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Links
Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies
http://www.bton.ac.uk/slweb/acis/index.html
ACIS brings together academics from a wide range of disciplines who share an interest in contemporary developments in Spain and Portugal.
Battles of Portugal
http://www.terravista.pt/ancora/1627/pag_1_e.htm
Short descriptions of Portuguese battles from 1128 to 1476.
Contemporary Portuguese Politics and History Research Centre
An academic site containing documents from and analyses of the political history of the Portuguese Republic.
Dutch and Portuguese Colonial History
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/6497/
Includes a section dealing with the historical empires of Holland and Portugal.
Lisbon Pages: Bibliography on Portugal
http://www.eunet.pt/Lisboa/i/saber/biblia/biblia.html
Academic articles, books and unpublished theses on Portugal in the English language produced in the last two or three decades, for those interested in the social sciences.
Ophir - Virtual Library of the Portuguese Discoveries
http://www.cncdp.pt/cncdp/ophir/uk/index.html
CD-ROMs featuring bibliographic sources of importance for the study of Portuguese history in general and the Age of Discoveries in particular.
Resources for Portugal
http://www.ukans.edu/~iberia/ssphs/resourcesport.html
Bibliographic resources, organizations, government sources, libraries and archives, museums, press, searching, universities online, history: medieval, early modern, modern from the University of Kansas.
Saudades
Rufina Mausenbaum explores the history of Portuguese Sephardic Jews and the meaning of that characteristically Portuguese emotion 'saudades'.
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~iberia/ssphs/ssphs_main.html
The SSPHS promotes research in all aspects and epochs of Iberian history and related disciplines. It has annual meetings, awards prizes for publications and dissertations, and publishes its Bulletin triannually.
The Carnations Revolution
http://www.uc.pt/cd25a/ing/ing.25atop.htm
Chronology of the most significant social and political events of recent Portuguese history.
The Historical Text Archive - Portugal
http://historicaltextarchive.com/links.php?op=viewslink&sid=51
A collection of useful links.
The Obscure History of East Timor
http://www.uc.pt/Timor/atop.html
Provides geographical background and a brief history.
The Portuguese Explorers
http://www.mariner.org/age/portexp.html
An illustrated outline from The Mariners' Museum, Newport Virginia, including Prince Henry the Navigator and Vasco da Gama.
The Voyage to India and Those who Influenced it
http://marauder.millersv.edu/~columbus/papers/elliott-1.html
Brian Elliott's presentation.
Welcome to My Castle
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/5525/
Portuguese castles and tales from the Middle Ages.
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