dust-storage capacity
- exchange capacity
- floatation capacity
- flow capacity
- hauling capacity
- heap capacity
- heating capacity
- hourly capacity
- hourly handling capacity
- idle capacity
- labour capacity
- level capacity
- lifting capacity
- live capacity
- load capacity
- load-carrying capacity
- loading capacity
- medium-capacity
- mine capacity
- moisture capacity
- molecular moisture capacity
- output capacity of mine
- overload capacity
- pay-load capacity
- pipe capacity
- powder capacity
- productive capacity
- pumping capacity
- rated capacity
- reserve capacity
- rope capacity
- safe load capacity
- sand-raking capacity
- saturation capacity
- scoop capacity
- scraper capacity
- scraper struck capacity
- screen capacity
- shaft capacity
- skip capacity
- soil bearing capacity
- specific capacity
- storage capacity
- strain capacity
- struck bucket capacity
- struck level capacity
- supporting capacity
- tested capacity
- therm capacity
- traffic capacity
- vital capacity
- water capacity
- working capacity

English-Russian mining dictionary > capacity
14 выносящая способность

cutting-carrying capacity

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > выносящая способность
15 load

нагрузка; груз; загрузка; заряд; тяжесть; ноша; загруженность (количество работы); закладка (заготовки в станок); pl. гружёные вагонетки; II грузить; нагружать; загружать; закладывать (деталь в приспособление); заряжать

- load at failure
- load at first crack
- load capacity

- load cargo

- load carrier

- load-carrying ability
- load carrying capacity - load-carrying covering - load-carrying skin - load curve - load-deflection curve - load deflection of tyre - load-deformation curve
- load diagram

- load distance

- load distribution
- load diversity - load due to own weight - load due to snow - load due to wind - load extension curve
- load factor

- load in bulk
- load increment - load-inflation table - load limit
- load line

- load mixture adjustment
- load on axle - load out - load peak - load per unit - load per unit length - load rate - load-supporting ability of ground - load-strain diagram - load tension - load test - load testing of structures - load-time diagram - load to collapse - load-transfer device - load uniformly distributed over span - load-up - load-up condition - at no load - acting load - active load - actual load
- additional load

- admissible load

- allowable load

- allowable axle load

- allowable bearing load

- alternate load

- alternating load

- antisymmetrical loads
- apex load
- application of load

- applied load
- artificial load - assumed load - asymmetric load - attach a sling to the load
- axial load

- axle load

- balanced load

- balancing load

- basic load

- bearable load

- bearing load

- bending load

- between-centers load

- bracket load

- brake load

- breaking load

- buckling load

- bulk load
- bulky load - cable load - capacitive load - capacity load - carousel load - carry a load - centre-point load - centric load - centrifugal load
- changing load

- chip load

- clutch-clamping load

- collapse load

- column load

- combination of load

- combined load

- compression load

- compressive load
- cantilever load
- concentrated load

- concentrated moving load
- constant power load - constant torque load
- continuous load

- cooling load

- corner load

- cracking load

- crane load

- crippling load

- critical load

- crushing load

- cutter load

- cutting load

- dangerous load
- dead-line load
- dead load

- design load

- discontinuous load

- disposable load

- distribute load

- distributed load

- distribution of load

- draw-hook load
- drawbar load
- dynamic load

- dynamic tooth load
- dynamical load
- eccentric load

- edge load
- elastic-limit load - emergency load - endurance limit load - equalization of load at conveyer pulleys - equalization of load at hoisting drums - equivalent load
- Euler load

- Euler buckling load

- Euler's crippling load

- even load

- evenly-distributed load

- excess load

- excessive load

- external load
- extra load - fail under a load - fail under an impact load - failure load - fictitious load - filter load
- fixed load

- floor-stacked loads

- fluctuating load

- follower load

- fractional load

- friction load
- frictional load
- full load

- gradually applied load
- gravity load - gripper load
- gust load

- half load
- heaped load - heating load - heavy load - high friction load - high inertial load - hydrodynamic load - hydrostatic load - ice load
- impact load

