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Portugal was a country in southwestern Europe. It was bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by Spain. Lisbon was one of its cities. (PROSE: Asylum, Moments of Passing)
Portuguese was spoken in Portugal. (PROSE: Moments of Passing)
Geography
The Azores Islands were part of Portugal. (PROSE: The Fortunate Isles)
History
Early history
In 1682, a group of Portuguese settlers called bandeirantes tried to enslave people from a Tupi village. (COMIC: Slaver's Song)
Portugal was one of the allied nations which opposed Napoléon Bonaparte's French Empire in the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century. Following the Battle of Trafalgar, Napoleon invaded Portugal along with Spain. Portugal fought against France in the Peninsular War. (PROSE: World Game) Soldiers from this conflict were taken by the War Lords to fight in their War Game. (TV: The War Games)
On 4 December 1872, the Mary Celeste was found, abandoned, midway between the Azores and Portugal. (PROSE: The Chase)
21st century
In Portugal in 2006, girls started experiencing symptoms of a fictional virus they’d seen in a teen soap. Oliver Morgenstern researched the event as an example of mass hysteria. (AUDIO: Hysteria)
At 8:40AM GMT on a Wednesday in September 2009, Portugal was among the numerous places across Earth in which RTAs occurred as a result of the 456 compelling every human child to suddenly stop and proclaim their message: "we are coming." (TV: Children of Earth: Day One)
In the 2010s, Erimem visited the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia in Lisbon to watch the return of a small shipment of Bronze Age ironwork from the London Museum of Antiquity. (PROSE: Moments of Passing)