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Юридический термин: крупное дело

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > massive case
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крупное дело

Англо-русский юридический словарь > massive case
3 case

1) случай; положение

2) спорный вопрос в суде

3) казус; судебное решение по делу; судебный прецедент; судебное дело

4) материалы дела

5) фактические обстоятельства; изложение фактических обстоятельств; версия

6) доводы; аргументация по делу; изложение требований; меморандум по делу; обвинение ( в суде)

7) деликтный "иск по конкретным обстоятельствам дела" ( о взыскании убытков при невозможности предъявления других типов исков)

8) клиент ( адвоката)

9) находящийся под наблюдением ( полиции)

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case against — доводы против (кого-л., чего-л.);

case as authority — судебное дело как источник права;

case at bar — дело на стадии судебного разбирательства;

case at hand — дело, находящееся в производстве;

case at law — судебное дело; предмет судебного разбирательства;

case cleared by arrest — амер. полиц. преступление, раскрытое в меру доказательств, достаточных для производства ареста;

case for — 1. аргументация в пользу кого-л., чего-л. 2. дело, выигранное кем-л. ;

case for enforcement — случай или версия, обосновывающие правоприменение;

case for motion — обоснование заявленного в суде ходатайства;

case for the crown — англ. версия государственного обвинения;

case for the defence — 1. версия защиты 2. дело, выигранное защитой;

case for the jury — дело, подлежащее рассмотрению присяжными;

case for the prosecution — 1. версия обвинения 2. дело, выигранное обвинением;

case for trial — дело, подлежащее судебному рассмотрению;

case going to trial — дело, направляемое для судебного рассмотрения;

case made — 1. согласованное сторонами изложение фактов по спорному правовому вопросу 2. запись судопроизводства;

case mortality — "смертность" судебных дел (количество судебных дел, проигранных истцами или обвинителями);

case on appeal — 1. англ. изложение дела стороной по апелляции 2. записка по делу, представляемая в апелляционный суд адвокатом истца по апелляции 3. документ с постановкой правового вопроса нижестоящим судом перед вышестоящим судом 4. дело, находящееся в апелляционном производстве ( поступившее или рассматриваемое по апелляционной жалобе);

case on trial — дело на стадии судебного рассмотрения;

case pending — дело на стадии рассмотрения; незаконченный процесс;

case received for investigation — дело, поступившее на расследование;

reference to a case — отсылка к делу;

case reserved — особые правовые вопросы ( передаваемые по соглашению или арбитражем на разрешение суда);

case sounding in contract — дело по спору из договора;

case sounding in tort — дело, связанное с причинением деликтного вреда;

case stated — письменное соглашение между истцом и ответчиком о фактах, лежащих в основе спора ( позволяющее суду ограничиться применением закона);

case sufficient for prosecution — версия, подкреплённая доказательствами, достаточными для возбуждения уголовного преследования;

case tried by the court — дело, рассмотренное судом без присяжных;

to appear in the case — выступать по делу;

to arrange a case — согласовать позиции по делу;

to bring a case — 1. представить дело в суд, суду 2. возбудить иск, обвинение, судебное дело 3. представить версию по делу 4. представить доводы, доказательства по делу;

to call (on) a case — назначить дело к слушанию;

to carry a case — проводить судебное дело, судебный процесс;

to close a case — прекратить дело; отказаться от иска, от обвинения;

to commence a case — возбудить иск, обвинение, судебное дело;

to develop a case — 1. подготовить дело 2. возбудить иск, обвинение, судебное дело;

to develop a case sufficient for prosecution — подготовить дело для возбуждения по нему уголовного преследования;

to dismiss a case — прекратить дело;

to disprove the case — 1. опровергнуть версию 2. опровергнуть доказательства 3. опровергнуть обвинение;

to drop a case — отказаться от иска, от обвинения;

to eject a case — изъять дело ( из производства);

to enter a case — 1. войти в дело 2. предъявить иск, обвинение;

to establish the case — доказать версию по делу;

to file a case — подать иск;

to follow the case — следовать прецеденту;

to handle a case — см. to conduct a case;

to initiate a case — возбудить иск, обвинение, судебное дело;

to lose a case — проиграть дело;

to make out the case — доказать версию по делу; выиграть дело;

case to move for new trial — заявление о новом рассмотрении дела;

to open case to the jury — представить фактические обстоятельства дела присяжным;

to prejudice a case — 1. относиться к делу с предубеждением 2. повлиять на судьбу дела ранее вынесенным по нему административным решением;

to prepare a case for trial — подготовить дело к слушанию в суде;

to present no case — не представить доказательств по делу;

to press the case — оказывать давление на суд, рассматривающий дело;

to process a case — вести дело; вести судебный процесс;

to prove a case — доказать версию по делу;

to prove one's case — доказать собственную версию;

to reach a case — выиграть дело;

to read a case — вести дело в суде;

case to remain open — дело, не закончившееся решением;

to rest the case — закончить изложение выдвинутой версии;

to review the case — пересмотреть дело;

to sanction a case — назначить дело к слушанию;

to solve a case — решить дело; раскрыть преступление ( о полиции);

to watch a case — наблюдать за ходом дела в суде;

to win a case — выиграть дело;

case tried by the court — дело, рассмотренное судом без присяжных;

case under investigation — расследуемое дело;

under the cases — в соответствии с судебной практикой;

case within the statute — случай, предусмотренный статутным правом

- case agreed on
- case in charge
- case in equity
- case in fact
- case in law
- case in point
- conduct a case
- case of admiralty
- case of circumstantial evidence
- case of direct evidence
- case of emergency
- case of maritime jurisdiction
- case of the first impression
- administrative case
- admiralty case
- adult case
- advancement case
- agreed case
- analogous case
- anonymous case
- antitrust case
- appeals cases
- assault-homicide case
- bad case
- capital case
- Chancery cases
- circumstantial case
- cited case
- civil case
- civil-commitment case
- cleared case
- cognizable case
- common-law case
- common-law case of crime
- Commonwealth case
- Commonwealth's case
- consolidated cases
- contentious case
- court case
- Court of Appeal cases
- criminal case
- criminal-commitment case
- criminal constitutional case
- Crown case
- crown cases reserved
- crown's case
- defence case
- direct case
- disciplinary case
- discretion case
- dismissed case
- diverse citizenship case
- diversion case
- diversity case
- diversity jurisdiction case
- due process case
- earlier case
- early case
- equity case
- ex parte case
- ex parte patent case
- federal case
- former case
- good case
- government case
- government's case
- hard case
- illustrative case
- instant case
- jury case
- juvenile case
- landmark case
- later case
- law case
- leading case
- legal case
- litigated case
- litigation case
- major case
- major criminal case
- maritime case
- massive case
- mental case
- minor case
- minor criminal case
- moot case
- multi-defendant case
- non-capital case
- non-contentious case
- nondiversity jurisdiction case
- non-jury case
- nullity case
- parent case
- party's case
- pending case
- People case
- People's case
- petty case
- police complaint cases
- political case
- precedent case
- presumptive case of an offence
- previous case
- prima facie case
- prior case
- Probate case
- prosecuted case
- prosecution case
- release case
- remand case
- reopened case
- reported case
- restrictive covenant case
- routine case
- ruled case
- sales-of-goods case
- seminal case
- sentencing case
- similar case
- small claim case
- solved case
- special case
- state case
- stated case
- state's case
- statutory case
- statutory case of crime
- strong case for/against
- tax case
- test case
- thin case
- tie-in case
- trial case
- trumped-up case
- unanswerable case
- uncontested case
- unreported case
- unsolved case
- weak case for/against
- undefended case

Англо-русский юридический словарь > case
4 rest

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1. rest noun
1) (a (usually short) period of not working etc after, or between periods of, effort; (a period of) freedom from worries etc: Digging the garden is hard work - let's stop for a rest; Let's have/take a rest; I need a rest from all these problems - I'm going to take a week's holiday.) descanso, reposo

2) (sleep: He needs a good night's rest.) descanso, sueño

3) (something which holds or supports: a book-rest; a headrest on a car seat.) apoyo, soporte

4) (a state of not moving: The machine is at rest.) en reposo

2. verb
1) (to (allow to) stop working etc in order to get new strength or energy: We've been walking for four hours - let's stop and rest; Stop reading for a minute and rest your eyes; Let's rest our legs.) descansar, reposar

2) (to sleep; to lie or sit quietly in order to get new strength or energy, or because one is tired: Mother is resting at the moment.) descansar, reposar(se)

3) (to (make or allow to) lean, lie, sit, remain etc on or against something: Her head rested on his shoulder; He rested his hand on her arm; Her gaze rested on the jewels.) descansar sobre, apoyar(se)

4) (to relax, be calm etc: I will never rest until I know the murderer has been caught.) relajarse, estar tranquilo

5) (to (allow to) depend on: Our hopes now rest on him, since all else has failed.) depender de

6) ((with with) (of a duty etc) to belong to: The choice rests with you.) corresponder

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- restful
- restfully
- restfulness
- restless
- restlessly
- restlessness
- rest-room
- at rest
- come to rest
- lay to rest
- let the matter rest
- rest assured
- set someone's mind at rest
II rest
- the rest

rest¹ n

1. descanso / reposo

I'm tired, I need a rest estoy cansado, necesito un descanso

2. los demás

where are the rest of the players? ¿dónde están los demás jugadores?

3. el resto

he ate one bite and threw away the rest comió un bocado y tiró el resto a la basura

rest² vb

1. descansar

we'll rest when we reach the top descansaremos cuando lleguemos a la cima

2. apoyar

he rested his feet on the stool apoyó los pies en el taburete

rest

tr[rest]

intransitive verb

1 quedar

■ the matter won't rest here el asunto no quedará así

■ you may rest assured that... puede tener la seguridad de que...

noun the rest

1 el resto

■ I spent half of the money and put the rest in the bank gasté la mitad del dinero y metí el resto en el banco

■ we'll eat one trout and freeze the rest comeremos una de las truchas y congelaremos las otras

■ Tom came, but the rest stayed at home vino Tom, pero los demás se quedaron en casa

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rest

tr[rest]

noun

1 (repose) descanso, reposo

■ I need a rest necesito descansar

2 (peace) paz nombre femenino, tranquilidad nombre femenino

■ they don't give me a moment's rest no me dejan tranquilo ni un momento

3 (support) soporte nombre masculino; (in snooker etc) diablo; (for head) reposacabezas nombre masculino; (for arms) apoyabrazos nombre masculino

transitive verb

1 (relax) descansar

■ take off your boots and rest your feet quítate las botas y descansa los pies

2 (lean) apoyar

■ rest the shotgun against the tree apoya la escopeta contra el árbol

■ rest your head on my shoulder apoya la cabeza en mi hombro

intransitive verb

1 (relax) descansar

■ this tablet will help you to rest esta pastilla te ayudará a descansar

2 (be calm) quedarse tranquilo,-a

■ I shall not rest until I know the answer no me quedaré tranquilo hasta que sepa la respuesta

3 (depend) depender (on, de)

■ his whole argument rests on one piece of evidence todo su argumento depende de una sola prueba

transitive verb

1 (lean) apoyar

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

at rest en reposo

give it a rest! ¡déjalo ya!, ¡basta ya!

Rest in peace Descanse en paz

to come to rest pararse

to lay to rest enterrar

to set somebody's mind at rest tranquilizar a alguien

rest cure cura de reposo

rest room SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL servicios nombre masculino plural

rest home (for the ill) casa de reposo 2 (for the elderly) asilo

rest ['rɛst] vi

1) repose: reposar, descansar

2) relax: quedarse tranquilo

3) stop: pararse, detenerse

4) depend: basarse (en), descansar (sobre), depender (de)

the decision rests with her: la decisión pesa sobre ella

5)

to rest on : apoyarse en, descansar sobre

to rest on one's arm: apoyarse en el brazo

rest vt

1) relax: descansar

2) support: apoyar

3)

to rest one's eyes on : fijar la mirada en

rest n

1) relaxation, repose: reposo m, descanso m

2) support: soporte m, apoyo m

3) : silencio m (en música)

4) remainder: resto m

5)

to come to rest : pararse

rest

n.

• descanso s.m.

• espera s.f.

• feria s.f.

• huelga s.f.

• parada s.f.

• pausa s.f.

• paz s.f.

• poso s.m.

• reposo s.m.

• restante s.m.

• resto s.m.

• silencio s.m.

v.

• apoyarse v.

• descansar v.

• quedar v.

• reposar v.

• sestear v.

