Portuguese King Manuel I (who ruled from 1495-1521), commissioned this Belgian tapestry to commemorate explorer Vasco da Gama's "discovery" of India in 1498. Da Gama is the figure at the left, ...

ROMEROME — The Vatican has recalled a postage stamp promoting this year’s World Youth Day in Portugal following complaints that it celebrated Portugal’s colonial empire and the nationalist ...

Portugal became Europe's first modern colonial power, beginning its imperial rise in 1415. It maintained a continuous empire ...

Historian and New York Times bestselling author Crowley presents the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and ...

This story is part of Undertones, Global Voices’ Civic Media Observatory‘s newsletter. Subscribe to Undertones. When in Lisbon, images of ships and references to Portugal’s seafaring past are ...

The economy of the Portuguese Empire / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Costs and financial trends in the Portuguese Empire, 1415--1822 / Jorge M. Pedreira -- Markets and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean ...

FILE - The sword of the Royal House of Avis on a stylised cross decorates the 56-meter high Monument to the Discoveries by the Tagus river in Lisbon, on March 30, 2023. The Vatican has recalled a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROME (AP) — The Vatican has recalled a ...