- impulsive load

- indivisible load

- initial load

- inner ring load

- instantaneous load

- intermittent load

- irregularly distributed load
- lateral load
- light load

- light-weight load

- limit load

- limiting load

- line-distributed load

- linear load

- linearly varying load

- live load

- localized load
- locking load - machine load - maximum load - maximum useful load on table - midspan load - minimum load - miscellaneous load - mobile load - momentary load - most efficient load - movable load - moving load - multiaxial loads - near-ultimate load - net load - no-load - nominal load - non-central load - noncutting load - normal load - oblique load - off-center load - off-design load - operate at no-load - operating load - optimally load - optimum work load - oscillating load - out-of-balance load - outer load - outer ring load - overhauling load - overhung load - over-tolerance load - palletized work load - panel load - parabolic load - part load - pay load - paying load - peak load - permanent load - permanently acting load - permissible load - perpendicular load - pick-up load - piezoelectric load - point load - pollutant load - pollutional load - potential order load - predetermined maximum cutting load - pressure load - production load - proof load - proportional limit load - pulling load - pulsating load - punch load - quiescent load - racking load - radial load - rapidly moving load - rated load - rated load capacity - react a load - reactive load - release the load - repeated load - resist load - return load - reversal load - reversed load - rolling load - roof load - rotating inner ring load - rotating outer ring load - safe load - safe bearing load - service load - severe load - shear load - shear lock load - shearing load - shock load - side load - sightseers loading onto a bus - single load - snow load - specific tooth load - specified load - specified rated load - split load - stated load - static load - statical load - stationary load - steady load - steady-state load - steering axle load - stiffness test load - stylus load - sucker-rod load - sudden load - suddenly applied load - super-load - superimposed load - sustained load - surface load - symmetrical loads - take up the load - tangential load - target load - tensile load - tension load - terminal load - test load - test scale load - thrust load - tilting load - tooth load - torque load - torsional load - total load - towed load - traction load - tractional load - traffic load - transferred load - transient load - transmitted load - transport a load - transverse load - travelling load - trial load - ultimate load - unbalanced load - under load - uniform load - uniformly distributed load - unit load - unsafe load - useful load - variable load - varying load - vibrational load - vibratory load - waste load - water load - way-supported loads - weight load - wheel load - wide load - wind load - working load - zero load

Англо-русский словарь по машиностроению > load
16 area

área
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ablation area
accumulation area of glacier
accumulation area ratio
active drainage area
agricultural area
area deformation
area distortion
area of internal drainage
area studies
backwater area of groundwater
blighted area
built-up area
carrying capacity of area
catchment area
coastal area
continuous area
cultural area
cutting area
depressed area
discontinuous area
disjunctive area
drainage area
drying area
environmentally sensitive area
equal-area projection
felling area
free trade area
growth area
historical area
impacted area
key area
metropolitan area
polluted area
populated area
primary area
protected natural area
recharge area
recreation area
residential area
rest area of reserve
rural area
semi-arid area
silting area
source area
store area
surplus area
testing area
touristic area
urban area
vulnerable area
water area
water protection area
watershed area

English-Spanish dictionary of Geography > area
17 area

aire
*
ablation area
accumulation area of glacier
accumulation area ratio
active drainage area
agricultural area
area deformation
area distortion
area of internal drainage
area studies
backwater area of groundwater
blighted area
built-up area
carrying capacity of area
catchment area
coastal area
continuous area
cultural area
cutting area
depressed area
discontinuous area
disjunctive area
drainage area
drying area
environmentally sensitive area
equal-area projection
felling area
free trade area
growth area
historical area
impacted area
key area
metropolitan area
polluted area
populated area
primary area
protected natural area
recharge area
recreation area
residential area
rest area of reserve
rural area
semi-arid area
silting area
source area
store area
surplus area
testing area
touristic area
urban area
vulnerable area
water area
water protection area
watershed area