• sosegar v.

rest
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1) noun

Sense I

2)

a) c ( break) descanso m

to have a rest — tomarse un descanso

rest FROM something: I need a rest from cooking/work necesito descansar de la cocina/de mi trabajo; to give something a rest (colloq) dejar de hacer algo; give it a rest! — basta ya!, cambia de disco! (fam)

b) u ( relaxation) descanso m, reposo m

try to get some/a good night's rest — trata de descansar un poco/de dormir bien esta noche

to lay somebody to rest — (euph) enterrar* or (frml) dar* sepultura a alguien

to lay something to rest — enterrar* algo; (before n) <day, period> de descanso

3) u ( motionlessness) reposo m

to come to rest — detenerse*

his eyes came to rest on the letter — sus ojos se posaron sobre la carta (liter)

4) c ( support) apoyo m

5) c ( Mus) silencio m

Sense II

6) ( remainder)

the rest: the rest of the money el resto del dinero, el dinero restante; the rest of them have finished los demás han terminado; the rest of the children los demás niños, los otros niños; and all the rest of it — y todo eso, etcétera, etcétera

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1.

intransitive verb

1)

a) ( relax) descansar

he could not rest until he knew she was safe — no se tranquilizó hasta saber que estaba a salvo

to rest easy — estar* tranquilo

b) ( lie buried) (liter) descansar (liter)

may she rest in peace — que en paz descanse

2)

a) ( be supported)

to rest ON something: his head rested on my shoulder tenía la cabeza recostada en or apoyada sobre mi hombro; the structure rests on eight massive pillars — la estructura descansa sobre ocho columnas gigantescas

b) (be based, depend)

to rest ON something — \<\<argument/theory\>\> estar* basado or basarse en algo, descansar sobre algo

c) ( stop)

to rest ON something/somebody — \<\<eyes/gaze\>\> detenerse* or (liter) posarse sobre algo/alguien

3)

a) ( remain)

let the matter rest — mejor no decir (or hacer etc) nada más

b) ( be responsibility of)

to rest WITH somebody — \<\<responsibility\>\> recaer* sobre alguien

c) ( Law)

the prosecution/defense rests — ha terminado el alegato del fiscal/de la defensa

2.

vt

1) ( relax) descansar

I stopped for a while to rest my feet/eyes — paré un rato para descansar los pies/ojos; case I 5)

2) ( place for support) apoyar

she rested her elbows on the table — apoyó or puso los codos sobre la mesa

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Phrasal Verbs:

- rest up

I [rest]
1. N

1) (=repose) descanso m

I need a rest — necesito descansar, me hace falta un descanso

• to be at rest — (=not moving) estar en reposo; euph (=dead) descansar

• to come to rest — [ball, vehicle, person] pararse, detenerse; [bird, insect, eyes, gaze] posarse

her eyes came to rest on the book — su mirada se posó en el libro

• day of rest — día m de descanso

• I need a rest from gardening — me hace falta descansar de la jardinería

• try to get some rest — intenta descansar

• to give sth a rest — dejar algo (por un tiempo)

I think you ought to give football a rest — creo que deberías dejar el fútbol por un tiempo

give it a rest! * — ¡déjalo ya!, ¡vale ya! *

• to have or take a rest — tomarse un descanso

why don't you have or take a rest? — (=take a break) ¿por qué no te tomas un descanso?; (=lie down) ¿por qué no descansas un rato?

to have a good night's rest — dormir bien

• to lay sb to rest — enterrar a algn

• to lay or put sth to rest — [+ theory] enterrar algo

his speech should lay those fears to rest — su discurso debería acabar con or enterrar esos temores
bed 3., change 1., 1), mind 1., 1), wicked
2) (Mus) silencio m

3) (=support) apoyo m, soporte m ; (Billiards) soporte m ; (Telec) horquilla f

2. VT

1) (=give rest to) descansar

try to rest the ankle as much as possible — intente descansar el tobillo lo más que pueda

the horses have to be rested — hay que dejar descansar a los caballos

I feel very rested — me siento muy descansado

• to rest o.s. — descansar

• God rest his soul! — ¡Dios le acoja en su seno!

2) (=support) apoyar (on en, sobre) ( against contra)

rest the ladder against the tree — apoya la escalera contra el árbol

to rest one's hand on sb's shoulder — apoyar la mano en el hombro de algn

3) (=settle)

• to rest one's eyes/ gaze on sth — posar la mirada en algo

4) (Jur)

• to rest one's case — concluir su alegato

I rest my case — concluyo mi alegato; (fig) hum he dicho

3. VI

1) (=repose) descansar

go back to bed and rest — vuelve a la cama y descansa

the waves never rest — las olas no descansan nunca

he won't rest until he finds out the truth — no descansará hasta que descubra la verdad

• may he rest in peace — euph que en paz descanse
laurel
2) (=lean, be supported) [person] apoyarse (on en); [roof, structure] estar sostenido (on por); (fig) [responsibility] pesar (on sobre)

he rested on his spade for a while — se apoyó en la pala un rato

his head was resting on her shoulder — tenía la cabeza apoyada en su hombro

her arm rested on my chair — su brazo estaba apoyado en mi silla

her elbows were resting on the table — tenía los codos apoyados en la mesa

the ladder was resting against the wall — la escalera estaba apoyada contra la pared

a heavy responsibility rests on him — sobre él pesa una grave responsabilidad

3) (=alight) [eyes, gaze] posarse

his eyes rested on me — su mirada se posó en mí

4) (=depend, be based) [argument, case] basarse (on en); [sb's future] depender (on de)

the future of the country rests on how we teach our children — el futuro del país depende de la enseñanza que demos a nuestros hijos

5) (=be, remain) quedar

we cannot let the matter rest there — no podemos permitir que la cosa quede ahí

• the decision rests with her, it rests with her to decide — la decisión la tiene que tomar ella, ella es la que tiene que decidir, la decisión es suya
assure, easy 1., 2)
6) (Theat)
euph
to be resting — no tener trabajo

7) (Jur)

the defence/prosecution rests — la defensa/el fiscal concluye su alegato

4.

CPD

rest area N — (Aut) área f de descanso

rest cure N — cura f de reposo

rest day N — día m de descanso

rest home N — residencia f de ancianos, asilo m (de ancianos)

rest period N — período m de descanso

rest room N — (US) servicios mpl, baño(s) m(pl) (LAm)

rest stop N — (=pause) parada f para descansar, parada f de descanso
(Aut) = rest area
- rest up

II

[rest]
N
the rest — (=remainder) [of money, food, month] el resto; [of people, things] el resto, los/las demás

I'm taking the rest of the week off — me tomaré el resto or lo que queda de la semana libre

the dog ate the rest — el perro se comió el resto or lo que sobró

you go home - I'll do the rest — tú vete a casa, yo hago lo demás or lo que queda

I'll take half of the money - you keep the rest — yo me llevo la mitad del dinero, tú te quedas con el resto

the rest of the money — el resto del dinero

all the rest of the money — todo lo que sobró del dinero

they left the rest of the meal untouched — no tocaron el resto de la comida

the rest stayed outside — los demás se quedaron fuera

the rest of us will wait here — los demás esperaremos aquí

the rest of the boys — los otros chicos, los demás chicos

he was as drunk as the rest of them — estaba tan borracho como los demás

the rest of them couldn't care less — a los demás or a los otros les trae sin cuidado

what shall we give the rest of them? — ¿qué les daremos a los otros?

the rest of the soldiers — los otros soldados, los demás soldados

I will take this book and you keep the rest — yo me llevo este libro y tú quédate con los demás

all the rest of the books — todos los demás libros, todos los otros libros

it was just another grave like all the rest — no era más que otra tumba, como todas las demás or todas las otras

and all the rest (of it) * — etcétera, etcétera *

he was from a wealthy family, went to Eton, Oxford and all the rest of it — era de familia rica, estudió en Eton, Oxford etcétera, etcétera *

she was a deb and all the rest of it * — era debutante y todo lo demás

(as) for the rest — por lo demás

only there did his age show, for the rest, he might have been under seventy — solo en eso se le notaba la edad, por lo demás, podía haber tenido menos de setenta años
history
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[rest]
I

1) noun

Sense I

2)

a) c ( break) descanso m

to have a rest — tomarse un descanso

rest FROM something: I need a rest from cooking/work necesito descansar de la cocina/de mi trabajo; to give something a rest (colloq) dejar de hacer algo; give it a rest! — basta ya!, cambia de disco! (fam)

b) u ( relaxation) descanso m, reposo m

try to get some/a good night's rest — trata de descansar un poco/de dormir bien esta noche

to lay somebody to rest — (euph) enterrar* or (frml) dar* sepultura a alguien

to lay something to rest — enterrar* algo; (before n) <day, period> de descanso

3) u ( motionlessness) reposo m

to come to rest — detenerse*

his eyes came to rest on the letter — sus ojos se posaron sobre la carta (liter)

4) c ( support) apoyo m

5) c ( Mus) silencio m

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6) ( remainder)

the rest: the rest of the money el resto del dinero, el dinero restante; the rest of them have finished los demás han terminado; the rest of the children los demás niños, los otros niños; and all the rest of it — y todo eso, etcétera, etcétera

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1.

intransitive verb

1)

a) ( relax) descansar

he could not rest until he knew she was safe — no se tranquilizó hasta saber que estaba a salvo

to rest easy — estar* tranquilo

b) ( lie buried) (liter) descansar (liter)

may she rest in peace — que en paz descanse

2)

a) ( be supported)

to rest ON something: his head rested on my shoulder tenía la cabeza recostada en or apoyada sobre mi hombro; the structure rests on eight massive pillars — la estructura descansa sobre ocho columnas gigantescas

b) (be based, depend)

to rest ON something — \<\<argument/theory\>\> estar* basado or basarse en algo, descansar sobre algo

c) ( stop)

to rest ON something/somebody — \<\<eyes/gaze\>\> detenerse* or (liter) posarse sobre algo/alguien

3)

a) ( remain)

let the matter rest — mejor no decir (or hacer etc) nada más

b) ( be responsibility of)

to rest WITH somebody — \<\<responsibility\>\> recaer* sobre alguien

c) ( Law)

the prosecution/defense rests — ha terminado el alegato del fiscal/de la defensa

2.

vt

1) ( relax) descansar

I stopped for a while to rest my feet/eyes — paré un rato para descansar los pies/ojos; case I 5)

2) ( place for support) apoyar

she rested her elbows on the table — apoyó or puso los codos sobre la mesa

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Phrasal Verbs:

- rest up

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5 Brunelleschi, Filippo

SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building

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b. 1377 Florence, Italy

d. 15 April 1446 Florence, Italy

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Italian artist, craftsman and architect who introduced the Italian Renaissance style of classical architecture in the fifteenth century.

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Brunelleschi was a true "Renaissance Man" in that he excelled in several disciplines, as did most artists of the Italian Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He was a goldsmith and sculptor; fifteenth-century writers acknowledge him as the first to study and demonstrate the principles of perspective, and he clearly possessed a deep mathematical understanding of the principles of architectural structure.

Brunelleschi's Foundling Hospital in Florence, begun in 1419, is accepted as the first Renaissance building, one whose architectural style is based upon a blend of the classical principles and decoration of Ancient Rome and those of the Tuscan Romanesque. Brunelleschi went on to design a number of important Renaissance structures in Florence, such as the basilicas of San Lorenzo and Santo Spirito, the Pazzi Chapel at Santa Croce, and the unfinished church of Santa Maria degli Angeli.

However, the artistic and technical feat for which Brunelleschi is most famed is the completion of Florence Cathedral by constructing a dome above the octagonal drum which had been completed in 1412. The building of this dome presented what appeared to be at the time insuperable problems, which had caused previous cathedral architects to shy away from tackling it. The drum was nearly 140 ft (43 m) in diameter and its base was 180 ft (55 m) above floor level: no wooden centering was possible because no trees long enough to span the gap could be found, and even if they had been available, the weight of such a massive framework would have broken centering beneath. In addition, the drum had no external abutment, so the weight of the dome must exert excessive lateral thrust. Aesthetically, the ideal Renaissance dome, like the Roman dome before it (for example, the Pantheon) was a hemisphere, but in the case of the Florence Cathedral such a structure would have been unsafe, so Brunelleschi created a pointed dome that would create less thrust laterally. He constructed eight major ribs of stone and, between them, sixteen minor ones, using a light infilling. He constructed a double-shell dome, which was the first of this type but is a design that has been followed by nearly all major architects since this date (for example Michelangelo's Saint Peter's in Rome, and Wren's Saint Paul's in London). Further strength is given by a herringbone pattern of masonry and brick infilling, and by tension chains of massive blocks, fastened with iron and with iron chains above, girding the dome at three levels. A large lantern finally stops the 50 ft (15.25 m) diameter eye at the point of the dome. Construction of the Florence Cathedral dome was begun on 7 August 1420 and was completed to the base of the lantern sixteen years later. It survives as the peak of Brunelleschi's Renaissance achievement.

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Further Reading

Peter Murray, 1963, The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance, Batsford, Ch. 2. Howard Saalman, 1980, Filippo Brunelleschi: The Cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore, Zwemmer.

Piero Sanpaolesi, 1977, La Cupola di Santa Maria del Fiore: Il Progetto: La Costruzione, Florence: Edam.

Eugenio Battisti, 1981, Brunelleschi: The Complete Work, Thames and Hudson.

