The life and culture of Portugal and Portuguese speaking Africa, their relationship
Portugal is one of the fifteen countries of the European Union, geographically Portugal is a medeterreanean country situated in the Ibirian Peninsula.
Lisbon is the capital, nevertheless Porto and Coimbra are also very important cities with a great impact in the country's life. Portugal became a member state of the European union in 1987.
Portugal is a country of the Iberian Peninsula with a distinct:
Since Portugal became a member of the European Union there as been enoumerous changes in this country lifestyle.
According to historians from portugal, the Portuguese people were the ones who started the European expansion to the new world of Africa in the fiftteenth century.From all the countries that participated in the overseas expansion Portugal was the state that had colonies for a longer period.They had colonies for five hundred years, until 1975 when nationalist groups in the colonies rebelded against the fascist regime of Salazar which was defeated by the Portuguese armed forces in 25 April of 1974.Portugal had five colonies in Africa:
Portugal has been a member state of the EU for one decade only. Therefore the history, the geography, the economy and the culture of the this country is not well known. Neither is the relationship between Portugal and its ex- colonies from the colonial period to the present .Therefore the ultimate goal of this web page is to give interested people as much information possible about Portugal, its colonial history, the Portuguese speaking Africa and the relationship between these countries since colonialism to the present and to answer some frequently asked questions about the subject.