English-French dictionary of Geography > area
18 area

Areal; Ausbreitung
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ablation area
accumulation area of glacier
accumulation area ratio
active drainage area
agricultural area
area deformation
area distortion
area of internal drainage
area studies
backwater area of groundwater
blighted area
built-up area
carrying capacity of area
catchment area
coastal area
continuous area
cultural area
cutting area
depressed area
discontinuous area
disjunctive area
drainage area
drying area
environmentally sensitive area
equal-area projection
felling area
free trade area
growth area
historical area
impacted area
key area
metropolitan area
polluted area
populated area
primary area
protected natural area
recharge area
recreation area
residential area
rest area of reserve
rural area
semi-arid area
silting area
source area
store area
surplus area
testing area
touristic area
urban area
vulnerable area
water area
water protection area
watershed area

English-German geography dictionary > area
19 machine

1) машина; станок; двигатель; механизм

2) организационный аппарат

3) машинный

4) механически обрабатывать; обрабатывать на станке

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machined all over — обработанный по всей поверхности

machine for hydraulic monitor operations — гидромонитор

machine for laying track ballast, panels and sleepers — машина для прокладки щебня для балластировки пути, путевых звеньев и шпал

machine for preparation — обогатительная установка

machine for road surface rehabilitation — машина для санирования поверхности дорожного полотна