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Biographical history of technology > Brunelleschi, Filippo
6 show

ʃəu
1. сущ.
1) показ, показывание, демонстрация (чего угодно - как факт) to vote by show of hands ≈ голосовать поднятием руки a show of sharp mind ≈ демонстрация острого ума
2) а) внешность, внешний вид;
вид, видимость for show ≈ для видимости There is a show of reason in it. ≈ В этом есть какой-то смысл. He made a great show of zeal. ≈ Он делал вид, что очень старается. б) показная пышность, парадность;
внешний лоск, мишура
3) более или менее массовое мероприятие а) спектакль;
шоу, представление;
зрелище to catch разг., see, take in a show ≈ смотреть спектакль to direct show ≈ руководить постановкой спектакля to do, produce, put on, stage show ≈ ставить спектакль to sponsor a show ≈ спонсировать спектакль to sponsor a TV show ≈ спонсировать телевизионную передачу to promote show ≈ рекламировать, анонсировать спектакль chat show ≈ беседа или интервью со знаменитостью, видным деятелем и т. п. talk show ≈ беседа или интервью со знаменитостью, видным деятелем и т. п. floor show ≈ представление среди публики (в ночном клубе, ресторане и т. п.) ice show ≈ эстрадное представление на льду;
балет на льду, ревю minstrel show ≈ шоу менестрелей (жанр развлекательных представлений, распространенный в середине XIX века) moving picture show ≈ киносеанс peep show ≈ варьете с голыми девушками или стриптизом Punch-and-Judy show ≈ ярмарочный балаган sound-and-light show ≈ светозвуковой спектакль TV show ≈ телепередача variety show ≈ варьете, эстрадное представление, эстрадный концерт б) выставка( собак, картин, техники и т. п.) ;
показ, демонстрация (одежды и т. п.) air show ≈ авиасалон auto show ≈ автосалон flower show ≈ выставка цветов horse show ≈ выставка лошадей, конноспортивный праздник motor show ≈ автосалон в) воен.;
сл. операция, бой;
"шоу", заваруха
4) витрина (где обычно выставлено что-л. достойное внимания)
5) а) разг. дело, предприятие, организованная активность to give away the show ≈ выдать, разболтать секрет;
разболтать о недостатках (какого-л. предприятия) to put up a good show ≈ добиться положительных результатов б) организация, компания to run/boss the show ≈ заправлять( чем-л.) ;
хозяйничать
6) разг. удобный случай или возможность проявить себя, показать свои силы we must give the boy a good/fair show ≈ надо дать парню возможность проявить себя
2. гл.
1) а) показывать( о направлении, объекте и т.д.) to show oneself ≈ появляться в обществе show the way ≈ провести, показать дорогу;
перен. надоумить Syn: display Ant: cloak б) перен. проявлять;
выставлять, демонстрировать( о чувствах, эмоциях и т.д.) I was touched by great kindness that they showed me. ≈ Я была очень тронута той добротой, которую они проявили по отношению ко мне. to show oneself( to be) good, bad ≈ проявить себя с хорошей, плохой стороны Syn: evince, exhibit, manifest Ant: conceal, disguise, hide, mask, suppress
2) показывать себя (с какой-либо стороны) They showed themselves to be cowards. ≈ Они вели себя как трусы.
3) а) ссылаться( на что-л.), утверждать to show cause ≈ приводить причину Syn: allege б) заявлять, объявлять( о чем-л.) Syn: declare
4) проводить, ввести( into - куда-л.) ;
вывести (out of - откуда-л.)
5) быть видным;
появляться;
казаться Don't worry, the stain will never show. ≈ Не переживайте, пятно будет незаметно. ∙ show around show down show in show off show out show over show round show through show up to show one's hand, to show one's cards ≈ раскрыть свои карты show a leg show the door показ, демонстрация - a * of force демонстрация силы - to make a * of smth. демонстрировать что-либо, выставлять что-либо напоказ - to make (a) * of friendship проявлять дружеские чувства выставка - flower * выставка цветов - fashions * демонстрация мод - wild beast * зверинец - travelling * бродячий зверинец;
бродячий цирк, балаган - to be on * быть выставленным (где-либо), быть экспонатом выставки - to set smth. to * выставлять на выставке пышная процессия( разговорное) зрелище, спектакль, представление - fairy * феерия - to act in dumb * участвовать в пантомиме;
объясняться знаками - to put up a good * хорошо поставить спектакль;
добиваться хороших результатов;
показывать товар лицом - to stop the * сорвать аплодисменты (в ходе спектакля) - to steal the * затмить, переиграть всех остальных актеров - the woman can act, but the child stole the * она хорошая актриса, но внимание зрителей было больше всего привлечено к ребенку - to steal the * оказаться в центре внимания - the theatre gives two *s a day театр дает два представления в день шоу, эстрадное представление - floor * шоу в ресторане (радиотехника) (телевидение) передача - talk * беседа или интервью со знаменитостью, видным деятелем киносеанс (спортивное) выступление авиационный праздник;
показательные полеты( разговорное) вечер, прием, банкет, торжество - to do a * присутствовать на вечере - to do *s появляться в обществе картина, вид, зрелище - beautiful * красивый вид - good * прекрасное зрелище - to be a spectacular * представлять собой эффектное зрелище жалкое зрелище, нелепая картина - I don't like to make a * of myself before strangers мне не хочется предстать в глупом виде перед посторонними (книжное) внешний вид;
видимость - the * of things внешний вид вещей - in * по (внешнему) виду - for * для видимости, для виду - a * of justice (одна лишь) видимость справедливости - nothing but * одна видимость - to make (a) * делать вид - to make (a) * of anger делать вид, что сердишься - to have a * of respectability сохранять внешнюю респектабельность показная сторона;
внешний эффект - for * для внешнего эффекта, напоказ - to make (a) * of smth. слишком подчеркивать что-либо - to make a great * of zeal всячески демонстрировать свое усердие - he wears glasses for * он носит очки для фасона (разговорное) дело, предприятие - to run the (whole) * (всем) заправлять - to give the (whole) * away разгласить план, намерение;
проболтаться( военное) (разговорное) дело, бой, операция - to put up a * драться, сражаться, побывать в деле проявление, признак - * of reason признак благоразумия - with some * of reason с некоторым основанием - some suggested, without good * of reason, that... некоторые высказали мысль, без особых на то оснований, что... - the board is a poor * дирекция ничем себя не проявила - the party was a dull * на вечере была отчаянная скука (американизм) (разговорное) возможность, шанс - to give smb. a (fair) * (to do smth.) предоставить кому-либо( благоприятную) возможность (сделать что-либо) ;
отнестись к кому-либо непредубежденно - to have a * иметь возможность - to have no * of winning не иметь никаких шансов на выигрыш( американизм) (австралийское) следы, признаки наличия - a * of gold in a mine признаки золота в шахте - not a * of affection никакого намека на любовь - there is not the slightest * of bud as yet на деревьях еще не появилось ни одной почки (горное) ореол( на предохранительной лампе, указывающий на наличие метана) (спортивное) (жаргон) третье место или одно из трех первых мест( на скачках) (физиологическое) воды( предродовые) > good *! замечательно!, здорово (сделано) ! > to vote by (a) * of hands голосовать поднятием руки > one-horse * гиблое дело показательный - the * pupil in the class образцовый ученик в классе - the surgeon's * case показательная операция (хирургическая) - * piece( музыкальное) произведение, требующее виртуозного исполнения показывать - to * a picture to smb. показать картину кому-либо - we *ed him the sights of the town мы показали ему достопримечательности города - a sight that only Moscow can * то, что можно увидеть только в Москве - the basement window *ed him just the feet of passers-by из подвального окна ему были видны лишь ноги прохожих показываться, появляться - the buds are *ing появляются почки - anger *ed in his face на его лице появилось гневное выражение указывать - to * smb. the way показать кому-либо дорогу;
показать кому-либо пример, быть первым - to * smb. the door указать кому-либо на дверь показывать, объяснять, учить - to * smb. how to do smth. показывать кому-либо, как (нужно) делать что-либо - to * smb. a thing or two объяснить кому-либо что к чему выставлять;
экспонировать - to * flowers выставлять (для обозрения) цветы выставлять для продажи, предлагать (товары) - the stores are *ing new spring suits магазины предлагают новые весенние костюмы изображать - to * smb., smth. accurately изображать кого-либо, что-либо точно( разговорное) (театроведение) играть, давать( спектакль) - they are *ing "Hamlet" tonight сегодня играют "Гамлета", сегодня идет "Гамлет" - this play has been *n in every town этот спектакль показывали во всех городах (разговорное) выступать на ринге (бокс) выявлять, устанавливать - to * the impossibility of smth., to * that smth. is impossible доказывать невозможность чего-либо - to * smb. to be a coward разоблачить кого-либо как труса - to * smb.'s designs разоблачить чьи-либо интриги - he *ed the plan to be faulty он показал, что план составлен неудачно проявлять, обнаруживать - to * kindness to smb. проявлять расположение (по отношению) к кому-либо - to * hatred towards smb. выражать ненависть к кому-либо - to * smb. favour оказывать кому-либо услугу - to * signs of snth. обнаруживать признаки чего-либо - he *ed every mark of extreme agitation по всему было видно, что он очень возбужден - to * that one is nervous выдавать свое волнение - his nature *ed strong in adversity превратности судьбы выявили силу его характера, в несчастье он проявил силу характера оттенять, выделять - a light carpet *s the dirt на светлом ковре грязь очень заметна - that dress *s your figure это платье подчеркивает вашу фигуру выделяться, виднеться;
быть видным, заметным - the stain *s пятно заметно - your slip is *ing у вас видна комбинация (из-под платья) - oil paintings * best at a distance живопись лучше смотрится на расстоянии появляться (в обществе), бывать (на людях;
тж. * up) - not to * one's face не появляться;
глаз не казать - not to * one's nose носу не казать - the guest failed to * гость так и не пришел - he *ed himself in public places to quiet rumours that he was ill он стал появляться в обществе, чтобы положить конец слухам о своей болезни выглядеть, казаться, иметь вид - to * white( in the distance) белеть (вдалеке) - to * massive выглядеть массивным - the coast *ed like a line (from here) берег казался (отсюда) плоским( спортивное) (жаргон) занять третье место или одно из трех первых мест (на скачках) предъявить (документ) - to * one's ticket предъявить билет - to * a document for inspection предъявить документ для ознакомления показывать, отмечать( о приборе) - a barometer *s the air pressure барометр показывает атмосферное давление - the watch *s 10 (a. m.) на часах ровно 10 (утра) - the amount *n on the meter показание счетчика (юридическое) представлять( доказательства) - to * cause представлять основания - to * to the satisfaction of the court доказывать перед судом провожать, сопровождать кого-либо куда-либо - to * smb. to the gate проводить кого-либо до ворот - to * smb. to his seat провести кого-либо на место (в кино, самолете) - to * smb. round smth. сопровождать кого-либо (во время осмотра) - to * smb. round a town показывать кому-либо город;
знакомить кого-либо с городом - a servant *ed them into the drawing room служанка ввела их в гостиную - I was *n upstairs to his den меня проводили наверх, в его кабинет - he *ed us over the ship он проводил нас по всему кораблю проявлять себя кем-либо, оказаться кем-либо - to * oneself a gentleman оказаться настоящим джентльменом - to * oneself a great actor показать себя большим артистом проявлять себя с хорошей, плохой стороны - to * oneself cruel проявить жестокость - the group *ed itself to be reliable группа оказалась надежной > to have smth. to * for one's labour не зря потрудиться > to have nothing to * for it ничего не добиться, зря стараться > to * smth. the fire (слегка) подогреть или поджарить что-либо > to * the whip грозить кнутом > to * to advantage представить в выгодном свете > to * a sign подать знак;
(библеизм) творить чудо > to * a marvel подать знак;
(библеизм) творить чудо > to * one's paces( спортивное) (жаргон) выложиться, показать, на что способен > to * one's teeth показывать зубы > to * one's hand (карточное) открыть карты;
раскрыть свои карты > to * fight не уступать, не поддаваться;
рваться в бой > to * (smb.) one's heels, to * (smb.) a clean pair of heels дать стрекача, дать тягу, улепетывать( от кого-либо) > to * one's colours( морское) показывать флаг;
демонстрировать свою приверженность( чему-либо) ;
носить значок, эмблему в знак принадлежности какой-либо партии;
сбросить маску (тж. to * one's true colours) > to * kit (сленг) чувствовать тошноту > to * a leg (сленг) вставать с постели;
улизнуть > to * smb. London( школьное) (жаргон) перевернуть кого-либо вверх тормашками air ~ авиационная выставка air ~ демонстрационные полеты air ~ радиопостановка ~ быть видным;
появляться;
казаться;
the stain will never show пятно будет незаметно;
buds are just showing почки только еще появляются fashion ~ демонстрация мод fashion ~ показ мод floor ~ представление среди публики (в кабаре и т. п.) ~ внешний вид, видимость;
for show для видимости;
there is a show of reason in it в этом есть видимость смысла galanty ~ театр. китайские тени to give away the ~ разг. выдать, разболтать секрет;
разболтать о недостатках (какого-л. предприятия) to ~ one's teeth проявить враждебность;
огрызнуться;
to have nothing to show for it не достичь никаких результатов he made a great ~ of zeal он делал вид, что очень старается ~ проявлять;
выставлять, демонстрировать;
to show cause привести оправдание;
he showed me great kindness он проявил ко мне большое участие loan ~ выставка картин, предоставленных музею на определенный срок ~ зрелище;
спектакль;
movingpicture show киносеанс no ~ без показа picture ~ кинотеатр picture ~ кинофильм the picture shows to good advantage in this light картина очень выигрывает при этом свете ~ разг. дело, предприятие, организация;
to put up a good show добиться положительных результатов radio ~ радиопостановка road ~ гастрольное представление to run (или to boss) the ~ заправлять (чем-л.) ;
хозяйничать ~ up разг. (по) являться;
объявиться неожиданно;
to show a leg разг. встать с постели your slip is showing у вас видна нижняя юбка;
show down открыть карты;
show in ввести, провести (в комнату) your slip is showing у вас видна нижняя юбка;
show down открыть карты;
show in ввести, провести (в комнату) ~ of hands голосование поднятием руки ~ off показывать в выгодном свете ~ off пускать пыль в глаза;
рисоваться;
show out проводить, вывести (из комнаты) ;
show round показывать (кому-л. город, музей) to ~ (smb.) the door указать( кому-л.) на дверь;
to show one's hand (или cards) раскрыть свои карты to ~ one's teeth проявить враждебность;
огрызнуться;
to have nothing to show for it не достичь никаких результатов ~ (showed;
showed, shown) показывать;
to show oneself появляться в обществе;
to show the way провести, показать дорогу;
перен. надоумить ~ off пускать пыль в глаза;
рисоваться;
show out проводить, вывести (из комнаты) ;
show round показывать (кому-л. город, музей) ~ off пускать пыль в глаза;
рисоваться;
show out проводить, вывести (из комнаты) ;
show round показывать (кому-л. город, музей) to ~ (smb.) the door указать (кому-л.) на дверь;
to show one's hand (или cards) раскрыть свои карты ~ (showed;
showed, shown) показывать;
to show oneself появляться в обществе;
to show the way провести, показать дорогу;
перен. надоумить ~ up выделяться (на фоне) ~ up изобличать;
разоблачать ~ up разг. (по) являться;
объявиться неожиданно;
to show a leg разг. встать с постели ~ быть видным;
появляться;
казаться;
the stain will never show пятно будет незаметно;
buds are just showing почки только еще появляются ~ внешний вид, видимость;
for show для видимости;
there is a show of reason in it в этом есть видимость смысла trade ~ показ нового фильма узкому кругу (кинокритикам и представителям проката) ~ показ, демонстрация;
to vote by show of hands голосовать поднятием руки vote: ~ by show of hands голосовать поднятием рук your slip is showing у вас видна нижняя юбка;
show down открыть карты;
show in ввести, провести (в комнату)

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > show
7 show

1. [ʃəʋ] n
1. показ, демонстрация

a show of force - демонстрация силы

to make a show of smth. - демонстрировать что-л., выставлять что-л. напоказ [см. тж. 7]

to make (a) show of friendship - проявлять дружеские чувства /дружелюбие, дружеское расположение/ [ср. тж. 6]

2. 1) выставка

flower [cattle, dog] show - выставка цветов [скота, собак]

fashions show - демонстрация мод

wild beast show - зверинец

travelling show - бродячий зверинец; бродячий цирк, балаган

to be on show - быть выставленным (где-л.), быть экспонатом выставки

to set smth. to show - выставлять /показывать/ на выставке

2) пышная процессия

3. 1) разг. зрелище, спектакль, представление

fairy show - феерия

to act in dumb show - а) участвовать в пантомиме; б) объясняться знаками /жестами/

to put up a good show - а) хорошо поставить спектакль; б) добиваться хороших результатов; ≅ показывать товар лицом; [ср. тж. 8, 2)]

to stop the show - сорвать аплодисменты ( в ходе спектакля)

to steal the show - а) затмить, переиграть всех остальных актёров; the woman can act, but the child stole the show - она хорошая актриса, но внимание зрителей было больше всего привлечено к ребёнку; б) оказаться в центре внимания

the theatre gives two shows a day - театр даёт два представления в день

2) шоу, эстрадное представление

floor show - шоу в ресторане

3) радио, тлв. передача

talk /chat/ show - беседа или интервью со знаменитостью, видным деятелем и т. п.

4) киносеанс

5) спорт. выступление

6) авиационный праздник; показательные полёты

4. разг. вечер, приём, банкет, торжество

to do a show - присутствовать на вечере /на банкете, на торжестве/

to do shows - появляться /бывать/ в обществе

5. 1) картина, вид, зрелище

beautiful show - красивый вид

good [bad, striking] show - прекрасное [отвратительное, поразительное] зрелище

to be /to make/ a spectacular [a poor] show - представлять /являть/ собой эффектное [жалкое] зрелище

2) жалкое зрелище, нелепая картина

I don't like to make a show of myself before strangers - мне не хочется предстать в глупом виде перед посторонними

6. книжн. внешний вид; видимость

the show of things - внешний вид /-яя оболочка/ вещей

in show - по (внешнему) виду

for show - для видимости, для виду [см. тж. 7]

a show of justice [of kindness] - (одна лишь) видимость справедливости [доброты]

nothing but show - одна видимость

to make (a) show - делать вид

to make (a) show of anger - делать вид, что сердишься [ср. тж. 1]

to have /to bear, to carry/ a show of respectability - сохранять внешнюю респектабельность /благоприличие/

7. показная сторона; внешний эффект

for show - для внешнего эффекта, напоказ [см. тж. 6]

to make (a) show of smth. - слишком подчёркивать /выпячивать/ что-л. [см. тж. 1]

to make a great show of zeal - всячески демонстрировать своё усердие

he wears glasses for show - он носит очки для фасона

8. 1) разг. дело, предприятие

to run /to boss, to manage/ the (whole) show - (всем) заправлять

to give the (whole) show away - а) разгласить план, намерение и т. п.; б) проболтаться

2) воен. разг. дело, бой, операция

to put up a show - драться, сражаться, побывать в деле [ср. тж. 3, 1)]

9. проявление, признак

show of reason - признак /проявление/ благоразумия

with some show of reason - с некоторым /разумным/ основанием

some suggested, without good show of reason, that... - некоторые высказали мысль, без особых на то оснований, что...

the board is a poor show - дирекция ничем себя не проявила

the party was a dull show - на вечере была отчаянная скука

10. амер. разг. возможность, шанс

to give smb. a (fair) show (to do smth.) - предоставить кому-л. (благоприятную) возможность (сделать что-л.); отнестись к кому-л. непредубеждённо

to have /to stand/ a show - иметь возможность /шанс(ы)/

to have no show of winning - не иметь никаких шансов на выигрыш

11. 1) амер., австрал. следы, признаки наличия

a show of gold in a mine - признаки /следы/ золота в шахте

not a show of affection - никакого намёка /ничего похожего/ на любовь

there is not the slightest show of bud as yet - на деревьях ещё не появилось ни одной почки

2) горн. ореол (на предохранительной лампе, указывающий на наличие метана)

12. спорт. жарг. третье место или одно из трёх первых мест (на скачках и т. п.)

13. физиол. воды ( предродовые)

♢ good show! - замечательно!, здорово (сделано)!

to vote by (a) show of hands - голосовать поднятием руки

one-horse show - гиблое дело
2. [ʃəʋ] a
показательный

the show pupil in the class - образцовый /лучший/ ученик в классе

the surgeon's show case - показательная операция ( хирургическая)

show piece - муз. произведение, требующее виртуозного исполнения
3. [ʃəʋ] v (showed [-{ʃəʋ}d]; shown, редк. showed)
I

1. 1) показывать

to show a picture [a dress] to smb. - показать картину [платье] кому-л.

we showed him the sights of the town - мы показали ему достопримечательности города

a sight that only Moscow can show - то, что можно увидеть только в Москве

the basement window showed him just the feet of passers-by - из подвального окна ему были видны лишь ноги прохожих

2) показываться, появляться

the buds are showing - появляются почки

anger showed in his face - на его лице появилось гневное выражение

2. 1) указывать

to show smb. the way - а) показать кому-л. дорогу; б) показать кому-л. пример, быть первым

to show smb. the door - указать кому-л. на дверь

2) показывать, объяснять, учить

to show smb. how /the way/ to do smth. - показывать /объяснять/ кому-л., как (нужно) делать что-л.

to show smb. a thing or two - объяснить кому-л. что к чему

3. 1) выставлять; экспонировать

to show flowers [paintings] - выставлять (для обозрения) /экспонировать/ цветы [картины]

2) выставлять для продажи, предлагать ( товары)

the stores are showing new spring suits - магазины предлагают новые весенние костюмы

4. изображать

to show smb., smth. accurately [vaguely] - изображать /описывать/ кого-л., что-л. точно [расплывчато]

5. разг.

1) театр. играть, давать ( спектакль)

they are showing❝Hamlet❞ tonight - сегодня играют «Гамлета», сегодня идёт «Гамлет»

this play has been shown in every town - этот спектакль показывали во всех городах

2) выступать на ринге ( бокс)

6. выявлять, устанавливать

to show the impossibility of smth., to show that smth. is impossible - доказывать невозможность чего-л.

to show smb. to be a coward [a swindler] - разоблачить кого-л. как труса [как мошенника]

to show smb.'s designs - разоблачить чьи-л. интриги

he showed the plan to be faulty on - показал, что план составлен неудачно

7. проявлять, обнаруживать

to show kindness to smb. - проявлять /выказывать/ расположение (по отношению) к кому-л.

to show hatred towards smb. - выражать ненависть к кому-л.

to show smb. favour [honour, courtesy] - оказывать кому-л. услугу [честь, любезность]

to show signs of smth. - обнаруживать признаки чего-л.

he showed every mark of extreme agitation - но всему было видно, что он очень возбуждён

to show that one is nervous [annoyed, impatient] - выдавать своё волнение [раздражение, нетерпение]

his nature showed strong in adversity - превратности судьбы выявили силу его характера, в несчастье он проявил силу характера

8. 1) оттенять, выделять

a light carpet shows the dirt - на светлом ковре грязь очень заметна

that dress shows your figure - это платье подчёркивает вашу фигуру

2) выделяться, виднеться; быть видным, заметным

the stain shows - пятно заметно /видно/

your slip is showing - у вас видна комбинация ( из-под платья)

oil paintings show best at a distance - живопись лучше смотрится на расстоянии

9. появляться ( в обществе), бывать ( на людях; тж. show up)

not to show one's face /one's head/ - не появляться; ≅ глаз не казать

not to show one's nose - носу не казать

the guest failed to show - гость так и не пришёл

he showed himself in public places to quiet rumours that he was ill - он стал появляться в обществе, чтобы положить конец слухам о своей болезни

10. выглядеть, казаться, иметь вид

to show white [dark] (in the distance) - белеть [темнеть] (вдалеке)

to show massive [strong] - выглядеть /казаться/ массивным [сильным]

the coast showed like /as/ a line (from here) - берег казался (отсюда) полоской

11. спорт. жарг. занять третье место или одно из трёх первых мест (на скачках и т. п.)

II А

1. предъявлять ( документ)

to show one's ticket [one's passport] - предъявить билет [паспорт]

to show a document for inspection - предъявить /представить/ документ для ознакомления /для проверки/

2. показывать, отмечать ( о приборе)

a barometer shows the air pressure - барометр показывает атмосферное давление

the watch shows 10 (a.m.) - на часах ровно десять (утра)

the amount shown on the meter - показание счётчика

3. юр. представлять ( доказательства)

to show cause - представлять основания

to show to the satisfaction of the court - доказывать перед судом

II Б

1. to show smb. to /into, over, round/ á place провожать, сопровождать кого-л. куда-л.

to show smb. to the gate [to the door] - проводить кого-л. до ворот [до двери]

to show smb. to his seat - провести кого-л. на место (в кино, самолёте)

to show smb. round smth. - сопровождать кого-л. ( во время осмотра)

to show smb. round a town [round an exhibition] - показывать кому-л. город [выставку]; знакомить кого-л. с городом [с выставкой]

a servant showed them into the drawing room - служанка ввела их в гостиную

I was shown upstairs to his den - меня проводили наверх, в его кабинет

he showed us over the ship [over the works, over the city] - он поводил нас по всему кораблю [заводу, городу]

2. to show oneself ( to be) smb. проявить себя кем-л., оказаться кем-л.

to show oneself a gentleman [a coward] - оказаться настоящим джентльменом [трусом]

to show oneself a great actor - показать себя большим артистом

3. to show oneself ( to be) good, bad, etc проявить себя с хорошей, плохой и т. п. стороны

to show oneself cruel [clever] - проявить жестокость [ум]

the group showed itself to be reliable - группа оказалась надёжной

♢

to have smth. to show for one's labour [for one's expenditure] - не зря потрудиться [потратиться]

to have nothing to show for it - ничего не добиться, зря стараться

to show smth. the fire - (слегка) подогреть или поджарить что-л.

to show the whip - грозить кнутом

to show to advantage - представить в выгодном свете

to show a sign - а) подать знак; б) библ. творить чудо

to show a marvel = to show a sign б)

to show one's paces - спорт. жарг. выложиться, показать, на что способен

to show one's teeth - показывать зубы

to show one's hand /one's cards/ - а) карт. открыть карты; б) раскрыть свои карты /планы/

to show fight - не уступать, не поддаваться; рваться в бой

to show (smb.) one's heels, to show (smb.) a clean /a fair, a light/ pair of heels - дать стрекача, дать тягу, улепётывать (от кого-л.)

to show one's colours - мор. а) показывать флаг; б) демонстрировать свою приверженность (чему-л.); носить значок, эмблему и т. п. в знак принадлежности к какой-л. партии; в) сбросить маску (тж. to show one's true colours)

to show kit - сл. чувствовать тошноту

to show a leg - а) сл. вставать с постели; б) улизнуть

to show smb. London - школ. жарг. перевернуть кого-л. вверх тормашками

НБАРС > show
8 any

[eni, əni] adj

1) ( of amount) irgendein(e) attr;

I don't think there'll be \any snow this Christmas ich glaube nicht, dass es dieses Jahr an Weihnachten schneien wird;

do you have [or have you got] \any basil? haben Sie Basilikum?

2) ( of unrestrictedness) jede(r, s) attr;

I love \any form of chocolate ich liebe jede Art von Schokolade;

absolutely \any food would be better than nothing at all wirklich jedes Essen wäre besser als überhaupt nichts;

\any complaints should be addressed to the hotel manager jegliche Beschwerden sollten an den Hoteldirektor/die Hoteldirektorin gerichtet werden;

ring me up \any time du kannst mich jederzeit anrufen;

\any day/ moment/ time now jeden Tag/Moment/jederzeit;

\any minute now there's going to be a massive quarrel between those two jede Minute kann es zu einem massiven Streit zwischen den beiden kommen;

at \any one time zu jeder Zeit;

in \any case [or (fam: at \any rate] whatever happens) auf jeden Fall;

( above and beyond that) überhaupt pron

1) + sing vb ( each) jede(r, s);

we're happy to welcome each and \any who want to come to the picnic wir freuen uns über jeden Einzelnen, der zum Picknick kommen möchte;

\any of the dresses/ cars jedes der Kleider/Autos;

\any of you should... jeder von euch sollte...