machine for shaping and treatment — машина для обработки и придания формы

machine for soil stabilizing — машина для стабилизации грунта

to demonstrate a machine — демонстрировать машину

to maintain a machine — обслуживать машину

to operate a machine — управлять машиной, работать на станке

to produce a machine — изготовить машину

to put a machine into operation — пускать машину в эксплуатацию

to service a machine — обслуживать машину

to set up a machine — налаживать станок

to use a machine — использовать машину

- angle-bending machine
- asphalt-placing machine - asphalt-spreading machine - auger brick machine - automatic arc welding machine - automatic setting machine - band-sawing machine - bending machine - bind machine - binding machine - bitumen melting, conveying and application machines for roofs - blade machine - blending machine - block machine - block-cutting machine - block-making machine - blue-printing machine - bolting machine - bolt-threading machine - borehole drilling machine - boring machine - boring and mortising machine - bottom-facing machine - box-hole boring machine - brick-moulding machine - Brinell's machine - brush machine - bucket-trenching machine - butt-welding machine - cable-dragging machine - cable-laying machine - calculating machine - cambering machine - capacity of a machine - caterpillar excavating machine - cement injection machine - cement testing machine - centrifugal machine - chain-and-tooth machine - clay-cutting machine - clay-working machine - cleaving machine - cold saw-cutting-off machine - component assembly machine - compression testing machine - concrete finishing machine - concrete smoothing machine - concrete spraying machine - concrete trowel machine - concrete vibratory machine - concreting machine - cooling machine - corrosion-fatigue testing machine - crane boom machine - crane-boring machine - crushing machine - cutting machine - dado-head machine - deairing machine - dependability of a machine operations - design of a machine - digging machine - direct stress machine - ditching machine - drawing machine - dredging machine - drill-ripping machine - dynamic machine - edge-grinding and polishing machine - excavating machine - excelsior cutting machine - extruding machine - fatigue testing machine - felling and milling machine - finishing machine - frozen-earth-excavating machine - gang-sawing machine - gas-welding machine - glass-washing machine - grooving machine - grouting machine - Guillery impact machine - gutters machine - hack-sawing machine - hand bending machine - handle attaching, screen printing, decal application machine - hardness testing machine - hoisting machine - hydraulic machine - hydraulic casing machine - idle time of a machine - impact machine - insulating tape winding machine - jarring machine - joint-cutting machine - jolt-moulding machine - jolt-ramming machine - knapping machine - kneading machine - knock-boring machine - lacerating machine - lazer-guided machine - lime hydrating machine - lining machine - loaded machine - magnetic pulsed arc welding machine - manner-type slaking machine - match-boarding machine - mixing machine - mortar-mixing machine - mortising slot machine - nail-driving machine - nailing machine - one head automatic arc welding machine - operational machine - packing machine - pavement-marking machine - paving machine - pavingstone-laying machine - percussion riveting machine - pile-drawing machine - pipe-bending machine - pipe-cleaning machine - pipe-cutting machine - pipe-laying machine - pipe-threading machine - pipe-welding machine - planing machine - plaster-floating and trowelling machine - plastering machine - plate-punching machine - polishing machine - power polymer concrete spraying machine for the road - pressure casting machine - profiling machine - ram impact machine - refrigerating machine - reinforcement welding machine - reinforcement winding machine - reversed torsion machine - road marking machine - rock-boring machine - roof bolting machine - rotating beam-type machine - rotating cantilever beam-type machine - scooping machine - scraper machine - screening machine - separating machine - service life of machine - sieving machine - skid proofing machine - slotting machine - soil-compacting machine - sorting machine - sounding machine - spinning machine - splitting machine - spot welding machine - spraying machine for road binders - standard machine capacity - stationary processing machine for sleepers and rails - stone-laying machine - strikeoff machine - stripper machine - synchronous machine - tensile-testing machine - testing machine - track lifting and slewing machine - trench-cutting machine - trenching machine - tunnelling machine - universal machine for track-laying - universal testing machine - unpiling machine - vibration machine - vibratory impact machine - welding machine - wire-winding machine
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машина; станок; механизм; устройство; установка
- absorption refrigerating machine
- absorption machine
- adsorption refrigerating machine
- adsorption machine
- air placing machine
- air refrigerating machine
- all-purpose machine
- ammonia refrigerating machine
- anchor machine
- automatic tamping and leveling machine
- axial piston machine
- backhoe tunneling machine
- bag filling machine
- bag packing machine
- ballast cleaning machine
- ballast dressing machine
- ballast screening machine
- ballast tamping machine
- bar bending machine
- bar-cropping machine
- basic machine
- bead-forming machine
- beam-molding machine
- bending machine
- bending testing machine
- bitumen spraying machine
- blasting machine
- block-making machine
- building material machines
- bulk-handling machines
- carrying and lifting machines
- casting machine
- centrifugal refrigerating machine
- Charpy impact machine
- cleaning priming and taping machine
- cold air machine
- combination floating-troweling machine
- compaction machine
- compression refrigerating machine
- compression testing machine
- concrete core drilling machine
- concrete finishing machine
- concrete molding machine
- concrete placing machine
- concrete vibrating machine
- construction machines
- creasing machine
- cribbing machine
- cutting-off machine
- ditching machine
- drafting machine
- drag scraper machine
- drilling machine
- drum digger tunneling machine
- duct forming machine
- excavating machines
- finishing machine
- flanging machine
- folding machine
- forming machine
- frost gritting machine
- gauging machine
- grinding machine
- grouting machine
- guniting machine
- hoisting machine
- Izod impact machine
- Izod machine
- joint grouting machine
- joint sealing machine
- laser-guided machine
- laydown machine
- laying and finishing machine
- lithium bromide refrigerating machine
- lockforming machine
- material handling machine
- materials testing machine
- material testing machine
- molding machine
- mortise machine
- padding machine
- pavement diamond core drilling machine
- pavement core drilling machine
- pendulum impact testing machine
- pendulum impact machine
- percussion riveting machine
- piling machine
- pipe-bending machine
- pipe-cutting machine
- pipelining machine
- pipemaking machine
- pipe threading machine
- plasma cutting machine
- pneumatic riveting machine
- pneumatic wood-boring machine
- polishing machine
- portable planing machine
- precast concrete machine
- rail-welding machine
- refrigerating machine
- road grooving machine
- rollforming machine
- rounding machine
- screeding machine
- seam closing machine
- self-propelled machine
- single rail-mounted machine
- slab-making machine
- slipforming machine
- soft ground tunneling machine
- spiking machine
- steam jet refrigerating machine
- stirrup bending machine
- strikeoff machine
- stump pulling machine
- swaging machine
- tamping machine
- tensile machine
- tensile-and-compression machine
- testing machine
- thread-cutting machine
- tile ditching machine
- towed machine
- tracked machine
- trenching machine
- triaxial compression machine
- troweling machine
- tunnel boring machine
- vacuum refrigeration machine
- vibrating machine
- vibrating and finishing machine
- vibroflot machine
- walk-behind machine
- wire winding machine
- wrapping machine

Англо-русский строительный словарь > machine
20 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.

    Contemporary Portugal

   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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