2) + pl vb ( some of many) welche(r, s);

we've got one copy here but we don't have \any to sell wir haben hier ein Exemplar, aber zum Verkaufen haben wir keine;

I haven't seen \any of his films ich habe keinen seiner Filme gesehen;

are \any of those pictures over there yours? sind von den Bildern da drüben welche von dir?;

not \any/\any at all überhaupt keine/welche

3) + sing vb ( some of quantity) welche(r, s);

do you have any basil? - I'm sorry, there isn't \any left hast du Basilikum? - ich fürchte, es ist keines mehr da;

if there's \any left, throw it away wenn noch was übrig ist, wirf es weg;

is there \any of that lemon cake left? ist noch etwas von dem Zitronenkuchen übrig?;

hardly \any kaum etwas;

not \any/\any at all überhaupt keine(r, s)/welche(r, s)

4) + sing vb ( not important which) irgendeine(r, s);

I need someone to give me a hand - \any of you will do ich brauche jemand, der mir hilft - egal wen

PHRASES:

to not have \any [of it] nichts davon wissen wollen adv

inv, usu neg

1) ( at all) überhaupt, gar;

are you feeling \any better after your illness? fühlst du dich denn etwas besser nach deiner Krankheit?;

can't you drive \any faster? können Sie nicht etwas schneller fahren?;

if I have to stay here \any longer,... wenn ich noch länger hierbleiben muss,...;

(Am) ( fam);

that didn't help \any das hat überhaupt nichts genutzt

2) \any more noch mehr;

I don't do yoga \any more ich mache kein Yoga mehr;

I don't expect we'll have \any more trouble from him ich glaube nicht, dass wir noch weiteren Ärger von ihm zu erwarten haben;

I can't tell you \any more than that ich kann dir nicht mehr als das sagen;

\any more of those remarks and I'll thump you! noch eine solche Bemerkung und es knallt! ( fam)

\any old sth ( fam) jede(r, s) x-beliebige etw ( fam)

I can't wear just \any old thing to my brother's wedding ich kann nicht jedes x-beliebige Teil zur Hochzeit meines Bruders tragen! ( fam)

English-German students dictionary > any
9 jamming

задержка; радиоэлектронное подавление, РЭП; создание [постановка] помех; подавление ( помехами) ; помехи

C3 systems jamming — помехи системам оперативного управления и связи

data-link jamming (down, up) — помехи линии передачи данных (в каналах «воздух — земля» [«земля — воздух»])

— ABM jamming

— acoustic jamming

— active jamming

— aimed jamming

— air-to-air jamming

— air-to-ground jamming

— amplitude-modulated jamming

— angle deception jamming

— angular frequency modulation jamming

— antimissile jamming

— barrage jamming

— bearing tracking jamming

— blanket broadband jamming

— buckshot laser jamming

— case jamming

— chaff jamming

— chaotic pulse jamming

— combined jamming

— COMINT jamming

— communications jamming

— confusion jamming

— conical scanning frequency amplitude-modulated noise jamming

— continuous jamming

— cooperative jamming

— counterlaser jamming

— deception jamming

— defensive jamming

— directional jamming

— discontinuous jamming

— early warning radar systems jamming

— ECM jamming

— electronic monitoring systems jamming

— ELINT satellite jamming

— endoatmospheric target jamming

— EW jamming

— exoatmospheric target jamming

— frequency jamming

— frequency repetition spot jamming

— frequency-modulated jamming

— friendly jamming

— gliding jamming

— ground-to-air jamming

— high-power jamming

— homing systems jamming

— IFF systems jamming

— imitating jamming

— imitative jamming

— interrogation frequency jamming

— laser jamming

— main lobe jamming

— manipulative jamming

— masking jamming

— massive jamming

— meaconing jamming

— midcourse target jamming

— modulated jamming

— multiple direction jamming

— multiple jamming

— multiple-repetitive pulse jamming

— narrow beam laser jamming

— noise making jamming

— noise-modulated carrier frequency jamming

— non synchronous jamming

— noncommunications jamming

— offensive jamming

— omnidirectional jamming

— open-scanning frequency radar jamming

— passive jamming

— penetration aid jamming

— phase-shift keying jamming

— point-type jamming

— power-management jamming

— programmed jamming

— proximity fuze jamming

— pseudo-random noise jamming

— pulse Doppler jamming

— pulse jamming

— pulse masking jamming

— pulse-length barrage jamming

— quasi barrage jamming

— radar jamming

— radiation direction spot jamming

— radiation oriented spot jamming

— radio relay transmission jamming

— range deception jamming

— range-gate disturbing jamming

— range-gate stealing jamming

— rate deception jamming

— reflection jamming

— reflective jamming

— repeater jamming

— repetition imitating laser jamming

— repetitive imitating laser jamming

— rocking frequency jamming

— saturation jamming

— scanning frequency amplitude-modulated jamming

— scanning frequency barrage noise jamming

— scatter jamming

— screening jamming

— seeker jamming

— selective jamming

— ship-to-air jamming

— ship-to-ship jamming

— side-lobe jamming

— signal-initiated jamming

— source jamming

— space-to-ground jamming

— spot jamming

— standoff jamming

— strategic communications jamming

— strobe jamming

— surveillance radar jamming

— sweep jamming

— switching frequency jamming

— tactical communications jamming

— target jamming

— terminal target jamming

— tone jamming

— tropospheric communications jamming

— unmodulated jamming

— unsynchronized jamming

— velocity-gate disturbing jamming

— velocity-gate stealing jamming

— voice jamming

— warning radar jamming

— window jamming

* * *

1) пробка; 2) глушение

English-Russian military dictionary > jamming
10 group

1) группа, ансамбль || групповой

- finishing mill group
- roughing mill group
2) совокупность; комплект

3) группировка || группировать(ся)

4) группировочный

5) класс; категория || классифицировать; категоризировать

6) хим. остаток

7) сгусток; скопление

8) узел

9) матем. группа

group modulo one — группа по модулю единица

group over field — группа над полем

group over ring — группа над кольцом

group with division — группа с делением

group with multiple operators — группа с многоместными операторами, мультиоператорная группа

group with operators — группа с операторами

group with topology — группа с топологией

group with trivial center — группа без центра

group with zero — группа с нулем

group without center — группа без центра

group without operators — группа без операторов

group without small subgroups — группа без малых подгрупп

group without torsion — группа без кручения

invariance under group — инвариантность относительно группы

to group like terms — приводить подобные члены

- Abelian group

- abelianized group

- abhomotopy group

- absolute cohomology group
- absolute free group - absolute homotopy group - absolutely irreducible group - absolutely simple group
- abstract group

- additively free group
- additively written group - adele group - adelic group
- adelized group

- adjoint group

- adjusted group

- affine group

- age group

- algebraic group

- algebraically closed group
- algebraically compact group - algebraically simple group - almost connected group - almost cyclic group - almost ordered group - almost periodic group - almost simple group - alternating form group
- alternating group

- amalgamated group

- amenable group

- analytical group

- anharmonic group

- anisotropic group

- antiunitary group

- aperiodic group

- archimedean group

- arcwise connected group

- arithmetic group

- asystatic group

- automorphic group

- automorphism group

- autotopism group

- base group

- basic group

- betweennes group

- bicharacter group

- bicompact group

- bigraded group

- binary group

- bitransformation group

- bordism group

- boundary group

- bounded group

- braid group

- bundle group

- cancellation group
- cancellative group
- canonical transformation group

- case-shift code group
- cellular homology group
- central group

- centrally closed group

- chain group

- channel master group
- characteristically simple group
- circle group

- circular group

- classical group

- closed homology group

- cobordism group

- coboundary group

- cochain group

- cocyclic group

- code group

- coherent group

- cohomological group

- cohomology group

- cohomotopic group

- cohomotopy group

- collinear group

- collineation group

- color group

- commensurability group

- commutative group

- commutator group

- complemented group
- complementing group
- complete group

- complete monomial group
- completely anisotropic group - completely discontinuous group - completely divisible group - completely indecomposable group - completely integrally closed group
- complex group

- composite group

- conditionally complete group

- configuration group

- conformal group

- congruence group

- connected group

- continuous group

- contracted group

- contrahomology group

- control group

- coseparable group

- cotortion group

- countable group

- countably discrete group

- covering group

- critical group

- crystallographic group

- cubical homology group

- cuspidal group

- cycle group

- cyclically ordered group

- cycloidal group

- decomposable group

- decomposition group

- defect group
- deficient group
- degree of group

- dense group

- denumerable symmetric group

- derived group

- diagonal group

- diagonalizable group

- dicyclic group

- differentiable group

- differential group

- digit group

- dihedral group

- dihomology group

- dimensionless group

- direct cohomology group
- direct homology group - direct indecomposable group
- directed group

- directly indecomposable group

- discontinuous group

- discrete group

- discriminating group

- dispersible group

- displacement group

- distal group

- divisible group

- division closure group

- divisor group

- double group

- doubly covered group
- doubly transitive group
- dual group

- dyadic group

- dynamical group

- dynamical symmetry group

- edge group

- edge-path group

- effect group

- effective group

- effectively acting group

- elation group

- elementary group

- elliptic group

- embeddable group

- empennage group

- endomorphism group

- enlarged group

- entire group

- equationally compact group

- equiaffine group

- equicontinuous group

- equiform group

- equivalence group

- etale group

- exact symmetry group

- exceptional group

- existentially closed group

- exponent of group

- exponential group

- exponentiation group

- extended group

- extension group

- factor group

- factorizable group

- factorization of group

- field character group

- filtered group

- final group

- finite group

- finite-dimensional group

- finitely approximable group

- finitely cogenerated group
- finitely defined group - finitely generated group - finitely presented group - finitely related group - first homology group - first homotopy group
- four group

- four-dimensional group

- four-strand braid group

- free group

- freely acting group
- freely generated group
- frieze group

- full braid group

- full commutator group
- full linear group - full orthogonal group - full rotation group - full symmetric group - full unimodular group
- functional group

- functorial quotient group

- fundamental group

- fuzzy group

- gage group

- general group

- general linear group

- generalized group

- geometrical homology group

- global group

- grading group

- group of actions

- group of affine transformations

- group of automorhisms

- group of autoprojectivities

- group of boundaries

- group of circle-preserving transformations
- group of classes of algebras - group of covering transformations
- group of digraph

- group of dilatations

- group of displacements

- group of divisors

- group of dodecahedron

- group of endomorphisms

- group of extensions

- group of finite order
- group of finite rank
- group of fractions

- group of groups

- group of homothetic transformations

- group of ideals

- group of infinite cardinality
- group of infinite order - group of infinite rank - group of inner automorphisms
- group of integers

- group of invertible elements

- group of involutions

- group of isometry

- group of isotropy

- group of left quotients
- group of linear equivalence - group of linear forms - group of linear manifold
- group of map

- group of mapping

- group of motions

- group of numbers

- group of observations

- group of order

- group of plane rotations

- group of polarity

- group of prime residue classes
- group of principal ideles
- group of projection

- group of projectivities

- group of proper rotations

- group of quotients

- group of rational numbers
- group of real line - group of recursive permutations - group of right quotients
- group of self-equivalence

- group of similarities

- group of singular homologies

- group of six

- group of spectral homologies

- group of square

- group of substitutions

- group of symmetries

- group of transformations

- group of translations

- group of units

- group of vectors

- group of zeroids

- hidden symmetry group

- holonomy group

- homeomorphism group

- homogeneous group

- homologic group

- homomorphism group

- homothetic group

- homotopy group of spheres

- hyperbolic group

- hypercentral group

- hypercohomology group

- hyperelementary group

- hyperemetric topological group

- hyperexponential group

- hypermetric topological group

- hyperoctahedral group

- icosahedral group

- ideal class group
- idele class group
- idele group

- identity group

- image group

- imprimitive group

- indecomposable group

- indicable group

- individual trunk group

- inertia group

- infinite classical group

- infinite group

- infinite-dimensional group

- infinitely divisible group

- infinitesimal group

- injective group

- integrable group

- integral group

- internal symmetry group

- intransitive group

- intrinsic group

- invariance group

- inverse group

- irreducible group

- irregular group

- isometry group

- isomorphically embedded group

- isospin group

- isotrophy group

- iteration group

- kernel group

- large ramification group

- lattice-ordered group

- left group

- left transformation group

- left-ordered group

- Lie group

- limit group

- limiting group

- line group

- linear fractional group
- linearly ordered group - linearly transitive group
- little group

- local group

- locally almost periodic group
- locally bicompact group - locally closed group - locally compact group - locally connected group - locally cyclic group - locally defined group - locally embeddable group - locally finite group - locally free group - locally infinite group - locally nilpotent group - locally normal group - locally solvable group
- loose group

- lower basic group

- main group

- majority group

- massive group

- matrix group

- maximal group

- maximally valued group

- measurable group

- metabelian group

- metacyclic group

- metalinear group

- metanilpotent group

- metaplectic group

- metric group

- metrizable group

- minimal group

- mixed group

- modal group

- modular group

- modularity group

- modulus group

- monodromy group

- monogenic group

- monolithic group

- monomial group

- monothetic group

- multioperator group

- multiplicative group

- multiplicatively written group

- multiplier group

- multiplier of group

- multiply connected group
- multiply primitive group - multiply transitive group
- narrow group

- n-dimensional group

- n-dimensional homology group

- neighborhood group

- nested group

- n-fold transitive group

- n-generator group

- nil group

- node group

- Noether group

- noncommutative group

- noncommutative group

- noncompact group

- noncyclic group

- nondense group

- nonhomogeneous holonomy group

- nonintegrable group

- noninvariance group

- nonperiodical group

- nonsoluble group
- nonsolvable group
- nonspecial group

- non-special group

- nontrivial group

- norm group

- normal group

- n-ply transitive group
- n-th homotopy group
- nuclear group

- one-headed group

- one-parameter group

- operator-free group

- orderable group

- ordered homology group
- ordered pair group
- ordering of group

- oriented bordism group

- oriented homology group

- ornamental group

- orthochronous group

- outer group

- p-adic group

- pair group

- pairwise transitive group

- parabolic group

- paraconvex group

- parafree group

- parametric group

- parametrized group

- paramodular group

- parasolvable group

- partial group

- partially ordered group

- particle group

- p-divisible group

- perfect group

- period group

- permanent group

- permutable group

- permutably decomposable group

- permutation group

- permutation symmetry group

- phantom group

- phase group

- point group

- polycyclic group

- polyhedral group

- polynilpotent group

- power group

- presentation group

- primary group

- prime power group group
- principal congruence group
- profinite group

- projective group

- projective module group

- pronilponent group

- proper group

- properly discontinuous group
- properly orthogonal group - properly unimodular group
- pseudoconvex group

- pseudoorthogonal group

- pseudounitary group

- p-th group

- pulse group

- pure injective group
- pure projective group - pure rotation group - pure simple group
- quadratic group

- quadruply transitive group

- quasiaffine group

- quasiclinic group

- quasicompact group

- quasicyclic group

- quasidecomposable group

- quasidihedral group

- quasidual group

- quasiembedded group

- quasi-indecomposable group

- quasiinjective group

- quasiisomorphic group

- quasimotion group

- quasipure injective group
- quasipure projective group
- quasirotation group

- quasiseparable group

- quasisimple group

- quasisplit group

- quasitotal group

- quaternion group

- quintuply transitive group
- quotient divisible group
- quotient group

- radical group

- ramification group

- randomized group

- rational group

- real group

- rectangular group

- recursively presented group

- reduced group

- reducibly free group

- reductive group

- reflection group

- reflexive group

- relative cohomology group

- relative group

- relatively free group

- renormalization group

- representation group

- residually finite group
- residually nilpotent group - restricted holonomy group
- right group

- right transformation group

- right-ordered group

- rigid group

- rope group

- rosette group

- rotational group

- rotation-reflection group

- semidihedral group

- semielementary group

- semigroup group

- semilinear group

- semilocally simply connected group

- semiordered group

- semiorthogonal group

- semireductive group

- semiregular group

- semisimple group

- semisymmetric group

- semiuniform group

- set-transitive permutation group

- shape group

- sharply doubly transitive group
- sharply transitive group
- similarity group

- simplicial group

- simplicity of group

- simply continuous group
- simply ordered group - simply reducible group - simply transitive group - singular cogomology group - singular homology group
- six-parameter group

- slender group

- smooth group

- solenoidal group

- soluble group
- solvable group
- space group

- spherical group

- spinor group

- splittable group

- splitting group

- sporadic group

- square group

- stability group
- stable group
- standard group

- stationary group

- stochastic group

- strictly ordered group
- strictly transitive group - strongly polycyclic group
- structural group

- structurally ordered group

- structure group

- study group

- subabnormal group

- subdirectly irreducible group

- subinvariant group

- submonogenic group

- subnormal group

- subsoluble group
- subsolvable group
- substituent group

- substitution group

- superconformal group

- supersoluble group
- supersolvable group
- Sylow group

- symmetrical group

- symmetry group

- symplectic group

- tame group

- tangent group

- tetrahedral group

- three-digit group

- three-dimensional rotation group

- three-parameter group

- three-strand braid group

- topological group

- topologically complete group

- topologically isomorphic groups

- topologically solvable group

- topologized group

- toral group

- toroidal group

- torsion group

- torsion-free group

- torus group

- totally disconnected group
- totally ordered group - totally projective group - totally reducible group
- trace on group

- track group

- translation group

- transvection-rich group

- treatment combination group

- trellis group

- triad group

- triangle group

- triangulable group

- triangular group

- triangulated group

- triangulation group

- trigonalizing group

- triplewise group
- triply transitive group
- trunk group

- twisted group

- two group

- two-digit group

- two-dimensional group

- two-parameter group

- underlying group

- uniaxial group

- unicentral group

- unicoherent group

- uniformizable group

- uniformly decomposable group

- unifying group

- unimodular group

- unipotent group

- uniprimitive group

- unique group

- unirational group

- unit group

- unitarily restricted group
- unitary symmetry group - unitary transformation group
- unitriangular group

- universal group

- valuation group
- value group
- vector group

- verbally simple group

- vierbein group

- wallpaper group

- wave group

- weak cohomology group
- weak homology group - weakly mixing group
- weight group

- whole group

- zero-dimensional group

- zeroth group

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11 bomb

1. n бомба

air bomb — авиационная бомба

flying bomb — самолёт-снаряд

bomb alley — участок, подвергающийся частым бомбардировкам

bomb cemetery — склад обезвреженных невзорвавшихся бомб противника

bomb case — корпус бомбы

atom bomb — атомная бомба

bomb up — грузить бомбами

iron bomb — обычная бомба

clean bomb — чистая бомба

atomic bomb — атомная бомба

2. n мина

mortar bomb — миномётная мина

candle bomb — осветительная мина

3. n ручная граната

hand bomb — ручная граната

trench bomb — ручная граната

antitank bomb — противотанковая граната

4. n радиоактивный источник

cobalt bomb — радиоактивная пушка

5. n головка гарпуна с взрывчатым веществом для охоты на китов

bomb rack — стеллаж для бомб

bomb locker — погреб для авиабомб

cluster bomb warhead — боевая кассетная головка

darting bomb — китобойный гарпун со взрывателем

6. n опрыскиватель

7. n баллон с аэрозолем

8. n ист. маленький военный корабль, несущий мортиры

9. n геол. вулканическая бомба

blast bomb — фугасная бомба

flare bomb — светящая бомба

fusion bomb — атомная бомба

gas bomb — химическая бомба

deadman bomb — ядерная бомба

10. n ядерное оружие

11. n потенциальная угроза атомного оружия

fission bomb — атомная бомба

massive bomb — атомная или водородная бомба

aerial nuclear bomb — авиационная атомная бомба

medium atom bomb — атомная бомба средней мощности

12. n разг. состояние, большие деньги

to cost a bomb — стоить кучу денег

13. n амер. разг. неудача, провал, фиаско

the play was a bomb — пьеса потрясающий успех

14. n неожиданность

15. n сл. длинный пас

16. v бомбардировать; бомбить

17. v обстреливать миномётным огнём

18. v забрасывать ручными гранатами

sticky bomb — прилипающая, клейкая противотанковая ручная граната

19. v амер. разг. потерпеть неудачу, провал; провалиться; оскандалиться

20. v амер. разг. одержать победу; добиться потрясающего успеха

Синонимический ряд:

1. explosive device (noun) booby trap; explosive; explosive device; explosive shell; grenade; H-bomb; high explosive; mine; missile; nuclear weapon; pipe bomb

2. failure (noun) bust; dud; failure; flop; lemon; loser

3. attack with bombs (verb) attack with bombs; mass-bomb; skip-bomb; subject to bombing

4. barrage (verb) barrage; blitz; bombard; cannonade; shell

5. fail (verb) fail; fizzle; flop

Антонимический ряд:

succeed; success

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12 Chronology

15,000-3,000 BCE Paleolithic cultures in western Portugal.

400-200 BCE Greek and Carthaginian trade settlements on coast.

202 BCE Roman armies invade ancient Lusitania.

137 BCE Intensive Romanization of Lusitania begins.

410 CE Germanic tribes — Suevi and Visigoths—begin conquest of Roman Lusitania and Galicia.

714—16 Muslims begin conquest of Visigothic Lusitania.

1034 Christian Reconquest frontier reaches Mondego River.

1064 Christians conquer Coimbra.

1139 Burgundian Count Afonso Henriques proclaims himself king of Portugal; birth of Portugal. Battle of Ourique: Afonso Henriques defeats Muslims.

1147 With English Crusaders' help, Portuguese seize Lisbon from Muslims.

1179 Papacy formally recognizes Portugal's independence (Pope Alexander III).

1226 Campaign to reclaim Alentejo from Muslims begins.

1249 Last Muslim city (Silves) falls to Portuguese Army.

1381 Beginning of third war between Castile and Portugal.

1383 Master of Aviz, João, proclaimed regent by Lisbon populace.

1385 April: Master of Aviz, João I, proclaimed king of Portugal by Cortes of Coimbra. 14 August: Battle of Aljubarrota, Castilians defeated by royal forces, with assistance of English army.

1394 Birth of "Prince Henry the Navigator," son of King João I.

1415 Beginning of overseas expansion as Portugal captures Moroccan city of Ceuta.

1419 Discovery of Madeira Islands.

1425-28 Prince D. Pedro, older brother of Prince Henry, travels in Europe.

1427 Discovery (or rediscovery?) of Azores Islands.

1434 Prince Henry the Navigator's ships pass beyond Cape Bojador, West Africa.

1437 Disaster at Tangier, Morocco, as Portuguese fail to capture city.

1441 First African slaves from western Africa reach Portugal.

1460 Death of Prince Henry. Portuguese reach what is now Senegal, West Africa.

1470s Portuguese explore West African coast and reach what is now Ghana and Nigeria and begin colonizing islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.

1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas between kings of Portugal and Spain.

1482 Portuguese establish post at São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (now Ghana).

1482-83 Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reaches mouth of Congo River and Angola.

1488 Navigator Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and finds route to Indian Ocean.

1492-93 Columbus's first voyage to West Indies.

1493 Columbus visits Azores and Portugal on return from first voyage; tells of discovery of New World. Treaty of Tordesillas signed between kings of Portugal and Spain: delimits spheres of conquest with line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde Islands (claimed by Portugal); Portugal's sphere to east of line includes, in effect, Brazil.

   King Manuel I and Royal Council decide to continue seeking all-water route around Africa to Asia.

   King Manuel I expels unconverted Jews from Portugal.

1497-99 Epic voyage of Vasco da Gama from Portugal around Africa to west India, successful completion of sea route to Asia project; da Gama returns to Portugal with samples of Asian spices.

1500 Bound for India, Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral "discovers" coast of Brazil and claims it for Portugal.

1506 Anti-Jewish riots in Lisbon.

   Battle of Diu, India; Portugal's command of Indian Ocean assured for some time with Francisco de Almeida's naval victory over Egyptian and Gujerati fleets.

   Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa, India; beginning of Portuguese hegemony in south Asia.

   Portuguese conquest of Malacca; commerce in Spice Islands.

1519 Magellan begins circumnavigation voyage.

1536 Inquisition begins in Portugal.

1543 Portuguese merchants reach Japan.

1557 Portuguese merchants granted Chinese territory of Macau for trading factory.

1572 Luís de Camões publishes epic poem, Os Lusíadas.

1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quivir; Moroccan forces defeat army of King Sebastião of Portugal; King Sebastião dies in battle. Portuguese succession crisis.

1580 King Phillip II of Spain claims and conquers Portugal; Spanish rule of Portugal, 1580-1640.

1607-24 Dutch conquer sections of Asia and Brazil formerly held by Portugal.

1640 1 December: Portuguese revolution in Lisbon overthrows Spanish rule, restores independence. Beginning of Portugal's Braganza royal dynasty.

1654 Following Dutch invasions and conquest of parts of Brazil and Angola, Dutch expelled by force.

1661 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance treaty signed: England pledges to defend Portugal "as if it were England itself." Queen Catherine of Bra-ganza marries England's Charles II.

1668 February: In Portuguese-Spanish peace treaty, Spain recognizes independence of Portugal, thus ending 28-year War of Restoration.

1703 Methuen Treaties signed, key commercial trade agreement and defense treaty between England and Portugal.

1750 Pombal becomes chief minister of King José I.

1755 1 November: Massive Lisbon earthquake, tidal wave, and fire.

1759 Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal and colonies.

1761 Slavery abolished in continental Portugal.

1769 Abandonment of Mazagão, Morocco, last Portuguese outpost.

1777 Pombal dismissed as chief minister by Queen Maria I, after death of José I.

1791 Portugal and United States establish full diplomatic relations.

1807 November: First Napoleonic invasion; French forces under Junot conquer Portugal. Royal family flees to colony of Brazil and remains there until 1821.

1809 Second French invasion of Portugal under General Soult.

1811 Third French invasion of Portugal under General Masséna.

1813 Following British general Wellington's military victories, French forces evacuate Portugal.

1817 Liberal, constitutional movements against absolutist monarchist rule break out in Brazil (Pernambuco) and Portugal (Lisbon, under General Gomes Freire); crushed by government. British marshal of Portugal's army, Beresford, rules Portugal.

   Liberal insurrection in army officer corps breaks out in Cadiz, Spain, and influences similar movement in Portugal's armed forces first in Oporto.

   King João VI returns from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and early draft of constitution; era of constitutional monarchy begins.

1822 7 September: João VI's son Pedro proclaims independence of

   Brazil from Portugal and is named emperor. 23 September: Constitution of 1822 ratified.

   Portugal recognizes sovereign independence of Brazil.

   King João VI dies; power struggle for throne ensues between his sons, brothers Pedro and Miguel; Pedro, emperor of Brazil, abdicates Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II, too young to assume crown. By agreement, Miguel, uncle of D. Maria, is to accept constitution and rule in her stead.

1828 Miguel takes throne and abolishes constitution. Sections of Portugal rebel against Miguelite rule.

1831 Emperor Pedro abdicates throne of Brazil and returns to Portugal to expel King Miguel from Portuguese throne.

1832-34 Civil war between absolutist King Miguel and constitutionalist Pedro, who abandons throne of Brazil to restore his young daughter Maria to throne of Portugal; Miguel's armed forces defeated by those of Pedro. Miguel leaves for exile and constitution (1826 Charter) is restored.

1834-53 Constitutional monarchy consolidated under rule of Queen Maria II, who dies in 1853.

1851-71 Regeneration period of economic development and political stability; public works projects sponsored by Minister Fontes Pereira de Melo.

1871-90 Rotativism period of alternating party governments; achieves political stability and less military intervention in politics and government. Expansion of colonial territory in tropical Africa.

   January: Following territorial dispute in central Africa, Britain delivers "Ultimatum" to Portugal demanding withdrawal of Portugal's forces from what is now Malawi and Zimbabwe. Portugal's government, humiliated in accepting demand under threat of a diplomatic break, falls. Beginning of governmental and political instability; monarchist decline and republicanism's rise.

   Anglo-Portuguese treaties signed relating to delimitation of frontiers in colonial Africa.

1899 Treaty of Windsor; renewal of Anglo-Portuguese defense and friendship alliance.

1903 Triumphal visit of King Edward VII to Portugal.

1906 Politician João Franco supported by King Carlos I in dictatorship to restore order and reform.

1908 1 February: Murder in Lisbon of King Carlos I and his heir apparent, Prince Dom Luís, by Portuguese anarchists. Eighteen-year-old King Manuel II assumes throne.

1910 3-5 October: Following republican-led military insurrection in armed forces, monarchy falls and first Portuguese republic is proclaimed. Beginning of unstable, economically troubled, parliamentary republic form of government.

   May: Violent insurrection in Lisbon overturns government of General Pimenta de Castro; nearly a thousand casualties from several days of armed combat in capital.

   March: Following Portugal's honoring ally Britain's request to confiscate German shipping in Portuguese harbors, Germany declares war on Portugal; Portugal enters World War I on Allied side.

   Portugal organizes and dispatches Portuguese Expeditionary Corps to fight on the Western Front. 9 April: Portuguese forces mauled by German offensive in Battle of Lys. Food rationing and riots in Lisbon. Portuguese military operations in Mozambique against German expedition's invasion from German East Africa. 5 December: Authoritarian, presidentialist government under Major Sidónio Pais takes power in Lisbon, following a successful military coup.

1918 11 November: Armistice brings cessation of hostilities on Western Front in World War I. Portuguese expeditionary forces stationed in Angola, Mozambique, and Flanders begin return trip to Portugal. 14 December: President Sidónio Pais assassinated. Chaotic period of ephemeral civil war ensues.

1919-21 Excessively unstable political period, including January

1919 abortive effort of Portuguese monarchists to restore Braganza dynasty to power. Republican forces prevail, but level of public violence, economic distress, and deprivation remains high.

1921 October: Political violence attains peak with murder of former prime minister and other prominent political figures in Lisbon. Sectors of armed forces and Guarda Nacional Republicana are mutinous. Year of financial and corruption scandals, including Portuguese bank note (fraud) case; military court acquits guilty military insurrectionists, and one military judge declares "the country is sick."

   28 May: Republic overthrown by military coup or pronunciamento and conspiracy among officer corps. Parliament's doors locked and parliament closed for nearly nine years to January 1935. End of parliamentary republic, Western Europe's most unstable political system in this century, beginning of the Portuguese dictatorship, after 1930 known as the Estado Novo. Officer corps assumes reins of government, initiates military censorship of the press, and suppresses opposition.

   February: Military dictatorship under General Óscar Carmona crushes failed republican armed insurrection in Oporto and Lisbon.

   April: Military dictatorship names Professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar minister of finance, with dictatorial powers over budget, to stabilize finances and rebuild economy. Insurrectionism among military elements continues into 1931.

1930 Dr. Salazar named minister for colonies and announces balanced budgets. Salazar consolidates support by various means, including creation of official regime "movement," the National Union. Salazar engineers Colonial Act to ensure Lisbon's control of bankrupt African colonies by means of new fiscal controls and centralization of authority. July: Military dictatorship names Salazar prime minister for first time, and cabinet composition undergoes civilianization; academic colleagues and protégés plan conservative reform and rejuvenation of society, polity, and economy. Regime comes to be called the Estado Novo (New State). New State's constitution ratified by new parliament, the National Assembly; Portugal described in document as "unitary, corporative Republic" and governance influenced by Salazar's stern personality and doctrines such as integralism, Catholicism, and fiscal conservatism.

1936 Violent instability and ensuing civil war in neighboring Spain, soon internationalized by fascist and communist intervention, shake Estado Novo regime. Pseudofascist period of regime features creation of imitation Fascist institutions to defend regime from leftist threats; Portugal institutes "Portuguese Youth" and "Portuguese Legion."

1939 3 September: Prime Minister Salazar declares Portugal's neutrality in World War II. October: Anglo-Portuguese agreement grants naval and air base facilities to Britain and later to United States for Battle of the Atlantic and Normandy invasion support. Third Reich protests breach of Portugal's neutrality.

   6 June: On day of Allies' Normandy invasion, Portugal suspends mining and export of wolfram ore to both sides in war.

   8 May: Popular celebrations of Allied victory and Fascist defeat in Lisbon and Oporto coincide with Victory in Europe Day. Following managed elections for Estado Novo's National Assembly in November, regime police, renamed PIDE, with increased powers, represses opposition.

1947 Abortive military coup in central Portugal easily crushed by regime. Independence of India and initiation of Indian protests against Portuguese colonial rule in Goa and other enclaves.

1949 Portugal becomes founding member of NATO.

1951 Portugal alters constitution and renames overseas colonies "Overseas Provinces." Portugal and United States sign military base agreements for use of air and naval facilities in Azores Islands and military aid to Lisbon. President Carmona dies in office, succeeded by General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58). July: Indians occupy enclave of Portuguese India (dependency of Damão) by means of passive resistance movement. August: Indian passive resistance movement in Portuguese India repelled by Portuguese forces with loss of life. December: With U.S. backing, Portugal admitted as member of United Nations (along with Spain). Air force general Humberto Delgado, in opposition, challenges Estado Novo's hand-picked successor to Craveiro Lopes, Admiral Américo Tomás. Delgado rallies coalition of democratic, liberal, and communist opposition but loses rigged election and later flees to exile in Brazil. Portugal joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).

   January and February: Estado Novo rocked by armed African insurrection in northern Angola, crushed by armed forces. Hijacking of Portuguese ocean liner by ally of Delgado, Captain Henrique Galvão. April: Salazar defeats attempted military coup and reshuffles cabinet with group of younger figures who seek to reform colonial rule and strengthen the regime's image abroad. 18 December: Indian army rapidly defeats Portugal's defense force in Goa, Damão, and Diu and incorporates Portugal's Indian possessions into Indian Union. January: Abortive military coup in Beja, Portugal.

1965 February: General Delgado and his Brazilian secretary murdered and secretly buried near Spanish frontier by political police, PIDE.

1968 August and September: Prime Minister Salazar, aged 79, suffers crippling stoke. President Tomás names former cabinet officer Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor. Caetano institutes modest reforms in Portugal and overseas.

1971 Caetano government ratifies amended constitution that allows slight devolution and autonomy to overseas provinces in Africa and Asia. Right-wing loyalists oppose reforms in Portugal. 25 April: Military coup engineered by Armed Forces Movement overthrows Estado Novo and establishes provisional government emphasizing democratization, development, and decolonization. Limited resistance by loyalists. President Tomás and Premier Caetano flown to exile first in Madeira and then in Brazil. General Spínola appointed president. September: Revolution moves to left, as President Spínola, thwarted in his program, resigns.

   March: Military coup by conservative forces fails, and leftist response includes nationalization of major portion of economy. Polarization between forces and parties of left and right. 25 November: Military coup by moderate military elements thwarts leftist forces. Constituent Assembly prepares constitution. Revolution moves from left to center and then right.

   March: Constitution ratified by Assembly of the Republic. 25 April: Second general legislative election gives largest share of seats to Socialist Party (PS). Former oppositionist lawyer, Mário Soares, elected deputy and named prime minister.

1977-85 Political pendulum of democratic Portugal moves from center-left to center-right, as Social Democratic Party (PSD) increases hold on assembly and take office under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. July

1985 elections give edge to PSD who advocate strong free-enterprise measures and revision of leftist-generated 1976 Constitution, amended modestly in 1982.

1986 January: Portugal joins European Economic Community (EEC).

1987 July: General, legislative elections for assembly give more than 50 percent to PSD led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. For first time, since 1974, Portugal has a working majority government.

1989 June: Following revisions of 1976 Constitution, reprivatization of economy begins, under PS government.

   January: Presidential elections, Mário Soares reelected for second term. July: General, legislative elections for assembly result in new PSD victory and majority government.

   January-July: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Economic Community (EEC). December: Tariff barriers fall as fully integrated Common Market established in the EEC.

   November: Treaty of Maastricht comes into force. The EEC officially becomes the European Union (EU). Portugal is signatory with 11 other member-nations.

   October: General, legislative elections for assembly result in PS victory and naming of Prime Minister Guterres. PS replace PSD as leading political party. November: Excavations for Lisbon bank uncover ancient Phoenician, Roman, and Christian ruins.

   January: General, presidential elections; socialist Jorge Sampaio defeats PSD's Cavaco Silva and assumes presidency from Dr. Mário Soares. July: Community of Portuguese Languages Countries (CPLP) cofounded by Portugal and Brazil.

   May-September: Expo '98 held in Lisbon. Opening of Vasco da Gama Bridge across Tagus River, Europe's longest (17 kilometers/ 11 miles). June: National referendum on abortion law change defeated after low voter turnout. November: National referendum on regionaliza-tion and devolution of power defeated after another low voter turnout.

   October: General, legislative elections: PS victory over PSD lacks clear majority in parliament. Following East Timor referendum, which votes for independence and withdrawal of Indonesia, outburst of popular outrage in streets, media, and communications of Portugal approves armed intervention and administration of United Nations (and withdrawal of Indonesia) in East Timor. Portugal and Indonesia restore diplomatic relations. December: A Special Territory since 1975, Colony of Macau transferred to sovereignty of People's Republic of China.

   January-June: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the EU; end of Discoveries Historical Commemoration Cycle (1988-2000).

   United Nations forces continue to occupy and administer former colony of East Timor, with Portugal's approval.

   January: General, presidential elections; PS president Sampaio reelected for second term. City of Oporto, "European City of Culture" for the year, hosts arts festival. December: Municipal elections: PSD defeats PS; socialist prime minister Guterres resigns; President Sampaio calls March parliamentary elections.

   1 January: Portugal enters single European Currency system. Euro currency adopted and ceases use of former national currency, the escudo. March: Parliamentary elections; PSD defeats PS and José Durão Barroso becomes prime minister. Military modernization law passed. Portugal holds chairmanship of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

   May: Municipal law passed permitting municipalities to reorganize in new ways.

   June: Prime Minister Durão Barroso, invited to succeed Romano Prodi as president of EU Commission, resigns. Pedro Santana Lopes becomes prime minister. European Parliament elections held. Conscription for national service in army and navy ended. Mass grave uncovered at Academy of Sciences Museum, Lisbon, revealing remains of several thousand victims of Lisbon earthquake, 1755.

   February: Parliamentary elections; PS defeats PSD, socialists win first absolute majority in parliament since 1975. José Sócrates becomes prime minister.

   January: Presidential elections; PSD candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva elected and assumes presidency from Jorge Sampaio. Portugal's national soccer team ranked 7th out of 205 countries by international soccer association. European Union's Bologna Process in educational reform initiated in Portugal.

   July-December: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Union. For reasons of economy, Portugal announces closure of many consulates, especially in France and the eastern US. Government begins official inspections of private institutions of higher education, following scandals.

2008 January: Prime Minister Sócrates announces location of new Lisbon area airport as Alcochete, on south bank of Tagus River, site of air force shooting range. February: Portuguese Army begins to receive new modern battle tanks (Leopard 2 A6). March: Mass protest of 85,000 public school (primary and secondary levels) teachers in Lisbon schools dispute recent educational policies of minister of education and prime minister.

Historical dictionary of Portugal > Chronology
13 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.

Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal
14 Empire, Portuguese overseas

(1415-1975)

   Portugal was the first Western European state to establish an early modern overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean and perhaps the last colonial power to decolonize. A vast subject of complexity that is full of myth as well as debatable theories, the history of the Portuguese overseas empire involves the story of more than one empire, the question of imperial motives, the nature of Portuguese rule, and the results and consequences of empire, including the impact on subject peoples as well as on the mother country and its society, Here, only the briefest account of a few such issues can be attempted.

   There were various empires or phases of empire after the capture of the Moroccan city of Ceuta in 1415. There were at least three Portuguese empires in history: the First empire (1415-1580), the Second empire (1580-1640 and 1640-1822), and the Third empire (1822-1975).

   With regard to the second empire, the so-called Phillipine period (1580-1640), when Portugal's empire was under Spanish domination, could almost be counted as a separate era. During that period, Portugal lost important parts of its Asian holdings to England and also sections of its colonies of Brazil, Angola, and West Africa to Holland's conquests. These various empires could be characterized by the geography of where Lisbon invested its greatest efforts and resources to develop territories and ward off enemies.

   The first empire (1415-1580) had two phases. First came the African coastal phase (1415-97), when the Portuguese sought a foothold in various Moroccan cities but then explored the African coast from Morocco to past the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. While colonization and sugar farming were pursued in the Atlantic islands, as well as in the islands in the Gulf of Guinea like São Tomé and Príncipe, for the most part the Portuguese strategy was to avoid commitments to defending or peopling lands on the African continent. Rather, Lisbon sought a seaborne trade empire, in which the Portuguese could profit from exploiting trade and resources (such as gold) along the coasts and continue exploring southward to seek a sea route to Portuguese India. The second phase of the first empire (1498-1580) began with the discovery of the sea route to Asia, thanks to Vasco da Gama's first voyage in 1497-99, and the capture of strong points, ports, and trading posts in order to enforce a trade monopoly between Asia and Europe. This Asian phase produced the greatest revenues of empire Portugal had garnered, yet ended when Spain conquered Portugal and commanded her empire as of 1580.

   Portugal's second overseas empire began with Spanish domination and ran to 1822, when Brazil won her independence from Portugal. This phase was characterized largely by Brazilian dominance of imperial commitment, wealth in minerals and other raw materials from Brazil, and the loss of a significant portion of her African and Asian coastal empire to Holland and Great Britain. A sketch of Portugal's imperial losses either to native rebellions or to imperial rivals like Britain and Holland follows:

   • Morocco (North Africa) (sample only)

   Arzila—Taken in 1471; evacuated in 1550s; lost to Spain in 1580, which returned city to a sultan.

   Ceuta—Taken in 1415; lost to Spain in 1640 (loss confirmed in 1668 treaty with Spain).

   • Tangiers—Taken in 15th century; handed over to England in 1661 as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry to King Charles II.

   • West Africa

   • Fort/Castle of São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (in what is now Ghana)—Taken in 1480s; lost to Holland in 1630s.

   • Middle East

   Socotra-isle—Conquered in 1507; fort abandoned in 1511; used as water resupply stop for India fleet.

   Muscat—Conquered in 1501; lost to Persians in 1650.

   Ormuz—Taken, 1505-15 under Albuquerque; lost to England, which gave it to Persia in the 17th century.

   Aden (entry to Red Sea) — Unsuccessfully attacked by Portugal (1513-30); taken by Turks in 1538.

   • India

   • Ceylon (Sri Lanka)—Taken by 1516; lost to Dutch after 1600.

   • Bombay—Taken in 16th century; given to England in 1661 treaty as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry for Charles II.

   • East Indies

   • Moluccas—Taken by 1520; possession confirmed in 1529 Saragossa treaty with Spain; lost to Dutch after 1600; only East Timor remaining.

   After the restoration of Portuguese independence from Spain in 1640, Portugal proceeded to revive and strengthen the Anglo- Portuguese Alliance, with international aid to fight off further Spanish threats to Portugal and drive the Dutch invaders out of Brazil and Angola. While Portugal lost its foothold in West Africa at Mina to the Dutch, dominion in Angola was consolidated. The most vital part of the imperial economy was a triangular trade: slaves from West Africa and from the coasts of Congo and Angola were shipped to plantations in Brazil; raw materials (sugar, tobacco, gold, diamonds, dyes) were sent to Lisbon; Lisbon shipped Brazil colonists and hardware. Part of Portugal's War of Restoration against Spain (1640-68) and its reclaiming of Brazil and Angola from Dutch intrusions was financed by the New Christians (Jews converted to Christianity after the 1496 Manueline order of expulsion of Jews) who lived in Portugal, Holland and other low countries, France, and Brazil. If the first empire was mainly an African coastal and Asian empire, the second empire was primarily a Brazilian empire.

   Portugal's third overseas empire began upon the traumatic independence of Brazil, the keystone of the Lusitanian enterprise, in 1822. The loss of Brazil greatly weakened Portugal both as a European power and as an imperial state, for the scattered remainder of largely coastal, poor, and uncolonized territories that stretched from the bulge of West Africa to East Timor in the East Indies and Macau in south China were more of a financial liability than an asset. Only two small territories balanced their budgets occasionally or made profits: the cocoa islands of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea and tiny Macau, which lost much of its advantage as an entrepot between the West and the East when the British annexed neighboring Hong Kong in 1842. The others were largely burdens on the treasury. The African colonies were strapped by a chronic economic problem: at a time when the slave trade and then slavery were being abolished under pressures from Britain and other Western powers, the economies of Guinea- Bissau, São Tomé/Príncipe, Angola, and Mozambique were totally dependent on revenues from the slave trade and slavery. During the course of the 19th century, Lisbon began a program to reform colonial administration in a newly rejuvenated African empire, where most of the imperial efforts were expended, by means of replacing the slave trade and slavery, with legitimate economic activities.

   Portugal participated in its own early version of the "Scramble" for Africa's interior during 1850-69, but discovered that the costs of imperial expansion were too high to allow effective occupation of the hinterlands. After 1875, Portugal participated in the international "Scramble for Africa" and consolidated its holdings in west and southern Africa, despite the failure of the contra-costa (to the opposite coast) plan, which sought to link up the interiors of Angola and Mozambique with a corridor in central Africa. Portugal's expansion into what is now Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (eastern section) in 1885-90 was thwarted by its oldest ally, Britain, under pressure from interest groups in South Africa, Scotland, and England. All things considered, Portugal's colonizing resources and energies were overwhelmed by the African empire it possessed after the frontier-marking treaties of 1891-1906. Lisbon could barely administer the massive area of five African colonies, whose total area comprised about 8 percent of the area of the colossal continent. The African territories alone were many times the size of tiny Portugal and, as of 1914, Portugal was the third colonial power in terms of size of area possessed in the world.

   The politics of Portugal's empire were deceptive. Lisbon remained obsessed with the fear that rival colonial powers, especially Germany and Britain, would undermine and then dismantle her African empire. This fear endured well into World War II. In developing and keeping her potentially rich African territories (especially mineral-rich Angola and strategically located Mozambique), however, the race against time was with herself and her subject peoples. Two major problems, both chronic, prevented Portugal from effective colonization (i.e., settling) and development of her African empire: the economic weakness and underdevelopment of the mother country and the fact that the bulk of Portuguese emigration after 1822 went to Brazil, Venezuela, the United States, and France, not to the colonies. These factors made it difficult to consolidate imperial control until it was too late; that is, until local African nationalist movements had organized and taken the field in insurgency wars that began in three of the colonies during the years 1961-64.

   Portugal's belated effort to revitalize control and to develop, in the truest sense of the word, Angola and Mozambique after 1961 had to be set against contemporary events in Europe, Africa, and Asia. While Portugal held on to a backward empire, other European countries like Britain, France, and Belgium were rapidly decolonizing their empires. Portugal's failure or unwillingness to divert the large streams of emigrants to her empire after 1850 remained a constant factor in this question. Prophetic were the words of the 19th-century economist Joaquim Oliveira Martins, who wrote in 1880 that Brazil was a better colony for Portugal than Africa and that the best colony of all would have been Portugal itself. As of the day of the Revolution of 25 April 1974, which sparked the final process of decolonization of the remainder of Portugal's third overseas empire, the results of the colonization program could be seen to be modest compared to the numbers of Portuguese emigrants outside the empire. Moreover, within a year, of some 600,000 Portuguese residing permanently in Angola and Mozambique, all but a few thousand had fled to South Africa or returned to Portugal.

   In 1974 and 1975, most of the Portuguese empire was decolonized or, in the case of East Timor, invaded and annexed by a foreign power before it could consolidate its independence. Only historic Macau, scheduled for transfer to the People's Republic of China in 1999, remained nominally under Portuguese control as a kind of footnote to imperial history. If Portugal now lacked a conventional overseas empire and was occupied with the challenges of integration in the European Union (EU), Lisbon retained another sort of informal dependency that was a new kind of empire: the empire of her scattered overseas Portuguese communities from North America to South America. Their numbers were at least six times greater than that of the last settlers of the third empire.

    See also Luso-Tropicalism; Rose-colored map; Ultimatum, English.

Historical dictionary of Portugal > Empire, Portuguese overseas
15 European Union

(EU)

In 1978, Portugal began accession negotiations with the EU. In January 1986, along with Spain, Portugal joined that organization. Since joining the EU, Portugal's economy has received many benefits: loans, grants, technical assistance, and other economic, social, and educational advantages that are worth billions of dollars. Most of Portugal's trade is with EU members, and Portugal's economy is tied now to EU plans and planning, standards and rules, and philosophy. Starting in January 1993, by previous agreement, all EU tariff barriers for many goods (excluding agricultural goods until 1995-96, in Portugal's case) were removed, and there is concern in Portugal that many small and medium-sized businesses (which are the norm) will not survive the new competition from richer member state. Next to Greece, Portugal remains the poorest, least-developed EU member state, and there is anxiety in Lisbon that, following new pressures for the EU to give massive assistance to former Soviet bloc countries in Eastern Europe and to allow them in time to join the EU, Portugal will be at a disadvantage. Despite complaints about the bureaucracy inherent in the EU, many Portuguese value the connection and acknowledge that Portugal has benefited from EU technical assistance, networking, loans, and grants. In 1999, Portugal joined the European Monetary Union (EMU) and, in January 2000, adopted the euro. This has helped Portugal stabilize its currency and financial connections. In 2004, José Durão Barroso, a Portuguese politician, was elected President of the Commission of the European Union.

See Economy; Currency.

Historical dictionary of Portugal > European Union
16 Mafra, Palace and Convent of

   One of the Iberian Peninsula's largest structures, Mafra Palace and Convent remains Portugal's most colossal historic monument-building. About 48 kilometers (30 miles) north-northwest of Lisbon, the complex is located in the town of Mafra, one of Portugal's most ancient settlements. First ordered built by the extravagant King João V in 1711, Mafra Palace was not completed until decades later by poorly paid labor. With perhaps the larger building of Phillip II of Spain's Escorial Palace and Convent in mind, King João V dedicated the rival enterprise to celebrating the birth of a child to his Austrian queen; this child, who was a girl, became queen of Spain. A veritable army of workers — at one time 45,000—constructed the massive building, which some thought would never be completed. In fact, after it was finally begun in 1717, the building was finished in 1735.

   The most extravagant project of João's expansive reign, Mafra Palace and Convent are heavy in style and spirit, but this is offset by the magnificent baroque library and the music that comes from the 50-bell carillon that is still in use. The wonders of Mafra can be imagined from just a few of the building figures; there are, for example, 5,200 doorways and 2,500 windows. Some of the wealth in royal coffers that paid for Mafra came from "the King's Fifth," out of the diamonds and gold in Portugal's richest colony, Brazil. The manner in which this historic monument is utilized not only as a tourist site, but also for a variety of other purposes, is a fascinating case of Portugal as a "museum-state." Mafra today provides space for two museums, offices of the Mafra City Hall (Câmara Municipal), an elementary school, and an army regiment. It is also used as a church.

    See also Architecture.

Historical dictionary of Portugal > Mafra, Palace and Convent of
17 Meek, Marshall

SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping

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b. 22 April 1925 Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland

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Scottish naval architect and leading twentieth-century exponent of advanced maritime technology.

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After early education at Cupar in Fife, Meek commenced training as a naval architect, taking the then popular sandwich apprenticeship of alternate half years at the University of Glasgow (with a Caird Scholarship) and at a shipyard, in his case the Caledon of Dundee. On leaving Dundee he worked for five years with the British Ship Research Association before joining Alfred Holt \& Co., owners of the Blue Funnel Line. During his twenty-five years at Liverpool, he rose to Chief Naval Architect and Director and was responsible for bringing the cargo-liner concept to its ultimate in design. When the company had become Ocean Fleets, it joined with other British shipowners and looked to Meek for the first purpose-built containership fleet in the world. This required new ship designs, massive worldwide investment in port facilities and marketing to win public acceptance of freight containers, thereby revolutionizing dry-cargo shipping. Under the houseflag of OCL (now POCL), this pioneer service set the highest standards of service and safety and continues to operate on almost every ocean.

In 1979 Meek returned to the shipbuilding industry when he became Head of Technology at British Shipbuilders. Closely involved in contemporary problems of fuel economy and reduced staffing, he held the post for five years before his appointment as Managing Director of the National Maritime Institute. He was deeply involved in the merger with the British Ship Research Association to form British Maritime Technology (BMT), an organization of which he became Deputy Chairman.

Marshall Meek has held many public offices, and is one of the few to have been President of two of the United Kingdom's maritime institutions. He has contributed over forty papers to learned societies, has acted as Visiting Professor to Strathclyde University and University College London, and serves on advisory committees to the Ministry of Defence, the Department of Transport and Lloyd's Register of Shipping. While in Liverpool he served as a Justice of the Peace.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

CBE 1989. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering 1990. President, Royal Institution of Naval Architects 1990–3; North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders 1984–6. Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) 1986. Royal Institution of Naval Architects Silver Medal (on two occasions).

Bibliography

1970, "The first OCL containerships", Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects.

FMW

Biographical history of technology > Meek, Marshall

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